bohemond

Normans successfully conquered southern Italy. A faction among them led by Robert Guiscard launched an invasion of the decaying Byzantine Empire. This invasion was initially successful winning the battle of Dyrrachium despite being outnumbered. Yet it was later defeated by a coalition of...

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...

The Norman’s were some of the most prolific warriors and military adventures of the Middle Ages. Most notable of these adventures were William the Conqueror’s takeover of England, the de Hauteville brother’s conquests in Southern Italy which lead to the formation of the Kingdom of Sicily, and...

During the 11th and early 12th centuries, what if Bohemond, or other Norman adventurers who had ambitions to conquer land from the Byzantine Empire, decided to side with the Seljuk Turk empire, possibly converting to Islam, in their attempt to acquire fiefdoms? How would it turn out? Would this...