WI: England conquers France 100 years war

Like the titel says. What would happen if England had conquered France and annexed it completely around the time off the 100 years war. Would this new nation be able to conquer all off Europe and maybe the world?
Would be interesting of some sort of mingling between French and English could be possible.A Romance and a Germania language.
 
Check out the Victoria 2 Mod Divergences of Darkess that posits exactly that: https://github.com/Pergame35/Divergences

At least according to my playthrough, the world ends up looking like this by 1935:
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Should it be taken with any degree of a seriousness? And this applies to both maps.

The English side had been already losing ground even with the Burgundian alliance so the relevant premise in that game would not produce the needed results, just prolong war by few years.

And the global map looks like “Use as many colors as you can” exercise for a child. :)
 
Should it be taken with any degree of a seriousness? And this applies to both maps.

The English side had been already losing ground even with the Burgundian alliance so the relevant premise in that game would not produce the needed results, just prolong war by few years.

And the global map looks like “Use as many colors as you can” exercise for a child. :)

Not really lol. The timeline's plausibility or lack thereof exists in service to making a fun victoria 2 scenario (which it does.) And the final map is a result of me cheesing the Dual Monarchy like a motherfucker, and only looks as relatively decent as it does because of console commands to eliminate some border gore.
 
That was not the objective. If it had been, probably a lot fewer French nobles would have supported the Plantagenet cause. They fought to put a different dynasty on the throne in Paris instead of the Valois, not to submit to London.

It was loyal to the royal house of England but was not part of England. Feudalism was complicated.

Yea, the idea of "England conquering France in the 100 years war" ignores the fact that this wasn't a war between nation states. it was a dynastic struggle. If the Plantagenet's won the conflict then it would mean that England and France have the same monarch but are separate countries.

That said I do have an idea for a wikibox of Oliver Cromwell leading a revolution against the French to establish the English republic similar to the Dutch Revolt. :p

Would be interesting of some sort of mingling between French and English could be possible.A Romance and a Germania language.

Well the the thing is that the nobility of England didn't really speak English but French. I imagine that it would probably have more french then it does. perhaps similar to the Norman language?
 
And the global map looks like “Use as many colors as you can” exercise for a child.

Tbf, isn't that the point of Paradox Interactive games?

Anyway, my two cents: First off, the HYW was a dynastic, not national conflict; the Plantagenets were fighting to reinforce their dynastic claim on the French crown, not to establish a super-England from the Firth of Forth to the Mediterranean. In fact many of Europe's conflicts would remain dynastic in nature even arguably up to WWI, with stuff like nation-states coming later into the picture. Second, wouldn't the higher prestige of the French crown make it the dominant partner eventually? England was a relative backwater while France could trace its royal title all the way back to Charlemagne.
 
Well the the thing is that the nobility of England didn't really speak English but French. I imagine that it would probably have more french then it does. perhaps similar to the Norman language?

English became the court language back in Edward III's time, so unless the POD is very early on the English nobility would be speaking English as their first language. Though you might have more of them being raised fluent/bilingual in French compared to OTL.
 
Tbf, isn't that the point of Paradox Interactive games?

Anyway, my two cents: First off, the HYW was a dynastic, not national conflict; the Plantagenets were fighting to reinforce their dynastic claim on the French crown, not to establish a super-England from the Firth of Forth to the Mediterranean. In fact many of Europe's conflicts would remain dynastic in nature even arguably up to WWI, with stuff like nation-states coming later into the picture. Second, wouldn't the higher prestige of the French crown make it the dominant partner eventually? England was a relative backwater while France could trace its royal title all the way back to Charlemagne.

Conflict started as a dynastic but somewhere in a process it evolved into the national even if there still was a feudal component in it. Of course, it can be argued that the national component was there even before the open conflict started: Valois had a support of the aristocratic majority. OTOH, Ed #3 &Co also did everything to elevate it on a national level by starting a war with a wholesaling looting and continuing along that path for the next century. Rather difficult to avoid “us vs. them” attitude with such methods.
 
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