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I see no reason they would, beyond institutional ties like Templar banks or such. The PoD needed here would preclude the need such, besides the religious issues.

One wonders how this would change the War of the Sicilian Vespers; no Sicilian expedition to Morea could, perhaps, have a positive impact on Byzantium by re-directing the ambitions of Charles of Anjou into North Africa instead. It'd also strengthen Papal influence, given how unpopular the...

Was thinking they'd come to control everything under the Haemus Mountains, maybe some limited (re)conquests on Anatolia, rather than regaining any large swathes of it. I've admittedly been inspired by this TL, with the Byzantines becoming more of a powerful trading empire rather than going on a...

A Christian "Tunisia" (Most likely called Carthage, perhaps?) could have serious effects on down the line. The prevalence of Christian Banking institutions from the 13th Century on could speed up the Reconquista in Iberia, as well as providing an incentive to continue the advance into North...

Honestly, I'm thinking bigger. The 1340s Civil War in Byzantium is often considered the straw that broke the camel's back, coming as it did with the Plague, exhausting the last resources of the State and sending it into a terminal decline as Serbs, Ottomans and others picked over the corpse...

I wonder how this could affect the various Crusades of the 1300s in the Aegean Basin.