As I understand it, Charles, Duke of Burgundy, was to be crowned king of his domains by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1473 at Trier, but the emperor fled in the night the day before the coronation was to have happened. If the coronation had actually occurred, what benefit would have been to Charles, aside from the prestige associated with the title? Would it have allowed him to purchase more cities and counties than without the title? Could his daughter Mary have inherited his holdings intact? Would being an independent sovereign materially help his ambitions to centralize control of his realm?