misalliance

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An unsuitable alliance, especially an unsuitable marriage
{n} an unnatural alliance or union
an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
{i} incompatible combination; mismatched pair
A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance
a situation in which two people or organizations have agreed to work together, marry each other etc, but are not suitable for each other
misally
to wrongly join together; to marry badly

Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies. (History of the second war between the United States of America and Great Britain; by Charles Jared Ingersoll; p. 278).

misalliances
plural of misalliance
misally
make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately; "The two countries are misallied
misalliance
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