What if Alexios is killed after the Battle of Dyrrhachium?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dyrrhachium_(1081)
Quoted from Wiki:
In OTL, Robert Guiscard had to return to Italy because Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, had attacked the Pope at Alexios' suggestion. In Guiscard's absence, Alexios reconquered the territory they had lost to the Normans.
So what if Alexios didn't escape? Could a Norman state be set up in Greece? Would it last, or would it just be reconquered by the next emperor?
Quoted from Wiki:
In OTL, Robert Guiscard had to return to Italy because Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, had attacked the Pope at Alexios' suggestion. In Guiscard's absence, Alexios reconquered the territory they had lost to the Normans.
So what if Alexios didn't escape? Could a Norman state be set up in Greece? Would it last, or would it just be reconquered by the next emperor?