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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: Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, marries a Bourbon or Valois
WI: Bloody Mary marries Antoine de Bourbon
WI: Henry IV remains Protestant ?
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
Challenge: Make Charles de Bourbon King Charles X of France in 1584
Challenge: Bourbon Sweden or Denmark
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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
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
How long could the Bourbon Ancien Régime at Versailles last ?
WI the French royal family fled to Britain ?
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
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
Challenge: Sweden under the House of Bourbon-Parma
Could the Bourbon restoration last ?
Long term repercussions of a surviving Bourbon Restoration ?
Challenge: Charles X Bourbon remains King of France
Louis the Peacemaker and Charles the Liberal
Plausibility check: House Bonaparte and Bourbon/Orleans intermarrying
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
Bourbon Restoration information ?