Last time kings of England could conquer France?

The Hundred Years War was probably the very best chance of this happening, especially if Henry V had survived longer as everyone has pointed out. I started thinking about what could have happened had Edward IV had not married Elizabeth Woodville and married the French princess Warwick was trying to arrange him with, eschewing Edward's preferred Burgundian alliance instead of a French one. Then I realized that all that would happen would be even more intertwining between the prevailing English and French Royal houses and the possibility of yet another dynastic squabble down the line, except now with better technology and deeper international agreements possibly spiraling out of control into an even larger war.
 
The Hundred Years War was probably the very best chance of this happening, especially if Henry V had survived longer as everyone has pointed out. I started thinking about what could have happened had Edward IV had not married Elizabeth Woodville and married the French princess Warwick was trying to arrange him with, eschewing Edward's preferred Burgundian alliance instead of a French one. Then I realized that all that would happen would be even more intertwining between the prevailing English and French Royal houses and the possibility of yet another dynastic squabble down the line, except now with better technology and deeper international agreements possibly spiraling out of control into an even larger war.
A French wedding for Edward IV would have zero influence on France as the bride was not a member of the French royal family (the proposed bride was Bona of Savoy, younger sister of Louis XI’s wife Charlotte)
 
There was actually a timeline about this. The point of diversions is that Louis VIII Married the niece of Richard the lion heart ( by his brother the duke of Brittany) after a number of mistakes by king john( chief among them executing his own nephew Arthur of Brittany) declared himself king because John was no longer favored by God.( haven’t read the timeline in a few years don’t remember the name I think that was justification.)
 
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