robert guiscard

  1. Norman Guiscard invades Fatimid Egypt instead of Byzantine Empire

    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...

  2. The Norman Conquest of Byzantium

    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...
  3. Sevarics

    WI: Byzantine Victory at the Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) ?

    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...

  4. No Komnenian restoration, a Norman Empire instead?

    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...
Top