Pope Pole

The marriage wasn't made official by the time of his death, they were only engaged. But in 1551 he was indeed betrothed to Elisabeth Valois, the eldest daughter of Henry II.

Well that suggests he'd scaled down his ambitions by then. Elisabeth was his eldest daughter, there wasn't any marriage that he could arrange with a higher chance of providing Edward with an heir ASAP. So the same marriage could happen in TTL.
 
Well that suggests he'd scaled down his ambitions by then. Elisabeth was his eldest daughter, there wasn't any marriage that he could arrange with a higher chance of providing Edward with an heir ASAP. So the same marriage could happen in TTL.

Well, there was his sister Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, but she was 14 years older than Edward, so I'm not sure how likely is it.

Back to Pole as Pope, any idea of how it would influence the Council of Trento? Julius III reopened and closed it during his reign, and it was only reconvened again by Pius IV in 1562.
 
Back to Pole as Pope, any idea of how it would influence the Council of Trento? Julius III reopened and closed it during his reign, and it was only reconvened again by Pius IV in 1562.

No idea. I've had the Wikipedia article open in a tab since about the time I posted the OP, waiting to be read. I'll get to it when I get to it.
 
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