If Navarre merges with Angevin Empire...
How would a Navarro Angevin union look like and how would it look like in the present.
How would a Navarro Angevin union look like and how would it look like in the present.
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Not very big, it's only about half of the Basque Country after all.
Unfortunately it's unlikely to be all of it, since all of it was never in one person - Henry II was only ever D of Aq de jure rather than de facto (Eleanor bequeathed it to her son Richard) and father of the D of Brittany by marriage.
Richard and John, exception of Brittany which few consider to be a proper part of the Empire anyway.
By invasion by the angevins of Navarre or vice versa....Are you talking about the entire Angevin inheritance? So that the King of England, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Normandy, Count of Greater Anjou (Anjou, Maine, Touraine), Duke of Aquitaine (D of Aquitaine, D of Gascony, Ct of Pitou), Lord of Ireland, also becomes King of Navarre?
Unfortunately it's unlikely to be all of it, since all of it was never in one person - Henry II was only ever D of Aq de jure rather than de facto (Eleanor bequeathed it to her son Richard) and father of the D of Brittany by marriage.
Your best bet is for Richard Lionheart and Berengaria to have a son while Berengaria's sister Queen Blanche has no children. In which case you'll see war between Richard's son (probably a Henry or William), John Lackland, and Arthur of Brittany.
In which case the likely permutations of a 3-way division are:
a) Aquitaine + Navarre; England + Brittany; Normandy + Anjou
b) Aquitaine + Navarre; Brittany + Anjou; Normandy + England
c) Aquitaine + Navarre; Brittany + Normandy + Anjou; England
With bits taken off and added to the French Royal Domain.
The likely permutations of a 2-way division is b with Brittany-Anjou split among French vassals and Royal Domain.
It's also the best scenario for detaching Aquitaine from being a (semi-) vassal of France.
By invasion by the angevins of Navarre or vice versa....
Except Richard was never Lord of Ireland, and John lost Anjou and Normandy (well except the Norman Channel Islands). And John was only ever Ct of Anjou in opposition to Arthur until Arthur's death and Philippe kicking him out.
Ireland was only ever a peripheral part, but true. As for John, he may have lost the territories but he still had them at the start of his reign and I'd say the Anjou point is by-the-by. The point is, had Richard not been captured and died young and/or John not been so good at throwing his land away, the Angevin Empire could easily have been unified under a single man.