Denmark had lost its ancient crown of Norway when the Swedish king had invaded that kingdom and seized control. He had Russian support to do so, since in exchange for said support, he had waived his right to the grand duchy of Finland which now flew the Russian flag and sang ‘God Save the Tsar’. Sweden’s young hotshot, desiring to restore Swedish power to the days of his namesake, Gustaf Adolf, had also threatened Denmark’s holdings in Pomerania. Denmark, allied with France, but unable to mount an appropriate defence since her defeat by Britain a decade earlier, called Sweden’s bluff and sold her Pomeranian holdings to the kingdom of Prussia. And instantly the king of Sweden backed down.
A similar incident took place in the Low Countries. The Palatinate’s royal family signed over the duchy of Jülich, Kleves and Berg to the house of Nassau, the kings of the Netherlands. In exchange, the Netherlands handed over the duchy of Luxemburg to the Palatinate. There had been an earlier proposal that the Netherlands would get the former margraviate of Antwerp, but the British had curbstomped that idea. So, the Netherlands got Limburg while the Palatinate got Luxemburg.
The Habsburgs lost the ‘eagle’s tail feathers’ in Swabia to French-allied Württemberg or Baden, but was recompensed for the loss by gaining the southern parts of Tyrolean Bavaria. The three episcopal electorates of Cologne, Trier and Mainz, were abolished, and their territories either going to the Netherlands (who’s territory now included the former archdiocese of Cologne, plus enough German territory to link the Netherlands to the traditional German duchy of Nassau), the Palatinate (which got almost the entirety of Trier alongside the former territory of the Prince-Bishop of Liège), Prussia (whose family members from the branches of Ansbach and Bayreuth got the grand duchy of Würzburg (carved from the Mainz electorate’s territory) and the secularized archbishopric of Bamberg) or Hesse (which got the grand duchy of Frankfurt – another Mainz sponsored creation – and the remainder of the episcopate).
Prussia, which was once again denied her dream of West-Preussen to connect the duchy of Prussia with the march of Brandenburg, was accepted as holder of the various Silesian duchies of Jagerndorf, Wohlau, Glogau, Liegnitz and Brieg, in exchange for renouncing its exclave in Cottbus to the elector of Saxony, while at the same time, expanding to the Baltic when it acquired Denmark’s former holdings.
Denmark itself had been expected to keep smiling as it waved goodbye to Norway (which didn’t exactly take well to Swedish rule), but was rewarded by the ripping of the duchy of Lauenburg from Hannover, as well as seeing parts of the duchy of Münster attached to its satellite state of Oldenburg.