WI: Lithuania under the Piast Dynasty

Since I created a query earlier about a possibility of a Piast Lithuania, why not have Lithuania under Mindaugas married to the family of Henry the Pious, Mindaugas' daughter can marry Boleslaw the Bald and one of their sons can inherit Lithuania and that Lithuania would be catholic and marry back with Poland once it is united but that Lithuania would not have Ruthenia.
 
The same answer as last time applies.

Lithuania was not ready for Christian rulers. Any Piast ruler would go down the way of Shvarn.

This is also in addition to the fact that Mindaugas had a successor - a devout Orthodox son, Vaišvilkas, who, upon his abdication, would not have even considered to give the throne to a Catholic.
 
Piast rulers of Lithuania are implausible before mid-15th century. Then, after death of Švitrigaila and Mykolas Žygimantaitis, only Catholic male-line Gediminids were Jagiellons. If Jagiellons also died out then there is chance that Masovian Piasts would succeede-they intermarried heavy with Gediminids. Like Bolesław IV of Masovia (candidate to Polish throne IOTL) , whose wife was daughter of Alexander Olelko, mother was daughter of Feodor Olgerdovich and paternal grandmother was daughter of Kęstutis.
 
Piast rulers of Lithuania are implausible before mid-15th century. Then, after death of Švitrigaila and Mykolas Žygimantaitis, only Catholic male-line Gediminids were Jagiellons. If Jagiellons also died out then there is chance that Masovian Piasts would succeede-they intermarried heavy with Gediminids. Like Bolesław IV of Masovia (candidate to Polish throne IOTL) , whose wife was daughter of Alexander Olelko, mother was daughter of Feodor Olgerdovich and paternal grandmother was daughter of Kęstutis.
What about Rurikids retaining Lithuania?
 
What about Rurikids retaining Lithuania?
It's doubtful if they (read: Shvarn) ever even fully controlled Lithuania. Shvarn's rule had little, if any, support, and his family's claim to the throne got ditched as soon as Traidenis took over the country.
 
There is theory, that Jogaila's sister Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Mazovia, supported his third marriage with 45 years old thrice widowed Elżbieta Granowska hoping that Jogaila would make one of her sons his succesor, although it was unlikely, without Jogaila's sons Frederick Hohenzollern, bethroted to his daughter IOTL, would likely succeede him, at least as Supremus Dux Lithuaniae.
 
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