Assume William IX Duke of Aquitaine, Gascogne, Count of Poitou presses his wife Philippa's claim on the County of Toulouse and doesn't mortgage the county afterward to Bertrand to go on a disastrous Crusade.
His son only has daughters (Eleanor of Aquitaine) like OTL. Eleanor inherits everything and marries the SOLE son of Ramon Berenguer III who therefore controls both the County of Provence and Barcelona.
Basically, we have a unification of all Occitan speaking lands (and the Angevin Empire butterflied). We can then have the son born to Eleanor and Ramon Berenguer IV marry Petronilla of Aragon to gain the Kingdom of Aragon.
From there, engineer a scenario that leads to rebellion against France to perhaps join the HRE as the Kingdom of Aquitaine-Aragon.
What does a rump France look like in the future? How influential would such a kingdom be for the age?
His son only has daughters (Eleanor of Aquitaine) like OTL. Eleanor inherits everything and marries the SOLE son of Ramon Berenguer III who therefore controls both the County of Provence and Barcelona.
Basically, we have a unification of all Occitan speaking lands (and the Angevin Empire butterflied). We can then have the son born to Eleanor and Ramon Berenguer IV marry Petronilla of Aragon to gain the Kingdom of Aragon.
From there, engineer a scenario that leads to rebellion against France to perhaps join the HRE as the Kingdom of Aquitaine-Aragon.
What does a rump France look like in the future? How influential would such a kingdom be for the age?
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