What if Charles Robert died in 1330 at Posada?

Charles Robert (Charles I), the Angevin king of Hungary, had only managed to vanquish the main pretenders not twenty years earlier (Rozgony, 1312) and the near-complete pacification of his realm came as late as 1322.

Suppose that, in 1330, he has less luck than OTL, and is either killed during the ambush along with the knight impersonating him (he had switched insignia with one of his retainers), or while fleeing. What would happen to the kingdom then? I suppose the Serbs and Croats would rebel. Which noble families would make a try for the Crown of Saint Stephen?
 
I guess Nelipac would become in Croatia what Pavao Šubić was just 20 years earlier and it is not impossible for the Croat Sabor to abolish the union with Hungary like they did in 1527 before electing the Habsburgs to the throne.
 
I guess Nelipac would become in Croatia what Pavao Šubić was just 20 years earlier and it is not impossible for the Croat Sabor to abolish the union with Hungary like they did in 1527 before electing the Habsburgs to the throne.

At that time Serbia was eyeing to dominate the Balkans and rule Constantinople as well one possible lucky marriage which is Elisabeth of Bosnia to the son of Dusan would change everything in the Balkans.
 
Not to mention Serbian king was playing a game in Croatia supporting his widowed sister against her enemies.

Croatia (though I highly doubt Slavonia) and Bosnia could for a while become part of the Serbian influence zone and maybe even part of Dušans empire, but would eventualy go their separate ways once it colapses on his death.
 
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