Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya zama mai mulkin ƙasashen Habsburg a mutuwar mahaifiyarsa Maria Theresa a 1780, Joseph II ya sake farfado da tsohuwar buri
kuma ya shiga tattaunawa tare da Elector Karl Theodor na Palatinate da Bavaria tare da manufar cinikin Bavaria don Austrian Netherlands. Idan an kawo wannan shirin, Habsburgs zai kara yawan yankunansu tare da babban yanki mai magana da harshen Jamusanci yayin da yake kawar da larduna masu nisa waɗanda suka tabbatar da cewa suna da wuya da tsada don kare duk lokacin da Austria ta yi yaƙi da Faransa. Ga Karl Theodor, sha'awarsa a cikin yarjejeniyar da aka tsara ya fi dacewa da daraja kamar yadda ya yi tunanin kansa a matsayin mai mulki, mai yiwuwa tare da lakabi na sarki, na Duke na Burgundy da aka sake gina wanda ya ƙunshi Kudancin Netherlands da kuma mallakarsa a cikin Lower da Upper Rhine yankin, irin su Palatinate na Rhine da kuma duchy na Berg-Jülich.