WI: Better luck for the earlier Habsburgs

@kasumigenx: the scenario was about Philip of Valois as a candidate, hence the comparison with Charles of Anjou. Charles Robert would be another possible scenario.

Rudolph is a claimant to Poland too, in virtue to his marriage with Elizabeth Richenza, so a deal with Wladyslaw isn't going to take place soon. Margaret is already betrothed to the Duke of Wroclaw, a policy of her father, which may be used as a Habsburg attempt to infiltrate in Poland (particularly Silesia).

The Habsburgs, like IOTL the Luxembourgs could end up compromising with the Piast claimant; drop the claim on Poland as a whole, in favour of the leading Piast candidate, in exchange for suzerainty over Silesia.
 
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