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On 22 July 1483, Margaret of Austria(daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I) was betrothed to the then Dauphin(later Charles VIII of France). He would later force Anne of Brittany to marry him so he could have her Duchy. Charles marring Margaret is the 1st POD. The 2nd is that her brother Philip dies before he has children or they are all stillbirths. If Maximilian also dies with no further issue as OTL, then all male Habsburgs are dead. This would make Charles & Margaret the heirs to the Burgundy lands & Austria(not Hungary or Bohemia because the Habsburgs didn’t have them yet.) Would this allow France to do a lot better in the Italian Wars?
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