The two are contemporaries, Henry VI is so much meek and pious while Louis XI seem to play his vassals and enemies, can the two personalities be swapped?
Henry VI, the universal spider? Louis XI a useless figurehead? France barely survived Henry V, spider!Henry will relegate France to the dustbin of history.
This Henry won't be overrun by the Yorks, so Charles the Bold of Burgundy certainly won't be marrying a York, and will likely get sucked into the English web. The English Burgundian alliance will succeed politically and likely militarily. Charles the Bold's death at the Battle of Nancy is surely butterflied, and France will lose a good chunk of the former Angevin territory and Burgundy could be raised to a kingdom.
Things really get interesting if Charles the Bold doesn't have a son as heir in TTL. Mary the Rich is ideally placed to be married to Henry's son (whomever that may be) and that heir will be King of England and Burgundy. Poor France will get eaten away like Poland.
If this really was the case, how do you see
Henry dealing with Joan of Arc? (Yes, I know
IOTL the English burned her- but not until
AFTER she'd turned the tide in the HYW).
Henry was only ~9 when Joan of Arc was executed IOTL- he's not old enough to deal with her, even if he is some uber-plotter.
Gotcha- I didn't really explain what I meant.
Which is- how would he have dealt with the
situation in France Joan created? IOTL Henry
(& the people running things in his name
during his minority) did a lousy job, as can
be seen by the fact that even with Joan dead
the tide of THYW flowed relentlessly against
the English until they had lost all of France
save Calais. In this senario, what would
Henry(& his men) do differently?
Perhaps he would marry Joan of Navarre who in otl died and Charlotte of Savoy as his second wife..
It probably would be, but I can't help wondering what a power couple like these two could accomplish if they got along amazingly.So,who will Henry the Universal Spider marry?Still Margaret of Anjou or someone else?I think it would have been far more useful if he married someone else.
From what I read about the OTL Louis XI, he's more than capable of handling England. If anything, spider!Henry might take full control even earlier.Would he still take up government personally in 1437? How bad is the situation by that point?
And his first priority should probably be soothing tensions in England that had arisen during the regency (Gloucester, Cardinal Beaufort etc.)
Doubt it.The match was extremely bad.There was no dowry to the deal and that England was supposed to cede Maine back to France.The Angevins' were also decidedly in the French camp.Henry will needed to marry someone that gives him either funds,lands or military aid.It probably would be, but I can't help wondering what a power couple like these two could accomplish if they got along amazingly.
From what I read about the OTL Louis XI, he's more than capable of handling England. If anything, spider!Henry might take full control even earlier.
Would he still take up government personally in 1437? How bad is the situation by that point?
And his first priority should probably be soothing tensions in England that had arisen during the regency (Gloucester, Cardinal Beaufort etc.)