And what does France get from this arrangement(seing how they were the ones who occupied Hanover)?The Palatinate along the Rhine?Don’t seem like they are geting much from it(Liege doesn’t seem enough considering what the Austians are getting).Any chance they just shove the princes on the left side of the Rhine to what used to be Brandenburg and Pomerania?You could really put the screws to Prussia (depends how totally defeated they are) and add Altmark to Hanover. Hell, if you'd like, you could give Wittelsbach Hanover all the territory west of the Elbe (Altmark/Magdeburg) (here shown in 1789; similar borders to the time period). It's a very unlikely play - the Wittelsbachs were Austrian allies, after all, so forcing them to do anything is tough - but it may be advantageous for the family to consolidate its holdings in Hanover-Palatinate to create a semblance of regional power in Western Germany rather than being a few weeks march away from Wien.
If we want to go with the "enlarged Hanover-for-Bavaria" option there's also others we can look at. Schaumburg-Lippe, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Hesse-Kassel were all belligerents with Britain/Prussia. As it happens, they were all also land neighbors of Hanover. Prussia (as you can see in that map) has considerable detached western territories around Hanover that could be added to it as well.
Hanover with Ostfriesland, Minden, Ravensburg, Altmark, Magdeburg, Schaumburg-Lippe, and parts of western Brunswick (connecting southern and northern Hanoverian possessions) is a fairly impressive territory. Especially when Charles Theodore theoretically inherits it all in a few decades alongside his possessions as Elector Palatine of the Rhine. All of this is (theoretically) legally possible if Imperial bans are issued, I believe, but someone else would have to confirm that.
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