Reformation in Hungary without Mohacs

Hi there!
My question is that how would it change the reformation in Hungary if the battle at Mohacs would not happen. I know that, with the weakhanded Jagellonians the collapse of Hungary is inevitable, so let's say Matthias Corvinus had a legitimate heir or he was able to make his illegitimate son the next king.
 
Well the Ottomans are going to nibble the edges at the least, but they didn't really want to get dragged into the Balkans if they could get a puppet instead. Without the Civil War Hungary is much better off.

Biggest changes are the lack of Habsburg inheritance and the survival of the Jagellonians for if/when the Polish line dies out in fifty years or so. Could lead to a Charles V style Blob of Doom, or more likely a shuffling of inheritances further between the lines; but Polish history (and the East in general) is going to look radically different. Like a Jagellonian could try to seize Muscovy during a Time of Troubles or something. At the very least I think Poland's later woes are completely butterflied, even if they lose out.

As for Hungary itself- both Hungary and Bohemia had substantial protestant populations prior to the Thirty Years War. You could see both go majority protestant. This, obviously, radically alters how the Reformation plays out in Germany- you could see an earlier unification start around a Saxon led League of Augsburg, perhaps.

Lots of interesting possibilities.
 
Yeah, that is sure that it would alter many things, but I'm interested in the the hungarian reformation itself. In our timeline at the battle of mohacs many bishop and both two hungarian archbishop died, the turks sacked the central part of the country, thus the catholic church collapsed in Hungary. It was the major factor of the rapid reformation in Hungary in the first place. Albeit the hungarians peasants were heavily taxed and the magnates struggled with the king to gain more power, so there is still place for the reformation to spread...

So without the collapse of the central power, I'm curious how would the reformation go down?
 
Changing circumstances so that Hussitism is a primary influence on the reformation would change everything about the reformation and butterfly Mohacs. So if you want an easy answer that's it.
 
The key is the person of the king and not Mohács i think. At times both the protestants and the catholics were strong enough to come out on top. If you have a protestant alternate king Hungary could and up protestant - calvinist to be precise. With catholic rulers and without Transylvania for outside support for the protestants a full or near full return to catholicism is likely. A period of religious war like in France is also a possibility.
 
The key is the person of the king and not Mohács i think. At times both the protestants and the catholics were strong enough to come out on top. If you have a protestant alternate king Hungary could and up protestant - calvinist to be precise. With catholic rulers and without Transylvania for outside support for the protestants a full or near full return to catholicism is likely. A period of religious war like in France is also a possibility.

I know that this is quite a bit after Mohacs but Gabriel Bethlen (de Iktár) was an uncrowned Protestant king of Hungary for approximately a year. He did lead an insurrection against the Hapsburgs in Hungary but he did not retain his title.
 
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