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Henry the Lion was one of the most influential rulers of the HRE in the high middle ages. He was duke of Saxony and Bavaria. However, all his efforts of centralizing his rule over Saxony trying to make it more like England of his father in law made him quite a few enemies and he was bailed out...

What if Frederick August of Saxony (1720–1721) had lived and married Maria Theresa? She was engaged to his younger brother for a time until his death

It's well known how Louis XV in the War of Austrian Succession returned the Austrian Southern Netherlands instead of annexing them outright. This was pretty stupid, as he only did it to look good (which of course didn't really work), and the annexation of the region had long been a goal of...

What if after their fall from grace following Henry the Lions deposition and the power struggles of the Interregnum period, the Welfs made a come back? The opportunity here lies in the Welfs supporting Sigismund of Luxembourg and helping him get elected as Holy Roman Emperor and Sigismund...

ORDER OF THE WHITE EAGLE Enter the world where Prussia collapsed during the Seven Years' War, and Poland became one of the great powers of the XIX century. CHAPTER 1: The Commonwealth at the crossroads of history The XVII century wasn't a nice time for once mighty Polish-Lithuanian...

I know during the Partitions of Poland the Wettin Elector of Saxony, King of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania apparently wanted to get a Kingdom of Poland dynasticly tied to him and his offspring, without worrying of elections. This involved the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians all...

August the Strong, Elector of Saxony payed enough bribes to get elected as king of Poland-Lithuania in 1697. This gave Saxony a chance eto become a European Power. But also brought many problems with it. In the end, the poorer Brandenburg-Prussia eclipsed Saxony and became a Great Power. Some...

During the Congress of Vienna, the Polish-Saxon Crisis threatened to throw the great powers of Europe into war again. Prussia wanted to annex the Kingdom of Saxony and Russia wanted to annex the Kingdom of Poland. Austria opposed the annexations because they wanted to position themselves as the...

In 1609 John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, died without an heir. This caused the War of Jülich Succession, ending in a partition of the territory between Brandenburg and Pfalz-Neuburg. This conflict was a prelude to the Thirty Years War; it had a religious component and many of the great...

Maurice, a member of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin, ruled Saxony first as a duke and then an elector from 1541 until his early death at the Battle of Sievershausen in 1553. He was, according to Wikipedia, a skilled political operator who successfully played both sides of the...

After the Napoleonic Wars, was it possible for the Austrian empire to directly annex Bavaria, Saxony, and the Thuringian states as they all border the Bohemian crown? Could kingdoms with non-Habsburg heads be integrated and if so do they just pledge loyalty to Austria as they did otl to Prussia...

So i've been thinking lately and what if Maurice, Elector of Saxony, survived enough to father a son and teach him? For some background, Maurice was maybe of one of the best albertine ruler of Saxony and was able to manouver his position to enlarge his territories and gain the electorship from...

Let us assume that it does not reach 100 days of Napoleon; after the First Paris Armistice, Prussia and Russia want to solve the Saxon Poland issue in their own way: Russia would take the Duchy of Warsaw it occupied, possibly separating territories with a German majority (Thorn, Schneidemühl...

Henry The Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, was one of the most powerful German princes in the history of the HRE. His descendants would go on to hold the german crown as the holy roman empire declined due to the rise of powerful states like the Welf's german holdings, Austria and Bohemia, all...

The Duchy of Saxony was a decent power within the northern HRE, but was torn apart due to messy successions. But what if it was able to survive past the 1200s and into the 1500s or even 1600s? Based on its geography I could see it wanting to gain more power on the north sea and pose a...

OTL, the German Empire broke apart into several states again very soon after the war ended, due to the resentment of Prussia over the war, economic and political unrest. By 1919, Bavaria had been restored to the map, Silesia had joined Poland, the lands around the Rhine river were a republic...

Prussia was briefly a power in central Europe before the Russian Empire razed berlin in the 7 Years War. This destruction of the baltic state meant Sweden was allowed Swedish Pomerania back (+a bit more) so long as Russia was allowed to use some of its ports. Sweden then went onto conquer...

So what need to happen for GNW to look like it was expected by Danish-Saxon-Russian coalition? Danes, Saxons and Russians viewed Sweden as easy prey, ruled by young, unexperienced ruler and they were very, very wrong. Swedish king happened to be military genius (like many of his predecessors)...

Much like George B. McClellan, Ludwig von Benedek was a general frequently characterized as overly cautious to the detriment of the war effort. At the Battle of Königgrätz, for example, he was advised by some of his officers to try to drive a wedge between the two Prussian armies, but he...

During 1519 Imperial election Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, was proposed as compromise candidate and even Pope expressed support for his candidature, although Charles Habsburg eventually won election, as it became custom, that close relative of previous Emperor is elected. Say that...