Was there any likelihood of them doing so? Or is this a random dynastic union? Not that the latter is terribly improbable.What are the consequences of this?
Was there any likelihood of them doing so? Or is this a random dynastic union? Not that the latter is terribly improbable.
Ummm... All of Navarre become part of France eventually?
'Spain' with a foothold in Occitania takes Toulouse and 'Catalan' becomes a major imperial language (Navarre, Aragon, Toulouse, Aquitaine), splitting the Iberian penisula with 'Portugal', leaving 'Castille' as a tiny rump state in the middle?
Ummm... All of Navarre become part of France eventually?
No it didn't. You're thinking of Bearn. A sizable portion of Navarre was the original Kingdom of Pamplona, a Basque state of the Crusader era. The line was split kind of like the way German states tended to be divided up, which left Bearn and Foix in France with a Kingdom of Navarre in Spain. Navarre was then conquered in 1516, after which time the French were the ones calling themselves Kings of Navarre.
My details are a little off, I'm sure, but my point stands: Navarre geographically was about 50-50 France and Spain. And it never came into union with Aquitaine, it came into union with France itself (if that makes a difference).
Yes, but if Navarre and Aquitaine merged, it is entirely possible that France will swallow the whole thing.
Yes, but if Navarre and Aquitaine merged, it is entirely possible that France will swallow the whole thing.
Well, except that the OP said 'merged'. I assumed that meant something stronger than union of crowns with divided fealty. I wouldn't have said OTL that Normandy and England 'merged', for instance.Why? They didn't do it with for instance Normandy and England. Besides historically there were a number of kings of Navarre, which had holdings in France. As long as the king of Navarre accepts the king of France as his feudal overlord in Aquitaine he won't have any problems. The king of Navarre might be in trouble if he unilaterally denounces the king of France as his liege in Aquitaine. Concluding this would be a situation similar to the Norman dukes, which were king of England, the Angevin kings of England, the Capetian Angevin kings of Napels and some historic kings of Navarre (house of Champagne, house of Évreux, house of Foix, house of Albret and the house of Bourbon), to only name a few examples.