Poland regains Upper Silesia and Splits with Lithuania

After the marriage of Jogaila to Jadwiga is it possible for Poland to regain Upper Silesia and Poland split with Lithuania completely? does this require for Poland to be under the Habsburgs or Piast restoration or the Jagellonians just need to reassign land and the Split of inheritance?
 
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Well, split with Lithuania is possible - in 1389 Vytautas joint Teutonic crusade against Skirgaila, supported by Poles and Jogaila, and besieged Vilnius. Jogaila managed to convince him to switch sides offering him stewardship of Lithuania with a title of a grand duke (Jogaila remaind supreme duke). But secret negotiations might fail, Vilnius might fall, and Vytautas becomes the ruler of Lithuania, although I doubt if he would have managed to control of all the country.
Other possibility is the crisis in 1429-1430, when Sigismund of Louxemburg proposed to make Lithuania a kingdom with Vytautas as full king (he wanted to break Polish-Lithuanian union). Jogaila originally agreed, tthen changed his mind. Poles intercepted imperial envoys with crown for Vytautas who was also offered an anti-Polish alliance with the Teutonic Order and Sigismund. The whole plan failed, also thanks to popr Martin V who refused to agree for Vytautas' coronation because he had not been asked before.
 
I don't see why Poland would limit itself to regaining only UPPER Silesia. As late as 1520s it was possible to regain - IIRC Bona proposed giving up her rights to Duchy of Milan in echange of rights to Silesia.
 
I don't see why Poland would limit itself to regaining only UPPER Silesia. As late as 1520s it was possible to regain - IIRC Bona proposed giving up her rights to Duchy of Milan in echange of rights to Silesia.

But isn't Lower Silesia Heavily Germanized?
 
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