It's not just a question of "Wouldn't", he literary couldn't. Salic law and all that applying to German principalities.
I'm reminded that in the 13th century, a Hohenzollern Swabian Duke got permission from Rudolf of Habsburg that a woman could inherit if the male line died out...but I agree that nobody would see having 3 brothers and however many nephews as the male line dying out.
(Not 100% sure he'd have done it if only because he didn't have a very high opinion of the Schwedt cousins, but it would have made 18th century dynastic sense.)
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Re: Counterfactuals...
Date: 2025-05-31 07:33 pm (UTC)I'm reminded that in the 13th century, a Hohenzollern Swabian Duke got permission from Rudolf of Habsburg that a woman could inherit if the male line died out...but I agree that nobody would see having 3 brothers and however many nephews as the male line dying out.
(Not 100% sure he'd have done it if only because he didn't have a very high opinion of the Schwedt cousins, but it would have made 18th century dynastic sense.)
Agreed on both counts.