And no, Mary and Philip II don't count.
This is sort of question pertaining my own TL, but a more broad exercise as well. Let's assume the Habsburgs remain entrenched in the Lowlands and never gain Spain: you can pick your poison: Juan, Prince of Asturias survives, Margaret gives him a posthumous child, or Miguel da Paz lives. Whatever, so long as Spain doesn't become part of the Habsburg Empire.
The Habsburgs and the Tudor monarchy in this situation would have a lot in common against France; both would view the French crown suspiciously, albeit for different reasons, with the Habsburgs as Emperors still having a vested interest in (Northern) Italy. Assuming England still goes Protestant but the Habsburg dynasty remain Catholic, what would happen next?
Assuming a minimal butterfly net, let's assume that England eventually ends up with a Protestant Queen and she's forced to marry out of dire circumstances. Would those children even be considerable matches for Habsburg Princes/Princesses? The Stuarts didn't seem to mind Catholic marriages, but the you don't really know about the Tudors as they were a dynasty during a period of intense religious upheaval. Of course IOTL Elizabeth considered several Catholic suitors, but the council was heavily against it and she mostly used such matches as ploys more than anything.
Royal marriages are technically the business of the sovereign (except perhaps when they concern the sovereign and the heir themselves -- but as all the children have some succession rights they can pass on to their children, the council and Parliament could argue all royal marriages are their businesses). In the early modern period (we're talking 1570s onward, probably), would such a marriage fly? Would a more pragmatic Habsburg dynasty (reigning out of the Lowlands with Protestant subjects) consider such a marriage? Would they be okay with a Protestant Empress, or would they need to convert? Or would it seem like the type of negotiation they may try to work out, but it falls apart because neither side can give up something (as many are notoriously aware with Elizabeth I -- her favorite tactic to get out of marriage contracts she never intended to sign were to make the most absurd demands possible: like stating she wanted Calais as a dowry to marry Alençon and that the English Seminary at Reims needed to be shut down).
I think it also goes both ways, if a Catholic Princess married into early modern England. Would conversion be necessary, or would she be allowed private worship? Private worship seems fine in both cases, but often provoked ire. Especially in Elizabeth's time, there was outrage over letting Alençon hear mass in private, and funnily enough once while he was hearing mass, two Jesuits were being executed up at Tyburn.
The period is definitely very fired up religiously, and there is a lot of bigotry, mostly considering how in out world it took nearly a century to work things out (and even then, not well). Even Henry IV's forward thinking Edict of Nantes fell apart because of his early death.
This is sort of question pertaining my own TL, but a more broad exercise as well. Let's assume the Habsburgs remain entrenched in the Lowlands and never gain Spain: you can pick your poison: Juan, Prince of Asturias survives, Margaret gives him a posthumous child, or Miguel da Paz lives. Whatever, so long as Spain doesn't become part of the Habsburg Empire.
The Habsburgs and the Tudor monarchy in this situation would have a lot in common against France; both would view the French crown suspiciously, albeit for different reasons, with the Habsburgs as Emperors still having a vested interest in (Northern) Italy. Assuming England still goes Protestant but the Habsburg dynasty remain Catholic, what would happen next?
Assuming a minimal butterfly net, let's assume that England eventually ends up with a Protestant Queen and she's forced to marry out of dire circumstances. Would those children even be considerable matches for Habsburg Princes/Princesses? The Stuarts didn't seem to mind Catholic marriages, but the you don't really know about the Tudors as they were a dynasty during a period of intense religious upheaval. Of course IOTL Elizabeth considered several Catholic suitors, but the council was heavily against it and she mostly used such matches as ploys more than anything.
Royal marriages are technically the business of the sovereign (except perhaps when they concern the sovereign and the heir themselves -- but as all the children have some succession rights they can pass on to their children, the council and Parliament could argue all royal marriages are their businesses). In the early modern period (we're talking 1570s onward, probably), would such a marriage fly? Would a more pragmatic Habsburg dynasty (reigning out of the Lowlands with Protestant subjects) consider such a marriage? Would they be okay with a Protestant Empress, or would they need to convert? Or would it seem like the type of negotiation they may try to work out, but it falls apart because neither side can give up something (as many are notoriously aware with Elizabeth I -- her favorite tactic to get out of marriage contracts she never intended to sign were to make the most absurd demands possible: like stating she wanted Calais as a dowry to marry Alençon and that the English Seminary at Reims needed to be shut down).
I think it also goes both ways, if a Catholic Princess married into early modern England. Would conversion be necessary, or would she be allowed private worship? Private worship seems fine in both cases, but often provoked ire. Especially in Elizabeth's time, there was outrage over letting Alençon hear mass in private, and funnily enough once while he was hearing mass, two Jesuits were being executed up at Tyburn.
The period is definitely very fired up religiously, and there is a lot of bigotry, mostly considering how in out world it took nearly a century to work things out (and even then, not well). Even Henry IV's forward thinking Edict of Nantes fell apart because of his early death.