WI: House of Trastamara doesn't go extinct.

Have Prince Juan of Asturias, the only son of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, not die at age eighteen of either tuberculosis or 'sexual over-exertion' (whatever it was that killed him) in 1497.
 
Have Prince Juan of Asturias, the only son of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, not die at age eighteen of either tuberculosis or 'sexual over-exertion' (whatever it was that killed him) in 1497.

Okay not to derail the thread but may I ask what on earth "Sexual Over Exertion" is?
 
So the How isn't a terrible issue to resolve... But now the issue is, What happens next?
Without the Hapsburg succession, Spain and its dependencies (in North Africa, Italy, the Americas and the Pacific) remain separate from Austria/Burgundy: This is basically the same (apart from the fact that the Dutch are mostly under Hapsburg control at that point) as the division that IOTL came about after the War of the Spanish Succession, although -- of course -- without that war's side-effects such as British control of Gibraltar.
 
According to the Wiki article. I trying to find more on Prince Juan's death from other sources.

It seems the medieval folks thought sex drained your health/strength. They thought the same about Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales; King Henry VII separated him from his wife Catherine of Aragon (Juan's sister) because he feared he'd die if they did have sex. Juan most likely died from consumption.

Would be interesting to see who Juan's heirs marry. His grandmother Isabella of Portugal was melancholic and schizophrenic, his grandfather King Juan II was pathologically incompetent and unable to function. His uncle King Henry was schizoid, sexually perverted, semi-impotent, filthy and had a deformed concave frame. Prince Juan's sister Juanna was schizophrenic and generally unhinged. Prince Juan's wife Margaret was the daughter of the Emperor Maximilian (unpredictable and eccentric) and Marie of Burgundy, who seems to have been the origin of the Habsburg lip.

If Prince Juan's marry their Habsburg cousins, these traits are fixed as OTL. If they marry into the Valois, we get the hypospadias and other genital issues Henri II and his children had going on. Best bet is a Tudor marriage outside of the bloodline.
 
Top