WI Mary Stuart was pregnant with Francis's II child?

Following the death of her father, James V, Mary Stuart had been crowned Queen of Scots, in Stirling Castle, in 1543, at the age of nine months. The marriage between Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin de France rranged by Henry II,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1548when Francis was just four years old.
On April 24 1558 Mary Stuart and Francis were married in a union that would unite Scottish and French Crowns while giving a claim to the English Crown too to a potential male heir...
In OTL the couple had no children... WI Francis dies as in OTL but Mary is left pregnant with his child? How is that changing History? Any thoughts?
 
Francis II apparently hadn't even hit puberty at the time of his death, which makes any children with Mary quite impossible.

The marriage was consummated, at the behest of the Guise faction at court to prevent the any divorce of the couple based on non-consummation. Francis' II's health was awful during his short life, which seems to suggest he probably wouldn't of had any children even if he had lived longer--his mother took several steps to have children, and it's believed this is why many of her children had chronic health problems.

I draw most of this from Antonia's Fraser biography of Mary, Queen of the Scots.

So Francis II's health definately needs improved for any children--I imagine that any Franco-Scottish union would never happen, due to English opposition, and perhaps opposition within Scotland, which wasn't keen to become a Valois puppet-state.
 
Couldnt Catherine de Medici follow Henry's VIII precedent and marry her off to Charles IX? Pope Pius IV could have grant Charles IX a dispensation since he was known to the Medicis... (His surname was Medici too but was unrelated or very long distanced related with the original Medicis)...
 
Charles IX was only ten when he became King and the Regency of Catherine d'Medici was probably more concerned in keeping the fractured country together (after Henry II died religious tensions started to flare up, engulfing the country after Francis II died) than keeping Scotland in French orbit.

Still, I suppose such a marriage could be possible: Mary's Guise relations would certainly support it as a way of increasing their influence over the throne.
 
If Marie de Guises wants to play rough she could support the marriage of Mary Stuart to Charles IX and after that she could organise a little coup d' etat overthrowing Catherine de Medici and one of her brothers is appointed as Regent (Charles Cardinal de Guises or Francis Duc de Guises)... The Pope would support the De Guises since he didnot wished Protestants flooding France hoping to isolate that way the Protestant Elisabeth I of England...
Is this possible?
 
Pragmatism and Catherine de Medici

According to one biography of Catherine de Medici I've read, she wasn't an absolute religious hardliner, and if Francis II did manage to prodigiously father a French heir, and then died, I suspect she would have placed dynastic survival above any scruples, and married her off in proxy to Charles IX (as occurred with Prince Arthur Tudor, Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, all within the Catholic Church at the time). The Queen Mother would certainly have moved heaven and earth to preserve an heir to the Valois lineage. Was France's succession inevitably governed by primogeniture, or would an older sibling of the previoushave occupied the throne as a placeholder? In any case, Mary Stuartwould have to stick around as the mother of the heir to the throne. Where there was one, there might well be others. Which would complicate and strengthen the Franco-Scottish relationship, and Anglo-French diplomatic tensions


Don't forget, childhood marriages weren't unusual in the Middle Ages or Renaissance, due to the fact that life expectancy was so truncated due to the prevalence of infant mortality and childhood disease. Consummation came much later, if the bridge and groom survived childhood and early adolescence.
 
Didnt France had Salic Law till 18th century? Throne was passed to male members only while females were completely excluded...
 
How about the Pope involves and makes an attempt to unite France and Scotland through this marriage alliance? This union would have isolated England... An interdict and papal instigation causing a turmoil to the country would have caused way too many troubles to Elizabeth I...
 
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