There's the challenge- how can we have them develop a constitution reminiscent of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? And what are the consequences of the two powerful states not being able to perform cohesively?
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The easiest way to do this is to prevent dynastic unity- this is what happened in Germany. Have the capets and all male descendants die out circa the 12th or 13th centuries.
For England avert the Norman conquest, either with a continuing Godwin dynasty or the Norwegians. Said dynasty dies out, the English nobles reassert their authority....
Didn't the Witan kinda sorta sometimes theoretically 'elect' the king (albeit only from candidates who belonged to the the royal family)? You could do something with that.
Getting married in their forties if at all did not helpDynasties dying out frequently. It is what happened in Poland-out of 15 kings, who ruled between 1333 and 1672, only 4 left surviving, legitimate sons. When future Władysław III was born in 1424, he was first male heir born to King of Poland since 1310!
Didn't the Witan kinda sorta sometimes theoretically 'elect' the king (albeit only from candidates who belonged to the the royal family)? You could do something with that.
They had a tendency of dying young.While it was not elective, the French monarchy of the 1559-93 period (François II, Charles IX, Henri III, Henri IV before his conversion) was quite weak.
That would have been extremely likely if the Norman conquest had not occurred, in that England would become an elective monarchy with the nobles effectively in charge of the country.