England (Chaos)

== Beginning as OTL ==
At the time around the PoD one of, if not the major power in Europe, the Angevine Empire ended with the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, which France won. As a consequence, John Lackland had to grant the Magna Charta in England in 1215. The pattern soon repeated: In 1259 England lost all possessions in France but Guyenne, and the new uprisings of the barons 1258-65 forced the king to accept the Oxford Provisions.
On the other hand, their power on the grew in 1284 when came under control of England.
== Divergence and ==
1290 - the very year when the Jews were evicted from England - in , the young queen (nine years) died. King interfered for the succession, became new king. But 1297, war between England and Scotland began. 1298, the Scottish uprisings under started. 1307, Edward I died, but not before having defeated the Scots twice (not just once as OTL). During the 1310s, however, the Scots defeated the English, thanks to their pike fighters. TTL started in a better position, and wasn't as incompetent as his OTL counterpart, but after many fights he got tired too. So the Scots became independent again, only had to cede the territory south of the Firths (Wall of Antoninus), which was Anglified very much in the following centuries.
While there was no Hundred-Year War as OTL, England and still managed to find an opportunity to fight. In 1341, the began. France supported , England - with the result that both were drawn into the war, which now became the First Aquitainian War. 1345, Scotland entered the war against England, hoping to get the lost lands back. But thanks to their longbows, the English defeated the French several times. In 1353, France has to make peace with England after the defeat in the . John of Montfort became duke of , England got all of (similar as in the peace of OTL 1360), acquired the ; now free to make war against Scotland, the English defeated them soon. The pre-war border was restored.
In 1366, the French started the war against England again. Since they had learned how devastating the English / Welsh longbows were, they avoided open fight - with success. In 1385, England and France made peace again; the English lost what they had conquered in the last war, going back to the borders of 1340.
1397/98, England was struck by the .
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In 1414, new king made alliances with and the , attacked France again. The Second Aquitainian War had begun. After initial successes, 1421 France made a separate peace with the Netherlands, giving emperor Flanders, which was incorporated into the Netherlands. Now, the tides turned again: Storming the conquered cities with cannons and relying on their greater manpower, the French slowly drove the allied English and Castillians back. 1424, Castille left the war too. However, when in 1426 the pope and the Anjou king of asked the French king for a crusade against the , king agreed. He made peace with the English, leaving Guyenne in their hands; king Richard III had to accept it as a fief, though.
During the 1430s, unrest among the peasants in England spread, which kept the king and the nobles busy after the lost war. The unrest was also religiously motivated - a had translated the into English.
== Out of France, into the New World ==
In 1455, king had his completely mad younger brother Philippe (also duke of ) killed. The nobles (including the royal sidelines, and old king Richard III of England, who was talked by his advisors into it) who were already concerned with the growing power of the king, used this accident to rebel against him. 1460, the ended, Louis' other brother became king. He had to grant the other dukes a lot of power, however, which made them practically independent.
In a short war 1463/64, England defeated Scotland, took their colony of in , which was renamed , of course. The capital of the colony, Perth beyond the Ocean, was renamed after the winner of the battle, . England slowly extended its settlements, until they went from OTL Bar Harbor, Maine, to New Haven, Connecticut.
1477-83, the took place, which ended with Aquitaine finally becoming French. Scotland- also had entered the war on France's side, but to their disadvantage: In 1487, the English took the Scottish capital of ; king and his three sons had to flee to Norway. The Shetland and Orkney islands became English, too.
== The and ==
1497, king died without heir; Castille- was united with England-Scotland, forming the commonly so-called Quadruple Monarchy. Now was the mightiest man of .
=== The ===
In 1510, the philosopher wrote a text "", propagating that the king should stand higher than the bishops in his lands. This basically meant a breakaway from the pope in . Since he had abandoned , many Christians had criticized him; and since more and more money from the Quadruple Monarchy's lands in and went into his coffers, the number of critics had grown even more.
The English nobles accepted the proposal after a few months, but Castille-Portugal was more reluctant to accept the king as head of church. The coalitions formed didn't ask for nationalities, classes, or even families. From 1511-17, the Iberian peninsula went through almost Civil War-like conditions. Finally, the king succeeded. The opponents of the king were rewarded with the property of his defeated enemies (including some church property), which helps him to succeed. He founded the "Occidental Christian church". In 1519, after a meeting of the cardinals of the Quadruple Monarchy, they accepted king Edward as supreme spiritual authority. The liturgy or anything else substantial wasn't changed. The Occidental Schism began. The church property in the Quadruple Monarchy went to the king as well, who used it to give it to his followers, thus further strengthening his authority. When the pope protested, the king declared in return that he wouldn't accept the authority of "the lackey of the French king".
During the 1520s, as a reaction to Edward's Caesaropapism, a new Christian movement spread through Great Britain - the "" who demanded that the state should completely stop interfering with the church, and again demanded the translation of the , which the church still declined.
=== The ===
Both king and his uncle, the regent François (also Roman king ) felt threatened by the new superpower. When in 1522 came to the court and warned the king that the Quadruple Monarchy was about to conquer the rich lands of the Tenochca, the war was declared. 1523-47, the Quadruple Monarchy fought against , , and .
In the 1547, the Quadruple Monarchy had to cede to Aragon, and accept the independence of Scotland- under Alexander / in Europe, and of the Mexica and Inca people in Atlantis. Plus, they had to pay several tons of gold. This lead to the double revolt in 1549 in the (now) : Both the parliament in England and the Cortes in Castille forced the king to resign, and made his more popular son king, who would also start the to reconcile the church. Edward retreated into private life and died in 1554.
Under his successors, the countries were rebuilt and the empire enlarged.
 led the , acquiring the , , and 1565 in the . He also reordered his kingdoms, and had South Atlantis explored, where he founded the colonies of and .
His successor brought the Triple Monarchy to its peak. He made peace with the French king , to divide the crown of and lead the together with him, which gave him all of and in the . He also was accepted as king of and .
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Thanks to a row of exceptional rulers, the survived many decades and could even expand its power by acquiring colonies in Atlantis. But under king , it fell apart too. In 1633, uprisings against the unpopular king started, which marked the begin of the first English Civil War. (It was also called by the common people "War of the 'fords", after the leaders of the most important groups, the s and the s.)
1634, king Henry was captured and banned to Atlantis (i.e. he was put onto a ship which captain was told he had a prisoner to be released in Atlantis.
Like the nobles used to joke, this was the worst imaginable punishment for the king, who banned that many religious dissenters there.) However, since the king had no heir, the nobles weren't in unison about what to do, and started to fight amongst each other.
In the years 1633-50, Welsh uprisings took place. Some were expelled to , settled mostly around .
In 1638, uprisings happened in too, English were driven back into the . 1641, had to capitulate to the Irish. Many English fled to England or .
During 1642-45, "" happened: tried to expand into Northern England, which made the Staffords and the Cliffords actually stop their war against each other in 1643, until the Scots were finally driven out.
The war ended in 1647 when the Duke of Stafford became new king , after defeating and killing his opponent, .
== Rebuilding the Empire ==
In 1655, Wales became an integral part of England. The Welsh language was suppressed. (This happened about one century later than OTL, since the English kings were preoccupied with the rest of their empire. Now, under the Staffords, they cared more about the islands.)
1662, England reconquered the Pale in Ireland.
The king also rebuilt the empire in Atlantis. After having accepted the loyalty of Markland, he planned to regain England's old colony in North Atlantis. However, the states of Denmark-Braunschweig and Florence allied against him in the "Atlantean Coalition" and surprisingly defeated the English fleet in the war 1652-56. New England thus stayed a Danish-German protectorate.
In South Atlantis, he was more successful. 1657, Sweden agreed to give back Braseal to England, in exchange for an alliance. In the following decades, the English would (re-)found many cities there, like , and .
In 1681, king died, which meant that a new Holy Roman Emperor had to be elected. There were also talks to elect the English crown prince, or Humphrey I himself, but both of them died in short time. At the end, king was elected emperor Franz IV. wouldn't accept his defeat, and the broke out. English troops invaded Scotland, and also were brought to the Netherlands.
In July 1684, after the , Glasgow and Edinburgh were besieged by the English army. And in Atlantis, they also were victorious, winning the (OTL Montreal) in November 1687. The French-Atlantean troops had to cease the siege and retreat to French (OTL Ontario).
1693, King died surprisingly. The new English king was just ten years old. In France, advisors told the new king that he should continue the war, since the tide could turn again. (It wouldn't.) Shortly after, the war was won, and in the , England received Quebec, thus expanding its colony Markland nicely to the west, plus the Danish colony , and was allowed to annex Scotland.
After the war, with France humiliated, (as the new state was now called) expanded further. 1704, English ships went west from Cape Hoorn, (re-)discovered Australia and New Zealand, which were called and respectively. England took claim of these lands, but for quite some while they stayed in the shadow of the English colonies in North and South Atlantis.
1716-18, Britain made further discoveries in the Pacific Ocean, where it claimed many islands. As a surprise came the rediscovery of the island Tahiti, where they found a Christian, mostly English-descended population who believed that the dynasty still reigned in the .
During 1718-23, Ireland was conquered by England. The years of 1727-30 saw some Irish and Scottish uprisings, which were defeated by Britain, however.
In Atlantis, where they had united Markland and Quebec to form , during 1746-50 the (also called War of the Great Lakes) was fought. Denmark-Braunschweig and Britain defeated the native Atlanteans and the French immigrants in Quebec.
== The ==
Meanwhile, France had gone through a succession crisis after the death of . In 1763, the republic was declared, and 1764-67, it went through the , which the Republicans won.
Now, after the death of the more cool-headed kings and IV of Britain and , who had been self-assured enough not to be impressed by the king-less situation of France, diplomatic tensions to France rapidly worsened. The began. , the Netherlands, even under hesitating Charles / and many German states joined the coalition; only Italy stays neutral. After initial successes, it ended in a shocking defeat for the monarchists.
The second and weren't more successful either. At the end, all of Britain's allies on the continent were defeated; Sweden had become a French friend, and Germany, the Netherlands, Iberia and were French satellite republics now.
== The end of the monarchy ==
Even after these defeats, and his supporters weren't going to give up. In Iberia, they supported continued uprisings of the natives, which bound France in the costly "" - and also wasted the money Britain earned at that time in southeast Asia. In Britain proper, Republicans and their possible sympathizers were banned to the colonies.
The resistance thus came first from , which was influenced by nearby which had gone republican a few decades earlier. In 1813, the began, for the Canadians felt that they had to pay too many taxes for the never-ending, unsuccessful wars in Europe and were suppressed too. In 1822, Canada could win independence; only Haraldsland stayed British. Probably only the death of Humphrey V in 1825 prevented a revolution at that time.
His son promised to cut back the spendings for uprisings in Iberia, since the events in Germany proved that France's power was already in decline. However, he still managed to anger off possible friends, for symbolical reasons only. Thanks to the Stafford dynasty making strategic marriages to the disposed princes of Europe, his father already had had the majority of the German electors and could thus claim himself to be the rightful Holy Roman Emperor, although had already ceased to exist at that time. King Philip now renewed the claim. While the Germans didn't care much, it still lead to a conflict when in 1830, after the death of , the people there chose to unite with , while king Philip had a claim for too.
Even worse, he managed to anger off the emperor of , . The latter formed a coalition with the Germanies and Canada. In 1832, the broke out. Unexpectedly, the proved to be stronger than the , thanks to the numerous fights against the Spanish Navy-in-exile. In the , Britain had to cede Haraldsland to Canada and its lands in South Atlantis, which were divided along the Tropic of Capricorn: went to New Rome, the Germans received Argentine as a place for settlement (from now on, more often called ). Patagonia, being uninteresting for the victors, became independent .
This defeat was the last straw. In 1838, the English revolution happened. King Philip was killed, the Revolutionaries declared the British republic. The Royal family under his successor fled to (OTL New Zealand). The pope went with them.
== Socialism ==
Category:Britain (Chaos)