WI: Louis II Lives

Exactly what it says on the tin
What if Louis II survives Mohacs
Im interested in three things here
1) How do the Ottoman-Hungarian wars end without the death of Louis and the Hapsburgs inhertiting Hungary and Bohemia?
2) Assuming that Louis has an heir (not unlikely given that he was only 19 when he died and already had a bastard) the Haspburgs wont get Hungary. Do they turn attentions toward the German states or Italy or just keep trying to bump the Jags off and go east anyway
3) The Polish Jagellions will die off within his theoretical sons lifetime, does he then rule poland instead of the commonwealth/elected monarchy?
 

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1: They don't. Louis' survival would perhaps help keep Hungary as a sovereign state (OTL, they were sovereign on paper, but not in practice, and even then the former part came to an end with the end of the Napoleonic Wars), but I doubt it would be the end of their troubles with the Ottoman Empire.

2: Both most likely. By the time of Mohacs, Charles V of the HRE (aka Charles I of Spain) was fighting against France over Italy (Most likely the League of Cognac War). The bright side is that with the Ottomans focusing on Hungary, I would safely believe that King Francis I de Valois would not pull off some of the stuff that he did IOTL.

3: Super Jageillon Empire...Activate!!!

In all seriousness though, I really cannot say, I do not know of Poland's succession laws, outside of the fact that they were elected after 1572. Perhaps if one could engineer the son of Louis II to be elected, you would have a Jagiellon ruling over much of Central and Eastern Europe...though something tells me that the Hapsburgs, the Rurikids (if Ivan IV's line continues) and the Vasa will protest.
 
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