normans

I posted something similar a while ago, but I'd like to discuss it in broader terms the ramifications of a Norman conquest of the Byzantine Empire. It's underappreciated just how close Duke Robert Guiscard and the Normans of Sicily came to overunning the troubled and declining empire in the...

This is just a request for any good threads chronicling an alternate timeline where King Harold triumphed at the Battle of Hastings. Despite being such a significant point in history, I can't seem to find much good alt-history material written about it.

Alexios I had a very hard time at the beginning of his reign as the Eastern Roman Emperor, having inherited an empire wrecked by years of civil war and the loss of Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert. As if that weren't enough, he had to deal with the Normans who, one decade after conquering...

If the French kingdom under Charles the Simple or one of his successors had collapsed or fallen to the Ottonian dynasty a few decades after the land grant to the Normans, and said Normans had stayed in the region to consolidate instead of departing on conquests to England, Italy and the Holy...

now, it's a common view on this board that if the english had won the 100YW, England would be more frenchified than France anglicized. But, i want to know, how much would we recognize it as "Paris french," vs the Normans? now, i don't know that much about culture, or french subcultures, but i...

The Normans inherited the Holy Roman Empire from the Carolingians which means West Francia, Burgundy and Italy, and in 1066 Emperor William I of HRE annexed England and killed King Harold, would this still happen if East Francia is instead the HRE?

1000-1030 AD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my own TL starting at the turn of the 2nd Millennium...

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...

At one point in the 1030s, Robert I, Duke of Normandy, attempted to invade England on behalf of his cousins Edward and Alfred, who had gone into exile after Cnut the Great took over. Supposedly, he was prevented from doing so by unfavorable winds. What if Robert had been able to invade England?

Under the rule of the Normans, Sicily was remarkably tolerant for the Medieval era, at least when it came to religion. Catholics, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians lived in relative harmony, and Sicily's Catholic rulers appointed Muslims and Orthodox Christians to high-ranking government...

Out of all the posts I've seen discussing ways to (re)unite Italy sooner I've seen a conspicuous absence of unemployed Norman knights maneuvering their way into power in the north as they did in the south. Southern Italy had previously been divided in a manner comprable to the north, and it was...

The North Rises Once More - A 1066 Norwegian TL Prologue "It is war who changes man, yet man who starts the war. This most particularly true for the Norwegian Conquest of England. A war that preserved the influence of Scandinavian culture and the era that created it. A war that on the...

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...

Here's a scenario: Stamford Bridge results in a victory for the Norwegians, and Harold Godwinson falls in battle. Harald Hardrada emerges victorious from the battle, and subsequently occupies York before marching south. Meanwhile, in London, the Witan has assembled to choose a new monarch...

Ive always had a soft spot for the Normans, and norman Sicily in particular. One of the more interesting chapters in Sicilys history is the twenty odd year dominion over Tunis and Libya, the so called Norman Kingdom of Africa. In OTL these dominions were destroyed by the Almohads, who also...

WILLIAM OF SHREWSBURY THE HISTORY OF RICHARD, DUKE OF NORMANDY AND KING OF THE ENGLISH Icon of William of Shrewsbury PREFACE The following Books will endeavour to chronicle the history of the reign of King Richard of England [1], with the addition of whatever in his time, happened...

Chapter 1: From the smallest of things... Sparsa le trecce morbide Sull’affannoso petto, Lenta le palme, e rorida Di morte il bianco aspetto, Giace la pia, col tremolo Sguardo cercando il Ciel. Cessa il compianto: unanime S’innalza una preghiera: Calata in su la gelida fronte, Una man...

With a POD between 970 and 1000 AD, can Muslim rule in Sicily be sustained into modernity? It doesn't have to be the Kalbid Emirate, which I'm fairly sure is doomed. The obvious answer would seem to be "avert the Normans," but that doesn't solve the problems with other western Islamic states in...

Prologue: The Brief Dawn The sun rose majestically over the raven-specked battlefield, slowly ripening the corpses of thousands of young men who had died on that hill the day before. Local villagers and survivors from the losing army had already begun to stagger, dazed and confused, around the...