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Charles II, Electoral Palatinate, was the ruler of the Palatinate and was married to Wilhemine Ernestine of Denmark in 1671, otl they had no children and the succession for the Palatinate passed to the Cathloic Neuberg branch of the family, however Louis XIV disputed this in favour of his sister in law, Charles' sister Elizabeth Charlotte, and this was a cause for the Nine Years War.

If Charles had had children perhaps two children, a boy and a girl, with his wife in say 1672 and 1675, what might have changed?

The Palatinate would likely remain under his line of the family, thus removing one part of Louis's claim to war.

But what else could change? Who could his children marry?
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