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The gist (if I'm being too terse, please inform): 1) Richard the Lionhearted does not die in 1199, instead he lives another nine years. 2) Henry VI also lives longer. This is only important as it relates to #3. 3) Otto of Saxony, OTL emperor Otto IV of the HRE, inherits Aquitaine on Eleanor's...

Instead of Richard the Lionhearted, the...well, what did he accomplish as king? Not much good. PODs permitted at any point after his ascension to the crown. Edit: The challenge is for Richard to leave England better off after his death than at the time of his ascension to the crown. How this...

Since I don't have an actual name for this timeline - not yet at least - I'm using a line from one of my favorite LotR poems as a placeholder. The POD (though events do not truly start changing until later - the butterflies need some time to be able to nudge events in a different direction) is...

What happens to them if the Mongols invasion in the 1250s never happens? Syria's branch may still be doomed, but Iran may be different. I'm not sure what a good search term for this is, so if its already been discussed, could someone mention where? If not, thoughts?

With a POD after Richard I's ascension to the throne, find a way for the English to preserve their holdings on the continent until after 1453. Calais does not count - we're looking at for instance, Gascony. Automatic failure if this involves the Plantagenets taking the throne of France (we're...

This is taken from an idea I'm working on for my timeline, which goes roughly as follows: Emperor Theodore I (no relation to Theodore Lascaris) beats the Mongols and they suffer a painful lesson in humility. The Rus principalities probably still suffer as they're in the way, maybe as badly as...

IOTL Emperor John II died in April of 1143. Edessa fell in December the next year. Would his survival for another three years (until early 1147 to be precise) change the situation enough to prevent the fall of Edessa at the time of its historical fall? (It probably won't protect it forever, but...

This is drawn in large part from an exchange of PMs with Snake Featherston. For some reason, it seems to be part of Hohenstaufen success timelines to also include a successful, revived ERE. This is fine so far as it goes. But it is assumed for some reason that they cooperate and get along and...

The premise of this question: The Komnenoi restoration manages to more or less reestablish the borders of the empire as they were at the end of Basil II's reign by the mid 13th century. Naturally some areas are more secure than others, and this does not mean that the interior of Anatolia isn't...

Apparently he was one of the few generals who ever won any victories over the Mongols in the early days of their conquests. Could he have retaken/held the Khwarezm Sultanate? Failing that, what about his attempt at an empire in exile? What would have happened with his descendants? Or is he...

In a timeline I am currently working on for a successful Byzantine Empire, John II does not die in 1143. How much would butterflies from there get out of control by 1200? Obviously some things will change, but it seems odd that - for instance - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis would be happily...