Calvinist Catalonia?

Was there ever a possibility of Calvinism flourishing in Catalonia? Catalonia was the most capitalist part of Spain, and Calvinism seems to be linked to groups like merchants and traders.
 
Was there ever a possibility of Calvinism flourishing in Catalonia? Catalonia was the most capitalist part of Spain, and Calvinism seems to be linked to groups like merchants and traders.

Ironically, I expect a trio of fellows in splendid red uniforms and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope might have come in with a word on the matter....
 
Ironically, I expect a trio of fellows in splendid red uniforms and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope might have come in with a word on the matter....
Nobody would expect them though.

More seriously, maybe not Calvinist but there were some serious reformers in Spain, Cisneros for example.
 
Getting rid of the Iberian Wedding might allow this to happen, assuming the butterflies don’t radically change the Reformation.
 
Getting rid of the Iberian Wedding might allow this to happen, assuming the butterflies don’t radically change the Reformation.

Really? If I recall, it was Ferdinand who brought the Inquisition from Aragon to Castile, and thus to Portugal. If there is no Iberian wedding, maybe one of the other two might be a better place for Protestantism to occur?
 
There was a VERY STARK difference between the Catalan countryside and the urban self-governing cities of the coast. Barcelona, Girona and Tortosa were worlds on their own, where I can imagine calvinism or lutheranism (or the local flavour, let's call it Galesianism for Pere Galès, prominent Church reformer and university professor of Classics in the 16th century.) taking hold; but not in the interior... at least, not easily.

Had Aragon kept on as an independent kingdom, I can envision one of its kings turning Protestant just to be a part of the "not-France" team.
 
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