anne of brittany

I know who I am crazy to start another TL when I am already writing other two (and I have more in the works who will be published sooner or later) but this stopry truly wanted written… Hopefully it will be a shorter TL more like Henry VIII’s heiress than my others but we will see what will...

1482 An attendant spots a ditch and warns his mistress of the danger. Mary of Burgundy, an expert rider, swerves and dodges the obstacle, heart pounding, as she realizes how close she came to disaster. The hunters return to Wijnendale Castle. Maximilian helps Mary off her horse, gently and...

What if Isabella of Castile‘s second pregnancy in 1475 resulted in an healthy boy? And if this boy, seven years younger than her was seen as an acceptable candidate as husband for Catherine of Navarre by her mother, leaving Jean d’Albret available for Anne of Brittany (in OTL he had been engaged...

Anne, Duchess of Brittany was determined to preserve Brittany’s separation from France. In various unsuccessful attempts to save the autonomy of her Duchy, she married herself to Maximilian of Austria to try and ward off the advances of Charles VIII of France, stipulated in her marriage contract...

IOTL, Christopher Columbus nearly didn’t sail for Spain–when Isabella finally relented on approving the expedition in January 1492, he was actually on his way out of Spain and planning to join his brother Bartholomew in France and appeal to King Charles VIII to find his expedition. However...

In OTL, Anne of Brittany had a daughter named Anne of France who died on her day of birth. But what if the opposite happened? What if Anne of Brittany died in childbirth while Anne of France lived? Let’s also assume that Charles VIII still dies on schedule leaving Louis of Orleans King...

Born in 1492, Charles Orlando would be the only surviving child of his parents, King Charles VIII of France and Duchess Anne of Brittany. After succeeding his father at the age of six, his mother ruled as regent in his name, working alongside his heir presumptive Louis, Duke of Orleans. The...

The POD to this is simple, shortly before Louis XI’s death Dauphin Charles passes away of an illness. This leaves Louis XII as Louis XI’s successor. So what happens next? Obviously Louis XII is going to pursue the annulment of his marriage to Jeanne of France sooner and will try and earn Anne of...

How, you ask? That's up to you. Her marriage treaty stated that France and Brittany couldn't be inherited by the same person. Of course that did not happen. But what if it was respected, for example her first ITTL son gets France, the second son gets Brittany, etc? Or what if she had stopped...

To whom, you ask? Could be to either Charles VIII or Louis XII. Either way this son butterflies away their successor. What else would change?

During his time in exile at the Breton court, Henry Tudor (later Henry VII), was considered as a possible suitor for Anne of Brittany, the heir presumptive of Brittany. Of course, this marriage would never come to fruition. But what if (for some reason) Francis II betroths Henry to Anne? What...

What if Francis II of Brittany lived until 1492 (instead of dying as OTL in 1488) consenting a wedding between his daughter and heiress and Philip IV of Burgundy? And if butterflies prevented the OTL late consummation of the wedding between Gian Galeazzo Sforza and Isabella of Naples? The...

While Charles Orlando surviving scenarios are quite common what about situation, where Charles VIII and Anne of Brittany have healthy daughter *Charlotte* (perhaps the one born in 1495) and Charles still dies in 1498 (yes, I know, considering circumstances of his death it requires massive...

POD: Anne of Brittany gives birth to a healthy son in 1500. Let’s call him Charles to make things easier. What would Louise of Savoy do to advance her children? Would the Angoulemes set up a rival political faction? Would Louis XII marry Mary Tudor and try to get more sons, or would he marry...

Historically, Anne of Brittany was forced to marry each successive King of France according to the marriage treaty, which sounded horrible compared to what happened to her fellow female monarch married to a King of France-----Mary Queen of Scots (who was able to return to Scotland and remarry)...

I am wondering about what doing with Spain, Portugal, France and Navarre in this scenario... the only things I know are: Louis, duke d’Orleans will become King Louis XIII of France and likely will remarry before becoming King but I do not know who will be his second bride Dowager Queen...

ISTR reading somewhere that had Charles VIII lived, OTL's Louis XII (then just Louis II, duc d'Orléans) would've married Louise of Savoy, Dowager comtesse d'Angoulême as a second wife (I'm not sure if this would have been in the late 1490s or after Charles' sister, St. Jeanne de Valois died)...

Louis, Duke of Orleans, later King of France as Louis XII, was forced by Louis XI to marry his handicaped and likely sterile daughter Joan. Say Joan ITTL is even less healthly and dies just one year after her father, leaving Louis d'Orléans free to remarry (perhaps to her...

Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, dies from illness during autumn of 1499, before birth of Claude, leaving no surviving children. So Brittany is likely just absorbed by France, I doubt Anne's distant cousins would be allowed to claim it. Louis would obviously remarry, and with different wife...

As title says-youngest son of King Spider has not died in 1473 aged just over year. Assuming minimal butterflies (deaths of Francis of Brittany and Charles VIII were results of accidents, but it doesn't mean it is still not possible for them to die in 1488 and 1498 for whatever reason) what...