Major Tom
Banned
In my Jacksonian World thread, the topic of succession of a childless founding monarch came up. I am not a big fan of this suggestion, and gave the example of Eugene de Beauharnais not given any Napoleonic succession.
So, whom, instead of George Washington Parke Custis, do I have as George's successor if I made an AH timeline in which he was made king? (For the record I will not do such a timeline, because there is no reasonable way that he would accept it, and I believe his smallpox and childlessness played some factor int). Well I used these following articles for research:
The Man (or Woman) Who Would be King
Stubborn Washington Spurned Kingdom
If Washington Had Become King
If Washington Had Been Crowned
After reading those articles, I decided that I would use the unconventional Napoleonic rules of succession in order for a AH Washingtonian King List, so here is how it came out to be:
George I: 1789-1799
William I: 1799-1810
George II: 1810-1854 (an older brother, Bushrod, gets the Lucien treatment, aka, disinherinted line)
Louis I: 1854-1871
James I: 1871-1900
William II: 1900-1933
Thornton I: 1933-1935
Lawrence I: 1935-1997
Paul I: 1997-
Crown Prince: Richard, with son Connor
If anything happens to them, the succession goes to any son of Paul's second oldest son Bill, who has some political disagreements with King Paul (the headship of the house of Bonaparte has skipped two Prince Napoleons for similar reasons).
However, there would reasonably be a pretender line for those who wanted succession to based on the traditional rules of succession of the English crown. The list of pretender kings are as follows:
Lawrence I: 1841-1856
Daniel I: 1856-1887
Thornton I: 1887-1935
So, whom, instead of George Washington Parke Custis, do I have as George's successor if I made an AH timeline in which he was made king? (For the record I will not do such a timeline, because there is no reasonable way that he would accept it, and I believe his smallpox and childlessness played some factor int). Well I used these following articles for research:
The Man (or Woman) Who Would be King
Stubborn Washington Spurned Kingdom
If Washington Had Become King
If Washington Had Been Crowned
After reading those articles, I decided that I would use the unconventional Napoleonic rules of succession in order for a AH Washingtonian King List, so here is how it came out to be:
George I: 1789-1799
William I: 1799-1810
George II: 1810-1854 (an older brother, Bushrod, gets the Lucien treatment, aka, disinherinted line)
Louis I: 1854-1871
James I: 1871-1900
William II: 1900-1933
Thornton I: 1933-1935
Lawrence I: 1935-1997
Paul I: 1997-
Crown Prince: Richard, with son Connor
If anything happens to them, the succession goes to any son of Paul's second oldest son Bill, who has some political disagreements with King Paul (the headship of the house of Bonaparte has skipped two Prince Napoleons for similar reasons).
However, there would reasonably be a pretender line for those who wanted succession to based on the traditional rules of succession of the English crown. The list of pretender kings are as follows:
House of Washington
John I: 1799-1841Lawrence I: 1841-1856
Daniel I: 1856-1887
Thornton I: 1887-1935
House of Craig
Frank I: 1935-1958
Felix I: 1958-2002
Frank II: 2002-
However as some of the articles notice, the butterflies can come into effect. For example, using the "If Washington hadn't been crowned example", by having King William I or John I (depending on which line you prefer), marry Princess Elizabeth of France due to Lafayette's urging. And if you find that odd that one of Wasington's nephews marrying the devoutly Catholic Elizabeth, remember that Belgium's first royal couple was the Protestant Leopold I and the devoutly Catholic Louise-Marie of France.
Any comments on my imagined line?
Felix I: 1958-2002
Frank II: 2002-
However as some of the articles notice, the butterflies can come into effect. For example, using the "If Washington hadn't been crowned example", by having King William I or John I (depending on which line you prefer), marry Princess Elizabeth of France due to Lafayette's urging. And if you find that odd that one of Wasington's nephews marrying the devoutly Catholic Elizabeth, remember that Belgium's first royal couple was the Protestant Leopold I and the devoutly Catholic Louise-Marie of France.
Any comments on my imagined line?