WI: Henri III Marries Marie of Cleves

The last Valois king of France desired to marry the lady, even going so far as to want to initiate divorce proceedings to dissolve her marriage to the Huguenot prince de Condé. However, Marie died (either of puerperal fever or of a lung infection according to her wiki) before much of anything could be done.

WI: Marie survives and Henri manages to get her divorced and marries her himself? Can Condé's 'falling away' from the Catholic Church mean that their marriage is no longer recognized as valid? And what might be the results of her marriage (both the dissolution of her first and the contraction of her second)?
 
I don't think marriages get invalidated because one of the partners is not Catholic. Can you think of any other instances of this? Was Henri's problem with having children on his side or on his OTL wife's? If the latter, that would obviously have major impacts.
 
I don't think marriages get invalidated because one of the partners is not Catholic. Can you think of any other instances of this? Was Henri's problem with having children on his side or on his OTL wife's? If the latter, that would obviously have major impacts.

I'm not sure about the invalidation of the marriage, although I am aware that it took some extensive bullying to get the archbishop of Reims/Rouen to agree to marry Catherine of Navarre (a Calvinist) to the duke of Lorraine (a Catholic) since the pope refused to grant a dispensation unless she kissed the pope's ring.

That said, from what I can make out, Henri and Louise's OTL marriage was childless due to a miscarriage gone bad in the spring of 1576. So, I don't think the problem necessarily was his.
 
I think we should somehow either prevent the birth/conception of Marie's only child, since if a pregnancy was traumatic enough to cause her death, it stands to reason that it might have the result of rendering her barren (and a miscarriage might result in the same future as Henri III's OTL marriage).
 
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