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In OTL, several Norman/Angevin kings try to divide their territories between their sons with certain lands in France going to some (see Henry II) while England is always handed down as one. What if England had been divided just at one point along regional lines to different sons? Would it see a radically different country today?
Would England, and in extension the rest of the British Isles have been more decentralised as a result in terms of culture and institutions?
Would it,in the critical stage of development for the English language, have resulted in the emergence of several english languages eventually more disparate than their Anglo-Saxon mother dialects?
Would it also mean more war within England and a stronger Scotland,Wales and Ireland?
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