Henry III Marries Elizabeth I

Henry, Duke of Anjou, was in a relationship with Elizabeth I of England but thanks to his dislike of her the relationship fell apart. However, my idea is that they love each other and marry, despite the unpopularity of a Catholic marriage. Henry became King of Poland and King of France several years later, so England and France would be in a personal union. by the way, I'm not too sure but I believe that they never met personally. Could Frengland last or would Henry and Elizabeth be unable to produce a son? How would this effect the French Wars of Religion? What would Spain do about this new power? How would the rest of Europe be affected. What if?
 
Henry, Duke of Anjou, was in a relationship with Elizabeth I of England but thanks to his dislike of her the relationship fell apart. However, my idea is that they love each other and marry, despite the unpopularity of a Catholic marriage. Henry became King of Poland and King of France several years later, so England and France would be in a personal union. by the way, I'm not too sure but I believe that they never met personally. Could Frengland last or would Henry and Elizabeth be unable to produce a son? How would this effect the French Wars of Religion? What would Spain do about this new power? How would the rest of Europe be affected. What if?

First of all, there would be no guarantee that there would be a personal Union. Charles IX was only 23 when he died, so he could easily live longer, or father or a son. With butterflies starting in 1570 Marie Elisabeth de Valois could easily be born a boy. And even if a Union happened there would be a stipulation that kept a Union of Crowns from happening. Personally I doubt Elizabeth would marry someone who publicly called her an old Whore. The only marriage proposal she seemed to seriously consider was from Francois de Valois Duc de Anjou, Henri III's brother.
 
Elizabeth highly used marriage as a political tool. When Spain became aggressive, Elizabeth made it clear she would wed a Valois Prince and seek close ties to France; likewise, when France threatened her, she opened negotiations with the Habsburgs, not to mention the dozens of other princes who sought her hand, and even noblemen in her realm (ie. Dudley). Elizabeth made it pretty clear she was wedded to England. However, I don't think her marrying in implausible or impossible; if she ends up up against a wall with no way out and nothing will fix the issue, she might go through with a foreign marriage. Likewise, had things with Dudley's first wife not been so suspicious and his social climbing so open, she may of married him.

But Anjou, I don't see her marrying; he had no interest in the match, and was obsessed with a daughter of the La Marck family, who was married. Indeed, when he became king he married Louise de Vaudemont because she looked so much like his previous love. While there were some negotiations, Henry disparriaged her in private, he made fun that she limped because of a vericose vein and had no qualms calling her a putain publique (public whore, essentially what Constantine said). You are right they never met; the negotiations never went beyond the preliminary stages. Just as Anjou had no taste for Elizabeth, she had no desire for the marriage either.

Chances of her marrying a Valois are better with Alençon, but still not guaranteed. While her council wanted her marry from the onset of her reign and even into the 1560s and early 1570s, essentially her thirties, but time Alençon came into her life, she was 47 and her closest advisers had probably privately accepted she would not marry. There was the issue of his religion as he wanted the right to practice it privately, and he also demanded an exorbitant sum of 10,000 pounds per annum as his pension. Elizabeth was smitten with him quite obviously, but I think it was more the fact she knew that he would be her last suitor. He was a charming young man, somewhat handsome despite having suffered small pox as a youth, and she was an older woman getting older.

Yet despite her affection for Alençon and his for her, there were great political motives involved. Alençon had been nominated by the States-General of the Dutch Rebels as their sovereign, and he had the support of the Prince of Orange. He had some support and financing from France, but simply put, he needed more money. A match with Elizabeth would ensure such financing, and she indeed financed his campaign to an extent, she strung along the marriage negotiations like all the rest; when they seemed likely to bear fruit, she just started making crazy demands she knew France would not accept: Calais as a dowry, for instance, while in another she demanded the marriage would not go through until the English Seminary training English priests for proselytizing the Catholic faith in Rheims was surpressed.
 
Yes, but it there any possible way that Elizabeth and Announced could get married. And if they do, I fail to see how Charles IX would like longer as a result.
 
Yes, but it there any possible way that Elizabeth and Announced could get married. And if they do, I fail to see how Charles IX would like longer as a result.

No there is not. Neither one cared about the marriage or were that interested. And Charles IX could live longer because of Butterflies. Or as I said Marie Elisabeth could be born a boy.
 
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