WI Louis III d'Anjou is elected King of Aragon in 1412?

In 1410 The throne of Aragon fell vacant when king Martin I of Aragon died. Louis' mother Yolande was the surviving daughter of sonless King Juan I of Aragon, Martin's predecessor. They claimed the throne of Aragon to young Louis.
After two years without a king, the Estates of Aragon by Compromise of Caspe in 1412 elected Ferdinand de Antequera as the next King of Aragon. Ferdinand was the second son of Eleanor of Aragon and Juan I of Castille. The then 8-year-old Louis at that point lost one of his four kingdoms. The family however had secured some Aragonese lands in Montpellier and Roussillon.
WI the Aragonese Estates had supported Yolande and the d'Anjous in gaining the throne uniting somehow Aragon with France? How is that altering History? Any thoughts?
 
The French manage to enrage the Castillians that decide to change their support to the English in the Hundred years war… er in the Hundred and Fifty Years War.

The Aragonese are not happy either to join with their hated enemies and noblemen rebel asking the castillian king to come in their help. The French try to make a deal with Portugal but... alas! they are also english allies. They are at war with all the peninsular kingdoms but Navarre and Grenade. In the long run they might win their war with the English but they would have created a strong anglo-castillian alliance and caused an Iberian reunification.
 
WI Navarre gets involved to in the war? Arent there any chances for an "unholy" alliance with Granada?

They would probably try to be unnoticed. Granada just survived so long because it was cheaper for Castille to send the tax collectors there than to send an army and Navarre would be absolutely no match to Castille. They would probably wait.
 
How about Church influence? Antipope Benedict XIII was still in Aragon and supported the d'Anjous... He was recognised as Pope in Scotland and he could urge the Scottish to invade England and cause troubles to the English...
 
Couldnt Charles VI (or some of his advisors since Charles was schizofrenic) support his kinsman Louis III d'Anjou since he could attach Aragon to French and then claim the Kingdom of Naples... This would have created a French Empire with vast resources... Henry V wouldnt dare to press his claims 10 years later against France...
 
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