English III

1485-1603 CE

From 1485 to 1603 CE, the English emerged from dynastic chaos to challenge the masters of the world — Henry Tudor seizing the crown on Bosworth Field, his son breaking with Rome to divorce a wife, his granddaughter facing down the Spanish Armada with nothing but wooden walls and Protestant winds. Elizabeth died unmarried and unmatchable, leaving behind Shakespeare's language and Drake's charts to a nation that had learned to think itself exceptional.