Richard's War (Rex Francorum)

Richard's War, also known as the Erobre Frankere or Conquest of Franks in Norwegian Historiography, was a political schism in the Holy Roman Empire after the death of the last Norman King. It also marked the farthest that Muslim forces ever got into Europe with the Battle of Nice between Papal and Moorish forces. The war ended when Norwegian King Haakon IV was offered the crown of the HRE if he defeated the Norman-Moorish Alliance and the so-called un-holy emperor, Richard I, for whom the war was named. Haakon accepted and defeated the Normans and negotiated a peace with the Parisians that allowed them and their allies to gain near autonomy from the Imperial crown. The Parisians had originally risen up against the crown because Duke Philip had thought that he wasn't properly compensated for his successful military campaigns during the Norman-Staufen War. Richard, faced with a revolts in both England and France, called for the help of powerful Moorish Almohad Caliphate, promising them Iberia and Southern France if they helped him regain the throne. This move caused his excommunication by the pope and him bein given the epithet "Unholy".