medieval ages

  1. Kurd Gossemer

    Early French Victory in 100 Years War and its Effects.

    What would be the consequences of the French managing to fully expel the English of french territory (including the Channel Islands and Calais) earlier than OTL? How would the development of centralization in the French kingdom would go? How would this French ascendancy impact the rest of Europe...
  2. WI: Alternate laws of succesion in France

    Ok, so here is something I was wondering for a long time - what's the best moment in history for Kingdom of France (we are talking mostly about medieval period) to have completly different laws of succesion than OTL? 1)What's the best POD for France to use Semi-salic primogeniture instead...
  3. WI: Nicopolis Crusade Succeeds

    The Nicopolis Crusade was a failed effort in 1396 to stop the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Lack of competent leadership, numbers, and supplies was what doomed the expedition and allowed Bayezid of the Ottoman Empire to mop them up. Assuming the crusade was able to get more numbers (England...
  4. The Lions of Europe
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    The Lions of Europe An Alternate History of the High Middle Ages From L to R: King Philip II of France, King Richard I of England, and Emperor Henry VI of the Holy Roman Empire (all pictures taken from Wikipedia) In the final years of the twelfth century, conflict raged between the Kingdoms...
  5. Could the Lombard League have survived and evolved into something more?

    The Second Lombard League was originally dissolved on 1250 when Frederick II Hohenstaufen died and the italian city-states saw no reason to continue it as they considered that the imperial threat was gone. But let's just imagine Konrad IV, Frederick's son, somehow survived and continued to try...
  6. Sarthak

    What Medieval/ Late Antiquity Timeline Should I Write?
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    So after my exams i will have a lot of freetime, and as one of my tls approaches finish, i will have even more free time, so i got thinking about a new timeline, preferably set in Antiquity and Medieval times. So which idea do you guys think should be written? 1. Mithridates VI the...
  7. TimTurner

    PC/WI/AHC: House of Capet terminates earlier

    The House of Capet, after an unbroken chain of sons inheriting the throne, suddenly ran into problems in the later 1200s, leading to the extinction of its male line in the early 13th century. What would the ramifications be of a similar crisis taking place earlier?
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