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  1. WI: Philip William of Nassau, prince of Orange, has heirs

    When William the Silent (Willem de Zwijger), prince of Orange, count of Nassau etc. joined the Dutch Revolt, his eldest son with Anne of Egmont, countess of Buren, Philip William (Filips Willem, born in 1554) studied at the university of Leuven (Louvain). There Philip William eventually was...

  2. WI: Austrian Habsburgs kept Württemberg?

    During the interregnum, after the death of emperor Maximilian, duke Ulrich of Württemberg had conquered the Swabian Free Imperial City of Reutlingen in 1519, something which wasn't allowed during an interregnum. The Swabian League, which was a defence alliance, then sought to overthrow the...

  3. WI: Philip of Swabia wasn't murdered

    Inspired by the thread: WI: Manfred wins the Battle of Benevento. Philip of Swabia and Albert of Austria were the only rulers of the HRE to be murdered. After the death of HRE Henry VI with OTL Frederick II still being underaged (IIRC he was 4 years old), his uncle Philip of Swabia was...

  4. (OTL) Charles V & Ferdinand I without a Habsburg Spain

    Charles V & Ferdinand I without a Habsburg Spain It's quite popular here to have either Juan (John), the prince of Asturias or Miguel da Paz, so that the Habsburgs don't end up as kings of the Spanish kingdoms (crown of Castille and crown of Aragon). This also causes that the focus of the...

  5. A different electoral college for the Holy Roman Empire

    When reading up for my question yesterday regarding the Babenberger Frederick the Quarrelsome of Austria, I came accross a source (in German) about the positions of the duchies and early imperial elections. The seven prince electors, which were established by the Golden Bull of 1356...

  6. Consequences of a successful Frederick the Quarrelsome

    In 1245 duke Frederick II the Quarrelsome of Austria (house of Babenberg) had made an arrangement with emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen for the elevation of Austria (with Styria) to a kingdom and Vienna to a bishopric on one of the conditions that his niece Gertrude would marry the emperor...

  7. AHQ: duchy of Frisia

    The thread about the Frisian kingdom remindeded me of the title duke of Frisia, which was given to a Viking Godfrid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrid,_Duke_of_Frisia) by emperor Charles the Fat (at that time he ruled East Francia, Italy and Lotharingia), Frisia at that time was Lotharingia...

  8. WI: Another different treaty of Utrecht (1713)

    What if the treaty of Utrecht was slightly different? Philip V still gains 'Spain' and the Spanish colonies and the British and the Dutch also keep their OTL gains. However there are some changes: Austria gets the Southern now Austrian Netherlands and the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples; and...

  9. Succession of Alfonso the Magnanimous WI

    IOTL Alfonso the Magnaninous ruled the various kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon, but his reign was mainly focused on his Italian possessions. The Iberian and Balearic part of the Crown of Aragon was ruled for him by his brother. Alfonso didn't leave legitimate heirs, but he made sure that his...

  10. Rudolph I of Bohemia doesn't die in 1307

    All those Bohemian TL :pmade me think of this alternative;). IOTL when the Premyslid dynasty died out in 1306 the king of the Romans Albert of Habsburg was able to seize Bohemia as a reverted fief of the empire. Albert managed to 'convince' to Bohemia Estates to elect his eldest son Rudolph as...

  11. WI: Joseph Ferdinand survives; different final partition?

    Even when Joseph Ferdinand of Wittelsbach, price of Asturias, was the heir to the throne of Spain, other nations made treaties to partition the Spanish empire. In the original first partition treaty between England and France, the French dauphin got Naples, Sicily, the right to inherit the...

  12. Quintuple Monarchy?

    Inspired by an earlier thread, how plausible would this arrangement* have been? I: (apostolic) kingdom of Hungary (16: Hungary), II: kingdom of Bohemia (1: Bohemia, 9: Moravia and 11: (Austrian) Silesia), III kingdom of Croatia (17: Croatia-Slavonia, 5: Dalmatia, (18: Bosnia-Hercegovina) and...

  13. WI Charles V divides his possessions differently?

    Inspired by some other threads: Upto 1548 Charles V considered to divide his empire differently. For example in 1548 Charles V considered giving the Burgundian Circle (including the titular duchy of Burgundy, the Burgundian Habsburg Netherlands and Franche Comté) to his daughter Mary and his...
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