Louis XI of France, and his son Joachim

A query, Louis XI of France and his wife Charlotte of Savoy had eight children, only three of whom survived into adulthood. One of the many non surviving children they had was a boy named Joachim, quite an unusual name for a French Prince. If this kid had lived and become King aged twenty-four in 1483, would he reign as Joachim I? Furthermore, would said kid, as Dauphin be betrothed to Elizabeth of York or a marriage more to the tastes of his father?
 
A query, Louis XI of France and his wife Charlotte of Savoy had eight children, only three of whom survived into adulthood. One of the many non surviving children they had was a boy named Joachim, quite an unusual name for a French Prince. If this kid had lived and become King aged twenty-four in 1483, would he reign as Joachim I? Furthermore, would said kid, as Dauphin be betrothed to Elizabeth of York or a marriage more to the tastes of his father?
If he is lucky he marries Mary of Burgundy..
 
I do suppose having an adult son to succeed him would lessen whatever struggles of the regency there were during his brother's reign otl. I also suppose Louis would as Kasumigenx said, be gunning for Mary of Burgundy for this son.
 
a boy named Joachim, quite an unusual name for a French Prince


The use of particular names, outside the classic royal onomastics, is not so strange.
Due to the high infant mortality rate, often with the choice of the name one wanted "to entrust" the newborn baby to the protection of a particular saint, and particularly styrong was, at that time, the devotion to saints as Joachim (father of the Blessed Virgin Mary) and Christopher.
Not should it be forgotten that, again at that time, newborn babies in the royal or noble families received immediately the ondoiement, ie a first part of the rite of Baptism, and at that moment they could receive names that were a "good omen" or of custody/entrustment to the protection of a saint; in the subsequent solemn and public ceremony of the rite of Baptism, which could also take place several years later (remember that at the French Court often the full ritual of Baptism was even delayed until adolescence), the child received a canonical name typical of the royal onomastics.
In other cases, the name could be changed at the time of Confirmation (as happened to the children of Catherine de' Medici and explained here).
 
The use of particular names, outside the classic royal onomastics, is not so strange.
Due to the high infant mortality rate, often with the choice of the name one wanted "to entrust" the newborn baby to the protection of a particular saint, and particularly styrong was, at that time, the devotion to saints as Joachim (father of the Blessed Virgin Mary) and Christopher.
Not should it be forgotten that, again at that time, newborn babies in the royal or noble families received immediately the ondoiement, ie a first part of the rite of Baptism, and at that moment they could receive names that were a "good omen" or of custody/entrustment to the protection of a saint; in the subsequent solemn and public ceremony of the rite of Baptism, which could also take place several years later (remember that at the French Court often the full ritual of Baptism was even delayed until adolescence), the child received a canonical name typical of the royal onomastics.
In other cases, the name could be changed at the time of Confirmation (as happened to the children of Catherine de' Medici and explained here).

Oh that's really interesting, so if he felt that there was a need to Joachim could have his name changed to something more French sounding?
 
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