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So I've recently become interested in the early Valois-Habsburg rivalry while researching ways to get the Burgundian inheritance into the hands of the Kings of France and came up with an idea that I don't believe has been explored before: What if Mary the Rich had died before marrying Maximilian von Habsburg and after the death of her father Charles the Bold?

If Mary died at this juncture the succession to the entire Burgundian inheritance is thrown wide open. As neither Mary nor her father Charles had any (legitimate) siblings, there's no obvious heir, and sense this is before her marriage, Maximilian can't claim her inheritance as her widower. This leaves the descendants of John the Fearless's brother Philippe II de Nevers and his daughters Marie (Duchess of Cleves) and Agnes (Duchesss de Bourbon) as closest blood relatives. So what happens in such a scenario? Would one of the distant claimants successfully secure the bulk of the inheritance (Louis XI had already seized Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Picardy and Artois in the aftermath of Charles's death)? Would Louis XI successfully take control of the entire Burgundian inheritance? Or would we see the the Netherlands divided among the contenders?
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