House Valois-Nassau-Wellburg

Is it possible for the Valois to inherit Nassau and Wellburg and avoid extinction and claim the Netherlands for France and the cadet lineage of Valois is called Valois-Nassau-Wellburg.
 
Is it possible for the Valois to inherit Nassau ....... and claim the Netherlands for France ......

After 1815? No, personal unions weren't allowed in the Netherlands. Before 1815? No, because a stadholder isn't a king and the Dutch Estate-General wouldn't allow a Catholic stadholder, certainly not a French Catholic one.
 
After 1815? No, personal unions weren't allowed in the Netherlands. Before 1815? No, because a stadholder isn't a king and the Dutch Estate-General wouldn't allow a Catholic stadholder, certainly not a French Catholic one.

That is before 1815 since the Valois managed to survive.
 
If you want the Valois in the Netherlands, your best bet would be Alençon being a bit more successful in his campaign in the Netherlands and not totally botching it. He was made Duke of Brabant and Count of Flanders, so if he's a bit more successful he'd be sovereign of the Netherlands which would be quite different politically from the Dutch Republic. There's still the issue of his brother being childless, so Henri III would either have to have a son (or maybe Charles IX's lone child with Elizabeth of Austria is a son rather than a daughter), to prevent a union between France and the Netherlands (which the Dutch would never accept). Alençon was not well liked, but if he managed to secure a few victories and wasn't so hot-headed, he'd certainly be able to maintain the sovereignty, especially considering the support William the Silent lent him.
 
I think having the King of France inherit Nassau-Weilburg will be interesting and might cause more wars between the Habsburgs and the French..
 
I think having the King of France inherit Nassau-Weilburg will be interesting and might cause more wars between the Habsburgs and the French..

Why would they marry into that family and why would they inherit it? Just because you put two and two together doesn't mean it makes sense. I'm pretty sure the House of Nassau had many branches (Ottweiler, Usingen, Dillenburg, and Seigen come to mind). If a branch of the Nassau went extinct, it would simply be partitioned between the others. Most lands within the empire tended to follow salic law, or rather semi-salic, as children of women could inherit only in lieu of the extinction of all male lines. The French King isn't going to inherit Nassau-Weilburg. Getting the Valois in the Netherlands is easy, but having them inherit random German principality #524 is pretty much impossible and doesn't make sense. Hell, if you want the Valois in the Netherlands, simply have the House of Burgundy of survive and give Charles le Téméraire the son, who could later inherit France. Or let Alençon succeed in the 1580s. Assuming they inherited Nassau-Weilburg, this doesn't mean they'd later claim the Netherlands... butterflies change things.

Besides, without the Netherlands, France and the Habsburgs probably won't be in conflict. France became embroiled with them because the Habsburgs surrounded them in the Netherlands, Franche-Comté, and Spain. If the Valois take Netherlands, you're removing a part of the encirclement... and say if France did inherit Nassau-Weilburg, butterflies would produce a wholly different Europe.
 
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