WI: No Poland-Lithuania

[Justin Pickard]

What would have happened if Jadwiga and Wladyslaw had never married.

Say, one of them is born a different gender, marries someone else, or dies young.

What political-economic-social-military effects would this have?

 

[Andrei]

I suppose Poland would have been more succesful in this case , because it would have had a smaller but easier to defend territory and a buffer against the Russians , who would become powerful later on .
Poland and Lithuania might still ally against the Teutonic Order in TTL.

 

[Tizoc]

Well, in 1383 (i think) Ziemowit IV, the prince of one of the parts of Mazovia, has almost kidnapped Jadwiga with intent to marry her. Then we would have a start of the new, Piast-Anjou dynasty in Poland.