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What if King Rudolph I had managed to successfully install his son Albert as successor of the assassinated King Ladislaus IV of Hungary? With Hungary under his belt would Ruldoph had been able to get his son elected as Emperor of Germany? If so then could Albert have had enough power to install a hereditary monarchy over with the Habsburgs as Emperors of a New Western Roman Empire?