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Sure, succession rites tied to bloodlines inevitablely get messy over time, which in turn aided in the collapse of said system - but here
I'm talking specifically about the negative biological effects that issues of incestuous parentage developed over time.
How many poor rulership decisions made throughout the middle ages could be tied to defects in a historical figure's DNA?