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Points of Divergence : The Bourbons

Points of divergence pertaining to the history of the House of Bourbon, one of Europe's most long-lived and most famous ruling families, with many offshoots.


15th and 16th century

Plausibility check: A Capetian or Bourbon ruler of a Rus state (e.g. in today's Ukraine)

A Bourbon Queen for the Union of Kalmar

Challenge: A Valois England and Bourbon France

Plausibility check: Could a Valois Spain coexist with a Bourbon France ?

The Duke of Bourbon does not rebel in 1523

WI Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, survives (in 1527) and has a surviving son ?

WI: Charles III, Duke of Bourbon exiled to Spain

WI: Charles de Bourbon lives

WI: Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, marries a Bourbon or Valois

WI: Bloody Mary marries Antoine de Bourbon

WI: Henry IV remains Protestant ?

WI: Henri IV’s first marriage

Plausibility check: The Bourbons leading the Holy Roman Empire instead of the Habsburgs

Plausibility check: Could a Valois Spain coexist with a Bourbon France ?

WI: the Boubons are wiped out during the Wars of Religion

WI Cardinal Charles II de Bourbon Vendome escapes imprisonmnent and becomes King ?

Henry IV Bourbon survives assassination attempt

Catherine of Bourbon-Navarre

Challenge: Make Charles de Bourbon King Charles X of France in 1584

Challenge: Bourbon Sweden or Denmark

Challenge: Bourbon England

Challenge: Bourbon Britain

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17th century

Plausibility check: The Bourbons leading the Holy Roman Empire instead of the Habsburgs

Challenge: A Bourbon Holy Roman Emperor

Louis XIII (House of Bourbon) question

WI Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had not died in 1644 ?

Challenge: Bourbons styling themselves as French Emperors

Challenge: Bourbon Sweden or Denmark

WI: Queen Christina of Sweden marries a Bourbon

Challenge: Bourbon England

Challenge: Bourbon Britain

Plausibility check: Is a Bourbon Russia even possible ?

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18th century

A different Bourbon for the Throne of Spain

WI: Major victory for the Bourbon powers in the War of the Spanish Succession ?

Total Bourbon defeat in the War of Spanish Succession

WI: Larger House of Bourbon after 1710 ?

Plausibility check: Bourbon Franco-Spain

Plausibility check: An earlier Mexican kingdom - with a Bourbon or a Habsburg ?

A Wittelsbach south Italy instead of a Bourbon one

Plausibility check: A Bourbon Poland ?

WI the Spanish Bourbon reforms of Latin America are more successful ?

Challenge: Bourbon American monarchy

Challenge: Bourbon union between France and Spain with POD after 1750 (1)

Challenge: Bourbon union between France and Spain with POD after 1750 (2)

Plausibility check: Philip of Bourbon-Parma, King of Belgium ?

Challenge: Unite France and Spain under a Bourbon monarch no earlier than the 1770s

Challenge: A Bourbon-unified Italy

WI: A Bourbon King of Portugal

WI: Aranda plan, Bourbon America, with a twist

Challenge: Switch the fates of the House of Orléans and (French) Bourbons

Challenge: Most powerful Bourbon monarchy to survive the French Revolution (with a POD no earlier than 1750) ?

How long could the Bourbon Ancien Régime at Versailles last ?

WI the French royal family fled to Britain ?

(Bourbon) Kingdom of Brittany

WI: Louis XVI and French royals allowed exile in North America by the French National Convention

WI: Sweden adopting the Bourbon and their children after the revolutionary exile

Bourbon a la Bonaparte

Successful Bourbon restoration in 1795

Revolutionaries or Napoleon allow pro-Bourbon generals and admirals to live

Challenge: A literal Bourbon US president

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19th century

Challenge: House of Bourbon - Bonaparte

Charles X restored Bourbon King of France in 1815

No Bourbon Restoration

Challenge: Sweden under the House of Bourbon-Parma

Could the Bourbon restoration last ?

Long term repercussions of a surviving Bourbon Restoration ?

Preserve the Monarchy

Challenge: Charles X Bourbon remains King of France

Louis the Peacemaker and Charles the Liberal

Bourbon Restoration question

Plausibility check: House Bonaparte and Bourbon/Orleans intermarrying

No Bourbon "miracle baby"

Bourbon restoration in 1846 - in Mexico !

Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: A different wedding

A Bourbon Restoration in 1870 (1)

A Bourbon Restoration in 1870 (2)

A Bourbon Restoration in 1871 (1)

A Bourbon Restoration in 1871 (2)

WI: Bourbon Restoration after Franco-Prussian War

WI: The Bourbon Restoration of 1873

Plausibility check: A Bourbon Romania

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20th century

Challenge: Post-war Bourbon Restoration

Challenge: Franco succeeded by his Bourbon grandson-in-law

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Miscellaneous

Plausibility check: Bourbon dynasty for a surviving or renewed Roman Empire

DBWI: What if the Bourbon-Habsburg Revolution never accurred ?

Bourbon England, Hapsburg Ireland, and Plantagenet Scotland

ASB WI: Juan Carlos Bourbon wakes up as Henry of Navarre

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See Also

Points of Divergence: Capetian and Valois dynasties

Points of Divergence: Napoleonic dynasties

French PODs

Spanish PODs

Bourbon Restoration information ?


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