AHC: Maximum Hussite wank

Personally, I wold start with Władysław II Jagiełło, king of Poland accepting the Bohemian crown, offered to him by the hussites. The Teutonic Order, the HRE and the pope send large crusade against them. Combined armies of Poland, Lithuania and Bohemia crush the crusade and Poles reconquer Pomerelia with Danzig. Another crusade, sent against Prague, is also crushed by the hussites, with Polish help. Władysław II supports hussite reforms in Poland and organizes Polish infantry in hussite way. One cusade after another is destroyed untill the Catholic Church runs out of volunteers. Meanwhile, the Hussites occupy Silesia and Lusatia and Poles conquer most of the Teutonic State in Prussia. Poles, angry with crusades sent against them, good christians, eagerly convert to Hussitism, despite protests by church high officials. Also Lithuania is interested.
Eventually pope, the emperor and Władysła II agree to negotiate. Poland and Bohemia become a union and keep most of the conquered lands; moderate hussitism is accepted by the pope, as long as Catholics are not persecuted in Poland, Bohemia and Lithuania and Władysław Jagiełło agree not to proselyte hussitism outside the borders.
 
Thanks for your ideas so far - cool!
Personally, I wold start with Władysław II Jagiełło, king of Poland accepting the Bohemian crown, offered to him by the hussites. The Teutonic Order, the HRE and the pope send large crusade against them. Combined armies of Poland, Lithuania and Bohemia crush the crusade and Poles reconquer Pomerelia with Danzig. Another crusade, sent against Prague, is also crushed by the hussites, with Polish help. Władysław II supports hussite reforms in Poland and organizes Polish infantry in hussite way. One cusade after another is destroyed untill the Catholic Church runs out of volunteers. Meanwhile, the Hussites occupy Silesia and Lusatia and Poles conquer most of the Teutonic State in Prussia. Poles, angry with crusades sent against them, good christians, eagerly convert to Hussitism, despite protests by church high officials. Also Lithuania is interested.
Eventually pope, the emperor and Władysła II agree to negotiate. Poland and Bohemia become a union and keep most of the conquered lands; moderate hussitism is accepted by the pope, as long as Catholics are not persecuted in Poland, Bohemia and Lithuania and Władysław Jagiełło agree not to proselyte hussitism outside the borders.
Poland-Lithuania does look like a promising avenue.
BUT: Władysław II Jagiełło died in 1434, and until that year (more precisely, until the Battle of Lipany on May 30th, 1434, the Hussites were doing fine and repelling all the crusades sent against them on their own, without official Polish help. (There were Polish Hussites, though.)
Upon Władysław II Jagiełło`s death, and even before that, things in Lithuania began to stink. At this point, the union between both countries was a feeble thing. Would it have survived a sponsorship of Hussitism by the monarch? Would the monarch have survived what the Catholic clergy around Zbigniew Oleśnicki would have plotted against him?
Also, I don`t think the Poles will convert just because they´re attacked. (Quite the opposite happened IOTL in the region: because the Lithuanians were targeted as pagans by the Teutonic Order, they moved closer towards Catholicism.) OTL saw Hussite successes in Silesia and Lesser Poland - among Polish burghers who resented German superpower, and, where unruly knights like Spytko of Melsztyn led them, also among the peasantry. A broad Hussite success in Poland as a whole would have meant a success among the peasantry - and that would have required anti-feudal or anti-clerical reforms which would have improved their lot immediately, I suppose, since most nobles and the powerful clergy were not exactly Hussite-friendly.

You could conceivably have Hussitism take the place of Lutheranism and start an early reformation.
So a bunch of monarchs embraces Hussitism for some political reason? Who could they be, and what could that reason be?
 
Didn't England have a Hussite movement? The Lollards, if I'm not mistaken.

It'd be more accurate to say that the Hussites were Lollards. But yeah. England did have a major movement of the same character. And as for why they embrace Hussitism, why did they embrace Protestantism? It will take time and likely the initial progress will be slow. What would ultimately need to change would be that the followers of Hussitism would need to be less motivated by proto-Czech nationalism than with the more political aspects of the rebellion vis a vis church power and the like.
 
Do we get to see the great battle where the Hussites decisively defeat the French army of retribution and burn their commander at the stake?

Joan of Arc said:
Jesus, Mary
For a long time the rumor and voice of the people have reported to me, Joan the Maiden, that from true Christians you have become heretics, and like the Saracens you have ruined the true faith and worship, and embraced a disgraceful and unlawful superstition; and wishing to sustain and spread it there is not a disgraceful thing nor foolish belief which you would not dare. You spoil the sacraments of the Church, you tear up the articles of the Faith, you destroy the churches, you break and burn the statues which were set up as memorials, you massacre Christians because they preserve the true Faith. What is this fury? Or what rage or madness consumes you? This faith, which God Almighty, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have revealed, established, elevated to power, and glorified a thousand ways through miracles - you persecute this Faith, you wish to overthrow and destroy it. You are blind, but not because you lack eyes or understanding. Do you believe that you will remain unpunished for it? Or are you unaware that God opposes your unlawful efforts and will not permit you to remain in darkness and error? So that the more you indulge yourselves in crime and sacrilege, the more He will prepare great punishments and anguish for you.
As far as I am concerned, to tell you frankly, if I wasn't occupied in the English wars I would have come to see you a long time ago; but if I don't find out that you have reformed yourselves I might leave off fighting the English and go against you, so that by iron, if I can't do it any other way, I will eliminate your mad and obscene superstition and remove your heresy or your life; but if you would prefer to return to the Catholic faith and the original Light, then send your ambassadors to me and I will tell them what you need to do; if you are not willing and if you obstinately resist the spur, remember what damage and offenses you have committed and await me, who will inflict similar upon you with forces human and divine.

Given at Sully the 3rd of March
to the heretics of Bohemia
Pasquerel

Now that would be an epic battle!
 
Originally posted by Major Major
Do we get to see the great battle where the Hussites decisively defeat the French army of retribution and burn their commander at the stake?
Originally poste d by DracoLazarus
It seems Jeanne has sucky luck when it comes to stakes...
Originally posted by Meshakhad
Alternatively, the angels tell Jeanne d'Arc that the Hussites are right.
There is a book by Konrad T. Lewanowski about Joan of Arc coming to Bohemia with a crusade and Polish inervention etc. But it starts with Queen Jadwiga (Hedwig) surviving until 1430s and having a son...
 
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