Queen Anne (of Austria) is Dead

Inspired by me watching BBC's The Musketeers:

Anne of Austria was pregnant four (possibly more) times before she gave birth to Louis XIV Dieudonné in 1638.

But say one of her prior pregnancies goes sideways and the miscarriage/labor kills her (childbed often did, so I don't think this is unreasonable).

This means there are four possible PODs (1619, 1622, 1626 and 1631) and obviously the geopolitical landscape would be different for each. Obviously if the child survives will affect who Louis XIII will remarry to, as well.

So, considering that Richelieu was LXIII's brain a lot of the time, and a marriage would be arranged to advantage France, who might be considered in the aforementioned years?

Please discuss.
 
Would Anne's death in 1619 see her possibly replaced by her sister? The OTL Empress only married in 1631. Or would Richelieu see it as France taking the Empire's side in the 30YW?
 
Louis XIII of France (b.1601: d.1643) m. Anne of Austria (b.1601: d.1619) (a), Maria Anna of Spain (b.1606: d.1669) (a)

1a) Miscarriage (c.1619)

2b) Louis XIV of France (b.1624: d.1665) m. Maria Leopoldine of Austria (b.1632: d.1648) (a), Anne de Lorraine (b.1639: d.1720) (b)

1a) Marie Therese de France (b.1648)

2b) Anne-Charlotte de France (b.1654)

3b) Miscarriage (c.1657)

4b) Elisabeth de France (b.1658: d.1659)

5b) Louis XV of France (b.1661)

6b) Miscarriage (c.1664)
3b) Philippe de France, Duc de Anjou (b.1625: d.1631)

4b) Miscarriage (c.1627)

5b) Miscarriage (c.1630)

6b) Marie Anne de France (b.1632: d.1659) m. Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b.1634: d.1675) (a)

1a) Violante Anna of Savoy (b.1654)

2a) Miscarriage (c.1656)​
7b) Miscarriage (c.1635)

8b) Gaston de France, Duc d'Orleans (b.1638: d.1668) m. Louise Marie of the Palatinate (b.1647: d.1699) (a)

1a) Jean-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (b.1665)

2a) Anne-Cecile d'Orleans (b.1667)​
9b) Miscarriage (c.1641)​
 
Possible matches in 1619:

Maria of Spain, OTL Empress
Nicole of Lorraine

Possible matches in 1622:

Louise Marie/Anne Marie/Benedicte of Gonzaga-Nevers
Claudia de Medici, Dowager Duchess of Urbino
Maria Anna of Austria, OTL Electress of Bavaria
Cecilia Renata of Austria, OTL queen of Poland

Possible matches in 1626:

Claude de Lorraine
Marie de Guise

Possible matches in 1631:

Anna de Medici, OTL Archduchess of Austria
Anna Catherine Vasa of Poland
Elisabeth or Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate
One of Carl X of Sweden's sisters

(I've probably skipped some people, but that's all I can think of right now).
Also, would any of the Prior of Crato's half-Dutch granddaughters be considered? The lady would be linked to both states chafing at Spanish rule (Holland and Portugal), so I was wondering if someone as anti-Habsburg as Richelieu might want the king to be married off to one of them?
 
Note that a marriage to e.g. the Palatinate princesses would be tantamount to a declaration of war against the Habsburgs, something Richelieu wasn't ready for until it became clear that Sweden alone wasn't enough.

The Prior of Crato's line has the same basic problem, and is even riskier (since the ex-Electors Palatine had at least a reasonable claim on their ancestral lands and might expect to retain some in a peace treaty, while Portugal would require a major war to even legitimize them as proper nobles).
 
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Also, would any of the Prior of Crato's half-Dutch granddaughters be considered? The lady would be linked to both states chafing at Spanish rule (Holland and Portugal), so I was wondering if someone as anti-Habsburg as Richelieu might want the king to be married off to one of them?

By then they belonged to the poor small nobility, and basically they were daughters of the bastard of a bastard. I can't see the Bourbons accepting it.
 
not to hijack your thread Kellan ... but if Louis (Richelieu) chose Marie of Guise ...
who would James V then choose to marry ...
and would that change his progeny's outcome and relations with France and England vis a vis ?
Most interesting POD !
 
@candycosmonaut: Not THAT Marie de Guise. Rather her great-grandniece, the last member of the direct Guise branch. But Marie de Bourbon was seriously considered for a time.

@Kellan Sullivan: I wonder if Louis marries Nicole, a) does she actually manage to have kids; b) does the House of Lorraine discover the so-called Testament of René d'Anjou?

OTL Henri IV wanted either Nicole or the Winter Queen for Louis XIII, which was the reason the Lorrainers panicked and "found" the Testament IIRC.
 
If Anna
Would Anne's death in 1619 see her possibly replaced by her sister? The OTL Empress only married in 1631. Or would Richelieu see it as France taking the Empire's side in the 30YW?

Really really unlikely. First I think Maria Anna will be too much young in 1619 (she will be 13 only) and likely still too young in 1622 (16) second I do not think either France or Spain were so interested in the alliance and third Philip IV was still married to Elisabeth/Isabel of France, Louis' sister so they do not really need another match
 
If Anna


Really really unlikely. First I think Maria Anna will be too much young in 1619 (she will be 13 only) and likely still too young in 1622 (16) second I do not think either France or Spain were so interested in the alliance and third Philip IV was still married to Elisabeth/Isabel of France, Louis' sister so they do not really need another match

Very good point.

Anyone you'd suggest perhaps?
 
A point to consider is that if Anne kicks in either '26 or '31, it could have ripple effects on Condé marrying Richelieu's niece. The reason being thus:

Anne carries her 1626 pregnancy to term. Dies during delivery
Marie, duchesse d'Orleans et de Montpensier dies in childbed with her only child, a daughter.
Louis XIII and Gaston are both on the lookout for new brides, while Condé moves up to heir presumptive to the heir presumptive (Gaston) to the throne of France. Granted, he was in this position OTL and it didn't make much difference to the left or the right, but given the circumstances, it could cause some interesting side effects if all three are single at the same time
 
Louis XIII and Gaston are both on the lookout for new brides, while Condé moves up to heir presumptive to the heir presumptive (Gaston) to the throne of France. Granted, he was in this position OTL and it didn't make much difference to the left or the right, but given the circumstances, it could cause some interesting side effects if all three are single at the same time
The Grand Conde is but a child then, and in this circumstance he's the third in line - behind his father. I am not sure how the death of Anne of Austria in 1626 affects the event due to happen in 1640.
 
My bad, should've checked when he got married first. So, I think Gaston is going to end up with his Lorrainer bride anyway, can't see him marrying any of his other jilted fiancées - Louise Gonzaga, Anna de Medici or Anna Katarzyna of Poland.

The Lorraine option fascinates me, since besides it maybe leading to France jumping into the 30YW earlier (since Austria isn't really gonna let it go that easily), I wonder if there would be much change (especially since Lorraine was mostly French occupied in the reign of OTL LXIV, Léopold only got it back in 1698, only to lose it again).
 
Well Austria can not do much if the heiress of Lorraine marry the French King. They can support her cousin as heir or can make a deal with the French King excluding Lorraine by the Holy Roman Empire in the case of union with France
 
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