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What if Clovis, upon implementing his new succession laws at his death[1], rather than dividing the realm up between his sons, instituted a primogeniture succession and had his eldest son inherit all of his domains (maybe with his younger sons being given smaller, subservient lands to the eldest)?





[1] From what I read, before Clovis did a sort of gavelkind succession among his sons, it was more common for his people to pass authority to their uncles and brothers.
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