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  1. WI Leopold I dies in 1670

    In January 1670 Emperor Leopold I suffered a severe illness that, at least for a short time, led some people in the Imperial court to start thinking about what would have happened had he died. Of course IOTL he recovered quickly but if he had died at that point it would have ended the Austrian...

  2. WI Archduke Matthias killed in 1579?

    Matthias, younger son of Maximilian II future HRE himself, was invited to the Netherlands in 1578 by a small moderate party in hopes of solving the religious and political unrest that had rocked the Spanish possessions. He arrived without the knowledge or consent of his uncle, Philip II of Spain...

  3. Siege of Malta in 1645?

    So the Cretan War between the Ottomans and Venice that lead to the eventual Turkish conquest of Crete was born out of an act of Piracy against the Ottomans by the Knights Hospitaller. The Knights attacked an Ottoman convoy heading to Alexandria which was carrying pilgrims to Mecca including the...

  4. Franco-English relations if the Franco-Spanish War ends in 1648

    So suppose that the French and Spanish are able to make peace at Westphalia in 1648 more or less along the lines of what was worked out in 1659 with the Peace of the Pyrenees (the terms under discussion in '48 weren't too far off from what they agreed to in '59 though generally less favorable to...

  5. 1644 Papal Conclave double veto

    So on the death of Urban VIII in 1644 the Cardinals gathered to elect his successor ultimately choosing Giovanni Battista Pamphilj who chose the name Innocent X. After the Franco-Barberini candidate, Giulio Sacchetti, was blocked by an exclusiva (veto) from the Spanish King the Barberini came...

  6. Infanta Margarita Francisca

    Margarita Francisca was the youngest daughter of Philip III of Spain. She was born in 1610 and died just short of her 7th birthday. There's been a lot of discussion about her brother, the Cardinal Infante Fernando, living and even of her other brother Carlos living but what if she had lived and...

  7. Sobieski-Habsburg Marriage WI

    I read something recently that suggested John III Sobieski had been angling for a marriage between his son James Louis Sobieski and the eldest daughter of the Emperor Leopold, Maria Antonia. This would have been around the time the Holy League was formed and John delivered Vienna from the...

  8. Joseph I dies young, effects on the Spanish Succession

    So there was a discussion recently about Charles VI dying during the War of Spanish Succession and there have previously been threads about what could have happened if both he and Charles had died (ie the entire Habsburg male line in Spain and Austria dying out at the same time) and conversely...

  9. No Spanish Match

    Ferdinand II's eldest son John Charles died young in 1618 and his second son went on to reign as Ferdinand III seeing the 30YW through to its conclusion. Before his death John Charles was engaged to Maria Anna of Spain who went on to marry his brother after briefly being considered as a bride...

  10. Alternate wife for HRE Matthias

    The Emperor Matthias married rather late, to a cousin Anna of the Tyrolean Habsburg line. They had no children precipitating a succession struggle in Bohemia that led to the 30 Years War. I'm wondering if Matthias married differently and had a son. His wife would probably have a role in any...

  11. Rudolf II dies in 1591, Emperor Ernst?

    I recently came across an anecdote in Peter H Wilson's book on the 30YW about Rudolf II. Apparently in 1591 he was conducting an experiment that literally blew up in his face, burning his cheek and singeing off the hair of his beard and eyebrows. Wilson dates this to September and says another...

  12. A Vasa Heiress

    Kind of random but what if Wladyslaw IV and Cecilia Renata's daughter had lived? Maria Anna Vasa was born and died in 1642 so she would have been only 2 at the death of her mother and 6 at the death of her father. Assuming they and her brother Sigismund Casimir still die like OTL I assume that...

  13. An earlier Fronde

    Maybe a bit of a misnomer, but what if the Count of Soissons hadn't died immediately after the Battle of La Marfee? He was at the head of an army made up of anti-Richelieu French malcontents and Spanish troops under Lamboy. Soissons and others (the Dukes of Guise and Bouillon to name a few), the...

  14. WI French discovery of Australia

    Eastern Australia specifically. So this is a little outside my wheelhouse but something I read recently peaked my interest. I'm looking at the possibility that the French beat Cook to the east coast of Australia and immediately launch a few follow up voyages. I've sketched an outline that seems...

  15. Another heiress to the Spanish throne

    So in looking over some posts about the Spanish succession crisis of the late 17th century it struck me that there was another possibility beyond the ones commonly considered. The obvious solution is a surviving Balthasar Carlos or a different second (or third) marriage for Philip IV or...

  16. Alternate bride for Charles VI

    I'm interested in the marriages made by Leopold I's sons namely because they were both unsuccessful in producing a Habsburg heir. Joseph married an older woman allegedly because her piety and maturity were meant to balance qualities he was lacking. Charles married a relatively minor Protestant...

  17. WI: Earlier Neapolitan Independence

    The recent discussion about the Iberian Union started me thinking about the 17th century Spanish Empire. Contemporaneous to the Portuguese revolt there were revolts in Catalonia and Naples each with varying degrees of Spanish support as part of the ongoing Franco-Spanish War. So would it have...
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