crusade era

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Being interested at the moment in the Crusades, I asked myself the question of the possibility of annexation of Egypt by the Latin states of the East. The disunity of the Muslims left the Franks plenty of room to develop but when Shirkuh then his nephew Saladin managed to take control of Egypt...

For those who don't know, Kerbogha was the Turkish atabeg (leader) of Mosul who led an army to relieve the city of Antioch, which was besieged by the First Crusade, and, after it fell before his arrival, to retake it from them. Wikipedia provides two possible PODs which could've resulted in the...

Visigothic kingdom of Tolouse in 500 1. The "Old" Visigothic Kingdom of Tolouse. After murdering his brother Thorismund in 453, Theodoric II became king of the Visigothic Kingdom of Tolouse. In 466, after barely avoiding being assasinated himself by his own younger brother, Euric, the king...

I half-heartedly apologize if this topic has already been discussed multiple times before, but i'll say it anyway. As we all know, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa's last venture was his campaign in the Third Crusade. After defeating the Seljuks, he drowned in a river, his army...

A few months ago, i made a thread on a hypothetical victory for Saladin against the Third Crusade's forces at the Battle of Arsuf in 1191. I wanted to bump it, but, because of the red warning, i ultimately decided not to. I originally thought Saladin would support the Seljuks of Rum due to...

What if the Crusader forces under Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, and Baldwin II, Count of Edessa (and future King of Jerusalem) had managed to not get caught in a trap and slaughtered by the Seljuks of Mosul at the Battle of Harran, in 1104 AD? If Bohemond avoids disaster and humiliation, where...

The Battle of Arsuf (1191 AD) was, arguably, the pivotal battle of the Third Crusade, which was launched in an attempt to halt the Ayyubid sultan Saladin's attempt at conquering the Crusader states. The Crusaders, under the leadership of Angevin English king Richard, the Lionheart, managed to...

What if one minor French priest leading a part of the First Crusade's army had not "found" the Holy Lance during the Siege of Antioch, preventing high morale from being breathed back into the Crusader army? Basically, what if the Seljuks had successfully repulsed the attack on Antioch in 1098...

No, I'm not talking about a ISOT, I'm asking what could have happened if the Sultanate of Rum had defeated the byzantines instead of the ottomans, and as the time passed they unified anatolia and greece and invaded europe earlier than the ottomans did OTL, what would have changed? Could they...