Me again with another far-fetched idea, that would result from the Hohenstaufens being kept out of Sicily:
Emperor Heinrich VI's erbreichsplan, he started on it before Guglielmo III of Sicily died childless, but then got busy there, marrying Constance, Friedrich II being born and whatnot. Part of the reason that the papacy opposed Heinz's idea was because they were wary of the Staufi position in Italy now that they controlled Sicily. The archbishop of Cologne was the main dissenter of the plan in Germany, and then stirred up the Thuringian and Saxon princes against Heinz, after it seems that they'd already promised to support him (in exchange for the succession to their lands and female inheritance being allowed (I'm guessing it means female line inheritance or does it mean a complete break with Salic Law? Cause that could have massive consequences in and of itself)). And Heinz sort of had to let the plan go. Then with the whole Welf-Hohenstaufen feud in the coming years it went completely down the tubes.
Here, if the Hohenstaufens don't inherit Sicily (yet), and/or stay Germano-centric, what would be the chances of Heinz being able to push this through? (Sorry if this isn't so much a survival of a Swabian duchy as a Hohenstaufen improvement of OTL)
Emperor Heinrich VI's erbreichsplan, he started on it before Guglielmo III of Sicily died childless, but then got busy there, marrying Constance, Friedrich II being born and whatnot. Part of the reason that the papacy opposed Heinz's idea was because they were wary of the Staufi position in Italy now that they controlled Sicily. The archbishop of Cologne was the main dissenter of the plan in Germany, and then stirred up the Thuringian and Saxon princes against Heinz, after it seems that they'd already promised to support him (in exchange for the succession to their lands and female inheritance being allowed (I'm guessing it means female line inheritance or does it mean a complete break with Salic Law? Cause that could have massive consequences in and of itself)). And Heinz sort of had to let the plan go. Then with the whole Welf-Hohenstaufen feud in the coming years it went completely down the tubes.
Here, if the Hohenstaufens don't inherit Sicily (yet), and/or stay Germano-centric, what would be the chances of Heinz being able to push this through? (Sorry if this isn't so much a survival of a Swabian duchy as a Hohenstaufen improvement of OTL)