AHC: Karlwank

Challenge: Give Emperor Charles V as much territory in his own name as possible.

I'll be impressed if you can give a plausible POD giving him France.
 
A more successful war with the Turks potentially gives him significantly more land in Hungary.

Making his wife heiress to Portugal requires significantly more early deaths and her living longer, but would effectively give him control of the Portuguese colonial empire (instead of having it wait for his son Philip). For less ambitious colonial gains, a more successful resolution to the Moluccas dispute might lead to a more favorable Treaty of Zaragoza.
 
A more successful war with the Turks potentially gives him significantly more land in Hungary.

Making his wife heiress to Portugal requires significantly more early deaths and her living longer, but would effectively give him control of the Portuguese colonial empire (instead of having it wait for his son Philip). For less ambitious colonial gains, a more successful resolution to the Moluccas dispute might lead to a more favorable Treaty of Zaragoza.

Maybe switch he and his brother's wives? That way Charles V also becomes King of Bohemia and Hungary.
 
Is there any plausible possibility to have parts of Denmark-Norway(-Sweden) go to either Charles or one of his sons; by way of his younger sister Isabella or his nephew Hans (2.). I realize that this would require somehow deposing the "usurper" Frederik 1.

Denmark-Norway staying Catholic while Sweden becomes Lutheran would make Scandinavian history even more interesting.
 
the rest of Europe isn't going to stand with Charles V holding both Hapsburg thrones. Expect a very bloody war over that, exacerbated by confessional differences. It was his renouncing the the HRE title that ended the 1500s wars of Religion (1555 Peace of Augsburg)
 
This map really fits perfectly in this thread:

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