An independent Burgundy, that is sandwiched between France and the Holy Roman Empire, is there no reason for it not to be protestant? The Netherlands at the time were highly urbanized and very keen on proto-protestant movements and the Hugenots would be driven to Burgundy instead of Switzerland thereby increasing its likeliness to protestantism. I also would like to point out Burgundy had quite a few bishoprics and archbishoprics it was tempted to seize. Is there any realistic argument for it not to go protestant? If it does go protestant what branch of protestantism would be most likely to take hold there?
During the religious wars assuming it's still an emperor vs empire would Burgundy take on an active role as a member of the protestant faith?
although it is an interesting question in itself, it is based on truly incorrect foundations ( from my point of view ) because actually with a Pod that is around the 1460/70s, the possibility of seeing a process similar to the reform Protestant Otl ( with even the same confessions ) are extremely low, since such a change will heavily influence not only the dynastic politics of Europe, but also the pontifical one ( with the possibility of seeing very different characters become pontiffs compared to Otl, which which obviously also affects the developments of the Catholic church, perhaps even favoring the very programs of internal reform of the Papacy, which were widely in circulation in those years ) this therefore makes the question already wrong from the start, furthermore Italy was also an extremely urbanized and highly rich region ( to a greater extent than the Netherlands at the time ) with important ecclesiastical territories that they were tempting to many ( given that one of the reasons for discounting among the Italian dynasties was the possibility of obtaining control of the papal state for one's family, or at least carving out a personal fiefdom in its territories ) but this did not bring any of the states of the peninsula to play with the idea of becoming Protestant ( even if there were figures like Savonarola, who pushed for very radical reformist positions within ecclesiastical circles ) now returning to the topic of Burgundy - Rome relations, relations with the papacy were initially truly good under Charles the Bold ( at least with Pius II and Paul II ) given his anti-French position ( which Sixtus IV did not approve of, given that he was an ally of Louis XI ) furthermore one of his main objectives was to obtain the confirmation of a cardinal Burgundian ( since notoriously only the kingdoms had the right to their representative in the curia ( if we exclude the Italian states, which were a separate matter ) which could bring him one step closer to his goal of obtaining a royal title, finally by obtaining a local cardinal, Charles could finally gain independence for his clergy from imperial/French control ( they could no longer get away with knowing that Charles could directly deal with Rome, rather than having to go through their intercession concerning the management of bishoprics within Burgundy )
@Kellan Sullivan