WI: Jeanne, Countess of Toulouse and Alphonse, Comte de Poitiers Have Children?

OTL, the suo jure Countess of Toulouse was married to a younger brother of St. Louis IX, spirited away to Paris at a reasonably young age, and never really had a connexion to her native county. She and Alphonse also had no children. At her death, while the county should have legally passed to her half-cousin (the daughter of her father's elder half-sister), it instead devolved into the French crown.

While I can't imagine this being oh-so-very-different had Jeanne-Alphonse had issue, Toulouse would remain - if only on paper - "indepedent" of France. How might this affect things, if at all, were there to be a Toulousian line of Capetians similar to the Artesian or Sicilian lines which sprang from two other brothers of St. Louis? Would Toulouse be destined to have "absentee landlords" in a similar way to Jeanne-Alphonse for the duration of the line? Or would Jeanne-Alphonse's son/grandson take himself back to his county?
 
There is also a supposed Flanders-Hainault line because the Bourbon founder was betrothed to the heiress of Flanders, the heiress before it passed to the Avesnes and Dampieres.
 
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