WI:Plantagenet Navarre

How?

Navarre's inheritance was never in contention since they allowed female rule.
You'd somehow need Edward I's first wife to die before 1284 (so no OTL Edward II) and have him marry Joan of Navarre which seems unlikely given French influence at the time.

A better option is for Henry I of Navarre to have his son Theobald survive but who only has a surviving daughter married to Thomas Earl of Norfolk or Edmund Earl of Kent (children by Edward I's second marriage to Marguerite of France). This would then give you a Plantagenet* King of Navarre albeit not King of England but it would make an alt-HYW fairly interesting.

*Not that they would use "Plantagenet" since that was only first used during the War of the Roses.
 
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How?

Navarre's inheritance was never in contention since they allowed female rule.
You'd somehow need Edward I's first wife to die before 1284 (so no OTL Edward II) and have him marry Joan of Navarre which seems unlikely given French influence at the time.

A better option is for Henry I of Navarre to have his son Theobald survive but who only has a surviving daughter married to Thomas Earl of Norfolk or Edmund Earl of Kent (children by Edward I's second marriage to Marguerite of France). This would then give you a Plantagenet* King of Navarre albeit not King of England but it would make an alt-HYW fairly interesting.

*Not that they would use "Plantagenet" since that was only first used during the War of the Roses.

Couldn't Henry Bolingbroke and Jeanne of Navarre's son fight for his rights for Navarre once Charles Evreux III dies heirless?
 
How?

Navarre's inheritance was never in contention since they allowed female rule.
You'd somehow need Edward I's first wife to die before 1284 (so no OTL Edward II) and have him marry Joan of Navarre which seems unlikely given French influence at the time.

A better option is for Henry I of Navarre to have his son Theobald survive but who only has a surviving daughter married to Thomas Earl of Norfolk or Edmund Earl of Kent (children by Edward I's second marriage to Marguerite of France). This would then give you a Plantagenet* King of Navarre albeit not King of England but it would make an alt-HYW fairly interesting.

*Not that they would use "Plantagenet" since that was only first used during the War of the Roses.
The question is how will it survive?
 
Couldn't Henry Bolingbroke and Jeanne of Navarre's son fight for his rights for Navarre once Charles Evreux III dies heirless?

Not really. Her sons by John V of Brittany have precedence.

The question is how will it survive?

Much like OTL?
Alliances with France, Castile, and Aragon, as needed...

A weaker link with France could mean that one of the Spanish Kingdoms inherits it later on.
 
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Yes, but they are busy in Brittany not in Navarre.

But the lords in Navarre would still accept her first son by John as King even if he is absent in Navarre. And I'm sure John junior can send his brother Arthur as proxy since Brittany is calming down.

Besides I'm sure Henry would rather have his stepsons' support in claiming France than trying for a less legal unsupported claim in Navarre. Once he is King of France, however, it is a different matter...
 
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