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PREFACE I would begin by expressing my gratitude to everyone in this vibrant and knowledgeable community for encouraging and inspiring me to actualise this idea. As a long-time alternate history hobbyist, I have been reading forum discussions and stories for a few years. I always want to write...

(This is my first post, so sorry if this isn't worded in the best way possible) What if the Wittelsbachs in Bavaria had decided to join the Reformation and thus the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria never happened/failed AND AT THE SAME TIME Joachim II happened to be a staunch Catholic like his...

So I'm planning a TL in which the Hohenzollerns inherit the HRE in the 15th Century and have Cadet Branches ruling Britain and Iberia. So the timeline of events is the following Friederich II of Brandenburg marries Hedwig Jagiellon (she's born as a twin to a surviving son of Wladyslaw II...

If asking a contemporary citizen of Early-Mid 15th Century Europe what Dynasty and Nations do they think will be the most powerful in the future, many would say France for Nation and Habsburgs for the Dynasty. When asked about a non-important at the time German dynasty in the North about them...

Fun one a day V4? What if near the end of World War One, for whatever reason (political instability, collapse of the front, etc) Wilhelm flees to his relatives in Romania? I know that Rumania joined the Entente, but for all intensive purposes in this scenario they stay out of the war. I hope...

A fun one a day V2. As the title might suggest, I wanted to know what would have happened if Leopold (cousin of Wilhelm I of Prussia) accepted the Spanish crown?

With Frederick III born a woman, who can be her husband (and if the succession proceed like in OTL, the german emperor)? The bloody Leopold II is a possibility or the costume is only marriage with german rulers?

In 1424, Europe was seeing a surprising amount of change. In the west, King Henry V of England had perished before he could become King of France, as was laid out for him in the Treaty of Troyes in 1420. Instead, he was succeeded by his 10 month old son Henry VI with his uncle John, Duke of...

There must always be a Duke in Prussia Map of Prussia ducal Prussia is yellow royal prussia is white made by Caspar Henneberger The reign of Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia When Albrecht Friedrich became Duke in Prussia in March 1568 he was just 14 years old four years short of being an adult...

I have two questions regarding the 1273 Imperial Election in the Holy Roman Empire. First, what would it have taken for Frederick I the Brave, Margrave of Meissen, to have been elected? Second, why was the Burgrave of Nuremburg able to vote on behalf of Brandenburg, an electorate his family...

That thread is inspired by one ASOIAF disscussion which I've seen on diffefent site, where Frederick the Great was compared to Tyrion and his father Frederick William to Tywin Lannister. So let's make that resemblance closer and let's say that Frederick also killed his father. So Frederick...

Frederick the Iron on Polish throne appeared in TLs before as secondary POD (used for example by @The Undead Martyr in his Visconti TL) so that is not very original idea. Although I'm going to focus on Frederick's succession in Poland as main POD here. So change is not very...

Well if Brandenburg never inherits Prussia and Cleve they would probably be the poorest german elector. I think they would follow a Habsburg friendly policy since that was even the Prussian policy until Frederick II. Would they still be able to eventually press claims on Pomerania to get a...

Battle of Warsaw was one of the biggest battles of Deluge, fought 28-30 July 1656. It ended in Swedish-Brandenburgian victory, say that this fact is not changed in TTL, but despite victory both Sweden and Brandenburg lost their leaders (Charles X really was wounded in that battle, so making his...

I've made Casimir Hohenzollern (1481-1527) Duke of Prussia before, now its time for something better. Say that sons of Elector Joachim Nestor die young and childless. His cousin Casimir Hohenzollern OTOH lives longer (his death from dysentery could be easily butterflyied away). There is still...

This male heir would secure the existence of Prussia as a polish fief with no personal union with Brandenburg. How would the conflict of the Jülich-Cleves succession play out if it's not the Elector of Brandenburg but the Duke of Prussia from the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch contesting the title...

Anna Vasa, daughter of John III of Sweden, sister of Sigismund Vasa, wanted to marry her cousin Gustaf Brahe, but match was opposed by her brother, who wanted someone higher born for his only sister (worth to note: Gustaf's niece Ebba Brahe also was in love with another Vasa-Anna's first cousin...

Inspired by discussion about Frederick Augustus of Saxony remaining Protestant. What about other option-member of House of Hohenzollern replaces him. So Frederick, OTL first King of Prussia, is as capable as ruler of Brandenburg as IOTL, but his physicall health is worse. He dies earlier (in...

Last Grand Master of Teutonic Order in Prussia, Albrecht Hohenzollern, converted to Lutheranism and secularised Prussian branch of the Order in 1525 and ruled the Duchy as vassal of his uncle Sigismund the Old, and then cousin Sigismund Augustus until 1568. Albrecht was ardent Lutheran and soon...

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