Valdemar II
Banned
Wilhelm von der Marck or William "the Rich" inherited Guelders* (Gelderland) in 1538, but lost it to the Habsburg again with the Treaty of Venlo in 1543.
What if Wilhelm gets a better deal, and get to keep Guelders? while Guelders was one of the poorer Dutch provinses, it was still quite a catch, it would cut off the Northeast Netheland from the rest of the Habsburg Netherland, it would give Jülich, Cleve and Berg access to the sea, and later on at the time of the Dutch Rebellion it cut of Habsburg support to the Northeast. Beside that in 1541 Wilhelm converted to Lutheranism it would create a large Lutheran block in Rhineland, a place where Lutheranism stod rather weak. Beside that after the Dutch Rebellion it will result in Münsterland and Colognes (the Bishopric) eastens possesion will become enclave in Protestant territorium, and we could even see Münsterland and in the most extreme case Cologne end up like Bremen and Lübeck under a Lutheran admistrator (maybe a relative of the Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg-Guelders or even himself). Which would place Northe Germany completely under Protestant control (mostly Lutheran).
What if Wilhelm gets a better deal, and get to keep Guelders? while Guelders was one of the poorer Dutch provinses, it was still quite a catch, it would cut off the Northeast Netheland from the rest of the Habsburg Netherland, it would give Jülich, Cleve and Berg access to the sea, and later on at the time of the Dutch Rebellion it cut of Habsburg support to the Northeast. Beside that in 1541 Wilhelm converted to Lutheranism it would create a large Lutheran block in Rhineland, a place where Lutheranism stod rather weak. Beside that after the Dutch Rebellion it will result in Münsterland and Colognes (the Bishopric) eastens possesion will become enclave in Protestant territorium, and we could even see Münsterland and in the most extreme case Cologne end up like Bremen and Lübeck under a Lutheran admistrator (maybe a relative of the Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg-Guelders or even himself). Which would place Northe Germany completely under Protestant control (mostly Lutheran).