So the English people go to war with French absolutist monarchs?

Yes...I think. All I'm saying is after the Hundred Years War if England to avoid future wars with France, just annexed them.

Unrealistic yes, but if they did what would happen?
 
Would the French kingdom be able to centralize as it did IOTL? Would they even retain most of the old kingdom of France? Wouldn´t other neighbouring countries oppose the 2 kingdoms being in personal union? What would the Burgundy do?

1. Maybe. Depends on what England decides. There might even be two capitals or as many have pointed out the capital of this new empire might even be moved to Paris.

2. No. Well, depends on who writes the history, if French nobles take power the history will be Frenchizied. If England maintains power then history will try to erase the French kingdoms of old.

3. Yes, Spain would likely rival this new Anglo-France, the Holy Roman Empire might even become more centralized to fight back or at the very least defend the Western Border with the fear of Anglo-France moving into Holy Rome.

4. Burgundy is interesting cause they were controlled by France as a vassal. Maybe England would take them as a vassal, if not maybe Burgundy would join the Holy Roman Empire for protection.

These are numbered by your questions. 1 is question 1, 2 is question 2 ect.
 
Wouldnt personal Union (i find an annexation more than unlikely.) mean no protestantism in England or less protestantism as the French King were influent with the papacy I think in the end the king primary capital would be paris dont forget that england was poorer and less developed than France during the Hundred years war and that the king woukd be king of France and England as the title of king of France was more important prestigious and ancient.
I think the noble from the two country would speak English and French and that the language of eac country will be influenced by the other.
 
Wouldnt personal Union (i find an annexation more than unlikely.) mean no protestantism in England or less protestantism as the French King were influent with the papacy I think in the end the king primary capital would be paris dont forget that england was poorer and less developed than France during the Hundred years war and that the king woukd be king of France and England as the title of king of France was more important prestigious and ancient.
I think the noble from the two country would speak English and French and that the language of eac country will be influenced by the other.
Dude,whether there's a reformation to begin with,at least with the clusterfuck that happened otl with the church splitting and all that,is questionable with a change this big.
 
Wouldnt personal Union (i find an annexation more than unlikely.) mean no protestantism in England or less protestantism as the French King were influent with the papacy I think in the end the king primary capital would be paris dont forget that england was poorer and less developed than France during the Hundred years war and that the king woukd be king of France and England as the title of king of France was more important prestigious and ancient.
I think the noble from the two country would speak English and French and that the language of eac country will be influenced by the other.

Okay, what about a Personal Union but with gradual English integration?
 
Dude,whether there's a reformation to begin with,at least with the clusterfuck that happened otl with the church splitting and all that,is questionable with a change this big.

Well, the Lollards could gain a bit of a following in France with how linked the two countries will be. There will be a reformation, it just depends how successful it is.

Okay, what about a Personal Union but with gradual English integration?

That's doable, but I think the example of the Kalmar Union (same era, even) is one that could easily apply to an Anglo-French union. Of course, I strongly believe it would be England trying to split off from the union.

I notice no one's brought up Scotland in this thread. What will their position be on this?
 
Wouldnt personal Union (i find an annexation more than unlikely.) mean no protestantism in England or less protestantism as the French King were influent with the papacy I think in the end the king primary capital would be paris dont forget that england was poorer and less developed than France during the Hundred years war and that the king woukd be king of France and England as the title of king of France was more important prestigious and ancient.
I think the noble from the two country would speak English and French and that the language of eac country will be influenced by the other.

England was more, not less developed than France. If you take estimates of per capita standards of living, the average standard of living was higher in England than in France. The point is that France was far more populated than England (4 to 5 times as big) so its economy was of course much bigger and the french kings were able to extract far more taxes from their people than the english kings could. From the norman conquest on, England always was one of the most modern countries of latin Christendom.

The other key advantage the king of France enjoyed over the king of England is that he had far much power because he did not have a Parliamant with which he was forced to find agreements with the Nobility and with the representatives of the Commons.

And I strongly doubt that, in a union of the 2 crowns that would be structurally dominated by the french party (for the above mentioned reasons), the nobles would have an incentive to speak both languages.
 
england was very developed true but by the end of the 13th centurry until the early 15th their production and population deacreased.
The farming system of england was stagning for most of the middle age and was uneficient and they only increased food production by plowing more land,this in cunjuction with an increasing population made more freedmen die in famine than comon in other european country,it also made them freer and poorer as they had less and less land per familly to accomodate the growing population.(between 1347 and 1500 France had from 4 to 10 time the population of england.For the freedmen the same hapenned in France but with less grave consequence. )
 
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