A Followup of this map.
The English Crusades of 1301 - 1337 saw the loss of English territories in France, but the failure of the mainland Crusaders to properly invade England proper. Furthermore, the intended and stated goal of saving Ireland, Wales and Scotland from Islamic England failed horribly, as by the end of the Crusade, the remnant states in Wales had been completely annexed, and the Scottish Lowlands had been fully annexed. By 1347, the Scottish Incorporation saw the rump Scottish state ruled by pro-English statesmen ask for annexation to support the economy of the region. By 1400, England had fully annexed Ireland as well, and the next year, Sultan William III of England declared the Sultanate of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Emirate of Wales, and Amirate of Ireland were no longer in existence, as he declared the formation of the Caliphate of Albion - a Shia Islamic Caliphate. A second motion to crusade Albion was opened in Europe in 1404, but by this point, France no longer had the appetite to attempt a large scale naval invasion of England, especially considering the massive English naval buildup during the reign of Sultan Henry V, William III's father.
Societally, the English Crusades had an adverse effect on Christendom, as it pushed many Englishmen to embracing Ismaili Islam fully during the Crusade Era, and the refugees from mainland Europe only cemented islam on the continent even further. Islamization was followed through in Scotland and Ireland as well after their conquests, but was met with mixed results (though Scotland proved much harder than Ireland). One of the main reasons why Ireland was much more successful in islamization was because the English Conquest had led to severe amount of deaths in the Christian clergy, leading to a scarcity in christian structure in the post-conquest Ireland, allowing for the common people of Ireland to be more receptive of the English branch of Ismaili Islam, unlike the Scots who were more resistant to Islamization.
In 1448, Caliph John III ordered a complete
honest religious census to take place on the isles, with the intention of gauging how 200 years of islam had gone on the isles. After two years of compilation and information gathering, the Census of 1450 was published, and is today considered to be one of - if not the - most accurate census's published in the late medieval/early modern period. With a population of around ~6.1 Million, the Albionese government found out that just above half of the population of the isles practised the English branch of Ismaili Shiite Islam.
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