The king is also Holy Roman Emperor,The Point of Divergence when this timeline diverges from ours is just prior to the accession of Frederick II, who was, in our history, one of the most important and powerful of the emperors. The information provided by Garret is not detailed enough to determine whether the implications of Richard the Lionheart's survival and takeover of France were enough the prevent his accession in the alternate timeline, and when the Plantagenets gained possession of the Imperial title. exercising loose sovereignty over the many small German and Italian states. However, his actual exercise of sovereignty is limited by the ability of German states to call upon the Poles for help. The chronologically-first but not the first-written Lord Darcy story takes place during a military confrontation between Anglo-French and Polish forces on the soil of Bavaria.
