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...awkward thread title, but I dont know how to describe it better.

So, IOTL, both in Germany and England the central monarch got weaker and weaker over time, and the nobility stronger and stronger. Yet, these were two entirely different processes: In Germany, it was not the Reichstag, as central institution of the princes, that got stronger, but instead the nobles simply got more an dmore autonomous on their own lands, leading to Germany decenrtalising.

OTOH, in England the King weakening meant the Palriament becoming stronger. Hence England never decentralised: Power remained centralsied, it just shifted. So, what if it was the other way round? What if the whole process of weakening the English monarch starting with the Magna Charta ended up with more autonomous and eventually de facto independant nobles, instead of a strong parliament? Can that be done?
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