mary the rich

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...

In 1473, Nicholas, Duke of Lorraine, was engaged to mary the heiress of Burgundy, Mary the Rich. If the engagement had gone through to marriage (a big if, given that Charles, Mary's father, had offered her hand to just about every crowned head in Europe at that point), then this would have...

The idea is simple - Battle of Nancy happens just like OTL, and Charles the Bold dies without son on January the 5th, 1477. Is there any way for his daughter, Mary of Burgundy to somehow "salvage the situation" and save her father's legacy? Adn to be clear, since XV/XVI political system wasn't...

So I've recently become interested in the early Valois-Habsburg rivalry while researching ways to get the Burgundian inheritance into the hands of the Kings of France and came up with an idea that I don't believe has been explored before: What if Mary the Rich had died before marrying Maximilian...