The Catholic Prince of Orange

Sadly-forgotten in the shade of his younger half-brothers Maurits and Frederik Hendrik, Prince Filips Willem van Oranje was the eldest (and Catholic) son of William the Silent. He was kidnapped by the Spanish from the University of Leuven at the age of fourteen in 1568, and shipped off to be raised as a good Catholic and loyal subject. He never saw his father again.

He married Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé, daughter of Henri I, Prince de Condé and Catherine de la Trémoïlle in 1606 at the age of 52. The marriage remained childless. But what if it hadn't? What if there had been at least one child born from the marriage?
 
The Netherlands Calvinists, had never accepted a prince Catholic, neither even if he were the only legitimate heir Orange.
 
Well, I believe that the major differences would be that the stadholders would lack the title of Prince of Orange and protestantism won't be allowed in the principality of Orange. Basicly that's it.

Ok, maybe the prince of Orange might become a minor Dutch noble, since he possibly would inherit some small territories in the Netherlands, although they probably would go to the protestant branche, if only because they would fall into the hands of the Dutch Republic.
 
I mostly agree with Pompejus. The Catholic branch would be Prince of Orange and count of Nassau*. Whereas their Protestant cousins would just remain count of Nassau*. Territories are likely to be divided, most lands within the Republic will go the Protestant branch. However Catholic noble houses usually did retain the lands they legally held in the Generality Lands. Not to mention, that the county of Buren, which came to the house of Orange-Nassau from the marriage of William the Silent with Anna of Egmont, formally wasn't a part of the Republic.

(*= both will have a subdivision)
 
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