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Again, inspired by Crusader Kings...

(Forgive me).

One of the current debates on the forum is that Paradox added a bunch of formable empires, so if a monarch unites England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, he can form a "high king", the Empire of Britannia. Iberia can be united in a Spanish Empire; etc. etc.

Now, OTL, the notion of an imperial title didn't take off elsewhere in europe during this period. But, there were Spanish monarchs who called themselves Imperator totius Hispaniae, and some Anglosaxon monarchs refered to themselves as the basileoi.

How plausible is it to imagine other European monarchs viewing themselves as emperors as well during this period, or even in the early modern period?
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