WI: Trastamara Hungary

I read that the de jure succession of Hungary passed to the Trastamaras in Castile after the Anjous in Hungary and Naples got extinct due to them being the descendants of Stephen V of Hungary(so basically, the marriage of Joanna and Philip gave Philip a legitimate claim to Hungary), is there a way for the Trastamaras or Barcelonas to rule Hungary with a POD of 1295 when Blanche of Anjou married to the Barcelona House?
 
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Weren't the Hungarian kings elected after the House of Árpád died out? I'm in no ways expert on the subject though.
 
Weren't the Hungarian kings elected after the House of Árpád died out? I'm in no ways expert on the subject though.

Nothing so orderly. After the last Arpad, Andrew III, died in 1301, there were three royal candidates, all from abroad and all descended from one Arpad king or another. Royal authority in Hungary had been in decline for some time, anyway, but things really hit rock bottom as the nobles split into factions each fighting for their candidate.

The three candidates were Wenceslas of Bohemia (later Wenceslas III), Otto III of Bavaria and the Angevin, Charles Robert of Naples. Wenceslas gave up in 1305 and Otto in 1308, leaving Charles Robert as king (and with a lot of work to do). The throne was hereditary again, only for the Angevin dynasty to die out, too, in the same century.
 
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