...Scandinavia, Germany/HRE, the Low Countries, the Iberian peninsula, Italy, Greece or Morrocco, or the Baltic coast.
To satisfy the conditions of the OP, England needs to at least try to establish kingship by force over large parts of one or more of the regions mentioned above. Whether England succeeds (in terms of centuries of actual control like Ireland) or fails is up to you.
Use any point of English history that you wish, before or after the historic hundred years war or instead of or in addition to that struggle.
To satisfy the conditions of the OP, England needs to at least try to establish kingship by force over large parts of one or more of the regions mentioned above. Whether England succeeds (in terms of centuries of actual control like Ireland) or fails is up to you.
Use any point of English history that you wish, before or after the historic hundred years war or instead of or in addition to that struggle.