Did he have a "claim" to renounce in the first place? When one elects a new dynasty the elected one doesn't need to have a shred of rights to the throne beforehand...
I suppose Leopold could have bind himself with a document promising not to ever accept the Spanish throne, should it ever be offered to him. But considering the Prussians responded to the Ems Dispatch with war, Leopold's move could only have happened if he had been somehow hardpressed before Berlin getting involved...
I suppose Leopold could have bind himself with a document promising not to ever accept the Spanish throne, should it ever be offered to him. But considering the Prussians responded to the Ems Dispatch with war, Leopold's move could only have happened if he had been somehow hardpressed before Berlin getting involved...
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