WI: Independent Aragon

I am currently making a timeline about an Independent Aragon with Alfonso V of Aragon siring a heir, if Alfonso V survives, remarries and suddenly sires a heir, Ferdinand of Aragon would lose his possible inheritance, I was thinking what will happen to Ferdinand of Aragon and who will he marry and what would happen to Ferdinand of Aragon and in this scenario Isabella of Castile will most likely marry the King of Portugal either John or his father Alfonso.
 
It would be difficult for them to remain independent. Black death damaged their demographics terribly.
They would be caught between two bigger and more populated nations. If they tried to get Naples and expand in Italy, they would have to face France and seek protection in Castille-Portugal. If not, France would see them as a possible "prey".
You have also to take into consideration the feeling that everybody had in the Iberian Peninsula that reunification should be made to restore the old visigothic kingdom.
 
It would be difficult for them to remain independent. Black death damaged their demographics terribly.
They would be caught between two bigger and more populated nations. If they tried to get Naples and expand in Italy, they would have to face France and seek protection in Castille-Portugal. If not, France would see them as a possible "prey".
You have also to take into consideration the feeling that everybody had in the Iberian Peninsula that reunification should be made to restore the old visigothic kingdom.

I was thinking of Aragon tapping into the Mediterranean trade by annexing parts of Egypt.
 
I was thinking of Aragon tapping into the Mediterranean trade by annexing parts of Egypt.

They lack manpower. If you have Black Death hitting harder in Castille and Northern France than in Aragon then you have a chance.

If they have the bonus of sticking to the Duchies of Neopatria and Athens in Greece, things get more and more interesting.
 
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