Luxemburg (Chaos)

Luxemburg was a duchy in the western part of .
== Rise to power ==
When in 1309 king died, (same as OTL, and the last recognizable Roman king) became new king. He managed to be crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by the pope in 1312, becoming the first emperor since Friedrich II.
In 1335, Heinrich of Tyrol died without male heirs; would fall to the house of Luxemburg, via his daughter who married into this house.
The dynasty also had another Roman king, 1347-58 (emperor since 1353). They also managed to acquire other lands for the dynasty, like Brabant, Limburg and Lorraine.
1371 in , after the death of incompetent and often absent king Kazimierz / / Casimir, the nobles elected Sigismund of Luxemburg king. He reigned as .
Due to several heirs, in 1415 Luxembourg and Tyrol were divided, forming a second line.
In 1464, great findings of silver were made in Tyrol, which made the dynasty second-richest in . 1468, Limburg was split off Luxemburg for . In 1472, their candidate was elected Roman king. His rule was overshadowed: 1473, Tyrol was split into West and East Tyrol; and when he secularized and annexed the bistums of Augsburg and Trient for his lands, the HRE fell into a kind of Civil War. All the princes tried to annex the clerical lands, which lead to lots of confusion and little wars for said lands, which are generally subsumed as the . The most important of those wars are the for (1485-93) and the (1486-91). For some time, there were three kings in the Empire, one of them of Luxemburg. He managed to acquired the core of the electorate of Trier, including the city itself, which made the archbishop the dynasty's tool. Via Tyrol he also acquired Augsburg, Bressano / Brixen and Trient. After the end of the war and deposing anti-king , he was accepted as Roman king.
1502, the line of East Tyrol inherited Luxemburg; 1548, Limburg was inherited by Luxemburg-Tyrol; 1567-83, Görz was split off from West Tyrol. And after of West Tyrol was deposed for complete madness, all Luxemburger lands were united under (VI in Tyrol).
== Breakup ==
Unfortunately, after his death, the succession was unclear. The (1660-64) broke out when and its allies , , and made claims for Luxemburgian territories, although they were highly doubtful. But with the absolutist as French king, things like this didn't matter. Although Luxemburg had (most of) the HRE on its side, they were defeated.
Vorarlberg became a Swiss canton, South Tyrol went to Venice, the rest of Tyrol to Bavaria; Nassau got a part of Luxemburg proper, the rest (including Lorraine) became French. The rightful heir, (VII in Tyrol) only received Brabant-Limburg. "The old sting in France's side", as François IV said, was now removed.
== New existence ==
After the , Luxemburg incl. Lorraine went back to . Tyrol was lost, however.
 was angry at - for this, so he joined France's side in 1724 to fight in the . Luxemburg got Namur from this war.
In the , Luxemburg was overrun by French troops and annexed afterwards. It stayed like this until 1827, when freshly united took German-speaking Luxemburg back after the .
== Part of Germany ==