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Anyone know of anyways to prolong the existance of the Kingdom/Duchy of Burgundy, as well as independant of France? I was just wandering what sort of impact it might have on things in Europe.
Anyone know of anyways to prolong the existance of the Kingdom/Duchy of Burgundy, as well as independant of France? I was just wandering what sort of impact it might have on things in Europe.
Have Charles the Bold beget a son who would survive him. This means that with a male heir, Burgundy is in less danger of being subsumed by France or some other interested powers.
A major impact is that the Habsburgs won't have their half-of-Europe empire they did by the first quarter of the 16th century, because their acquisition of the Low Countries, Spain, Bohemia, and Hungary will be butterflied away. This also means that the Franco-Habsburg dynastic rivalry won't come to OTL extents, and thus the two branches of Valois (Valois-France and Valois-Burgundy) are the bigger rivals. Still, Burgundian territory is strategically important, given the wealth of the Low Countries.
Have Charles V not inheriting Spain. With the Lowlands being rich Burgundy would be the most important Habsburg holding, and they might very well rule from there, thus making Burgundy their main title, or if Charles does like OTL and give the Austrian lands to his brother there would be two separate Habsburg lines: The Burgundian Habsburgs and the Austrian Habsburgs.
No Habsburg Spain also has an effect on the marriage politics of the Habsburgs, under these circumstances Charles instead of Ferdinand might marry Anne of Bohemia & Hungary instead. Furthermore the lines might not split this way, in fact I'm sure that Ferdinand, if he isn't butterflied away, since he was born and raised in Spain, will get less ITTL.