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The last Komnenos?


WI the assassination of Isaak Angelos didn't fail?




This is my first TL, i just registered yesterday, so i hope i didn't do a bunch of errors. Hope you enjoy!!!


The failed assassination of Isaak Angelos created a sudden revolt against Andronikos I., so what if the assassination didn't fail (so no revolt, maybe later) and Andronikos succeds with his plan to erase the nobility of Byzantium while something like a state banquet? Of course those how survives will fight him and the Normans are there too, but Andronikos is not a bad general and i think it might be possible that he would risk it to leave Konstatinople to beat the Normans like Heraklios I. did in the war against Persia. I expect him to stop the Normanns in the mountains between Thracia and Macedonia with only sixthousand soldiers. After that the Normans will get serious supply problems and have to withdraw. While heading back the Byzantines force the Normans into a guerrilla war. With that, no supply and some plagues (so many people at one place, so they will get sooner or later ill) most of the Norman army dies. After getting rid of most of the Normans Andronikos searches and finds the direct battle and wins, so the Normans are totally wiped out. With this victory he gains the support of biggest part of the population and the army. In the following civil war of Andronikos against the rest of the nobility the Byzantine Empire gets weaker, but on the long therm the central gouvernment gets more and more power and is able to administrate the whole empire and hasn't to depend on the aristocrats. Moreover the Byzantine Empire will be in an condition like under Theophilos I. and an byzantine uprising is now not unlikely, even a new Byzantine fleet and everything else...


-inspired by One speech is all it takes to save an Empire!!!!A tl, but i don't believe the aristocrats will just change their opinion because of a speech, sorry
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