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So researching the House of Valois I discovered this fine gentleman, who aside from courting Elizabeth (and according to the wiki reasonably well received) also made an abortive attempt to invade the Low Countries. The major difficulty in both cases seems to have been his Catholicism; as he was at the time heir to France it makes sense that both England and Holland would look skeptically on him. Let's say that somehow, Francis converts- imagine that he escapes scarring, and that his elder brother survives- and that he decides to convert to Protestantism to shore up his support in the Low Countries.

Even if he marries Elizabeth she is too old to have children, but his conversion- and Elizabeth's support- would probably be enough that, with French and/or English aid, he could wrest control of the Low Countries entirely from the Habsburgs. What would be the effects of this, especially assuming that his accession comes with the condition of remaining Protestant and thus, presumably, preventing the line from inheriting?
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