WI: A Hungarian Pope, Tamás Bakócz

In the papal conclave following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni de' Medici beat out Tamás Bakócz (whom one historian compares to Wolsey) by five votes. But say Bakócz had been elected. Bakócz went back to Hungary after the conclave with papal authority to organize a Crusade that ended in a peasant rebellion (the Parasztlázadás). If Bakócz gets elected pope, he's probably still issuing a bull for the crusade, and Europe's rulers will probably pay about as much attention to it as the previous papal bulls for a crusade against the Turks (i.e. applaud politely and go about their day as usual). But how might Bakócz deal with Luther? In the movie "Luther", Leo is described as a spiritual dwarf, unsuited to the task of dealing with the mad monk from Saxony. Would Bakócz (no idea what name he'd take - don't know of any prior Hungarian popes, and Pope Thomas might invoke too poor a comparison to St. Thomas Doubting, St. Thomas á Becket etc) be any better suited to deal with Luther than was Leo?
 
In the papal conclave following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni de' Medici beat out Tamás Bakócz (whom one historian compares to Wolsey) by five votes. But say Bakócz had been elected. Bakócz went back to Hungary after the conclave with papal authority to organize a Crusade that ended in a peasant rebellion (the Parasztlázadás). If Bakócz gets elected pope, he's probably still issuing a bull for the crusade, and Europe's rulers will probably pay about as much attention to it as the previous papal bulls for a crusade against the Turks (i.e. applaud politely and go about their day as usual). But how might Bakócz deal with Luther? In the movie "Luther", Leo is described as a spiritual dwarf, unsuited to the task of dealing with the mad monk from Saxony. Would Bakócz (no idea what name he'd take - don't know of any prior Hungarian popes, and Pope Thomas might invoke too poor a comparison to St. Thomas Doubting, St. Thomas á Becket etc) be any better suited to deal with Luther than was Leo?
Possibly Pope Stephen?
 
So, Pope Stephen XI gets elected in 1512 (apparently it was Venice and the Emperor who screwed him over). If the emperor DID, I think it could make for an interesting twist to see what happens. Obviously Maximilian was worried about having a Hungarian occupant in St. Peter's Chair (this was still BEFORE the Congress of Vienna with the Jagiellons), but how might it affect papal-imperial relations? (And on the flipside, at the same time papal-French relations) Would Stephen XI want Friedrich of Saxony as a compromise candidate? Or might he push for Wladyslaw II or Ludwik II or some other half-Jagiellon German prince?
 
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