What if the Albertian Habsburgs survive?

I know this question has been asked before, but I want to look a particular consequence of this event occuring.

If Ladislaus the Posthomous lives, defeats the rebellion in Hungary and defends Hungary against the Ottomans he will obvisouly be in a very powerful position. As he was arranging to marry Princess Magdalena of France he would obvisouly have strong ties with France.

What would the long term relationship be like between the Leopoldian and Albertian habsburgs?

My understanding is at the time the Leopoldian and Albertian Habsburgs were very hostile towards each other. Frederick III supposedly did not treat Ladislaus well at all.

Is it possible that if the Albertian Habsburgs survive, in the upcoming Italian wars the Albertian Habsburgs ally with the French while the Leopoldian Habsburgs ally with the Iberian Kingdoms?

Lets say Maxmillian is still crowned Holy Roman Emperor and still marries Mary of Burgundy.

Would this affect the outcome of the Italian Wars, or would the Albertian Habsburgs be too busy fighting the Ottomans to play any significant role?

Also could you get the impossible situation where the Ottomans ally with the Leopoldian Habsburgs?
I seriously doubt that this would happen.
 
Ladislaus surviving was already done recently, surviving Albert II OTOH would be better option for Albertine Habsburgs-they'll keep German throne besides Bohemia & Hungary in such case.
 
The two lines weren’t really hostile with each other, it’s just Frederick III Ladislaus’s regent in his Austrian possessions, and he just really didn’t want to let the little guy go (it took an army of angry Bohemians and Hungarians besieging Vienna to make Fred release him).

If Ladislaus survives, I can see Frederick trying to mess with him some, trying to secure his inheritance here or there, because he was just like that, but not outright hostility, and certainly not an unholy alliance with the Turks.

The Italian Wars are probably butterflied altogether. I see the two branches gettingpretty well with each other, like the Austrian and Spanish branches did, but the dynasty will almost definitely be weaker as a whole, with the Leopoldines having a westward focus and the Albertines an Eastern one.

Side note: Frederick III is one of my favorite people in history. Pretty funny how he promised to make Charles the Bold a king then changed his mind the night before the coronation and dipped.
 
Side note: Frederick III is one of my favorite people in history. Pretty funny how he promised to make Charles the Bold a king then changed his mind the night before the coronation and dipped.

Friedrich got elected OTL where the legal heir (Ladislaus the Posthumous) was underage. He also made a try for the Hungarian crown in the 1450s IIRC. So just because there's a senior member of the family doesn't mean much. Friedrich OTL played on the electors' xenophobia to get Maximilian elected king of the Romans by pointing out that the other candidate was the Hungarian king, Matyas Corvinus (and basically saying "just look what he's done to the magnates"). King Sleepyhead isn't necessarily given a fair evaluation by most historians IMO. He was shrewd and calculating. But because of his general inaction, the argument that he won simply by outliving his enemies is oft-repeated and his more ambitious actions (being elected emperor when there is a legal heir - more along the lines of the Wittelsbach-Luxemburg alternation of the previous century; or claiming the Hungarian crown when you likewise have a very weak claim (if any); or the xenophobia that he played on to get his son elected king of the Romans (this wasn't a surefire way to ensure his son would be emperor after him, look at Karl IV and his eldest son, but it's ambitious enough for his day); keeping lands that his cousins were supposed to get on attaining their majority; arranging the marriage of his son to Europe's richest heiress; etc. All of these, to my mind, show that he was as shrewd and ambitious as anything...
 
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