Isabeau/Isabelle de Bretagne was the younger sister of the more famous Anne, duchesse de Bretagne, twice queen-consort of France. Isabeau died in April 1490 of pneumonia. But what if she hadn't? Any thoughts?
Isabeau/Isabelle de Bretagne was the younger sister of the more famous Anne, duchesse de Bretagne, twice queen-consort of France. Isabeau died in April 1490 of pneumonia. But what if she hadn't? Any thoughts?
I recently found out that if Isabeau had lived, she would've married Jean d'Albret (who OTL married Catherine of Navarre). This could be interesting since then Isabeau's survival leaves Catherine without a husband. Would Catherine be married to the comte de Clermont instead? Bourbon-Navarre a few generations early?
Catherine of Navarre was proposed to be betrothed to the son of Ferdinand of Aragon..
Second minor POD: Anne of Brittany has her daughter Anne of France survive.
I've been musing again on Jean d'Albret being unavailable to marry Catherine. I was wondering if an Armagnac-Nemours candidate might be considered? Or a Foix cousin? The Armagnacs had ties to both the previous generation - Queen Leonor's children - as well as to the Anjous (Jacques d'Armagnac was married to Louise d'Anjou-Maine (goddaughter of Louis XI)). Assuming that the age-gap (7-years) is still too large for Catherine to wed the Prince de los Asturias.
Actually, Catherine of Navarre is married to Jean d'albret on 1486..
I recently found out that if Isabeau had lived, she would've married Jean d'Albret (who OTL married Catherine of Navarre). This could be interesting since then Isabeau's survival leaves Catherine without a husband. Would Catherine be married to the comte de Clermont instead? Bourbon-Navarre a few generations early?
Alternatively, Catherine of Navarre can marry the Dauphin herself..Actually, it was on july 14, 1484.
Conflict is looming between Francis Ist and Isabeau's family : Louise de Savoie has her eyes on both Savoy and Bourbon.
Alternatively, Catherine of Navarre can marry the Dauphin herself..
You mean, Catherine de Navarre marrying Charles VIII ? He was engaged to Margarita of Austria since 1482 and only called off the engagement to marry Anne of Brittany. Anne de Beaujeu did not seemed the least interested in another Navarran match.
Catherine is ultrafertile, she can pop many Angouleme kids..Catherine of Navarre, in this scenario, could marry Charles, Count of Angouleme.
Catherine of Navarre, in this scenario, could marry Charles, Count of Angouleme.
Catherine is ultrafertile, she can pop many Angouleme kids..
Interesting times ahead, then if the direct Valois and Valois-Orléans branches still predecease as OTL, and an alt-François d'Angoulême succeeds to the throne. I wonder what happens to Louise de Savoie in this scenario? (I saw a TL once - can't think of the name or where I saw it (IDT it was on here) - where Louise gets married to Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford as a second husband, IDK why Catherine Wydeville wasn't available. Later in the TL, François I marries Beatriz of Portugal by waylaying her in France en route to Chambery (I can't remember if Claude was dead or never born).
Hopefully, if she does, she'll do somewhat better than with her OTL husband, since that was a pretty even boy-girl ratio, but the boys (with the exception of Henri and Charles) all seem to have died in infancy, while only two of the girls (Madeleine and Jeanne) shoved off early, and most of them didn't marry because of the fact Navarre was too poor to field a dowry and there weren't enough husbands to go around for them all.
Anne of Navarre, the eldest did marry to John, the son of Gaston III de Foix(Foix-Candale), however her husband died in the war of the league of cognac, however the marriage is childless, so is her younger brother Charles of Navarre died in the League of Cognac..
The husband of Anne of Navarre is a nephew of the Queen of Hungary, Anne of Foix-Candale..
I actually thinking of a scenario wherein Anne of Navarre marries Henry VIII...if she did not give birth to a child to her husband, John of Foix-Candale, Comte of Astarac..would she give birth to children for Henry VIII.Exactly, in comparison to Catherine's own paternal aunts and uncles who all actually married - except the clerics and one of her sisters that the sources can't agree on if she died in infancy or not - (plus as far as cousin marriage was concerned, only one of them, her namesake aunt, Catherine, mother of the queen of Hungary, married a cousin, (and Jacques married Ana de Peralta, bastard daughter of Carlos of Viana).