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Re: England and France, isn't it possible to avert the fall of the Angevin Empire with a 1176 POD? The Plantagenet family tree was still massive - Henry the Young King didn't die until 1183, and depending on how generous you're willing to be with butterflies, you could even save his prematurely...

Yeah, that's more or less what I was getting at. I think it was too late to simply expel the Turks from Anatolia by the late 12th century, so assimilating them would have been the Byzantines' best bet. Though I'm not sure there'd be a specific Ottoman dynasty at all, even a Hellenized and...

Perhaps a more successful Anatolian campaign by Manuel I Komnenos (either winning or altogether avoiding Myriokephalon and eventually cracking Turkish power in central Anatolia) coupled with there being no coup against his son, Alexios II, thereby butterflying away the 4th Crusade; and an...