O Quinto Império - A Different Spain TL

So, the Italian history by this time isn't already finished, I was afraid to advance too much in time in only one post, so I divided it to focus before in other parts of the world... Ah! I'm actually accepting suggestions of a wife for Ferdinand of Aragon! All comments are welcome! :)
 
So, the Italian history by this time isn't already finished, I was afraid to advance too much in time in only one post, so I divided it to focus before in other parts of the world... Ah! I'm actually accepting suggestions of a wife for Ferdinand of Aragon! All comments are welcome! :)
I am thinking of him marrying a yorkist.
 
Hi Guys! I'm taking back the TL. I'll probably post something new this week. :)

I'll be watching this one, especially that in OTL, Isabella called John as "el Hombre" (the Man) and regarded him as equally competent. In this TL, Portuguese technology, Castilian manpower and shared ambitions for the Ocean Sea proved to be overpowered up to a point that Columbus was no longer needed. I'm also expecting a seaborne invasion of Granada and Morocco and a curbstomp of the Muslims under Afonso de Albuquerque.

I'm hoping for an update to come out soon.
 
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Regarding Ferdinand's wife ITTL, Aldonza Ruiz de Iborre y Alemany, one of his mistresses IOTL, would be a logical choice because he ended up IOTL impregnating both Isabella and Aldonza at the same year. Talk about Ferdinand's infidelity.
 
Ummm.... but latin is still being used a lot and carolus magnus would be the same for each. Moreover the dutch speaking parts of his territory are likely to use karl de grosse ... or something for both. I think the distinction yourre trying to make only works in french and english.

First of all great TL!

In Dutch Charlemagne is known as 'Karel de Grote', however I doubt that we would use the same cognomen for a successful ATL Charles ''IOTL the Bold", especially since Charlemagne was our ruler too.

Alternative kingdoms for the Burgundian dukes would have been Lotharingia, Frisia or an elevation of the duchy of Brabant.

Burgundy could work too, this creation would ''migrate'' North though, most territories, which belonged to the kingdom of Arles would have been detached from it (not Franche Comté) and other regions (mostly in the Low Countries) would have attached to it.
An OTL example is the duchy and later also electorate of Saxony, which gradually moved eastward in the HRE.
 
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Good if then. By the way, below is something I made just for this story. You may use it for this thread.

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I am thinking of making a "Juana wins the succession war" TL, so it will be a Castille+Portugal like this one, but a bit different. I'm going to read thoroughly your thread and the discussion, they are very interesting. :)

Hope you don't mind!
 
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