Sorry if this has been done before, but I've been doing a lot of reading recently around the House of Valois during the 16th Century and one thing I am wondering is what might've happened had the eldest son of Francis I of France survived?
Francis III Duke of Brittany died in 1536, at the age of 18, he was the Dauphin before his death.
What might've happened had he survived whatever illness had caused his death and continued to live and succeeded to the throne upon his father's death?
Who might he have married, and what role might he have played in either continuing or ending the Italian Wars?
And if this was linked with an earlier thread posted where James IV does not die at Flodden Field and goes onto have more children and live longer, might a daughter of his marry Francis?