James II dies in 1688, what next?

Would the marriage of Joseph I HRE still be as canon here, do you imagine?

Also internally for Scotland in regards to colonial ventures, I could imagine that Patagonia would be an interesting thing for them to get.
 
Would the marriage of Joseph I HRE still be as canon here, do you imagine?

Also internally for Scotland in regards to colonial ventures, I could imagine that Patagonia would be an interesting thing for them to get.
Yes, it likely goes as canon, as Prince of Salm is still Leopold's favorite, thus pimps out his niece.

Patagonian colony is interesting.
 
Yes, it likely goes as canon, as Prince of Salm is still Leopold's favorite, thus pimps out his niece.

Patagonian colony is interesting.

Alright brilliant, a potential butterfly to ensure that he has a surviving son I suppose as well.

Aye, could help improve the Darien Scheme.
 
Also, a quick query, to have the House of Sobieski remain on the Polish throne for this timeline, what would be needed?
 
Also, a quick query, to have the House of Sobieski remain on the Polish throne for this timeline, what would be needed?
Jakub having a male child for starters, and his mother dies earlier (or, since Theresa Kunegunda is married to Joseph Clemens here, he is viewed as less kingly material).
On the death of James Louis' father, John III, no fewer than eighteen candidates stood for the vacant Polish throne. Family rivalries prevented the election of James Louis Sobieski even though Austria supported his candidacy. James Louis Sobieski’s own mother, Marie Casimire, favored her son-in-law, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. The powerful King Louis XIV of France supported François Louis, Prince of Conti (1664–1709).
Or well, screw Jakub. Let him die of hunting accident before the marriage with sister of the Empress is consummated, and Jan III, still wanting an alliance, marries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Benedykt_Sobieski to Hedwig Elisabeth. Aleksander was smarter than Jakub, and was not hated within his own family. If Austrian support goes to him, he may get the throne.
 
Jakub having a male child for starters, and his mother dies earlier (or, since Theresa Kunegunda is married to Joseph Clemens here, he is viewed as less kingly material).

Or well, screw Jakub. Let him die of hunting accident before the marriage with sister of the Empress is consummated, and Jan III, still wanting an alliance, marries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Benedykt_Sobieski to Hedwig Elisabeth. Aleksander was smarter than Jakub, and was not hated within his own family. If Austrian support goes to him, he may get the throne.

Alright brilliant, which could well change the fate of Poland and the commonwealth. Perhaps butterflying away the Polish War of Succession
 
May as well name TL "How a bunch of Jamies falling off horses changed the Europe" (after James II and James Sobieski having hunting accidents, probably the same year).
 
I just thought of something, what if James II only had daughters? As in all of his RL surviving children had been born girls, it would mean that the succession would be unchanged... However James II has the same lifespan as he did, which means he outlives both Mary and Anne, neither of whom had surviving issue.

The English Protestants would see a Catholic monarch outlive all his protestant heirs, and his children be both girls, and Catholic. What then?
 
Hmm I wonder what else we could change for this. If archduke Charles gets Milan, I guess he'd ve permanentetly based there u less Spain does what it did otl and try and reclaim the duchy
 
I just thought of something, what if James II only had daughters? As in all of his RL surviving children had been born girls, it would mean that the succession would be unchanged... However James II has the same lifespan as he did, which means he outlives both Mary and Anne, neither of whom had surviving issue.

The English Protestants would see a Catholic monarch outlive all his protestant heirs, and his children be both girls, and Catholic. What then?
Panic?
 
Alright brilliant, which could well change the fate of Poland and the commonwealth. Perhaps butterflying away the Polish War of Succession
If Aleksander Sobieski get the throne instead of Frederic Augustus It is likely than PLC would side with Sweden in Great Northern War to regain eastern lands lost to Russia in 1667.
 
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