A Kingdom Beyond the Seas: A KoJ TL.

But why is Byzantium so weak that Charles would set his sights on it when he couldn't even hold Cyprus?
 
But this is not OTL and history is not static. By eliminating the Ottoman you have completely changed the fate of Anatolia and the Balkans.

Indeed, history is not static, but I have only modified a few things in Levant, not in the resto f the world, and Charles of Anjou was determined IOTL to fulfill his dreams of Byzantine glory. That he got the Sicilian Vespers when he was almost ready to knock on the doors of Constantinople was completely unexpected by our poor Anjou.
 
Indeed, history is not static, but I have only modified a few things in Levant, not in the resto f the world, and Charles of Anjou was determined IOTL to fulfill his dreams of Byzantine glory. That he got the Sicilian Vespers when he was almost ready to knock on the doors of Constantinople was completely unexpected by our poor Anjou.
Did the Fourth Crusade against ERE still happen in this timeline?
 
Amalric III
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Amalric III (1250 – 18 June 1314)
Ierusalem (1276-1286) et Cyprus Latinorum rex (1276-1277, 1285-1314)

Stilling himself King of Jerusalem, Amalric put himself to work to reconstruct the High Court in Cyprus. The Ibelin family, which had held much power in Jerusalem prior its downfall, set also themselves to recover their position, as they had suffered greatly in the last days of the Kingdom and had lost a great number of their own. Once century later, their dream would came close to be fulfilled.

When Rhodes came under the control of Menteşe, an Anatolian beylik, in 1300, the Cypriot kingdom rushed into action. Amalric III led himself a naval expedition that became a long and bloody affaire that lasted for little over than three years (1302-1305). During this campaign he had the support of an expeditionary force from the kingdom of Aragon. In 1302, the Peace of Caltabellotta ended the War of the Sicilian Vespers, and thus 4,000 Almogavars, under the leadership of Roger de Flor, saw themselves without work. Thus, when Amalric III offered them to pay for their services, they formed the Catalan Company, with the support of the kings of Aragon and Sicily, as they were not too anxious of seeing the Almogavar army standing unemployed in their realms.

Part of the Almogavar force would enter the service of Amalric III, even if the bulk of it would end up in Constantinople, helping Emperor Michael IX to win the Battle of Bapheus, that put an end to the Ottoman raids into the Byzantine borderlands of Bithynia.​

In 1312 Amalric refused to dissolve the Templar order in his realms, as they were essential for its defence and in the raids that he had launched against Levant and Egypt from 1300 to 1306, that he was palnning to repeat soon. Finally, under the pressure of Rome, he dissolved the order but created a new one, the Order of Christ (1), for those knights that survived the slaughter of their brethren in Europe.

Amalric died in 1314. He was succeded by his son Baldwin.

(1) King Dinis I of Portugal needs a new name for his order...
 
Without the Fourth Crusade,along with the massive KoJ/ERE win earlier in Anatolia,why is it that the ERE still sounded like they are in immense trouble,with large parts of Western Anatolia slipping into the hands of Turkic bandit lords?
 
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