wittelsbach

This is a bit of a long winded one, but the idea came to me and I think it’s a really interesting one, so here we go: In otl, Philip of Bavaria, Duke of Palatine-Neuberg, tried to win Mary’s hand in marriage for some time, though he ultimately failed due to Mary’s reluctance and later Henry’s...

(This is my first post, so sorry if this isn't worded in the best way possible) What if the Wittelsbachs in Bavaria had decided to join the Reformation and thus the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria never happened/failed AND AT THE SAME TIME Joachim II happened to be a staunch Catholic like his...

What if the German Basic Law adopted in 1949 would have allowed the Bundesländer to decide their own form of government and consequently Bavaria would have restored its monarchy? I read the idea of Wittelsbach restoration was very popular at the time, and it only didn't materialise because of...

Say in some scenario Charles Theodore of Bavaria is able to get the trade of Bavaria for the Austrian Low Lands to fruition. What would Charles new kingdom look like? How would it function? Who would succeed him? What would it even be called?

Though I think he would have opted to reign under the name George, the man who would become Belgium's first king in OTL was offered previously, and passed on the throne that went to Otto of Bavaria. Suppose Leopold had become King of Greece, does he fare better than Otto did, and what becomes of...

Philip William (1615-1690) Duke of Neuburg and later Elector Palatine was married twice, from his first marriage with Anna Catherine Constance Vasa he had one son, who was born on 18 July 1645 and died the same day. Say that their son (lets call him Sigismund Wolfgang) is healthy and lives to...

I've seen (and posed) several threads about the Hohenstaufens, Luxemburgs and early Habsburgs, but I've been wondering (thanks to a comment @Janprimus made in @Jan Olbracht's thread) about the resiliency of the house of Nassau. They sort of lost their "oomph" after Adolf was deposed and never...

Anna Katarzyna Konstancja was only daughter of Zygmunt III, who survived to adulthood, but she wasn't very helthly. Death of her mother in 1631 followed by death of father one year later likely had negative impact on her health, so say death of Queen Constance is delayed few years and Anna's...

Is it possible, in the period between the German Interregnum (1250's) and Napoleon's defeat (1815), for the scions of the House of Wittelsbach, which ruled Bavaria, to acquire significant estates in North Italy, such as Milan, Parma, Venice, Mantua, among others? I can quickly think of two...

Was there a possibility in the XVIII century? Please be as precise as yuo can.

Taken while reading an article from this site about the Jacobites, whose inheritance was later taken by the Bavarian Wittelsbachs... So, what if Held and von Aretin had been more bold about their defiance to Hitler and support for a restoration of the Bavarian monarchy? Could they pull off a...

OTL, Maria Antonia of Austria, Princess of the Asturias in her own right, and Electress of Bavaria by marriage had three children who lived long enough to be named, and another three who weren't so fortunate. Miscarriages in 1687, 1688 and 1691, two shortlived sons (Leopold Ferdinand in 1689 and...

I was reading here that when Princess Anna of Prussia - OTL landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, and one-time love interest of Emperor Franz Josef - was around 15yo, she attracted the attention of King Othon of Greece, who wished to marry her. And then I thought, hold up. 15yo? That would put it in...

Rudolf IV of Austria was pretty much the sort of guy who would lie, cheat and steal his way to the top (which he pretty much did, since he invented the title of archduke to give him parity with the electors after he was denied an electorate; he set his capital of Vienna up as a rival to the...

In the 18th century, three of the electors (Prussia, Hannover and Saxony) of the Holy Roman Empire ended up with kingdoms outside of the empire. The Wittelsbachs (both in Bavaria and in the Palatinate) tried for this on two occasions (the kingdom of Bohemia and resurrecting the kingdom of...

Suppose that after the war Austrian succession the the Habsburgs/Habsburg-lorraine fail to regain the imperial crown, say the wittlesbachs manage to hold onto it what are the effects? How do the Wittlesbachs handle the HRE? Do the Habsburg favour a different title in search of more prestige...

Louis X, Duke of Bavaria Landschut (1495-1545) was consideted as candidate for hand of Hedwig Jagiellon (born 1513), oldest daughter of king Sigismund I. IOTL negotiations were broken, because Louis wanted part of Masovia as Hedwig's dowry. Say in ATL his demands are more moderate and marriage...

As it says on the tin: Napoléon's stepson Eugène de Beauharnais had two sons of his own, Auguste and Maximilien. Auguste was at one point in the 1830 Revolution considered for king of the Belgians, and although this didn't happen, four years later, he married the young queen of Portugal, D...

IOTL Henry VIII' chances to get annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon were astronomically low-her nephew happened to be emperor, whose troops sacked Rome and who practicallt kept pope as prisoner. Say Charles V is out of the picture-maybe he and his brother died during childhood so...

After I looked around the board, I saw that the line of Wittelsbachs that ruled Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut in the 14th & 15th centuries doesn't really feature much, so here's a thread on them. Jacqueline/Jakoba of Bavaria was the last of their line, and despite being married four times, she...