WI - multiple German Hapsburg lines?

Several of the major German noble houses had multiple lines with separate dominions.

  • Wettin
    • the Ernestine line, holding the Electorate
    • the Albertine line, holding Saxe, Coburg, and Gotha

  • Wittelsbach
    • the Palatinate line
    • the Bavarian line

  • Hohenzollern
    • the Brandenburg line, holding Brandenburg and later Pomerania and Prussia
    • the Franconian line, holding Ansbach, Bayreuth, and Hohenzollern
    • a separate Prussian line for a short time

  • Oldenburg
    • Royal line, holding Denmark and parts of Holstein
    • Ducal line, holding Oldenburg and the rest of Holstein
For a short time in the 1400s, there were two Hapsburg lines (Albertine and Leopoldine) which held different parts of the Hapsburg lands.

WI this division had become permanent?

WI there were further divisions of Hapsburg possessions? Say this:

  • Albertine - Austria and Tirol
  • Ernestine - Carinthia, Carniola, Styria
  • Maximiline - Hungary
  • Philippine - Hither Austria
  • Wilhelmine - Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia
How could that play out?
 
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The German Habsburgs are a junior line to the Spanish Habsburgs, who split off when Charles V decided that trying to rule the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, most of Italy, the Low Countries, the Americas, and the Philippines was too much.
 
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