fourth crusade

Assuming say Issac II Angelos manages to decisively crush the Bulgarian revolt, or say its averted with the Asen brothers instead being granted a pronioa land grant, I can still see him getting deposed by his ambitious brother Alexios III. Alexios' misrule led to revolts and by the time for the...

Even before the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusade already wrecked havoc at Zara in 1202. Upon Venetian request, the Crusaders attacked and besieged Zara, which was a notable trade rival of Venice in the Adriatic. IOTL the city was caught offguard by the sudden arrival and...

So shortly before Constantinople was sacked over Alexios IV's inability to pay the Crusaders what he had promised them, the emperor the Crusaders were hired to overthrow, Alexios III, was contesting his nephew's counter-coup from his power base in Thrace, and at the same time Leo Sgouros was in...

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the Fourth Crusade, the Sejuk sultan of Rum Kaykhusraw I tried to conquer the Empire of Nicaea in 1211. However, his effort was decisively halted by Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris at the Battle of Antioch on the Meander, and the sultan was slain along...

"Let none say that God's Chosen People have not struggled; yet in His Wisdom, we endure through greatness held aloft by our Basileus," - Attributed to Mathew I Psenas, Patriarch of Constantinople, successor of George II, 1204. -- Hello everyone! I've had a timeline of this sort swirling around...

Your challenge, with a POD after 1204, is to have the Latin Empire's fall be brought about not by the three remnants of the Byzantine Empire which arose after the Fourth Crusade (Nicaea, Epirus, or Trebizond) but by the Second Bulgarian Empire with a Bulgarian dynasty replacing the Latins as the...

Hi everyone, this is my first attempt at a historical timeline. I've always been a history buff with a passion for Classical Roman and later Eastern Roman history. I've always wanted to explore the possibilities of a more successful restoration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 under the House...

What if the expected crusader force of 33,500 had gathered in Venice, and was thus able to pay the Venetians? How likely would the expedition be to succeed? And what impact would this have on the Byzantine Empire?

What if Geoffrey had not died in 1186 and gained Anjou as he wanted to, and if Philip had not survived his bout of fever in 1191? Here's a possible start: 1186 - Geoffrey allies with Philip against his father. Like the preceding ones, the rebellion isn’t a success and Philip is defeated...

In a timeline where the Fourth Crusade fails in 1204, which Emperor would be in power on 1 January 1205? Personally, I believe it to be Kanabos, as he was backed by the populace of Konstantinopolis, who may have been enough to defeat Alexios V’s aristocratic coup and overthrow Alexios IV and...

The Byzantine Empire was conquered in 1204 by the forces of the Fourth Crusade. The empire was dismantled and its territories divided up between Venice and the new Latin Empire of Constantinople, led by Baldwin of Flanders. The effects of this were pretty disastrous for the Byzantines, and the...

The Seljuk Turks took Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert and it was partially recovered by the Komnenoi. This recovery stagnated after the Komnenoi were deposed. Let's say a new emperor comes along in the 1200's and retakes Anatolia. In this POD the Venetians fail in taking Constantinople...

What if the Empire Of Nicaea (the power that IOTL went on to reconquer Constantinople from the Latin Empire in the 13th century) was defeated by the Seljuks sometime before managing to reconquer Constantinople, such as during the Battle Of Antioch-On-Meander (1211)? Who is more likely to conquer...

OTL, the century started with the Fourth Crusade, leading to an interregnum that lasted until 1261; by then... well, the empire was overrun by Ottomans in the 14th Century, and they weren't in the best position to do anything about it, much less reemerge as the power they were during the...