Anglo Saxon Crusader state.

Apparently the last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal line, Edgar the Aetheling who at 15 was not elected to the throne by the Witanagemot made an appearence during the First Crusade. He was commanding a fleet apparently crewed by Anglo-Saxon exiles and put in to St Symeon to land Italian pilgrims and seige equipment and then marched on Lattakieh but couldn't leave a large garrison.

Is there any way this could be morphed into the Anglo-Saxons getting a state in Palestine? If Edgar is there in charge of a fleet crewed by AS exiles and the Varangian gaurd is full of AS exiles perhaps they could grab something for themselves with a few shifts of fate.
 
Apparently the last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal line, Edgar the Aetheling who at 15 was not elected to the throne by the Witanagemot made an appearence during the First Crusade. He was commanding a fleet apparently crewed by Anglo-Saxon exiles and put in to St Symeon to land Italian pilgrims and seige equipment and then marched on Lattakieh but couldn't leave a large garrison.

Is there any way this could be morphed into the Anglo-Saxons getting a state in Palestine? If Edgar is there in charge of a fleet crewed by AS exiles and the Varangian gaurd is full of AS exiles perhaps they could grab something for themselves with a few shifts of fate.
I think there were a Crusader Kings AAR like that over at Paradox Forums...
 
They wouldn't necessarily have the numbers to hold down a Crusader state with just a small group of Anglo-Saxon nobles. A nice idea but it's not really likely.
 
It's not so much the numbers which concern me, the KoJ had very few Franks and often fought with armies of 200 or so knights and 1000 or so infantry. It's the military efficiency of axe-wielding maniacs against cavalry and archers, let alone both in combination.
 
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