Kievan Angliya

(disclaimer: not finished)

The year is 1066, Guilliame of Normandy defeats Harold II Godwinson of England at Hastings and claims England for his own. Godwinson's daughter, Gytha, flees to the east and marries a Kievan prince named Vladimir and has issue. Our divergence point comes after these events, in 1125, after Mstislav, Gytha's son from Vladimir, assumes the title of Grand Prince of Kiev, he uses his newfound authority to invade England with assistance from Hungary and Denmark and defeats Henry of Beauclerc for the crown in the Battle of Hexham on August 23 of that year, executing all of Beauclerc's sons and nephews and exiling his daughters and concubines from the region. Mstislav is instated as king and takes the regnal name of Harold III of the newly formed Anglo-Kievan empire.

After purging England of Norman affiliation and clearing away any other pretenders to his throne, Harold III is perturbed when King Niels of Denmark demands higher standing for his father's claim under the former king Edward the Confessor, Denmark is soon surrounded by a swarm of armies from England and Kiev and is laid waste to in the War of Proximity. Sweden had an alliance with Denmark so this caught the attention of King Magnus, and even more so when Harold III instated his youngest son Vladimir as ruler over Denmark, as opposed to one of his sons from Christina Ingesdottir, his first wife, and a Swedish princess. Harold's health had drained from what seemed to be endless fighting and decided that he Magnus sign the Treaty of Skaneland in 1132, disavowing Vladimir from any claim in Denmark and abdicating both Denmark and England to his son Iziaslav, while his eldest son, Vsevolod, shall reign in Novgorod.