While browsing Wikipedia, I came across an obscure German guy named Martin Luther, who tried to create a third faction of Christianity separate from Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In OTL it was quickly stopped, and remains the sort of obscure thing that has a "Pending deletion for non-notability" tag on Wikipedia, but WI it had succeeded?
DBWI: Successful "Reformation"
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Well it was actually quite popular, and led to the many reformations among the Catholic Church *Ending tithes, ect...*. The main reason that it failed though was not so much the Catholic Church, but rather the Hussites in Bohemia that established their own church, even though they reproached with Rome in the late 16th century *after the reforms*, their stabbing in the back of the "Protestant" movement had a huge effect on its failure.
This said the best way to do this is remove the Hussites, which means no Bohemian Silesia and Saxony. That alone drastically alters the course of history.
This said the best way to do this is remove the Hussites, which means no Bohemian Silesia and Saxony. That alone drastically alters the course of history.
This would be difficult. The hussites were able war commanders and had the backing from Jagiellonian House. Even the discontent in the hussite movement in the '20 years of XV Century didn't stopped them from military victories. As soon as they eliminated the radicals from theeir movement they ceased to be seen as the main threat to the catholicism. The Jagiellonians after gaining thrones of Poland, Lithuania and Hungaria took the function of blocking the Turks from making inroads into Balkans so they were untouchable at least in the eyes of Papacy which needed tithes from these countriest and were glad that the catholicism have spread into formerly orthodox and pagan lands.
It's very telling that nobody in Rome shed a tear after the Teuthonic Order was eradicated in 1477 (accidentally in the same year there was the first hussite - catholic dispute in Venice).
It's very telling that nobody in Rome shed a tear after the Teuthonic Order was eradicated in 1477 (accidentally in the same year there was the first hussite - catholic dispute in Venice).
