Buba
A total creep
England can break up, while France might never be united by the Crown.recognizable France and England, both in control over most of their OTL territory.
Neither France nor England as we know it are predetermined.
In OTL England could had broken up in the early XVth between Wales, North and South, while French unification i.e. imposition of Royal authority over the whole country was a close run thing and could had gone off the rails many times. In OTL France being stuck in a similar mode to the HRE was possible up to the late XVth century, with true unification only coming in the XVIIth.
With the Ebro Valley as a battleground and a different landscpae of northern Iberia the politics of the "French" south will be different from OTL, this affecting the "north of the Loire" area and also impacting upon English and Scottish politics. And the Low Countries!
BTW - with Iberia being an anti-Moslem battleground for longer and further north than in OTL, maybe that syphons off some HRE crusaders, cutting into Teutonic Knights' recruitment and financial base and thus weakens their expansion? Making the Prussian Rebellion of 1280 successful?
In OTL the Sword Brethen were a failure and were bailed out by the Teutonic Knights - maybe here they get thrown back into the sea, Livonia being conquered a century (?) later by Denmark/Kalmar Union Scandinavia?
Italy is different - Aragon is not a player ... but the Eastern Romans are ...
Butterflies everywhere
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