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  1. Martinus Padueius

    White Ship, White Cliffs (William Adelin lives)
    Threadmarks: A Close Call, November 25, 1120

    So I did a thing. Was gonna post a discussion thread first but after googling I found like ten threads on this topic so I read up. I plan for this TL to be a mix of story-like prose updates like this one, and narrative history-type updates, with more of the latter than the former. Think John...
  2. King of the Uzbeks

    Her Princes are Come Home Again
    Threadmarks: Opening/Table of Contents

    Her Princes are Come Home Again “O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come...

  3. WI: Wessex Instead of Plantagenet

    This might be a bit iffy, but hear me out: We all know of the White Ship disaster and the turmoil that followed Henry I's death. As well as the triumph of Henry (II) FitzEmpress. I came across something interesting, namely that Edgar (II) Aetheling, son of Edward the Exile and grandson of...

  4. "When Christ and His Saints Woke" - A White Ship Survives Timeline

    PROLOGUE "...in late November, Prince William set out with several of his father's courtiers from Barfleur to Pevensey in England, in a ship captained by the son of the man who ferried his grandfather back in 1066. This voyage would always be viewed as something of an embarrassment by King...
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