DBWI no Baltazar Carlos II of Spain

From what I read, he decided to swap Luzon and the Spice Islands, Luzon went to Portugal and the Spice Islands to the Castilians which basically helped the Hindu population of Luzon and now only the coastal area and South of Luzon is predominantly Christian but there are also some Hindu minorities there as well and it was the Spice Islands became Christian like the Visayas was.

From what I read as well, Baltazar Carlos's best credit was that he was able to retain the union of Portugal with Spain in general, what would have happened if Baltazar Carlos II died before marrying his wife? any ideas?
 
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From what I read, he decided to swap Luzon and the Spice Islands, Luzon went to Portugal and the Spice Islands to the Castilians which basically helped the Hindu population of Luzon and now only the coastal area and South of Luzon is predominantly Christian but there are also some Hindu minorities there as well and it was the Spice Islands became Christian like the Visayas was.

From what I read as well, Baltazar Carlos's best credit was that he was able to retain the union of Portugal with Spain in general, what would have happened if Baltazar Carlos II died before marrying his wife? any ideas?
Well pretty likely who Archduchess Mariana would have married Felipe IV as second wife (instead of Queen Ana Maria Luisa as OTL) and that would be a disaster if Mariana had the OTL childbirth’s pattern (twelve pregnancies and only Prince Carlos who died at 14 and Princess Isabel who died in childbirth at 18 years old and left no heir survived infancy) as that would imply who without Ana’s sons the Spanish line of Habsburgs would be extinct as Carlos II was followed on the Spanish throne by his half-brother (and former son-in-law) Ferdinand VI of Spain who had heirs only by his second wife Maria Luisa.
 
Well pretty likely who Archduchess Mariana would have married Felipe IV as second wife (instead of Queen Ana Maria Luisa as OTL) and that would be a disaster if Mariana had the OTL childbirth’s pattern (twelve pregnancies and only Prince Carlos who died at 14 and Princess Isabel who died in childbirth at 18 years old and left no heir survived infancy) as that would imply who without Ana’s sons the Spanish line of Habsburgs would be extinct as Carlos II was followed on the Spanish throne by his half-brother (and former son-in-law) Ferdinand VI of Spain who had heirs only by his second wife Maria Luisa.
Yeah, we might see the French acquire Spain in the long run due to Queen Marie Therese inheriting Spain, that would be a mess.
 
Yeah, we might see the French acquire Spain in the long run due to Queen Marie Therese inheriting Spain, that would be a mess.
No, Marie Therese had signed a renounce to her rights to Spain before marrying... Every Spanish princess married in the enemy France had to sign a renounce to her rights to Spanish lands... The fact who three of the four queens of Spain that period were French (Isabel, Ana Maria Luisa and Maria Luisa with only the Austrian Mariana in the middle) and two successive queens of France were Spanish (Anne and Marie Therese) mattered little in the complex Franco-Spanish relations of this period...


EDIT: you will do better to correct the name of the King in (Balthaza) Carlos II as he would reign as Carlos II of Spain (the OTL one was his younger half-brother)
 
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No, Marie Therese had signed a renounce to her rights to Spain before marrying... Every Spanish princess married in the enemy France had to sign a renounce to her rights to Spanish lands... The fact who three of the four queens of Spain that period were French (Isabel, Ana Maria Luisa and Maria Luisa with only the Austrian Mariana in the middle) and two successive queens of France were Spanish (Anne and Marie Therese) mattered little in the complex Franco-Spanish relations of this period...


EDIT: you will do better to correct the name of the King in (Balthaza) Carlos II as he would reign as Carlos II of Spain (the OTL one was his younger half-brother)
Changed this, thanks.
 
No, Marie Therese had signed a renounce to her rights to Spain before marrying... Every Spanish princess married in the enemy France had to sign a renounce to her rights to Spanish lands... The fact who three of the four queens of Spain that period were French (Isabel, Ana Maria Luisa and Maria Luisa with only the Austrian Mariana in the middle) and two successive queens of France were Spanish (Anne and Marie Therese) mattered little in the complex Franco-Spanish relations of this period...


EDIT: you will do better to correct the name of the King in (Balthaza) Carlos II as he would reign as Carlos II of Spain (the OTL one was his younger half-brother)
It seems that the sons of Marie Therese are very much ambitious...although ITTL the Braganza family might try to make Portugal independent.
 
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