Challenge: Have Bavaria and Portugal get into a personal union.
would it? Bavaria is landlocked and Portugal is slow to develop and Portugal-Bavria would be smaller than Prussia, less than half the population today.Then the United Kingdom might have a valuable ally as a counterweight to Prussia.
would it? Bavaria is landlocked and Portugal is slow to develop and Portugal-Bavria would be smaller than Prussia, less than half the population today.
Plus Portugal and Britain weren't really alliances, Britain broke that alliance quite a bit.
EDIT
Also, i think if Portugal could inherit Bavaria in the 14-early 1500s we could see an interesting counterweight to Habsburg dominance.
Wittelsbach-wank?