AHC: Swap the fates of the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles

The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to swap the fates of the nations of the Iberian Peninusla and British Isles (and possibly the fates of their American colonies if you wish) with their closest equivalents such as swapping the fates of England and Castille/Spain, Ireland and Portugal, Scotland and Aragon/Catalonia and Wales and Euskadi.
 
I'm not sure I understand what the differences were, other than that England conquered all of its neighbors and Spain had the decency to leave one of them alive. I suppose you could do a timeline where one of the other British Kingdoms is kept around as a friendly ally and Spain holds on to Portugal.
 
I think OP wants an English Columbus. Then have the Spanish defeat the British armada in 1600.

And an Irish Brazil, along with African trading colonies. Which come to think about it, would be an interesting thought experiment in and of itself. Of course, you could need Ireland to be united. You MIGHT be able to get this, assuming O'Sullivan's rebellion against Elizabeth is successful - which is nearly was in OTL. But a better bet would be to go further back still. Hmmmmmmm.
 
You'd also need Vikings to conquer the Northern British Isles and hold them for 500 years before recoquista drives them out that only ends in 1492.
 
You'd also need Vikings to conquer the Northern British Isles and hold them for 500 years before recoquista drives them out that only ends in 1492.
So with a reconquista in Britain, Normans could also conquer Castile. Some marriage or promise gives a Norman a claim to Castile, and they win a war against a native claimant. The Normans then complete the reconquest in Iberia from the Muslims around the same time frame as Norman-England was securing Scotland and Ireland.
 
How is that even possible? Would you send a muslim army to the British isles or something? Or are you just talking about colonial affairs? If so Spain and Portugal had a much easier to arrive to South America due sea fluxes while the same thing is true with North America and Britain.
 
So we have a series of kingdoms under the same family in various parts of the British Isles clashing with both each and foreign invaders vs a large kingdom that comes to steadily compass its neighbors before forming a union with whoever is left, with plenty of foreign escapades and civil war along the way?
 
And an Irish Brazil, along with African trading colonies. Which come to think about it, would be an interesting thought experiment in and of itself. Of course, you could need Ireland to be united. You MIGHT be able to get this, assuming O'Sullivan's rebellion against Elizabeth is successful - which is nearly was in OTL. But a better bet would be to go further back still. Hmmmmmmm.

To be fair, German colonists hit up and settled into New Netherlands, when the Dutch identity only just definitively diverged from the rest of the continental Germans. One Irish kingdom can found *Brazil/Braseal, and colonists from all the island can settle into it while it's under that specific kingdom's aegis.
 
So with a reconquista in Britain, Normans could also conquer Castile. Some marriage or promise gives a Norman a claim to Castile, and they win a war against a native claimant. The Normans then complete the reconquest in Iberia from the Muslims around the same time frame as Norman-England was securing Scotland and Ireland.

I think the Muslims would be the Spanish equivalent of the Vikings, so their invasion would be delayed till around 800, after which they'd conquer all of the Peninsula apart from a random swamp somewhere, until Alfredo the Great liberates Castile and his descendants reconquer the rest of Spain over the next two hundred or so years.
 
1. Keep Miguel da Paz alive
2. Marry Phillip(in this TL just duke of Austria and Burgandy) to Mary and create an offspring
3. Make some Spanish king seek a divorce?
4. Scottish-French alliance stronger after Habsburg new mega state.

This is the closest it could get for a shift after thinking about it
 
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