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A while back, I considered writing a TL involving a surviving Jagiellon dynasty in Poland and Lithuania. The POD was that Sigismund II Augustus' third wife, Catherine of Austria, does not miscarry in October 1554 but instead manages to give birth to a healthy son (who will be referred to as *Sigismund III here).

I'm contemplating reviving the project in the future. Ideally, I would like the scenario to involve the strengthening of the power of the Polish Crown under the Jagiellons. I'm aware that development of pure Baroque absolutism is probably impossible by the time of the POD, however, I'm curious as to how to improve the situation in contrast to the developments of OTL--something that I think the survival of the Jagiellons could at least mitigate as a stable dynasty that intimately understands their realm (this being before the Henrican Articles and the Union of Lublin).

I was considering having *Sigismund III take advantage of the Executionist Movement by playing the lesser nobility against the magnates in order to achieve the return of Crown Lands, which would at least significantly enrich the Crown and provide for a larger population of royal peasants to levy a standing army from (perhaps on the model of Stefan Batory in OTL).

Perhaps he could also strengthen the representation of the royal towns in the Polish Sejm or increase the power of the Crown at the expense of the magnates in Lithuania to provide him with an independent base, though I am not sure how far either of these could be achieved at this point in history before the Union?

In any case, any help would be greatly appreciated--I'm far from an expert in Polish history.
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