AHC: Switch the fates of Catholicism and Protestantism

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.
 
I think you would need the Pope to never return to Rome after the Avignon period, and in fact move further north (Aachen?).
 
Poland is easy enough: don't have the Counter-Reformation succeed there, they turn Protestant and stay Protestant.

Henry VIII has a male heir with Catherine of Aragon.

In Scandinavia, have King Frederick I of Denmark uphold is pledge to root out Protestantism instead of ignoring it.

Those are a few.
 
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.

In Spain, maybe if Al-Andalus survives longer, or the Reconquista is less sucessful, then the Spanish Inquisition won't exist yet, and the Spanish Crown would be in a weak enough situation that it couldn't stop the spread of Protestantism. Maybe Spain could be the Germany of this TL, with it being divided between Protestants (Castille and Portugal?) and Catholics (Aragon?).

Have the Counter-Reformation fail in Hungary to keep them Protestant.
 
Even before Counter-Reformation Poland was still majority Catholic, peasants were practically untouched by Reformation and no one bothered to convert them.
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.
 
It's possible [if difficult] for both Poland and France to go Protestant in this period. You just need a majority of the nobility to embrace the movement - and there were sizable elements of both French and Polish nobility that did in OTL. And then some convenient events/details to happen. Peasants can be ignored and gradually converted bar the odd rebellion or two.

The problem for the OP though is how to get Spain and Italy to abandon Catholicism. Which I can't really see but am happy to be convinced otherwise.
 
Weren't the Bourbons championing Protestantism but then reverted to Catholicism once they took the throne?
Uh...sort of.

Henry IV was leader of the Hugenouts from age 7, and following a Civil War he (re)converted to Catholicism to be retroactively crowned King of France because he couldn’t defeat the Catholic strongholds. Other members of his family were Catholic though.
 
Much of the Church of the East went Catholic in 1552. Perhaps there could be some kind of reformation in the Church instead of what happened OTL with the conflict over the hereditary nature of succession.
 
I think you would need the Pope to never return to Rome after the Avignon period, and in fact move further north (Aachen?).

I really thunk moving the seat of the pope ia necessary. The fact that Southern Europe stayed Catholic while Northern Europe went Protestant was not a coincidence- it was literally based uppn who was closer to or farther from Rome. Those closer to Rome benefitted from Rome having more power while those farther benefitted from Rome having leas power. To reverse that trend we would really nees to relocated the Pope to Northern Europe (Aachen as suggested? Cologne? Utrecht? Canterbury?).

Any POD which would relocate the Pope would butterfly away Henry VIII of England etc.
 
Any POD which would relocate the Pope would butterfly away Henry VIII of England etc.
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.
 
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