Valdemar II
Banned
A year or two ago someone mentioned that Bavarian annextion of Baden was possible after the death of Greand Duke Karl Ludwig Friedrich in 1818, how likely would this annextion be?
All of Baden? No. North Baden, that is, the former Palatinate right of the Rhine (plus some more territory). Bavaria had a historical claim on it (not even that historical, it only lost it 1803, after all!), and it woudl create a land brigde bwteen the Bavarian main territory and Palatinate. And when in 1818 a cadinet branch from a morganatic marriage took over Baden, Bavaria wanted to contest its rule. It didnt want all of Baden, it had no claim to that, after all, but its justifcation was that it had a stronger claim to North Bade than a morganatic branch. Nothing really came out of it, though. I guess it was too early after the Vienna Congress, but Im not actually sure of the details...
Wikipedia said:By 1817, the descendants of Karl Friedrich by his first wife were dying out. To prevent Baden from being inherited by the next heir (and brother-in-law), King Maximilian I of Bavaria, the reigning Grand Duke, Karl, (the 1st Grand Duke's grandson) changed the succession law to give the Hochberg family full dynastic rights in Baden. They thus became Princes and Princesses of Baden with the style of Grand Ducal Highness, like their elder half-siblings. Their succession rights were reinforced when Baden was granted a constitution in 1818, and recognised by Bavaria and the Great Powers in the Treaty of Frankfurt, 1819. Leopold, the eldest son of the second marriage, succeeded as Grand Duke in 1830.
It's not clear to me they'd want to; given the goal of propping up medium powers along France's borders. OTOH, Bavaria was pro-Bonapartist....
Huge butterflies in 1848 of course.