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956 brought with it not only a new, uneasy peace on Ireland but also a shake-up in the Christian Levant. Adémar de Bonne had been succeeded as the first post-Crusade Patriarch of Jerusalem by a native from Galilee, Boulos of Cana[1], but now he too was dead and Aloysius V seized the opportunity...

The Britons continued their war in Ireland through 951, though in a generally lower-intensity form than the campaigns of the previous years. Elan took advantage of Irish disunity and disillusionment among the Ulster lords with their allies to seek a ceasefire & peace talks with Muichertach...

That's right, for Dulebian's base I mostly looked to Serbo-Croatian, since those guys are their neighbors and I haven't found much in the way of linguistic archaeological fragments from the RL Pannonian Slavs before they got steamrolled by the Hungarians (especially not the northern guys from...

Capital: Mogent[1]. Religion: Ionian Christianity. Certain Slavic pagan traditions have survived into the Christian period as syncretized folk practices, but by and large, Slavic paganism itself has died in Dulebia – if not in the years before, then certainly after the ascendancy of the fully...

Yeah, it's a meme that the Mongols demolished the ancient Mesopotamian canal network and turned Iraq into a desert, but from what I've found in my research that wasn't totally the case. They didn't help to be sure, but apparently those canals had been declining for a while to mirror the...

946 threw a complication into Romano-British plans for Ireland and beyond, as old Brydany (having previously survived a serious fever which took him out of action on the verge of his imperial cousin's invasion of Egypt) died of another fever early in this year. Elan's succession was smooth...

In 941 the Romans continued to digest their conquests, investing plundered riches into improving their own economy and making sense of all those Islamic secrets which they had brought back from Outremer with them. Aloysius V worked with the new Pope, Victor III, to drain more of the Pontine...

Come 936, with the First Crusade now having reached its definitive conclusion, Christendom once more began to turn its attention inward. Upon landing in Constantinople Aloysius IV went on a lengthy overland march, practically an imperial progress packed with one victory parade after another all...

Funny enough, the RL Teutons did actually get their start by running a hospital (the Hospital of St. Mary of the German House in Jerusalem - their motto of 'Help, Defend, Heal/Helfen, Wehren, Heilen' even seems to take after this history), though of course that was largely overshadowed in short...

931 brought with it the climax of the crusaders' campaign in Syria, where all eyes were on the ongoing Siege of Damascus. Negotiations with both the Egyptian government of Al-Farghani and the defending commanders for the peaceable handover of the city and the evacuation of its garrison back to...

Most certainly, being a conquering warlord (even one with some brutal sackings under one's belt) & an icon of chivalry are not necessarily exclusive in history. As exemplified by this old webcomic about Edward the Black Prince, whose atrocities weren't even aimed at Muslims but at neighboring...

As 926 dawned, all eyes in the civilized West remained firmly fixed on Jerusalem, where the concentrated might of Christendom was amassing to seize the holy city back from the Muslims who had controlled it for the past several centuries by any means necessary. Negotiations with the defending...

The Cumans/Kipchaks historically seem to have emerged as a serious force in the 11th century (1000s). Might make a mention of them later, but unless I run out of things to write about ahead of schedule, I'll probably be reserving their proper appearance for Part II of the TL (so like, starting...

Jerusalem, June 22 926 "Vrowe min, durch iuwer güete nu vernemet mine clage, daz ir durch iuwer hochgemüete nicht erzuernet waz ich sage. Vil lihte daz ein tumber man misseredet, als er wol kann; daran solt ir iuch nicht keren an…"[1] The sound of footsteps and his tent flap being lifted...

The Romans' Siege of Tyre dragged well throughout 921, just as the (First) Siege of Antioch had gone slowly and painfully before. Not only was Governor Abdallah stubborn and fiercely loyal to the Egyptian regime which appointed him in the first place, but the city's defenses were nearly as...

While Aloysius IV and most of the Roman world spent 916 finalizing their preparations for the imminent launch of the First Crusade, Brydany was feeling the pressure to wrap up his conquest of Ireland as quickly as possible. If he could not do so within this year, the Emperor had increasingly...

911 saw the Council of Thessalonica remaining bogged down in theological minutiae surrounding the adoption of Rome and Carthage's proposed concept of an automatic indulgence for all who should take up the cross and wage holy war against the infidel. Emperor Aloysius had to contend with more...

Come 906, the Seven Years' War might have been over, but the Roman world's road to recovery amid its ongoing struggles had clearly just begun. Aloysius IV had defended his family's hold on the purple from the Stilichians and Greeks, but now he had to protect the empire it represented from the...

I did originally envision a longer civil war and the first crusade happening after 950, but that was like 1 & 1/2+ year ago. After making the decision to end this TL at 1000 I've decided to alter the timetable some (as evidenced by this past chapter), since I thought I might not have enough time...

The start of the tenth century was a year of mixed fortunes for the Northern and Southern Romans alike. The Northern Romans' efforts to break through into northeastern Italy saw them score a few victories early in 901, defeating the Africans in the Battles of Manià[1] and Pordenon[2] as they...