Władysław IV marries Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg

Habsburgs had no problems with marrying their daughters to Polish monarchs, but opposite rarely happened. But OK, I'll give Władek one daughter (Anna Eleonora), could marry Philipp Wilhelm of Neuburg as second wife. Zygmunt IV also could have few daughters, but I like him to have only one son, in that cause more sons = more troubles.

Fair enough. Maybe Wladek's daughter marries a prince with Habsburg ties (Wittelsbach or Savoy or something)?
 
Jan Kazimierz ruined Prażmowski's plans of vreforms of Sejm in the name of vivente rege ( sejmiki had instructions to accept all reforms, except for VR, while King wanted only VR, and could give up other reforms, which were really needed, he and Queen, no one else were responsible for it. Sobieski's reign was after that disaster, at the moment, when it hardly could be reversed (and Sobieski himself, despite being excellent commander was incompetent as politician). King of PLC really had enough power to make serious troubles and Jan Kazimierz often used it (King's supporters have broken Sejm and blocked taxes to raise army when Russians invaded Lithuania in 1654 because King disliked Janusz Radziwiłł). JK was not innocent victim of the System, he was the man, who ultimately skewed it. After Civil War any initiative of King was seen by nobles as secret attempt to impose Condé on the throne.

These are just the details. The same things could be traced to the earlier times. For example, unwillingness/inability of Sigismund to provide money for the Lithuanian army during the early stage of the Polish-Swedish Wars (again, seems to be dislike of Radziwill and intention to replace him with S's clients, no matter how incompetent). The point is not that some specific nincompoop could make things even worse but that even with the reasonably talented rulers the PLC was going mostly downhill. Loss of Livonia was a big thing and it is not like Khmelnitsky Uprising was an unique event: the Cossack uprisings had been happening on a regular basis and it was just a matter of time when their current leader is going to figure out the "Crimean thingy". The government was doing nothing to address the social reasons and the Sejm was killing any initiative in this direction. Ditto with W's modernization of the army: these troops were just a fraction of the total and the Sejm was unwilling to conduct the needed reform on a serious scale all the way to the reign of Poniatowsky. As I said, the Russian counterparts of Wladislaw, JK, MW and JS were not the brightest apples on the tree but, with a lot of offsets, the country was moving forward.
 
As forca potential Swedish marriage what about Sweden looking to Gottorp, the Gottorp prinsesses was nieces to the Danish king, they had the right age and Gottorp had at this point in time a excellent relationship with their Oldenburg relatives, so such a princess would defacto be seen as a Danish princess. So it could serve as a way for Sweden to push for a closer relationship with Denmark ( which was still seen as the stronger power, even through it wasn't anymore).
 
These are just the details. The same things could be traced to the earlier times. For example, unwillingness/inability of Sigismund to provide money for the Lithuanian army during the early stage of the Polish-Swedish Wars (again, seems to be dislike of Radziwill and intention to replace him with S's clients, no matter how incompetent). The point is not that some specific nincompoop could make things even worse but that even with the reasonably talented rulers the PLC was going mostly downhill. Loss of Livonia was a big thing and it is not like Khmelnitsky Uprising was an unique event: the Cossack uprisings had been happening on a regular basis and it was just a matter of time when their current leader is going to figure out the "Crimean thingy". The government was doing nothing to address the social reasons and the Sejm was killing any initiative in this direction. Ditto with W's modernization of the army: these troops were just a fraction of the total and the Sejm was unwilling to conduct the needed reform on a serious scale all the way to the reign of Poniatowsky. As I said, the Russian counterparts of Wladislaw, JK, MW and JS were not the brightest apples on the tree but, with a lot of offsets, the country was moving forward.
Poniatowski to impose reforms used institution of Confederated Sejm, which voted with simple majority, without liberum veto .Voting with majority was part of Sejm reform, which JK ruined trying to impose VR election. Also, preventing decline of PLC is not the point (first sympthoms appeared under Bathory, after King under Zamoyski's pressure made office of hetman given for life), slowing it down is another thing, and, most importantly, keeping dynastic rule in PLC (as long as "rightful heirs" of Jagiellon blood are around, there is no place for random guys on the throne). In such shape even weakened PLC may survive untill Sarmatism dies with natural death, something, that almost happened even IOTL.
 
I think earlier death of Swedish Queen mother would make things easier than earlier death of Electress of Brandenburg and would solve problem of wife for Gustav Adolf. Gustav was in love with Ebba Brahe and wanted to marry her, but his mother opposed such 'unequal' marriage. Would she die earlier (say 1613) Gustav Adolf would likely marry Ebba, thus, obviously, he would not be able to marry Maria Eleonora.
 
I think earlier death of Swedish Queen mother would make things easier than earlier death of Electress of Brandenburg and would solve problem of wife for Gustav Adolf. Gustav was in love with Ebba Brahe and wanted to marry her, but his mother opposed such 'unequal' marriage. Would she die earlier (say 1613) Gustav Adolf would likely marry Ebba, thus, obviously, he would not be able to marry Maria Eleonora.

Perhaps. It may also have been a case of the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, and Gustaf knew his mother wouldn't approve and so went with Ebba. I could be wrong, but I would imagine there would be a similar "scandal" as when Anna Waza was rumoured to want to wed a noble. Plus, considering that Gustaf's brother wed a few years later and it was deemed morganatic, who is to say it wouldn't be regarded the same? I imagine there'd be a lot of anti-Brahe aristocrats who're suddenly looking at Sigmund III or the duke of Finland with apologetic eyes.
 
IIRC, when drafting up the first part of my TL (which is going to be delayed even more due to work and not being anywhere near home for a while), I had come up with some candidates for wives for Gustaf. I am sure that Brahe didn’t make my list but I’ll have to figure out who the others were. If I can find it, I’ll post what I came up with.
 
No one. Gustav Adolf is King. Just like marriage of Johan III and Gunilla Bielke it would be unpopular but not morganatic.

And the previous two non-morganatic non-royal marriages - Johan III's to Gunilla and Erik XIV to Karin Mansdotter - had both seen their kids disinherited thanks to coups by family members. A match to Brahe might be what Gustaf wants, but on the whole, it doesn't make much sense. A domestic marriage means a wasted alliance and nobody raises any objections if you get kicked out of power, and your son ends up as a mercenary (Gustaf Eriksen)
 
And the previous two non-morganatic non-royal marriages - Johan III's to Gunilla and Erik XIV to Karin Mansdotter - had both seen their kids disinherited thanks to coups by family members. A match to Brahe might be what Gustaf wants, but on the whole, it doesn't make much sense. A domestic marriage means a wasted alliance and nobody raises any objections if you get kicked out of power, and your son ends up as a mercenary (Gustaf Eriksen)
Marriage with Ebba would not be clever move, but it would not be first time, when a man, who is generally not a fool, does something stupid for love.
 
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Marriage with Ebba would not be clever move, but it would not be first time, when a man, who is generally not a dool, does something stupid for love.

Well, going by Ebba's Swedish wikipedia article, it would seem that Ebba would make a decent queen for Sweden:
"As a person, she is described at the end of her life as caring, cool, commanding and unappreciated by servants and entertainers." Which would probably make a welcome change from Maria Eleonora's histrionics.

And at the top of the article it lists her as "lady-in-waiting, contractor, and utility engineer", while it says this about her:
When Brahe became a widow in 1652, she administered the family's estate and farms, something that was common during the time. She mainly had responsibility for her goods that were part of her morning gift and her inheritance. These included many iron and mountain farms , which she was very interested in. She also made sure that the iron produced during the family's use was of high quality, and it became known as "the Countess's iron".

However, considering her daughter, Maria Sofia de la Gardie, is regarded as Sweden's first female entrepreneur, I think we might still have a sort of Queen Kristina in the family.
 
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