AHC: Have Ladislaus the Posthumous rule Poland

krieger

Banned
The challenge appears simple, but it isn't. Ladislaus V, the king of Bohemia and Hungary should be the King of Poland by the law of strict primogeniture (he was the closest living male descendant of Casimir III). The thing is that Poland abandoned this law before Ladislaus V was born, so he couldn't take advantage of his descendence from Casimir III. So how to keep power in Casimir III's line and not to butterfly chain of events leading to Ladislaus's birth? @Jan Olbracht
 
Not easy but I would try: Elizabeth of Luxembourg agrees to marry Vladislaus III (who don't go to Varna ITTL). They have no children, but Vladislaus adopts his stepson. Meanwhile Vladislaus' brother Casimir is murdered in Lithuania (there were several attempts on his life IOTL). Polish-Lithuanian union is broken completly. Now the trick is-would Poles like to be ruled from Buda? Vladislaus must spend more time in Poland to make that idea less unpopular.
 

krieger

Banned
Not easy but I would try: Elizabeth of Luxembourg agrees to marry Vladislaus III (who don't go to Varna ITTL). They have no children, but Vladislaus adopts his stepson. Meanwhile Vladislaus' brother Casimir is murdered in Lithuania (there were several attempts on his life IOTL). Polish-Lithuanian union is broken completly. Now the trick is-would Poles like to be ruled from Buda? Vladislaus must spend more time in Poland to make that idea less unpopular.

If there is something to gain from it - something like help of Bohemians and Hungarians helping in the deal with Lithuanians (who ITTL would go into the civil war, where Vladislaus as a adopted son of Vladislaus III and descendant of Aldona Anna and King of Poland, could be one of the pretenders to the throne). But this is a borderline ASB scenario.
 
Making Ladislaus the Posthumous King of Poland with POD after his birth is by default borderline ASB, but sometimes weird things happens, OTL path of history does not strike me as most logical scenario.
 

krieger

Banned
Making Ladislaus the Posthumous King of Poland with POD after his birth is by default borderline ASB, but sometimes weird things happens, OTL path of history does not strike me as most logical scenario.

Humans are not always logical, and history is made by humans - that's why OTL cannot be considered the most logical scenario.
 
So a very dysfunctional triune Polish-Hungarian-Bohemian Kingdom. Possibly a ALT commonwealth which would be interesting to see. Ladislaus would have to continually travel between all three in order to assuage the aristocracy and remind them who’s in charge.
 
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