AHC: Lasting Swedish-Lithuanian Union, sans Poland

raharris1973

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I think when Charles of Sweden invaded the PLC, he had more support in Lithuania than Poland. Could he have gained control of Lithuania and held it? To what long-term effect?
 
I am curious about that too, but he did have a coming history of yet new unnecessary wars, so it seems unlikely. If he is reined in, and Lithuania is added to the realm and perhaps to the church, and a Swedish-style administration is set up, Sweden would at least have more resources in coming wars.

Sweden did in this period have some ability to foster a sense of Swedishness in the its new provinces, and perhaps this might have happened here too.

This also means that Sweden is so much stronger that Denmark never dares attack again, so Scania will never become Swedish in TTL unless all of Denmark joins Sweden in a new union.

If the magnates were as strong as is sometimes said, would they really accept Swedish rule, though? Or would Sweden itself go the oligarchic way, since we have a stronger high nobility against the strengthening of royal power that Charles XI brought OTL a few decades later?

Perhaps Lithuania would be such a large part of the realm that it breaks Swedish focus and brings a new "Sigismund-duke Charles situation"
 
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