OOC: Occitania is made-up. Aquitaine is the correct term.The Papal State would eventually (and predictably) have taken over the whole peninsula, as it almost happened IRL. There wasn't anyone who could have stopped them at that point, with Occitania and the South German League still embroiled in their destructive Twenty Years War. Of course, a victorious Papal State would have intervened on behalf of the Germans, and not the neo-Cathar Occitans, which would have kept the Catholic Church united for a while if the German-Papal alliance had won out in the end, though I don't think the Schism could have been delayed forever at that point.
OOC: Occitania is made-up. Aquitaine is the correct term.
That's a good point. But the influence of the neo-Cathars and indeed the neo-Kingdom of Aquitaine and Duchy of Toulouse are often overstated on here. The Western German and English Borans and Polish and even the Saxon and Polish Calvinists were more influential, since Aquitaine lasted only a few years after the war.The Papal State would eventually (and predictably) have taken over the whole peninsula, as it almost happened IRL. There wasn't anyone who could have stopped them at that point, with Aquitaine and the South German League still embroiled in their destructive Twenty Years War. Of course, a victorious Papal State would have intervened on behalf of the Germans, and not the neo-Cathar Aquitaine, which would have kept the Catholic Church united for a while if the German-Papal alliance had won out in the end, though I don't think the Schism could have been delayed forever at that point.