WI: Spain and Aragon never united

How about a partition of Spain following the Death of Carlos II and the War of Spanish Succession ? Ive read that Spain truely did no become De Jure until the throne passed to Philip of Bourbon. If the Habsburgs had a spare candidate(maybe it wasn't such a good idea to marry cousins and sending all their spare sons to join monastic orders) the result of the war could have been for the Crown of Spain being split again with Phillip getting Castile and its new world holdings(after renouncing his claims to the throne of France) and a Habsburg candidate(after renouncing its Austrian Claims) getting Aragon and its Mediterranean possessions.
 
How about a partition of Spain following the Death of Carlos II and the War of Spanish Succession ? Ive read that Spain truely did no become De Jure until the throne passed to Philip of Bourbon. If the Habsburgs had a spare candidate(maybe it wasn't such a good idea to marry cousins and sending all their spare sons to join monastic orders) the result of the war could have been for the Crown of Spain being split again with Phillip getting Castile and its new world holdings(after renouncing his claims to the throne of France) and a Habsburg candidate(after renouncing its Austrian Claims) getting Aragon and its Mediterranean possessions.

I think you're right about Spain not formally unifying as a single entity until the Bourbon period. Before then, you have Castile and Aragon, the latter itself a personal union of various territories.
According to Maria-Jose Rodriguez-Salgado: When Philip II was married to Mary Tudor, the English courtiers refused to refer to him as 'King of Spain, and of England... etc' (as Philip had requested) because they declared that Spain did not exist (one assumes they weren't keen on the order either).
For Aragon to split from Castile at the close of the war of Spanish succession is intriguing; practically it would require the Austrians, English and Dutch to have good reason not to abandon them.
Who in such a scenario would end up with the Spanish Netherlands? The Austrians, or the Aragonese?
 
If John, Prince of Girona lives and his mother, Germaine of Foix becomes regent, maybe Aragon could continue a French alliance, especially if John ends up disliking his Hapsburg relatives as much as Ferdinand did. It's not like such traditional alliances were set in stone. Henry VIII tried to make alliances with both France and the Hapsburgs at various times.

As for Italy, apparently one of the conditions of the marriage between Germaine and Ferdiand was that if a son/child was born to the union, Louis XII would give up his claims to the Kingdom of Naples. I could see TTL's John III of Aragon allying with France (and marrying Renee of France) to provide a counterweight to Charles V, maybe even allowing/help them to take and keep Milan in service to that goal.
 
How about a partition of Spain following the Death of Carlos II and the War of Spanish Succession ? Ive read that Spain truely did no become De Jure until the throne passed to Philip of Bourbon. If the Habsburgs had a spare candidate(maybe it wasn't such a good idea to marry cousins and sending all their spare sons to join monastic orders) the result of the war could have been for the Crown of Spain being split again with Phillip getting Castile and its new world holdings(after renouncing his claims to the throne of France) and a Habsburg candidate(after renouncing its Austrian Claims) getting Aragon and its Mediterranean possessions.
It is complicated.The kingdoms were united dinastically and with primogeniture that pretty much ties them together.You have to take into account that the crown of Aragon was a confederation.Aragonese and Valencian laws were totally different.So you could even argue that the crown of Aragon was never united either going by that logic.They were just dinastically united.Understanding middle ages laws by todays standards is pretty hard,but a dinastic union back then was practically in modern terms being the same political entity
 
For Aragon to split from Castile at the close of the war of Spanish succession is intriguing; practically it would require the Austrians, English and Dutch to have good reason not to abandon them.
Who in such a scenario would end up with the Spanish Netherlands? The Austrians, or the Aragonese?

two possibilities either it would go the way of OTL and the Austrians get it or the Spanish Netherlands gets split with Flanders going to the Netherlands while Wallonia gets gobbled up by France. I doubt the English or Dutch would stand for it.

In the Event of a Separation where Castile got the new world stuff, what would happen with Aragon, could she hold on to Italy? Also once the Rush for Africa begins would Aragon try to get a foothold? Like snatching up Algeria or other parts of Africa.
 
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