portugal

The idea of the Canary Islands being taken not by Spain/Castile but rather by the good ol' Portuguese bois has been floating around in my mind as of lately, especially as it seems that the Portuguese had a vested interest in them (and also discovered them outright). I've looked at this thread...

PREFACE Grand Collar of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece, established in 1430 by Philippe III, Duke of Burgundy, in order to celebrate his third marriage to Princess Isabel of Portugal. Having fallen out of disuse during the rule of Philippe's son Charles, the order was later...

CHAPTER 1 The Marriage. The Young Prince of Portugal, Joao II is still waiting for him to suceed his father, he has alot of plans with the nation of Portugal. He bravely joined his Father in the campaign in Morocco against Arzilha and is ready to become King of Portugal when its needed. His...

1555: Queen Mary I, due to being free of the ovarian cancer which killed her ITTL, gives birth to a son, named Philip after his father. In 1558, Philip and Mary have a daughter Catherine, the future Holy Roman Empress. 1556: A one-year-old Philip becomes King of the Netherlands and Burgundy...

Basically, I’m thinking of the changes in history if the marriage between Isabel I of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragon did not happen and instead she married either Afonso V or John II of Portugal, leading to a dynastic union between those two realms. I've read some threads here about this...

So I've seen in a few threads here on the Portuguese colonial wars that under less hardline leadership-say, if President Tomas dies of a stroke or something and Marcelo Caetano can do what he thinks needs to be done-if Portugal had been willing to write off the future Guinea-Bissau as the lost...

Manuel I of Portugal (1469-1521) What if Manuel I, King of Portugal, was born as a girl who is named after her mother, Beatrice? Will Fernando and Isabella support John II in his desire to legitimize his son Jorge, or what?

Beyond Vinland is an Alternate History Project created on the Whatifalthist discord server where the focus is on the butterfly effect from Iceland's independence after a lightning strikes and burns down a Church in the year 1000, influencing Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi's decision regarding the...

João de Castro had everything in his favor to become King of Portugal during the 1383 Crisis. He was popular among the lower classes of Lisbon and had a base of support in some sectors of the nobility. However, unluckily for him, he was in Castile as the crisis unfolded, and John of Castile, who...

John VI ruled Portugal during an extremely difficult period, during which the country was wracked by foreign threats and internal crises he had no hope of subduing with the resources he had. He faced a Spanish invasion, a French one (which prompted his and the court's flight to Brazil), a...

The guy, at least I heard, was a MAJOR suck up to the US, and he wanted to be the president of Portugal in the 1958 election. Suppose he wins and stages a revolution, turning Portugal into a democratic country, what happens next?

On 1549, after visiting Malacca enroute to Japan, Francis Xavier would reach Manila, however, the populace would be against a new missionary promoting a religion that is unfamiliar to them which would cause some conflict in the population as the population is against Francis Xavier and Francis...

Suppose Sebastian conquers Morocco and it is slowly integrated into Portugal, with a Luso-Arabic language being the lingua franca. Would this alternate Morocco (or at least parts of it) be looked at like another part of Europe?

Prince Pedro of Portugal was a willful young man, and his early life in Rio de Janeiro, away from the big battles happening in Europe, gave rise to a strong desire to take part in great events. When the Pernambucan Revolution came in 1817, defying the rule of this father in the Americans, the...

The Treaty of Zaragoza laid down that the eastern border between the two domain zones was 297+1⁄2 leagues (1,763 kilometres, 952 nautical miles)[note 4], or 17° east, of the Maluku Islands. This left the islands within the Portuguese domain. In exchange, the King of Portugal paid Emperor Charles...

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Let's suppose Portugal manages to enter a personal union with Leon instead of what happened in OTL. I won't discuss how plausible this scenario is. I'm more curious to know about what would happen specifically during the Age of Discovery and the colonization of America. Here is a map to what I...

I wonder what will happen if the Portuguese established settlements in Luzon in 1545 due to one of the Portuguese traders nad navigators there establishing settlements there, I tend to think that it would lead to Legaspi ignoring Luzon in 1565/1570 if it still happens but the Spanish would still...

Inspired by my current Burgundian Empress TL, I have decided to make that scenario a collaborative TL between myself, @RedKing, @Prince of Permsia, @Reyne and @EdwardRex. We won't be accepting new players. Now, onto the rules for this little game: The starting date is March 1452. Each post...

First of all, this is literally my first post here on alternatehistory, so sorry in advance for any wrong vocabulary. I did a read trough the terminology page on the wiki, but i might still get stuff wrong. The title isn't a rethorical question. In the ATL, I want to keep an alternate...