Yet another vague idea

After combining some ideas i got in earlier posts and some inspiration I got from other posts I read on this board I got this idea, which I will not turn into a timeline before I finish ä brother's betrayal". Still, I wanted to share it with you and find out what the rest of you think.

This idea started with my thread about Charles V conquering Munster and East-Frisia, when he united the Netherlands, which is sort of the POD. After the POD I brainstormed about interesting butterfliess. This directly leads to a more succesful Dutch war of independence (more Netherlands for the Spanish to occupy, spreading their troops thinners and more Dutch to fight against the Spanish). This leads to the Dutch border being more to the south then OTL. Antwerp, Ostend, Mechelen, Bruges and Ghent end up Dutch as is all of Gueldres and Limbourg (and of course all of Munster, East-Frisia and Lingen). Another butterfly I decided to include was that the stadholder (or maybe even king, not decided yet) of the Netherlands would not be an Orange-Nassau, but the count of Hoorne (OTL he was executed by the Spanish) or maybe the count of Egmond (executed together with the count of Hoorne).

Anyway, that was everything I though of the Netherlands. Other Butterflies I was thinking of include a protestant France. Protestant France decides (probably near the end of the Dutch war of independence or near this timeline 30 year war) to recapture the territories it lost to Charles V, basicly it decides to conquer Artois and that part of Flanders that isn't Dutch (France and the Netherlands both being protestand, make them more or less friends/allies). France is not obsessed by its so-called natural border of the Rhine, so it doesn't come into conflict often with the Netherlands. It mainly tries to expand in the south, in Italy, Catalonia and the basque parts of Spain.

The next part I thought about was Germany. I consider it likely that some variant of the 30-year war will be fought, or at least a religious war of protestants against catholics. Because the Netherlands is more succesful in its war against Spain, the Netherlands will have gotten rid of them before the 30-year war starts (which will probably not take 30-year, or even start at the same time). Another major player I thought of in that war would be the Palatinate. I want the count of it inherit the Cleve-Julich-Berg-mark lands, a couple of duchies near the Dutch border (I am not sure how exactly to do that, but it must be possible). This ends up unifying a big part of the rhineland conquering Trier, Cologne, perhaps even luxembourg, maybe something else.

The religious wars in the HRE tears up the empire in the end. The Southern states (at least Austria, bavaria, Badem, Wurtemberg and Lorrain, maybe some more) form in the end a much more centralised Holy Roman Empire, which in the end leads to a German Empire. The northern, protestant (although many including a large catholic minority and sometime even majority) states leave the empire and form in the end a couple of smaller (more or less the Netherlands-sized) countries. I was thinking of the following: The (earlier mentioned) palatinate in the rhineland, Brunswich in the north, the Netherlands in the northwest, maybe Brandenburg in the north east and I was thinking of a Saxony/Bohemia (after the Bohemians asking for the ruler of Saxony becoming their king). These states absorb all the small principalities of Germany in the course of the next centuries. They never unify and form another Germany, like the southern states do (although maybe they form a EU-like organisation in the 20th century). Another idea is that next to Dutch in the Netherlands and German in the southern german states, PlatttDeutch develops into a different language.

The remaining Spanish Netherlands (which include most of Wallonia, southern Brabant, including Brussels and Leuven, but not Luxembourg or Flanders) develops into its own independent Catholic, Wallon speaking nation.

So what do you think? Completely ridiculous or are there some interesting and salvagable ideas in it?
 
Some ideas sound kinda cool (like the thing with germany not forming a new reich and so on :p)

But I was kinda saddened when i read by the conquering of Luxembourg XD (I'm half-luxembourgish / half-swedish) :p

Overall It sounds like something that could develope into something really interesting :)

(Oh btw I created a thread about the Swedish empire just wondering if u could read it and tell me what u think :D)
 
Some ideas sound kinda cool (like the thing with germany not forming a new reich and so on :p)

But I was kinda saddened when i read by the conquering of Luxembourg XD (I'm half-luxembourgish / half-swedish) :p

An independent Luxembourg is more or less a fluke in history. Easily it could have been part of the Netherlands, Belgium, France or Germany.
I included Luxembourg in the palatinate state (which I was thinking to call Palts) to strengthen it. Luxembourg would become an important part of it as the country itself is rather small, Luxembourg would be more influential than a German Luxembourg.
 
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