What about Henry VIII successfully gaining a divorce with Catherine in this situation and find another wife.
If Catherine manages to become queen of Castille and possibly Aragon Henry would have no reason to divorce her and if he did Catherine would be still be queen of a kingdom that is stronger than England and could push her daughter's claim under any circumstances. Henry started toying with the idea of divorce around 1525 and we are in 1522 it still too soon for the divorce plot to kick in.What about Henry VIII successfully gaining a divorce with Catherine in this situation and find another wife.
Triumvirate with veto power.The king would take full charge of the army only in times of emergency and the only people that could veto him in these periods would be the members of a temporary triumvarate resembling the one that they had formed for this comflict. The king would choose his own succesor and primogeniture would be abolished. His/her succesor had to be educated by someone voted by the Cortés and his/her heir would have to reside in the capital.A new kingdom was borning.One rulled by the cities and not by the nobility.
This is the 1520's. Neo classical culture is on the rise and in the rebelion there were lot of well read people that had similar ideas from what I posted.I just filled some gaps.The monarchy is elective but it is not like the PLC and the HRE in the sense that the king picks his succesor with the approval of the Cortés (the cortés can't nominate canndidates).And indeed central authority would be one of the main issues. That is why a centralized standing army and navy was one of theobjectives of Padilla to hold the nobility and foreign powers of.But some comuneros were in favour of creating a model resembling the Italian city states but with a common state enclosing them all.Also I wouldn't say that the HRE ended badly.It was inneficient at what it tried to do but decentralization brought a lot of wealth to the region and the cultural and economic output of the region was always amongst the highest in Europe.Triumvirate with veto power.
Royal sucession by choosing a heir.
This is resembling the Roman system in quite a few points. Hopre that the revolutionaries have thought of mechanisms to avoid the sucession instabilility that characterized Rome. Also, we have the benefit of hindsight now, but the two modern era elective monarchies ended faring quite badly: The central authority in the HRE disappeared, and the royal elections in the PLC became largely corrupted by the actions of foreign powers. I hope that the Spanish here develop a stronger system.
Cool! Waiting eagerly for the next updates. It'll be very interesting see modern Spain developing as a constitutional monarchy. Maybe they can even avoid the decadence period at the end of the XVII century.This is the 1520's. Neo classical culture is on the rise and in the rebelion there were lot of well read people that had similar ideas from what I posted.I just filled some gaps.The monarchy is elective but it is not like the PLC and the HRE in the sense that the king picks his succesor with the approval of the Cortés (the cortés can't nominate canndidates).And indeed central authority would be one of the main issues. That is why a centralized standing army and navy was one of theobjectives of Padilla to hold the nobility and foreign powers of.But some comuneros were in favour of creating a model resembling the Italian city states but with a common state enclosing them all.Also I wouldn't say that the HRE ended badly.It was inneficient at what it tried to do but decentralization brought a lot of wealth to the region and the cultural and economic output of the region was always amongst the highest in Europe.
Yes trying to balance descentralization is hard but the ground wasn't that harsh in Castille at least.Isabel's reformes allowed the crown to have greater legislative and executive powers than most monarchs and with an even weaker nobility the new state shouldn't have a problem to pacify the country. The German rebellions had alredy changed for the moment as the electorate of Saxony raised before in this TL when Charles was captured but Ferdinand had supressed the rebellion.So for the moment protestantism is weaker in this timeline but as Charles was way tougher than Ferdinand against protestants he might spark another revolution without Ferdinand's diplomatic approach.I am glad that you are enjoying it.Take careCool! Waiting eagerly for the next updates. It'll be very interesting see modern Spain developing as a constitutional monarchy. Maybe they can even avoid the decadence period at the end of the XVII century.
And about the HRE, it did indeed properes, but at the price of the Germans becoming the pawns of Europe, as Bismarck said. The best case scenario is to have open enough institutions to avoid despotism, but stong enough to guarantee security and the rule of the law. OTL only England (and Golden Freedom Sweden as a big maybe) managed to reach that equilibrium before the French Revolution. Here I'm hoping to Spain to manage to do the same, even before the English civil war.
And the German Peasants' Rebellion happened only a few years after the events in Spain. It'll be interesting to see if they're somehow influenced by the developments in Spain.