AHC: Anglo-French Union, Scottish Norway and big Burgundy

[TheseusDeuteros]

With a post-1100 POD, create a timline (or set of PODs) of an alternate Europe, in which France and southern England are one united country*; Scotland has conquered northern England, southern Norway and possibly more (bonus points); and a big, powerful Burgundy rules from Lorraine to the Provence.

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* England: Wessex, Cornwall, Devon, Kent, Mercia, Sussex and East Anglia
France; at least: Normandy, Île-de-France, Brittany, Maine, Picardie, Orleanais, Artois, Auvergne and the small bits in between.
Bonus points for: Aquitaine, Guyenne, Gascony, Poitou and Navarre.
Note that parts of France (which are not Anglo-French or Burgundian) can be like pre-unification Germany: a patchwork of tiny statelets.

** Burgundy; at least: the Duchy and County of Burgundy, Kingdom of Lower Burgundy (including Provence) Lorraine, Bar, Upper Alsace, Breisgau, Sundgau, Basel, Nevers, Autun, Mâcon, Charolais, the County of Geneva, Savoy, Turin, Septimania and Valais.

Extra bonus points awarded:
- if the Low Countries are a huge league of independent states (Holland, Friesland, Hainaut, Brabant, Flanders, Limburg, Luxembourg, Bentheim, Cleves, Utrecht etc.).
- if Spain is Christian but not united.

 

[Dirk]

Easy peasy. Philip II Augustus, driving to destroy the Plantagenet threat forever and to continue the Francification of England, compels the English barons to choose him as their king in 1216 during the First Barons' War (during which Philip temporarily held half of England IOTL).

Philip spends his considerable intelligence and resources consolidating England instead of centralizing France, which leads to a stronger Burgundy down the road. When he dies or fails to consolidate the entire country, the Scots loosely hold the northern half of the country.

 

[Space Oddity]

Easy peasy. Philip II Augustus, driving to destroy the Plantagenet threat forever and to continue the Francification of England, compels the English barons to choose him as their king in 1216 during the First Barons' War (during which Philip temporarily held half of England IOTL).

Ummm... no. Philip's SON, Louis, held half the country. While being excommunicated, and having his father denouncing the entire enterprise. Personally, I don't think it would have ended well for him if it had kept going.