antioch

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...

So the general feeling, here at least, is that if Stephen of Blois hadn't lost his nerve the day before Antioch fell, not only would relations between the Crusaders and Emperor Alexios have not deteriorated, but there wouldn't have been a six month delay that saw many of the Crusaders, including...

What if, instead of managing to capture the city, circumstances had wound up such that the crusaders besieging Jerusalem... didn't? Whether a more spirited defense, worse efforts on the parts of the besiegers, or just sheer luck. The Crusaders are crushed outside the walls of the Holy City...

The War of Antiochene Succession is rather little know, but in my opinion nevertheless rather important, event of Middle-Eastern history during High Middle-Age. Following the death of Bohemon III, Prince of Antioch and Count of Tripoli, two claimants faced each other in an 18 years long...

After the bloody Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119, the Crusader Principality of Antioch and their wee sidekick, Edessa, were on the ropes. The regent of Antioch for the eleven year old Prince Bohemond II, Roger of Salerno, died in the battle, leaving the state in chaos and eventually prompting...

What if the Crusader forces under Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, and Baldwin II, Count of Edessa (and future King of Jerusalem) had managed to not get caught in a trap and slaughtered by the Seljuks of Mosul at the Battle of Harran, in 1104 AD? If Bohemond avoids disaster and humiliation, where...

What if one minor French priest leading a part of the First Crusade's army had not "found" the Holy Lance during the Siege of Antioch, preventing high morale from being breathed back into the Crusader army? Basically, what if the Seljuks had successfully repulsed the attack on Antioch in 1098...

How would you make a surviving country of Orthodox culture and Greek identity based around the city in Antioch present until today? (The French carving a state from mandatory Syria doesn't count)

So, Count Stephen-Henry of Blois (father of the future would-be king of England) became a bit of the redheaded stepchild of the First Crusade. Although a major booster of the crusade, who wrote long and positive letters back home to his wife about the progress of the venture, and military...

With no PoDs prior to the death of Constantine X in 1067, how do does Rome hold onto as much territory (that OTL it lost to the Sejuks) as possible? I'm specifically looking for them to hold on to enough of Anatolia that the First Crusade (at least as it came about OTL) is effectively prevented...

One of the main problems faced by the Crusade States was the shitty relationship between the Principality of Antioch and the effective eastern border of Outremer, the County of Edessa. Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to get both states under the control of the same man by 1101...