WI: Swiss Aquilea

It should first survive long enough in a meaningful way to see the formation of the Swiss confederacy and then comes the real question - Why on earth would they want to do it?

It is almost as asking what if Avignon joins Netherlands and then secularizes.
 
Well, apart from the distance and foreign policy differences, you know that joining the Swiss didn't necessarily mean automatic secularisation?

The Bishop of Sion held some degree of effective terratorial rule over the Sieben Zenden until 1630, and remained nominally in power until the French Revolution. The Bishop of Chur was de facto stripped of his secular power earlier in the Three Leagues, but the Abbeys of Bellelay and Engleberg, the Prince-Bishop of Basle (well, what what was left of it), and the Prince-Abbot of St Gall retained their powers right up until the French invaded in 1798.
 
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