Just as it say on the tin what is the largest possible empire that can be ruled by one Hapsburg. It doesn't have to be the most efficient empire just have a single hapsburg rule it all. What does the empire include and how do the hapsburgs get it?
PLC, Austrian crownlands (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia), Netherlands, Iberia, the Sicilies, Sardinia and Milan. Through the election somehow of a Habsburg to the PLC.Just as it say on the tin what is the largest possible empire that can be ruled by one Hapsburg. It doesn't have to be the most efficient empire just have a single hapsburg rule it all. What does the empire include and how do the hapsburgs get it?
PLC, Austrian crownlands (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia), Netherlands, Iberia, the Sicilies, Sardinia and Milan. Through the election somehow of a Habsburg to the PLC.
Highly catastrophic to deal with due to France being in the middle (the Salic Law cannot be overturned, it's the fundamental law).
What about a straight out conquest of France?
PLC, Austrian crownlands (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia), Netherlands, Iberia, the Sicilies, Sardinia and Milan. Through the election somehow of a Habsburg to the PLC.
Highly catastrophic to deal with due to France being in the middle (the Salic Law cannot be overturned, it's the fundamental law).
Maybe not, but the Habsburg Empire itself does.Does France have the population to win a war with an empire of this magnatuid?
Maybe not, but the Habsburg Empire itself does.
AKA, if this big an empire forms, its biggest problem will be its own subdivisions. Rebellious Dutchmen, Poles, Italians, Germans or Spanish, etc. etc.
I could easily see a union between Austria/Bohemia/Poland/ Hungary with an early POD of Duke William marrying Jadwiga daughter King Louis of Poland-Hungary and heir to kingdom of Hungary and with the possible death of her sister heir to Poland as well. From there the Habsburgs do what they've always done expand, gobbling up pieces of Central and Western Europe over the centuries till it's more or less how you wish it to be.