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What if the inbreeding of the Habsburgs led not to some mental deficiency in this particular human being, but a military and domestic Genius! I suppose it is a bit ASB, but if certain things happened at the right time, I belive we could get the right mix of genes for this to happen.
By the way I am talking about Ferdinand I of the Austrian Empire, not the HRE.
So, what would happen if Ferdinand I had in fact been quite smart?