In a tower in Madrid dies the King of France

the Britannica article on Margaret of Angouleme said:
Margaret was, on the other hand, always devoted to her brother and is credited with saving his life when he became ill in prison at Madrid after his capture at Pavia during the disastrous French expedition into Italy in 1525.

Her brother being the French king Francis I. WI he had not survived the disease?
 

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Well, there goes the mos valuable hostage ever. Nt that anything came out of it due to Charles V being too stupid and Francis I being unhonourable. WHat changes is that. What changes is that Henry II becomes king earlier, and IIRC he wasnt all that competent...
 
Well, there goes the mos valuable hostage ever. Nt that anything came out of it due to Charles V being too stupid and Francis I being unhonourable. WHat changes is that. What changes is that Henry II becomes king earlier, and IIRC he wasnt all that competent...
Actually, Francis had an older son, also named Francis, who would have succeeded. IIRC Charles agreed to release Francis in exchange for his two sons as hostages. Young Francis caught some sort of illness that eventually killed him in the dank towers of Madrid. With the elder Francis dead, Young Francis may very well live and father a completely different line of kings.
 
Without Francis I as a hostage, there is no brief truce to punctuate the previous Italian War and the War of the League of Cognac. France becomes ruled by Francis' eldest son Francis III of Britanny (Francis II of France in TTL). However given the Hapsburg martial superiority I think that they'll still come out on top and when they do France may just have to succumb to some humiliating peace terms (Recreation of Burgundy, Perhaps an independent Provence if things get real ugly...)
 
Francis (the son) would still be a child when the king Francis I dies. Would his uncle Margaret become the regent? She was a quite interesting person, very humanistic and a protector of Protestants. If she becomes regent, would she still marry the king of Navarre?

Also, the young Francis II would probably not be married to a Medici. Who could become a good consort to him? Wasn't Mary Tudor promised to him?
 
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