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Read that Ferdinand II of Aragon and Mary of Burgundy acctually could have been married. Their parents were negociating this option when they both were still kids. If that happened Ferdinand would not have married Isabella of Castille, in other words Spain would not have unified. Neither would Mary have married the Emperor Maximilian I, which would mean no Habsburg Netherlands.

It become even more interresting; Ferdinand and Isabella's daughter Joana of Castille married Mary's and Maximilian's son Philip the Handsome (later Philip I of Spain), thus starting the Habsburg era in Spain. But what if this all never happened? What if Ferdinand and Mary had been a couple, and both Isabella and Maximilian had had other spouses. How would the history of Europe have changed?
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