The France of Three Henrys: a (tentative) TL

Thanks!

I tried to tie the D-N map to roughly OTL, but that's flexible

I thought the term "Khanate" was more cultural than religious, but I may be wrong.

1650 was chosen arbitrarily...I'll update the map date to reflect the TL.
Flexibility is definately a good thing to have in this line of business. :D

It may well be... :confused: I was simply thinking it carried too much cultural and symbolic association with the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman empire.

Meh either way. Changing the date in the TL is probably easier... either way.
 
Both Ottoman Sultans and Russian Tsars used the title of Khan, or related terms, so Jahja could continue to do so...Alternatively, he could adopt Caesar/Tsar as the Latin equivalent.

Henry Frederick is King of England and Ireland, under his mother's regency, but with Robert Catesby as the de facto ruler of the country? I'm guessing, but I think this kind of situation wouldn't really be able to last long - Catesby would either be defeated and driven out, and come to terms with the Crown and be regularised (maybe made an Earl and given some of the lands he captured in the Midlands with high positioni n government, later on when King is powerful enough he can move to crush Catesby).

Charles could marry Arabella to strengthen his claim to the Scottish throne, if I recall correctly her father was the elder brother and Scottish Earl of Lennox. Maybe he would be more of a religious radical than his brother, ie, Henry Frederick is a good old Anglican whilst Charles is vehemently presbyterian?
 
Both Ottoman Sultans and Russian Tsars used the title of Khan, or related terms, so Jahja could continue to do so...Alternatively, he could adopt Caesar/Tsar as the Latin equivalent.

Henry Frederick is King of England and Ireland, under his mother's regency, but with Robert Catesby as the de facto ruler of the country? I'm guessing, but I think this kind of situation wouldn't really be able to last long - Catesby would either be defeated and driven out, and come to terms with the Crown and be regularised (maybe made an Earl and given some of the lands he captured in the Midlands with high positioni n government, later on when King is powerful enough he can move to crush Catesby).

Charles could marry Arabella to strengthen his claim to the Scottish throne, if I recall correctly her father was the elder brother and Scottish Earl of Lennox. Maybe he would be more of a religious radical than his brother, ie, Henry Frederick is a good old Anglican whilst Charles is vehemently presbyterian?
Gotcha on the Tsar / Khan thing. Given he's Orthodox, it'll probably end up being a Tsar, albeit a Tsar of a Khanate... if that works...

On the Midlands situation: that is exactly what happened. Defacto independence was established in 1617, but was promptly crushed and brought back into line in 1634.

On the Scottish throne: that is indeed possible, but then we don't end up with a divided England / Scotland. I was trying to work out how to do that, but as of the POD, we already had James I solidly in line with a personal union. How then to split it up again?
Not that it's necessary, as the main point is to screw England over (at this phase, anyway)...

Thanks again, and keep the comments coming! :D
 
New (very tentative) map: North America c.1725. Note that this assumes Portugal is still nominally linked to the Spanish through a de facto "Iberian Confederation" of sorts, taking over much of the Spanish trade networks (along with the Dutch) as Castille goes into decline...still discussing how far to take that.

Please comment. :)

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