Henry VI of England (Chaos)

King Henry VI of England was born in 1600 as the son of and his wife. He came quite early in his life to power, in 1620, now reigning one of the mightiest states in the, the. During the 1620s, the formerly good relations between the and  cooled down dangerously, which also was the fault of the two new monarchs, Henry VI and  respectively.

The year when his fate was sealed was 1628: The Castillians and Portuguese started rebelling against Henry, who proved unable to defeat them. (One of the moments was that his marriage with a Castillian duchess went awry; she told her relatives, they told their friends...).

When the broke apart in the Old World, most of the colonies declared their loyalty to  (former Castille, right). Only a few islands in the Caribbean and the northern colonies in OTL and  stayed loyal to king Henry.

During 1628-34, the took place. France supported uprisings in Valencia ( south of Ebro river) and. Despite of all the chaos and the many factions, the new king (former duke of ) managed to defeat all enemies, keep himself on the throne and also subdue the Aragonese rebels in Valencia. , however, stayed independent, under the former duke of Monteleon.

Portugal officially declared its independence (also with French encouraging) under, former duke of. He even managed to acquire Olivenca from Spain.

Henry tried to regain his kingdoms, overestimating the support he had left there. In 1630, the army of the Cortes defeated the English army landed at. The war extended soon into Atlantis; 1631, the Sea happened. The Castillians occupied all the English colonies in the Caribbean. England fell into a financial crisis. This was too much for the English. In 1633, Uprisings against king Henry started there. The (ECW) had begun.

As soon as 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 had banned that many religious dissenters there.) However, since the king had no heir, the nobles weren't in unison about what to do. They started to fight among each other; the common people dubbed the war, after the leaders of the most important groups, the and the, "".

The former king Henry VI, last of the, disappeared in Atlantis, and in the following decades, many men would appear (in England, Atlantis and other places) claiming to be king Henry. Only much later it was found out with scientific methods that he had managed to survive until 1665.