catalan england

since england had two known catalan queen and king which is ricart cor de leon and alienor d' aquitania how possible for england to be majority catalan or at least have a catalan minority.
 
I can't see it happening unless there's something that completely wipes out the British peoples and you can replace them with Catalonians.

A minority? Perhaps, but I doubt they'd stay Catalan-speaking for more then a generation or two.
 
since england had two known catalan queen and king which is ricart cor de leon and alienor d' aquitania how possible for england to be majority catalan or at least have a catalan minority.

I don't think I'd call either one of them 'Catalan'. Alienor natively spoke 'Poitevin' , related to catalan but sort of a bridge between langue d'oc and d'oil, and I believe she spoke French at court in France and England. Richard probably spoke Poitevin and French as well.
 
The problem with this is there is no historical evidence of large portions of a country's population uprooting and moving to a distant location on a whim, especially if that whim is having a Princess marry into the foreign location and just "wanting to follow her". Peoples occasionally moved when war or famine etc forced them to cross a border, i.e. the Hun migrations and so on, but that was always just moving across a border. It wouldn't be logical for such a thing happening to the Catalans to persuade them to move to England, it's just too far to be logistically sensible. The best you could get is something akin to the Huguenots fleeing to England, but then you're looking at a very small minority. You're never going to get a majority Catalan England unless you do something crazy like having a POD 5,000 years ago and forcing the Catalans to constant march England-wards whenever anything went wrong.
 
There was an ASB thread that would make this possible. Franco's Spain and Ireland (both parts) from the year 1939 are ISOTed back to Roman times, along with the British fleet at Scapa Flow and Gibraltar. The Irish (both parts), Scapa Flow and the Catalans become natural allies against Franco, and would perhaps cooperate in settling and taking over Celtic (or was it Roman?) Britain. The Catalans would have a much larger population than the two Irelands (although farther away), and thus might end up having a substantial presence in the resulting settlements.
 
I don't think I'd call either one of them 'Catalan'. Alienor natively spoke 'Poitevin' , related to catalan but sort of a bridge between langue d'oc and d'oil, and I believe she spoke French at court in France and England. Richard probably spoke Poitevin and French as well.

Basically the people who speak lengua d'oc speakers were sometimes called Catalans especially during the middle ages while langue d'oil speakers are called french.
 
Perhaps Aragon conquers England (how?) and rules it like the Normans did, producing a Catalan-English
 
Perhaps Aragon conquers England (how?) and rules it like the Normans did, producing a Catalan-English

If you can come up with a single good reason for Aragon to consider this (lets not get ahead of ourselves by trying to make this work), then maybe.
 
If you can come up with a single good reason for Aragon to consider this (lets not get ahead of ourselves by trying to make this work), then maybe.

Edward III: Aragon, why do thee invade us so?
Alfonso IV: I did it for thy lulz.
 
Or perhaps have the Muslims remain a more or less constant irritant on the Christian kingdoms to the north or have them conquer the Iberian peninsula outright forcing a more or less large number of Catalan-speaking individuals to flee to England and remain there as a distinct minority.
 
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