Third Crusade

WI: The third crusade essentially fails, because Richard I of England dies before the fall of Acre. The army is badly decimated by disease and starts to drift away. The crusader kingdom is left with only a tiny bit of territory. What happens now?
 
Barbarossa's son Henry is probably still eager to make up for his father's inability to make a difference here, but with the Kingdom of Jerusalem essentially extinct, I'm not sure how much luck he'd have (even if he lives).

But before that, what does Philip do?

His return home was not inevitable - likely, maybe, but not inevitable. And without Richard to worry about/be frustrated by, maybe he does decide to stay.

Or are we assuming that his departure is part of the situation (in which case ignore the question on Philip)?
 
Barbarossa's son Henry is probably still eager to make up for his father's inability to make a difference here, but with the Kingdom of Jerusalem essentially extinct, I'm not sure how much luck he'd have (even if he lives).

But before that, what does Philip do?

His return home was not inevitable - likely, maybe, but not inevitable. And without Richard to worry about/be frustrated by, maybe he does decide to stay.

Or are we assuming that his departure is part of the situation (in which case ignore the question on Philip)?
A very good point. I would say that Philip would be anxious to return to France, in order to stir up trouble with Richard's vassals in Normany and other Angevin territories.
 
A very good point. I would say that Philip would be anxious to return to France, in order to stir up trouble with Richard's vassals in Normany and other Angevin territories.

But Richard is dead, and John is hardly as problematic as his brother.

So why would he be as eager as OTL?
 
I think that Philip stays longer, so that he can arrange Outremer affairs to his own satisfaction. In particular, two countries need a king.

Guy of Lusignan has no powerful allies left, so Conrad of Montferrat becomes king of Jerusalem immediately, with Philip's support. We don't know for sure whether Richard had a hand in Conrad's real-life assassination, so we don't know if it happens in this timeline too.

Cyprus might get a different king, too. Richard held on to Cyprus for about a year, then sold it to the Templars, who in turn sold it to ex-king Guy of Jerusalem after a short tenure. Leopold of Austria was related to the deposed rebel emperor Isaac Comnenus, and if his opinion carried any weight, Isaac might have been restored. Otherwise, it goes to a French candidate.

Anybody know who was second-in-command of the English forces?
 
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