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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...

What would be the effect of a Polish-Brandenburgian union? Let's say, by ASB or whatever, the Frederick I of Brandenburg is favoured by the nobility of Poland and he marries Jadwiga. The Union of Lublin later cements this union officially. How does such a state develop over time? Does it fill...

the 15th Century was perhaps...the most interesting in terms of European affairs. While Central Asia had been peaceful since the fall of the Timurid Dynasty and East Asia ever since the Ming Conquests of the Yuan Dynasty, Europe was still embroiled in the wars that had consumed them centuries...

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...

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...

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...

Maria Eleonora Hohenzollern, Daughter of Elector Johann Sigismund and Anna of Prussia married IOTL Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, but another Vasa was interested in her hand before-Sigismund III Vasa wanted her for his oldest son Władysław. Brother of Maria Eleonora, Elector Georg Wilhelm, was in...

AN: Ahhh! It feels so good to finally start this timeline. It's been on my mind for just over a year, with my first map ever discussing a timeline like this being on the 7th of July, 2017, with a mediocre map on Reddit, and now I finally get to create the world around that premise. There's been...

Say Joachim II, Elector od Brandenburg (1505-1571) happened to be staunch Catholic like his father-in-law, George the Bearded of Saxony. Considering the fact, that both his wives were also daughters od devout Catholic monarchs, Joachim's Catholicism is likely to pass to next generation of...

And by survives, I mean just barely hanging on. For a pod with minimum butterflies, Boguslaw XIV marries someone other than his 35/45yo (depending on which source you take) wife. I'd say he can simply marry her earlier, but considering that his brother and father married two of her sisters, and...

Ignoring the butterflies for a moment supposing that Brandenburg had never inherited the Duchy of Prussia - Sigismund II Augustus decides not to allow inheritance via Albert Frederick's daughter - but owned Pomerania and Silesia, do people think that Frederick II would have still participated in...

The Year is 1757 and at a place called Leuthen, the Prussian Army was facing off against an Austrian Army twice their size. In command of the Prussians, Frederick II, who in another life would have been called the Great for his masterful victory in the 7 Year's War, but who in this life was on...

At the extinction of the Piasts in Silesia, several duchies were SUPPOSED to be inherited by the Margrave of Brandenburg. The Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I blocked this inheritance, and Friedrich of Prussia charged his heirs to reclaim ths inheritance at a later date. Now, the idea I've got for...