House of Valois survives

A question I've been pondering recently is, what might've happened had the House of Valois survived past 1589, either through Henry III having a son, or some other legitimate son of Henry II and Catherine De Medici surviving and having issue?

Would the French wars of religion continued? Could we see an Edict of Nantes happen earlier?

Who is the best candidate for a surviving House of Valois? Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III or perhaps their brother Louis of Valois who otl died in 1550, but if he were to survive, what might happen from there?
 
IIRC Charles IX had an illegitimate son who happened to be a kleptomaniac. His title had something to do with Angoulême.

Also, the Edict of Nantes was a copy-paste of Henri III's Edict of Amboise he never managed to push through due to petty stuff like being murdered while besieging his capital. For an earlier Edict of Nantes you need the Ligue Catholique eradicated earlier. Way earlier.
 
IIRC Charles IX had an illegitimate son who happened to be a kleptomaniac. His title had something to do with Angoulême.

Also, the Edict of Nantes was a copy-paste of Henri III's Edict of Amboise he never managed to push through due to petty stuff like being murdered while besieging his capital. For an earlier Edict of Nantes you need the Ligue Catholique eradicated earlier. Way earlier.

Okay interesting, how might one eradicate the catholic league? A mass massacre of their members? Or a complete prevention of the french war of succession?
 
The Huguenots/Henri de Navarre might eventually shift focus to gaining independence for the southern regions they controlled, rather than fight for Henri to become King of France. (To some extent this was happening OTL with the United Provinces of the Midi, but that was not a fully secessionist movement.)
 
The Huguenots/Henri de Navarre might eventually shift focus to gaining independence for the southern regions they controlled, rather than fight for Henri to become King of France. (To some extent this was happening OTL with the United Provinces of the Midi, but that was not a fully secessionist movement.)

Interesting, so you think that France would become more fractured under a continued House of Valois, under a unbutterflied war of religion?
 
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