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The POD here is that Germaine de Foix marries the Jagiellonian prince (either the king of Poland or that of Hungary/Bohemia) she was promised to by treaty. Fernando is thus left high and dry in terms of a second wife in order to prevent a Habsburg absorption of his realms. So who might he marry?

Originally he offered to fetch La Beltraneja from her convent and marry her, at his first wife's death, he'd come into the possession of the late Enrique IV's will which supposedly declared that she was Enrique's daughter and successor, and Fernando was reportedly more than willing to name his late wife a usurper to prevent the Habsburgs from taking over. However, la Beltraneja refused him, and he moved on.

While he could simply marry Anne d'Albret, daughter of Queen Catherine, I feel that the king of France might have other ideas (Germaine was his niece, Anne was not). Of course, the only ranking French princesses available are Marguerite d'Angoulême (already married); and the two daughters of the late duc d'Alençon (all of whom might be considered a bit young).

Which got me thinking: Isabella d'Aragona, dowager duchess of Milan planned to marry her eldest daughter, Ippolita, to Fernando's cousin - the duke of Calabria; and after Ippolita died, she offered to marry her second daughter, Bona, to whichever grandson Fernando named as his successor. I could see Fernando, as an extra screw-you to the French king, marry Bona and start claiming the duchy of Milan as soon as her brother's dead. I mean, Bona's OTL husband is possibly married to Fernando's OTL wife, so there's a certain symmetry there.

He was also determined to bring Naples under direct Aragonese control, and so, a marriage to a Neapolitan princess - Giulia and Isabella, along with their mother were at court in Valencia IIRC - would not be off the cards.

Who do you guys think he'll marry? And would he have better luck producing a surviving son from his second marriage than OTL? How will it affect things if said son is the fruit of one of the heiresses mentioned and Aragon puts a claim in for that throne (Milan/Navarre/Naples) against the Habsburgs?
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