alexios komnenos

Crusade of 1101was the answer to the calls for reinforcements from the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, and Pope Paschal II. This Crusade was by three different armies. They invaded the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum seperately one after another. Because of their lack of coordination and bad...

During First Crusade's first fight the siege of Nicaea Byzantine Emperor Alexios I made the city surrender to him separately from the Crusades. This alienated them from him. That distrust led the Crusaders into a separate path of not helping Byzantium. Eventually when Alexios refused to relieve...

IOTL, Kilij Arslan underestimated the Crusaders after defeated the Peasant's Army. As a result, he went to fight the Danishmends in the East, only to have to make an about face and rush back to Nicaea when he got word of the ever growing Crusader forces at the city where his family was. He...

What if Alexios had won a decisive victory at the Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) ? IOTL, Alexios had had the Normans pinned down in a siege between the Citadel at Dyrrachium. His advisors were split in two groups, those who counseled a more conservative approach of continuing the siege and those...

I am in the process of watching the Kings and Generals collection of videos on the First Crusade. In the episode on the Prince's Crusade, K&G mentions that Bohemond requested that Alexios appoint him as Domestic of the East before they set out toward Nicaea. Alexios declined and instead offered...

So IOTL, Alexios I Komnenos’s eldest brother, Manuel, died in spring of 1071. He was married to a female Diogenes and Romanos was increasingly relying on Manuel to lead militarily. After he died, Romanos had to rely on the traitorous Doukai who ultimately abandoned him at Manzikert. So what if...

based on a previous thread we discuss what would happen if the turkic conquest climaxed like the map seen ( or similar to it )whether it be nikephoros III dying early and alexios takes the throne earlier and either defeating or dealing with the normans with out all of anatolia been lost would...

I had this though and few discussion 1) you can have isaac kommenos step down in 1059 and have Alexios father accept the throne and then have it be given to Alexios in 1067 ( saving the empire from Constantine X and his "infinite wisdom " 2) have him be more popular or prominent after...

Tzachas Bey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzachas a Turkic Muslim hellenophile warlord having for ambition to become Roman emperor and take Constantinople for this purpose he built a fleet wich woul achieve some success and allied the Pecheneg a at least partially Muslim Turkish tribe wich...

What are some possible scenarios that can happen to his reign?

That title will get your attention :rolleyes: Following the brutal Norman Conquest of England, medieval sources claim that fleeing Anglo-Saxons, led by one Siward (supposedly Earl of Gloucester), sailed to the Mediterranean and came to Constantinople. There, some entered the Varangian Guard but...

In the years after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Manzikert (1071), the Byzantine Empire seemed to be breaking down at the seams. The Turks were invading Anatolia and raided all the way to the western coast, the Normans were raiding Epirus and Greece, and the Pechenegs were raiding the...

What if, as in BasileusGiorgios' Isaac's Empire timeline, Isaac keeps the throne, promotes his nephew, and dies in '75 or so. Alexios, young and inexperienced may possibly have rivals, so perhaps a civil war from some of the eastern portions in Anatolia. Perhaps he wins, learns a few tricks, and...

Essentially, I'm curious about during the Komnenid period, specifically the rule of Alexios I, about the potential impacts of the Roman Empire inviting Catholics and Orthodox peoples from across the Christian World to settle in the Roman Empire, specifically on the West and South West coasts of...