habsburg

In OTL, Ferdinand I, future Holy Roman Emperor, had a claim to the Throne of Hungary, as he was the Brother-in-law of Louis II of Hungary, died in 1526. The Habsburgs were contested by Hungarian nobles backed by the Ottomans, but eventually, they took full control of all of Hungary, and...

In 1528, Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands suggested that her niece Mary of Austria should wed King James V of Scotland. In OTL Mary declined because she was still in love with her late husband and did not wish to marry again. So let's assume that Mary is a little more accepting...

Thanks to chain of lucky marriages Habsburg domain vastly expanded during late 15th/early 16th century, but what if Habsburg luck happened few generations earlier? Their expansion would not look exactly like IOTL-my plan is: -William the Curteous has a son with Joanna of Naples. That means...

In 1437 Albert Habsburg was elected King of the Romans. After 130 years Habsburgs were back on German throne and kept it until their dynasty died out. But what if Albert predeceased his father-in-law Sigismund of Luxembourg, whom he succeeded on German (and also on Hungarian and Bohemian)...

What if Edward VI lived to marry Elisabeth of Valois and Isabella and Catherine were his children. I’d imagine that if Elisabeth died as she did OTL, Edward would get a second wife.

While Habsburg on the throne does not need to mean, that internal situation of PLC is drastically different (although to some degree it certainly would) foreign policy of PLC and its neighbors would certainly change grom the very beginning of Habsburg rule (which must start early after creation...

This supposes that the Charles IV's march on Budapest starting on October 21st 1921 is successful and he takes the throne once more reestablishing the Habsburg Dynasty in Hungary. Upon doing so he reiterates that he will revoke the Treaty of Trianon as it was signed under duress calling for a...

Let's say some mastermind Tallyrand-esque figure schemes together a plan to unify the three main claimants of the Roman empire and unite the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman lands under a single personal union. How would he go about doing this? Your PoD(s) can be as ASB as need be (granted that...

What if Emperor Matthias and Anna of Tyrol have a son (Maximilian, b. 1612)? Max would be just 7 at the time of father's death. Would Matthias secure election of his son at least in Bohemia and Hungary? What about Imperial election? While Bohemia and Hungary had kids elected as kings before...

Archduchess Eleanor of Austria-Burgundy was the eldest daughter and first child of Philip the Fair of Burgundy and Joanna I of Castile, and without any doubt the greatest match in circulation, but that was not enough for save her from heartbreaks, starting with the total absence of any...

I know this is a pretty popular thread about having the Netherlands being inherited by someone other than Phillip II. However, as is often pointed out one of the more likely candidates for this is Charles's daughter Maria of Austria and by extension her husband Maximillian II, the son of...

Dover, England. 26th of May, 1522. The man that greeted the English procession at the docks did not look like an Emperor. He was finely dressed, yes, but there was something to his form that didn't shine with pristine physical health and constitution. He had a narrow, elongated face dominated...

With any POD after the beginning of WWI, put the Habsburgs on the throne of Germany.

Suppose Karl of Austria somehow comes to the Austro-Hungarian throne without WWI. Perhaps both Emperor-King Franz Joseph and Archduke Franz Ferdinand die earlier in the 1910s or they die on schedule but alt-WWI is pushed back a few years. How would Karl's rule look without a world war going on...

I've seen several threads before discussing how Franz Ferdinand would have ruled and reformed Austria-Hungary, had he and the country survived long enough for him to have the opportunity. I'd like to dive into the same question for his nephew Karl. If Karl had taken the throne during peace-time...

So it's seems that i have caught the Habsburg bug for i seem to be reading on them too much for my own sake. Alright, otl, the Sixtus affair was an attempt by Karl I to get peace in March - May 1917. It failed. Utterly. Partly because the foreign minister thought it was good to talk badly...

I have sometimes wondered if it was possible to have the Habsburg create a functioning, autonomous Kingdom of Italy, with one of their collateral lines picked to run. It should be possible, I guess, from the 1700s, when so many of the minor states in Italy came under their sway. I guess the...

How could France come to be ruled by the Habsburgs and what would Hapsburg France look like?

It shouldn't be too difficult to imagine the aging emperor Franz Joseph I dying around seven years earlier than OTL. He was a very old man by then, already in his late seventies, so it shouldn't be too difficult for him to catch a cold that turns into pneumonia and kills him. This means that...

Eleonore of Austria, daughter of HRE Ferdinand III and sister of Leopold I, was Queen of Poland as wife of Michał Wiśniowiecki and then Duchess of Lorraine as wife of Charles of Lorraine. After her first husband died there were plans to marry her to his successor Jan Sobieski, who was urged to...