Marguerite d'Angoulême, duchesse de Nemours

François Ier's only legitimate sister was in love with Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours a.k.a. The Lightning bolt of Italy. That said, he was also the nephew of Louis XII, and if his father had successcully claimed the Navarrese throne, Prince of Viana.

However, Louis ordered her married off to the duc d'Alençon instead. Even Alençon's contemporaries regard him as a dolt. Gaston was killed in 1512 in Italy.

What would be the results be of Marguerite marrying Gaston instead?
 
No takers?? Out of curiosity, wouldn't Louis prefer his nephew as king of Navarre to his ex-wife's cousin as queen regnant, or did the fact that Catherine I was married to a relative of Anne de Bretagne cancel that out?
 
Took me a look at the family trees and bio to get which Prince Gaston you were on about!
I could see John successfully being claimed King as his nephew was OTL. Would this butterfly the Aragonese invasion of Navarre considering the skill and popularity of Gaston?

We could see a surviving and independent larger Navarre, probably in alliance with England. Which would make future marriages interesting!
 
We could see a surviving and independent larger Navarre, probably in alliance with England. Which would make future marriages interesting!

I'd definitely be interested in that. Might England decide the time is ripe for a reconquest of their previously-held French territories, a HYW 2.0 so to speak?

Might be curious to see how that unfolds
 
I'd definitely be interested in that. Might England decide the time is ripe for a reconquest of their previously-held French territories, a HYW 2.0 so to speak?

Might be curious to see how that unfolds

Full Reconquest unlikely but we could see a maintenance of Calais and certainly backing to impede French (and later Spanish) expansion
 
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