WI:Charles VIII marries Catherine of Foix

Assuming that Francis Phoebus of Foix still dies what if Charles VIII decided to integrate Navarre to France by marrying his sister Catherine of Foix and later annex Navarre to his realm what would be the effect of this in Spanish-French relations.
 
It will probably stir up relations between France and Aragon, since King Ferdinand is willing to annex Navarre ( he did that in OTL in 1512). He will probably try to ally with the HRE and dissatisfied French nobles in order to take Navarre.
 
Assuming that Francis Phoebus of Foix still dies what if Charles VIII decided to integrate Navarre to France by marrying his sister Catherine of Foix and later annex Navarre to his realm what would be the effect of this in Spanish-French relations.

Why would he want to do this? Was this something that was discussed at all at the time? My memory is that for the early part of his reign, Charles VIII was betrothed to Margaret of Austria, an engagement he broke to marry Anne of Brittany. It doesn't seem worth breaking with Austria and Burgundy to secure the dubious prize of Navarre.
 
Why would he want to do this? Was this something that was discussed at all at the time? My memory is that for the early part of his reign, Charles VIII was betrothed to Margaret of Austria, an engagement he broke to marry Anne of Brittany. It doesn't seem worth breaking with Austria and Burgundy to secure the dubious prize of Navarre.

Aha! A bride for Charles VIII in a Burgundy TL! My idea was that Margaret didn't exist and Charles the Bold had a son. Charles the Bold's son marries Anne and forces Charles VIII to recognise this marriage. Now, I have an alternate bride!
 
It will probably stir up relations between France and Aragon, since King Ferdinand is willing to annex Navarre ( he did that in OTL in 1512). He will probably try to ally with the HRE and dissatisfied French nobles in order to take Navarre.

Why would he want to do this? Was this something that was discussed at all at the time? My memory is that for the early part of his reign, Charles VIII was betrothed to Margaret of Austria, an engagement he broke to marry Anne of Brittany. It doesn't seem worth breaking with Austria and Burgundy to secure the dubious prize of Navarre.

If anything a Marriage of Charles VIII and Catherine causes an early war with pyrenees and the Valois monarchs are CoPrinces of Andorra

Aha! A bride for Charles VIII in a Burgundy TL! My idea was that Margaret didn't exist and Charles the Bold had a son. Charles the Bold's son marries Anne and forces Charles VIII to recognise this marriage. Now, I have an alternate bride!
Do it...
 
The claims are merged just so nobody else can gain or use it.

But, effectively, there was no Navarrese claim in 1483. Nobody cared about it. Nobody had even asserted it since Charles the Bad over 100 years before, and even his claim hadn't reached the level of "actual threat to the Valois hold on the throne." And the Foix claim to Navarre is entirely dependent on French good will, given the obvious Aragonese desire to annex the country (which would be carried out within Catherine's lifetime). In OTL, the claims only merged by random happenstance - when Jeanne d'Albret married Antoine de Bourbon, nobody imagined that the entire Valois line would go extinct and their son would inherit the French throne as senior heir male.
 
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