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This is something of a double POD

I was looking at Oldenburg family, and a interesting detail I found was that Frederik V was the first king in a century which produce a second legime son whom produced any children himself. But he only produced this son in his second marriage. His first wife died from a miscarriage in 1751. So what if Frederiks second marriage are childless. He had at this point one son and three daugthers. Of course the son became quite insane (depressive fixed with heavy use of alcohol, it could only get worse), but succed in producing a son. But what if in one of his darker moment he killed himself in 1765. Now we have the mix up for a Danish Succesion War. Frederiks oldest daugther was married to the King of Sweden, while his second daugther was married to the later Landgraf of Hesse-Cassel and the third to his brother. But we have other problems the Oldenburg sideline the Gottorps and Sönderburgs had claim to Schleswig-Holstein and Oldenburg.

So we have the problem the king of Sweden has the best claim to all the Oldenburgs possesions as a Gottorp married to the daugther of the king, Hesse-Kassel has a weaker claim, but they're aren't a big threat. Russia has weak claim on the Kingdoms, but a somewhat better claim on the duchies, but still a weaker one than either the Swedish king or the Söndeburgian dukes, but strong enough to compete with Hesse-Kassel.

The big problem are that this are rigth after the 7YW, does any one want a new big war, on the other hand a Danish-Swedish union would be a nigthmare for both the British and Russians, while Hesse-Kassel would be incredible strengthen by a union with Denmark, something which neither the Hohenzollern or Wittelbach would want. A Russian-Danish union would be a nigthmare for everybody but the Russians. So likely war it is.
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