AHC: United Northern Europe

Your challenge is to have a united northern European state, including the northern European plain, the British Isles and Scandinavia.
 
Emperor Henry V and his wife Mathilda have a son who lives into adulthood.

And Henry V lives longer in order to have his son crown when grown into an adult.
 
Canute the Greats empire manages to hold together, expanding into the rest of modern day Sweden and Finland, with the petty irish kingdoms and the Scots forced into vassalage. Possibly a war with the Holy Roman Empire that gets them northern Germany and naturally they would want the entire baltic coast.
 

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Denmark joins the HRE and/or is elected Emperor. With their focus on the North, chances are Italy would be lost, but Denmark would interested in controlling the Baltic, and the British Isles. Using the manpower of the HRE, they could easily do so. If the Danes build an ATL Kalmar union and exert control over the British Isles - and those are eventually integrated into Greater Denmark, which would be one of the most powerful Emperors in a long time.

(I like the idea of a Danish HRE)
 
Charles V succeeds in forming a contiguous land empire, doesn't bankrupt Spain and has greater success in suppressing/embracing (either/or) the Reformation?

He's honestly the best-situated single individual to unify Europe.
 
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