Allow me to reiterate: we already HAVE a thread to argue about Fable III's time period, here
http://forums.projectego.net/what-time-period-20016/ We also have older ones for Fable II. This is not the place for this discussion. Please go there. I will reply to your comments there, simply because I like arguing about monumentally unimportant things.
EDIT: AK, hell yeah. I was thinking power vacuum, like you had gotten old and died. But overthrowing your F2 hero? That would be so damn awesome. That, unlike Lucien, would be a boss fight to fear.