Not By a Nose

In 1192, RIchard I of England on a ship heading back to England and was forced by bad weather to put the ship in Corfu which was currently under the control of the Byzantine Empire and soon a series of events would follow leading to Lionhearts inprisionment and later death; but what if there was no bad weather and Richard the Lionheart was able to return back to England without being harassed by storms? We approach this view on various points in diifrent ways and explore what the World would be like with the preservation of the Angevin Empire in Not By a Nose.

POD
Richard the Lionheart's trip back to England is never harrassed by bad weather and he returns to England to defeat John of England and Phillip II more early. Also, he is never struck by a bolt in this TL, therefor his reign would last longer.

Timeline
It's over. The French attempt to make a gap in the Norman defense's has failed and the Lionheart along with his men are filled with glory by the sight of countless French corpses. There are countless treasure's left behind by the fleeing French but none are more priceless then the corpse of Phillip II, who was struck in the head by an arrow right after giving his men a morale speech telling them to follow him to death, but none would do so if it meant dying before you even had the chance to hit the enemy. France is in chaos, Lordships and Dukes are fighting over the remaining land have divided the territory to each's dislike and unsatisfying. The small kingdoms continue to fight even as the Lionhearts army's advance day by day with no resistance to heed there advance. The French, although with little morale or trained soldier's left to fight, gather a make-shift army and the rest of the armies to a castle known in the region as Château du Fleckenstein near the city of Lembach. In 1197, an large force commanded by the Lionheart himself arrived at the outskirts of the castle where light resistance was quickly brushed off. In the first attempt to take the castle, the British (Im going to use that term for now) failed at breaking through the defenses on the wall, the Lionheart afterwards regrouped his army and sorrunded the castle starting the Seige of Château du Fleckenstein or more formally known as the First Battle/Seige of Lembach. The French continued to hold off until a week later when a group of deserters gave the Lionheart valuble information on the weakly gaurded entrance at the rear of the castle; taking advantage of the oppurtunity at hand, Richard quietly and quickly rearanged his force's with most amassing near the rear of the castle. Early next day the French awoke to an horrifying surprise: The British where storming the castle, this new surprise lead to a quick evacuation of the castle as the French fell back to the nearby town of Lembach where the First/Second Battle of Lembach began. Making the last stroke, the Lionheart began to revolve his men around Lembach and entraped the French once more and after 10 hour's of fighting, the French army offically surrendered. To make term's short, the French surrender would go by these terms:


 * France would concede all territory's listed in the treaty.


 * Paris would be divided between the small french kingdom's (see the other terms) and the Angevin Empire for OTL 5 years.


 * The rest of France would be divided between the same French kingdom's as before but boundarys would be regulated. If needed to be so, each kingdom has the right to join the following nations -

Holy Roman Empire

Angevin Empire


 * (more concession's and limit's to be put down later)

The Treaty of Lembach or known to by the French as the Devil's Wish turned the rest of France into a group of small kingdom's held toogether only by the sheer force of the Angevin Empire and the Lionheart's will. (I have to go for now everyone, but I promise I will expand this TL later)