first crusade

Tancred as most of the leaders of the first Crusade was a genius, and during his regency Antioch gained hegemony over Northern Syria. He managed to completely surround Aleppo and make it into a tributary of Antioch, but he died from typhus and the authority of Antioch over Aleppo banished a year...

During First Crusade's first fight the siege of Nicaea Byzantine Emperor Alexios I made the city surrender to him separately from the Crusades. This alienated them from him. That distrust led the Crusaders into a separate path of not helping Byzantium. Eventually when Alexios refused to relieve...

IOTL, Kilij Arslan underestimated the Crusaders after defeated the Peasant's Army. As a result, he went to fight the Danishmends in the East, only to have to make an about face and rush back to Nicaea when he got word of the ever growing Crusader forces at the city where his family was. He...

Hello people! this will be the start of the Tutush timeline as i promised!

The son of a Seljuk prince who lost a dispute for the throne, Suleiman ibn Qutalmish took advantage of the civil wars that engulfed the Byzantine Empire after the Battle of Manzikert to take over most of Anatolia during the 1070s, laying the foundations of a new state, the Sultanate of Rum...

So, for some time i had this idea. As you may know, the First Crusade was a clusterball of disasters somehow succeeding. One of the main reasons for their success, if not *the* main reason, was Muslim disunity. The area between Constantinople and the Sinai was perhaps the least united it had...

So the general feeling, here at least, is that if Stephen of Blois hadn't lost his nerve the day before Antioch fell, not only would relations between the Crusaders and Emperor Alexios have not deteriorated, but there wouldn't have been a six month delay that saw many of the Crusaders, including...

Robert II, Duke of Normandy Aka Robert Curthose was the eldest son of William I of England. Despite this he was passed over in succession 3 times. First is when William II and I divided his lands in 1087. Second is when Robert wasn't leading the Rebellion of 1088 against William II. However...

I am in the process of watching the Kings and Generals collection of videos on the First Crusade. In the episode on the Prince's Crusade, K&G mentions that Bohemond requested that Alexios appoint him as Domestic of the East before they set out toward Nicaea. Alexios declined and instead offered...

The sultan of Rum from 1092 until his premature death in 1107, Kilij Arslan I was the first Muslim monarch to face a crusade, easily defeating the disorganized peasant army led by Peter the Hermit in October 1096. Unfortunately for him, the scale of his victory made him think the sultanate's...

Sorry if this subject has been done to death but I was thinking about the First Crusade and how the intentions to reconquer territories of the Roman Empire that had been lost to the Seljuks aligned very neatly with the desire for the Latins to be able to have safe passage to Jerusalem and how it...

based on a previous thread we discuss what would happen if the turkic conquest climaxed like the map seen ( or similar to it )whether it be nikephoros III dying early and alexios takes the throne earlier and either defeating or dealing with the normans with out all of anatolia been lost would...

What if crusades never happened? Byzantium and Hungary screwed up like in OTL fourth crusade 1204 and mohacs 1526 sultanate of rum conquered southeastern Europe , Ukraine and southern Russia like the Ottomans Would all these countries become muslims As there would be no Habsburgs or Moscovite...

What if, instead of managing to capture the city, circumstances had wound up such that the crusaders besieging Jerusalem... didn't? Whether a more spirited defense, worse efforts on the parts of the besiegers, or just sheer luck. The Crusaders are crushed outside the walls of the Holy City...

"What greatness am I to muster when better men than me have come before? Am I too supposed to be great?" Attributed to Emperor Artemios I 'Keraunos' [2] Argynos [1], founder of the Imperial House of Argynos. -- I am often at what one could call an impasse for sources and functions; even as...

The Pod isn’t very important but i’m thinking of Soqman ibn Ortok living longer so he can break the siege of Tripoli as he intended so in early 1105 the crusader force besieging Tripoli are mostly massacred by a combination of an attack from the garrison and Soqman’s troops William II of...

What are some possible scenarios that can happen to his reign?

During the 11th and early 12th centuries, what if Bohemond, or other Norman adventurers who had ambitions to conquer land from the Byzantine Empire, decided to side with the Seljuk Turk empire, possibly converting to Islam, in their attempt to acquire fiefdoms? How would it turn out? Would this...

So, recently, I've been reading on the Crusades from Islamic perspectives and the collapse of Seljuqid Empire. There's this guy, Malikshah, who was the sultan of Seljuk Empire at their peak with the aid of Nizam al-Mulk, after Alp Arslan conquest. He died in 1092, and his son(s) fought each...

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...