protestant reformation

To set this up, let's say that France becomes majority Huguenot early on in the Reformation allowing it to spread to northern Italy. If we assume that the counter reformation fails in Piedmont and is protected by France, how does this affect Italy's history in the following centuries? Could they...

I'm writing a timeline where Christian II of Denmark isn't deposed from his position as King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, due to him not carrying out the Stockholm Bloodbath. At first I was initially thinking that it wouldn't have a big effect on the course of The Reformation in Scandinavia...

Charles V and Pope Clement VII had a very rocky relationship IOTL: although they were allies on paper, the latter tried to double cross the emperor multiple times, from letting a French army commanded by the Duke of Albany headed for Naples march through Papal territory unmolested, trying and...

Fernando d'Ávalos was a Neapolitan condottiero of Aragonese origin who fought in the Italian Wars, most specifically the War of the League of Cambrai and the War of 1521-1526. He was, during the latter, one of the main commanders of the imperial army, and played an important role in the...

Short and sweet, was there anyway for Lithuania to become a majority Protestant state? The only pods that come to mind are that Lithuania gets conquered by the Teutonic order, they get conquered by Prussia or Sweden, or that Poland converts to Calvinism and it spreads from there. Were there any...

Union of The Three Crowns: The History of The Nordic Empire Chapter 0: Prologue For better or for worse, the world from 1492 to 1945 was dominated by Europe. During this time, the great empires of Europe, whether the British, French, Spanish or Russians were the main players on the global...

After the year 1525, how can we get Protestants and the Eastern Orthodox Church to see each other as common allies against the Catholics as opposed to merely seeing each other as another heresy as otl? While Protestants have moved historically to work with the eastern churches at times, was...

The OTL end result of the seemingly endless slogging match that was the Italian Wars was an overwhelming Habsburg victory, with them gaining and keeping control of Milan and Naples. What would be the effects on both branches of the dynasty (Spanish and Austrian) if they instead lost both of...

How could Christian II avoid being deposed and hold on to the throne of Denmark and Norway until his death in 1559? How much of a difference would that make in Danish and Scandinavian politics? Wikipedia says he tried to increase the rights of commoners and bourgeoisie at the expense of the...

Like it says on the tin. Could the House of Habsburg, assuming lots and I mean lots of things go right for them, plausibly impose their power over the principalities and electorates scattered throughout the HRE in the period starting with the onset of the Protestant Reformation and the ending...

Maurice, a member of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin, ruled Saxony first as a duke and then an elector from 1541 until his early death at the Battle of Sievershausen in 1553. He was, according to Wikipedia, a skilled political operator who successfully played both sides of the...

William the Rich was duke of Julich, Cleves and Berg from 1539 until his death, but he also controlled the Duchy of Guelders for five years (1538-43) before being forced to yield it to Charles V in the Treaty of Venlo. What if he managed to hold on to Guelders for whatever reason? Say the French...

Adrian VI was the only Dutchman to ever become Pope, as well as the last non-Italian to be elected to the post until John Paul II four and a half centuries later. Wikipedia says he had some reformist ideas (but doesn't explain what said ideas were like) and that his proposals were hampered by...

The Affair of the Placards was a scandal in which anti-Catholic posters were put in Paris, other major cities throughout France. One such poster was placed in the bedroom of king Francis I, who until then tolerated the Protestants - thanks to his rivalry with Charles V - but was convinced that...

“In Spring of 1502, the rulers of England and Spain, held their breaths, as their children, the English Prince Arthur and Spanish Princess Catherine had fallen ill with the lethal sweating sickness. The two had only married a few months prior, so that their Parents, may form an alliance between...

In 1501, 17-year-old Martin Luther entered the University of Erfurt to study law. However, he switched to studying religion and philosophy, a decision that would eventually lead to him leaving university and joining the Order of Saint Augustine in 1505. And we all know how his career as an...

Dover, England. 26th of May, 1522. The man that greeted the English procession at the docks did not look like an Emperor. He was finely dressed, yes, but there was something to his form that didn't shine with pristine physical health and constitution. He had a narrow, elongated face dominated...

What if, during the 1500s and 1600s, during the Protestant Reformation, various groups of protestants form brotherhoods, equivalent to the religious Military Orders, like the Templars and Teutonic Knights, to protect other protestants from violent Catholic reprisals and crackdowns?

Miguel Serveto, AKA Michael Servetus, was a Spanish-born medical physician, astronomer, and Christian theologian from the 16th century who is mostly famous for expressing a radical view of the Father-Son-Spirit trinity, in a way that could be considered a derivation of the Arianist doctrine from...

Literally what's in the title, you're free to create new branches too. Bonus if you get a Catholic/Orthodox majority region to become a protestant majority one, including a protestant HRE :p