Have all the countries, region and dynasties that went some variety of Protestant stay Catholic whilst all the places and people that stayed Catholic embrace some form of Protestantism during and after the reformation.
Even before Counter-Reformation Poland was still majority Catholic, peasants were practically untouched by Reformation and no one bothered to convert them.Poland is easy enough: don't have the Counter-Reformation succeed there, they turn Protestant and stay Protestant.
Weren't the Bourbons championing Protestantism but then reverted to Catholicism once they took the throne?I can't really think of any way to get France to switch to Protestant, unless a Protestant German state successfully occupies France for a significant enough amount of time to put Huguenots in all the leadership positions.
I don't know. I don't often comment in pre-1900 due to my comparatively limited knowledge, so I'm mostly spitballing. If so, then that's another way to go about Protestant France.Weren't the Bourbons championing Protestantism but then reverted to Catholicism once they took the throne?
Well no one bothered to ask the German peasants during the Peace of Augsburg, either, and yet they were suddenly Protestant or Catholic based off of their ruler's decision. Considering that Catholic Poland was an outlier in an otherwise Protestant or East Orthodox Eastern Europe, with a failed Counter-Reformation and a Protestant Monarch, I would imagine Protestantism would become more common amongst the Polish peasants.Even before Counter-Reformation Poland was still majority Catholic, peasants were practically untouched by Reformation and no one bothered to convert them.
Uh...sort of.Weren't the Bourbons championing Protestantism but then reverted to Catholicism once they took the throne?
I think you would need the Pope to never return to Rome after the Avignon period, and in fact move further north (Aachen?).
Alternativley the Pope relocates to England and ends up under the control of Henry "protector of the Catholic faith" Tudor. As a result Henry gets the annulment with Catherine that he wanted and doesn't break with the church.Any POD which would relocate the Pope would butterfly away Henry VIII of England etc.