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During the 1390s and 1410s the Capetian house of Anjou went extinct as one by one its heads died without surviving heirs:

First was Marie d'Anjou, Queen of Hungary and Croatia, who in 1395 gave birth to a premature son by her husband, Sigmund of Luxemburg. Both she and the child died.

Next, her sister, Hedwig d'Anjou, Queen of Poland, who gave birth in 1399 to a daughter, Elzbieta, who died shortly before her mother, who it would seem died of post-natal complications.

Then, in 1414, despite having been married three times, King Ladislao of Naples died, leaving a spinster sister as his heir. Giovanna II, Queen of Naples married twice, but remained childless, causing a succession dispute over the Neapolitan throne between the Aragonese and the Angevin dynasties and their heirs.

With a POD in 1395, Marie d'Anjou gives birth to a son who survives (she can still die or not). As a secondary POD, Hedwig gives birth to her child (who is either born male, or Hedwig survives long enough to birth another child who is a son). Eastern Europe is now dominated by two regencies - one for little King Karoly (I assume he'll get Charles over Louis) in Hungary, and another for little King Wladyslaw in Poland.

How does this start to change Europe?
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