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The House of Habsburg
Empress Eleanor of Portugal is found to be pregnant on 1454 and gave birth to a son named Leopold on December of 1454, Katharina of Thuringia is betrothed to him, Katharina would be a possible heiress of Bohemia, after her sister Anna had died on 1453. another son would be born on 1456 named Maximilian.

Emperor Frederick III of Austria m. Eleanor of Portugal
-Leopold, King of Bohemia and Austria
-Kunigunde, Duchess of Bavaria
-Maximilian, Duke of Burgundy and Flanders

On 1457, Ladislaus the Posthumous would die, George Podiebrady was chosen as the Ruler of Bohemia and the Duchies of Opole, Cieszyn and Glogow fell under Polish influence, Silesia was basically on a limbo between Poland and Bohemia, the center of Polish influence and culture was in Opole while the Center of the Bohemian influence was on Breslau.

On 1465, Katharina of Thuringia, Duchess of Luxembourg would marry Leopold, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, it is negotiated that a partition of Silesia would happen and the succession of Hungary, Upper Silesia which is majorly Polish would go to Poland while the German Lower Silesia would remain under Bohemia and Hungary would be under Habsburg rule, Katharina already has no mother and is the sole claimant for Luxembourg against Charles the Bold.

The partition treaty of Silesia would make the borders between Poland and Austria better[1], after the treaty Prague was occupied by Polish and Austrian troops after the year and expelled Podiebrady and after that the partition of Silesia happens, Bohemia, Moravia, Lower Silesia, Bohemia and Luxembourg would remain permanently under the Habsburg rule and Austria would be considered a part of the Lands of Bohemian crown.

Maximilian did marry Mary of Burgundy on 1478, the brother of Mary of Burgundy, Charles III, would die childless on 1489[2] causing a war between the Holy Roman Empire and France, the Duchy of Burgundy, Flanders and Artois that are really parts of France was the parts lost in the Burgundian inheritance, the Duchies of Holland, Hainaut, Brabant and the Palatinate of Burgundy is all whats left of the Inheritance.

There would be two branches of the Habsburgs, the Burgundian Branch from Maximilian who married Mary of Burgundy and the Bohemian-Hungarian Habsburgs from Leopold who married into Bohemia.


1. there would be no reason for any alliance or reason for any alliance between two powers and the two would drift apart, the Polish Silesia under the Poles and German Silesia would under the Germans, the Polish minority in Lower Silesia would slowly migrate to Poland.
2. Mary of Burgundy does get a brother from Margaret of York who dies childless.


Habsburg lands after the death of Charles of Burgundy
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