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I was wondering if anyone in the forum could posit theories as to why Ferdinand I split the Austrian hereditary lands in the manner he did? and what alternatives could have been done to better apportion territory.
An alternative division that has been ruminating in my head is to say give Charles (of Innsbruck) and Ferdinand (of Tyrol) ducal patrimony in Silesia like the Duchy of Opole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Opole) which was a Habsburg possesion in 1558 and the Duchy of Głogów (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Głogów), some of the other duchies were sold by their sovereigns at the time, could've been purchased and enfeoffed on these son's instead. A possible con could be brother's conflict with one princeling competing against the other for King of Bohemia but at least for Ferdinand's sons that seems unlikely. What do you all think?