Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "What if Irene and Charlemagne Married?" video.

  1. What if the actually United the Empires I think you should have used the version where it is Charlemagne's daughter and Irene's son that got married instead, with her sending him away to the west for sometime to avoid him. Then again I think she would be too paranoid to send him to another powerful Kingdom. Fuck it let me try something. Irene sends Constantine VI to Charlemagne to Marry his first daughter and keep him busy. In his years there he goes on Campaign with Charlemagne and gains some backbone, Charlemagne wanting to Impress the future Emperor campaigns too hard and gets his only legitimate son (Louis the Pious) killed (He still crushes the Franks and sends some of that as Gifts to Constantinople under himself and Constantine VI). He still wants to be Emperor and later gets Constantine VI to crown him Augustus of the Franks and Western Romans. Emperor of the West and Co-Emperor of Constantine VI in doing this he avoids giving the Church any position over him. Constantine IV not only has a backbone but has now gotten a loyal following of Franks with whom he retakes Constantinople after Irene is removed from power by her ministers. In recognition of his Grandson Theophilus (alt hist Constantine VI son) he wills his Empire over to Constantine VI and Theophilus. His illegitimate sons and some other Franks and Slavs rebel and Constantine VI leaves his son under the care of a Frankish general in Constantinople and goes to squash the rebellions and conquer Slavs and Avar remnants to the West. He is forced to stay in the Frankish portion of the Empire throughout while is son is raised in a mix of Frankish war traditions and Roman scholarly Tradition. Leading him in battle against the Arabs and the Bulgars. The East serves as a dumping ground for excess sons from West Frankia, fighting the Arabs. When Constantine VI dies, his Son succeeds him by going to the West. While leaving his own son in East, beginning an ad hoc succession Tradition. Theophilus would dream to connect the two halves of the Empire via land and Campaign against the Slavs of the Balkans relentlessly. Unlike his father however, Theophilus would birth several Children in the West who would war with him and gain favour and during his father's old age already planning on how to depose his brother. As soon as he got the Chance, he Campaigned against the Balkan Slavs and Bulgars, passifying them and from there sieging Constantinople, managing to get in through intrigue. Three generations of single successions has removed the idea of Gravel kind from the Imperial throne, while Gravelkind among the Nobels keeps them weak. The Roman resettling of the Balkans has started an the new Emperor, Paul now stays in the East to protect it from the Arabs. He would send a Greek general to put down Frankish revolts and he would succeed. ( As the Franks would be balknaized by Gravel Kind). Under overwhelming Roman superiority, the Bulgarians convert and focus mostly North. Paul would die in battle and be succeeded by a Son from the West who will kill all his brothers called Olaf the Bloody. He would go to the Eastern Empire with his body guard but later e assassinated by the Armenian general that was governing the East while he was killing his brothers. The East and West the almost simultaneously break into civil war. They only saved as the West reunified under the son of the Greek general that Paul sent to pacify the West. He sends his brother East to take the East, doing so again through intrigue as Paul still had supporters. A new dynasty is in now. The brothers rule and mostly don't disturb the other as they are fighting other wars and the brother in the East (under pressure) takes no wives. After the brother in the East goes the brother in the West goes East, leaving his son and family to secure the West. Generations of Franks ruling in the East has created a distinct Franko-Greek Population who are the Army around Constantinople. Who preserving some feudal view on power would eventually see themselves overthrow this second dynasty for their general, a role that had become semi-hereditary. The West however would see this family grow as Gravelkind became institutionalized in law for Franks, while the Imperial family was allowed to grow their lands. The Empire would manage another by keeping Junior (usually the son) and Senior Emperors at different sides of the Empire and using generals and armies from the other side of the Empire to control the other. After the reign of the brothers, the Western brother's son Porphyrogenitus would take over and he was the only legitimate son. He would use his cousin to take care of revolts by his bastard brothers while he started the process of reconquering the East. He would notice that the Frankish soldiers not around Constantinople had created a Feudal like organization in the borderlands. He would conquer a far as the upper Euphrates settling more Franks and Greeks in this pseudo Feudal system with a Feudal inheritance system beneath and a theme over them. The Franko-Greeks have begun adopting Roman inheritance systems, allowing them to grow power with the generations. Porphyrogenitus would be succeeded by Dikephorus who finally conquered the Bulgurs after they had been weakened by a joint force of Rus and Magyars who now began attacking around the Black Sea. Unfortunately as the power of the Western Greeks grew they would be able to amass centres of power while in the East the Franks there would be able to ally with Each other. The East Eventually goes into the hands of a Frankish dynasty and the West to a Greek dynasty
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