hundred years war

Sure hope this hasn’t been done. In the event of an English victory in the 100YW they regain the lands they lost at the Treaty of Albeville, and proclaiming the Angevin Empire restored. And France, after losing catastrophically, collapses into small states ruled by the Dukes and Lords. These...

Say that fifth son of Charles VI follows his brothers and dies young, before murder of John the Fearless, meanwhile youngest son of Charles VI, Philip (b. 1407) lives. Being just 12 years old in 1419 he'd be not such threat to his Burgundian cousin, also, let's assume that Dauphin Philip also...

Change is simple-Dauphin has a son with his Burgundian wife, born just few weeks before his death. That infant, grandson of both Charles VI and John the Fearless, is now heir of the French throne according to Salic Law. So are Burgundians going to dominate the scene, marginalizing Armagnacs...

How would the politics of Europe change without the formation of the Plantagenet Dual Monarchy otherwise Known as the Royal Plantagenet Commonwealth or the Plantagenet Empire change the history and geopolitical situation of Europe? The Dual Monarchy officially traces its origin to King Henri V...

What if, sometime after Humphrey of Glouchester's wife Eleanor has been tried and convicted of witchcraft but prior to the young king's marriage to Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI had died? At this time, the only other remaining descendant of Henry IV left alive is Gloucester himself, and (if OTL is...

Otl, France has long, long been on top of the world. The Rhinish conquests secured their eastern flank and gave Gaul one of the wealthiest industrial base of western Europe since the 17th century, and its colonial empire has long been beyond the others (especially after Spain collapsed). From...

The challenge is to set Charles II, King of the small realm of Navarre on the throne of France. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Navarre Charles was a member of the House of Capet-Èvreux on his fathers side, the seniormost line of Capet after the Valois and was through his mother...

In 1376 Edward "The Black Prince" died shortly before his father Edward III. He left his young son Richard to become king and died after having been plagued by illness for quite some time. It was probably something he had caught while campaigning in Spain to support his ally in the Castillian...

So I'm aware that the Battle of Pavia (1525) and some particular counterfactual scenarios have been aired on this alternatehistory.com forum before, however, in this I aim to ask a different question about which I hope to generate some enlightened (and civilised) discussion. For those who...

What would be the consequences of England, despite failing to conquer all of France, managing to retain control over the region of Normandy in the aftermath of the Hundred Years’ War? Would the English kings from there on in oversee the strengthening of Normandy as a military province in...

Not long ago, I asked what might happen if Henry V died much earlier. So now I think I'll take the opposite approach. Let's say Henry managed to dodge the bout of dysentery that killed him like an Oregon Trail player in 1422, and so he outlived his father-in-law Charles VI. How would that have...

In the event of a failed norman conquest, what would the effects on the Kingdom of France be? On the surface we might assume france would steamroll the european continent as seen here and also here, but middle ages france was seriously decentralized, with Brittany, Burgundy, even Provence and...

What it says on the lid. Charles the Bold was the only surviving legitimate son of Philippe the Good and his third wife, Isabel of Portugal. But what if he'd been born female? How would this affect the future of the Netherlands as we know it? I mean, Philippe and Isabel were married for the rest...

What if Henry VI, lived up to his father's strengths, the late Henry V and wasn't so mentally unstable. Additionally, can the regency be improved to better hold their position in France by giving concessions to the Burgundians, such as Henry VI's regents brokering to give the Burgundians a crown...

What changes would be needed for the the Hundred Years' War to be fought between England and the HRE, instead of England and France? Could English kings fight a a hundred year long intermittent war over their claims to the Holy Roman Empire, instead of to the Kingdom of France? For a full...

For a while now, I've been working on a pretty standard Yorkist TL. The PODs are pretty small: Mary of Burgundy doesn't die in a riding accident. James III is killed by the pro-Albany lords, James IV and his retainers are forced into exile, allowing the Duke of Albany to become king. Butterflies...

Okay, so I’ve read at numerous places that the French defeats at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt actually contributed a lot to the centralization of the French state on account of most of the nobility dying in these battles, leading to a rise of royal power. So this got me thinking, what other...

Early in the Hundred years war, England was pretty much dominating the French forces. Especially leading up to the battle of Poiters. On the 19th of September 1356, King John II was captured along with several important nobles following the defeat of the French army. His son, a young Charles the...

I started watching Le Rois Maudits last night, and listening to the dialogue between Mahaut/Mathilde, Css of Artois and her nephew, Robert, sieur de Conches got me thinking. Two of Mahaut's daughters were married to successive kings of France, and Robert was involved in unsuccessful lawsuits...

On the topic of HYW battles going the wrong way for the English (i have made previous threads on Crécy and Agincourt)... Suppose that John II of France and his army manages to defeat and rout the English at the Battle of Poitiers, in 1356 AD. Either that, or the battle is avoided through...