AHC: Return Matyas Corvinus' Bloodline to a Future King of Hungary

As it says on the tin. No current European monarch descends from the man who is arguably one of Hungary's greatest kings. Your challenge is (with no earlier POD than Matyas' death (sorry, letting his legitimate child with Katharina Podebrady survive would make it too easy :) ) to let a future king of Hungary - whether Habsburg, Jagiellon, Zapolya, Rakoczi somehow descend from Matyas.

Good luck
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zápolya The PoD, I presume, involves this guy marrying Mathias' granddaughter and having issue with her. As both Mathias' known grandkids died childless, this is the easiest PoD I can muster.

Interesting, I didn't know that the kids were even considered to marry anyone. Could make for interesting times if György's brother still gets elected king, but György's kids have the relations to Matyas.
 

Zagan

Donor
It would be quite difficult for the Hungarians to stomach a Romanian dynasty on their throne in the Age of Nationalism. In the Middle Ages it was kind'a ok but later on, hmm, I don't think so.
 
Any other suggestions for how we can get this right?

Well, with only one known son and only two known grandchildren the range of possible PoDs is heavily limited. I just gave the most plausible one for creating said bloodline & it having claims to anything worth a marriage into highborn enough family.
 
It would be quite difficult for the Hungarians to stomach a Romanian dynasty on their throne in the Age of Nationalism. In the Middle Ages it was kind'a ok but later on, hmm, I don't think so.
They were pretty okay with their German dynasty as long as they didn't curb their rights.

Also even though the Hunyadis were originally Wallachians by the time of Matthias they were pretty much Hungarians in every way, the Russians certainly didn't see the Ruriks as Norse Germanic in any form.
 

Zagan

Donor
They were pretty okay with their German dynasty as long as they didn't curb their rights.

Also even though the Hunyadis were originally Wallachians by the time of Matthias they were pretty much Hungarians in every way, the Russians certainly didn't see the Ruriks as Norse Germanic in any form.
You are right but...
1. The Hungarian Nationalists did not see the Germans and the Romanians in the same light. They respected the Germans but viewed the Romanians with disdain and superiority.
2. I was talking about the Age of Nationalism, not the Middle Ages here.
3. In times of war or ethnic strife (which is bound to happen with Hungary occupying half of the Lands of the Romanians), the people tend to remember such things like the purported ethnicity of their reigning family.
4. Even in the 20th century Britain (which was not full of nationalistic hot heads by any measure), the Royals had to change their German name to a more "British" sounding one!
 
The challenge is "get bloodline", not dynasty. So it can be through any intermarriage of descendants, be it legitimate or illegitimate line, and whoever gets to have this blood in their veins by 19th century is irrelevant.
For example, Princes William and Harry in Britain would be the first British royals to be direct descendants of Charles I since James II was overthrown (through illegitimate line). That is "bloodline return" in the dynasty.
I understood the challenge as "can the descendants of Mathias Corvinus reach noble enough status to marry into a family thought Hungarian Royal material".
 
The challenge is "get bloodline", not dynasty. So it can be through any intermarriage of descendants, be it legitimate or illegitimate line, and whoever gets to have this blood in their veins by 19th century is irrelevant.
For example, Princes William and Harry in Britain would be the first British royals to be direct descendants of Charles I since James II was overthrown (through illegitimate line). That is "bloodline return" in the dynasty.
I understood the challenge as "can the descendants of Mathias Corvinus reach noble enough status to marry into a family thought Hungarian Royal material".

Pretty much.

So Elisabeth Corvinus marries György Zapolya, and I'm guessing has one or two kids. Her survival would remove Georg of Ansbach's remarriage to her mother (since he only married her for her money IIRC - which would be less now that Elisabeth is still alive). Those two kids (say a pigeon pair of a boy or a girl), would they be considered logical heirs if their uncle still gets elected king of Hungary?

I had this insane idea once of an alt-Elisabeth (b.1491, she's the daughter of Janos Corvinus by another wife, maybe Bianca Sforza) winding up as Laszlo VII's third wife, and giving him two kids before she dies in childbed with a third.
 
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