If Rudolf of Rheinfelden survives the Battle on the Elster - 14 October 1080 - and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is killed instead.
Possibly a civil war in the HRE, that lasts longer than it did - for some time German forces are unable to intervene in italian politics.
Robert Guiscard is not called back from the Balkans by Pope Gregory the VII.
Robert Guiscard completes the conquest and Feudalisation of the Balkans - and Constantinople.
Letting it run on. What if the effects of this are that Christian intervention in the Holy land, and against the Seljuk Turks,
is more effective and less degraded in its effectivness by internecine strife.
Roll it on more, the Christian Holy lands are not lost when they were, - or maybe not at all - , and the Teutonic Knights do not leave The Holy Lands when they did. Not moving to transylvania, thence to the Baltic coast.
No Prussia ! - and all the effects this has on the history of Poland, the power balance beteen the Polish monarchy and Aristocracy develop differently. The History of Swedens influence in the region is altered. Does a stronger Poland resist Russia and Austria more effectively. The dynamics of German history are different.
And with no Prussia - how are the Napoleonic wars affected, - if any of this happens at all.
Not to mention the developments that lead to German unification.
Possibly a civil war in the HRE, that lasts longer than it did - for some time German forces are unable to intervene in italian politics.
Robert Guiscard is not called back from the Balkans by Pope Gregory the VII.
Robert Guiscard completes the conquest and Feudalisation of the Balkans - and Constantinople.
Letting it run on. What if the effects of this are that Christian intervention in the Holy land, and against the Seljuk Turks,
is more effective and less degraded in its effectivness by internecine strife.
Roll it on more, the Christian Holy lands are not lost when they were, - or maybe not at all - , and the Teutonic Knights do not leave The Holy Lands when they did. Not moving to transylvania, thence to the Baltic coast.
No Prussia ! - and all the effects this has on the history of Poland, the power balance beteen the Polish monarchy and Aristocracy develop differently. The History of Swedens influence in the region is altered. Does a stronger Poland resist Russia and Austria more effectively. The dynamics of German history are different.
And with no Prussia - how are the Napoleonic wars affected, - if any of this happens at all.
Not to mention the developments that lead to German unification.