WI: Charles d'Albret, Infante of Navarre Survives

This guy was the youngest (and only surviving) brother of King Henri II of Navarre. He was born at Pau in December 1510 and died in a Neapolitan prison a few months short of his 18th birthday. Would his survival affect or change anything? Obviously the reasonably gross idea of him wedding his niece, the future Jeanne III is there, but let's keep it nothing more than an idea.

And while Navarre allows female succession, once Marguerite d'Angoulême hits menopause and she hasn't had a surviving son, I can see Charles being an attractive marriage partner as heir to the d'Albret titles restricted to the male line. Or would he, like his bastard half-brother be pushed into the Church?
 
This guy was the youngest (and only surviving) brother of King Henri II of Navarre. He was born at Pau in December 1510 and died in a Neapolitan prison a few months short of his 18th birthday. Would his survival affect or change anything? Obviously the reasonably gross idea of him wedding his niece, the future Jeanne III is there, but let's keep it nothing more than an idea.

And while Navarre allows female succession, once Marguerite d'Angoulême hits menopause and she hasn't had a surviving son, I can see Charles being an attractive marriage partner as heir to the d'Albret titles restricted to the male line. Or would he, like his bastard half-brother be pushed into the Church?

I do not think there were any Albret titles restricted to the male line. Charles would have only a decent second son settlement, maybe something like Perigord and Limoges.
 
I do not think there were any Albret titles restricted to the male line. Charles would have only a decent second son settlement, maybe something like Perigord and Limoges.

Oh, damn. And here I thought he'd get something a little more substantial. Guess that unless Jeanne were to die in infancy, Charles isn't likely to have much of a future? I mean, if he's not really getting anything, will there be anyone (of importance) vying to marry their daughter to him?
 
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