DBWI: Henry Tudor pikes had held Ambion?

Today King Richard III is remember as a great reformer(perhaps the greatet creator of the Common Law saving Edward I) and chivalric champion who lead England from the Middle Ages into Renaissance. Of course he is remembered in song and Shakespeare for the heroic charge down Ambion Hill against Henry Tudor Mercenary Pikemen who broke at the charge of the English Knights and Tudor himself was killed.

Now recalling that the pike was about to become the primary weapon in European warfare and begin the decline of heavy carvery what would have happen if Good King Dick's charge had been broken.

Would Henry have won the battle of Ambion[1](I wonder if that even be the name in that Timeline)?
Would the early reforms of Richard had lasted ?
Would England had led the crusade that broke Ottoman power in Eastern Europe?
Would a less pious King have funded Columbus?
How would history have viewed his justified removal of Edward V?

[1] Ambion is of course our timeline Battle of Bosworth Field the name the hill down which the Army charged by have been choice if it had worked
 
I'm not sure is Henry Tudor would have kept the court in York, given that it was one of Richard's main bases of support. This would likely reverse the general shift in economic and political power from the south to the north, and as a result the capital of modern day Britain might be London.
 
I'm not sure is Henry Tudor would have kept the court in York, given that it was one of Richard's main bases of support. This would likely reverse the general shift in economic and political power from the south to the north, and as a result the capital of modern day Britain might be London.

Hard to believe, when one looks at modern York... :rolleyes:

Richard III was a Catholic, and his issue were responsible for keeping England as 'officially' Catholic. OK, eventually religious toleration became the law of the land, but the English royal family are still Catholic.*I wonder...could a later Tudor king have been a Protestant of some stripe?

The butterflies arising from that would be quite interesting. Especially regarding Scotland - the growth of Protestantism there drove a major wedge between them and England, a wedge that some say endures to this day. A Protestant England could have led to a union between the crowns...or maybe that's Alien Space Spiders...
 
A Protestant England I can see, if only because other European rulers were open to conversion as much due to political chicanery as matters of faith. Hell the Prussian Kings were originally Catholic Knights, and I'm sure than Albion had more than a few unscrupulous princes who may have decided that the power and wealth that could arise from confiscating church land would be worth the risk.

A Union between England and Scotland is most definitely a load of ASS. The two countries had been bitter rivals for centuries and there was a lot of bad blood between them, and this was before the wars of religion. Maybe if a Scottish King somehow got the English crown, then they might try and unify the crowns, but I doubt the English aristocracy would willingly surrender the crown to a Scottish king. It's as absurd as a union between England and France. Even after the English crown restored the Stuart line and made Scotland a dependency IOTL they weren't made an equal member, but a principality like Wales (albeit with far greater autonomy).

It would be interesting to see how England going Protestant would affect our dynamics with Ireland. Given that radical Protestantism was often tied to the nationalist movement, partly in reaction to the support for English dominion by the Papacy and not a little anti-Clericalism, and became something of a symbol of pan-Celticsm thanks to Scotland. A Protestant England might have been able to integrate Ireland more peacefully, which might butterfly away the troubles.

Also if England had a Protestant King, I wonder if that would butterfly away the exodus of dissident Puritans and Calvinists to the American colonies? That was disastrous in the long term, especially after England annexed New Amsterdam (or New London as they tried to rename it before the revolution). It's hard to maintain a colony when most of the colonists are more sympathetic to your main naval and trade rival than the motherland. Might butterfly away the New Amsterdam Freistadt?
 
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