AHC: Hapsburg-Hohenzollern Dynasty

There were earlier plans to marry Maria Leopoldina of Austria to a Calvinist Elector Palatine, as well as to get a Spanish infanta for that same Elector Palatine's brother.
If you mean Spanish Match, that's COUSIN, not brother (as you are talking about proposal of match between Charles-Louis "Timon" of Palatinate and Maria Leopoldina). No Charles-Louis' brothers were in the cards for any Spanish matches, though Rupert as a consort for a Spanish Infanta is surely interesting, LOL.
 
If you mean Spanish Match, that's COUSIN, not brother (as you are talking about proposal of match between Charles-Louis "Timon" of Palatinate and Maria Leopoldina). No Charles-Louis' brothers were in the cards for any Spanish matches, though Rupert as a consort for a Spanish Infanta is surely interesting, LOL.

I actually saw something even more strange on the Spanish wikipedia page for Margaret Theresa. Get this, Felipe IV actually offered Margaret as a bride to Charles II, off all people, to stop the Portuguese match! The offer was declined because the bride was to young (only 12/13 at the time) but imagine if it had been accepted. Now THAT would be a very interesting match indeed.
 
If you mean Spanish Match, that's COUSIN, not brother (as you are talking about proposal of match between Charles-Louis "Timon" of Palatinate and Maria Leopoldina). No Charles-Louis' brothers were in the cards for any Spanish matches, though Rupert as a consort for a Spanish Infanta is surely interesting, LOL.

No, I mean Elizabeth of Bohemia's oldest son, Friedrich Heinrich, Erbprinz von der Pfalz, and I might imagine, Crown Prince of Bohemia, too. According to D.R. Watson's book on Charles I, there was haggling going on when the Erbprinz drowned in the Harlemmermeer to marry him to a daughter of the Spanish king. The idea of such a marriage was to get the king of Spain (now the father-in-law to the next Elector Palatine) to lean on the HRE to remove the imperial ban (or restore the Palatinate to) on Friedrich V.
Needless to say, it smacks somewhat of being unrealistic (a cool idea in theory, though), so probably conjured up in the head of that wisest fool in Christendom, or Buckingham influenced Charles to embark on this fantasy.
 
how high would the population be of that semi unified habsburg-hohenzollern g-germany in say 1750 or so?

would france still be larger?
 
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