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This question has come up as an auxiliary POD in a things I'm sorta planning/writing. So, what it says. With a POD before the 16th century, Vladislaus has every chance of having a son, instead of only two daughters. His OTL situation of only having daughters is what enabled the Habsburgs to inherit Bohemia and Hungary and grow into the south-central European powerhouse that they were all the way up til 1918. Considering that his brothers also have male heirs enough to continue the Jagellionian lines in Poland and Lithuania, and assuming that these Jagellionians are more or less friendly to the Habsburg Roman Emperors, what kind of effects are there vis a vis the Baltic, Scandinavia, northern Germany, the east, the Balkans (Ottomans), and religion/church reform/Protestantism?

The effects of a Bohemia and Hungary independent of the Empire, allied strongly with Poland and Lithuania, are just massive for eastern and central Europe. Considering the non-Habsburg Hungarian kings' more tolerant attitude toward church reform, could Bohemia (with its strong Hussite/Utraquist background/history) and Hungary (with a more checkered religious past, but with Ottomans encroaching) embrace Protestantism?
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