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Okay, so I’ve read at numerous places that the French defeats at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt actually contributed a lot to the centralization of the French state on account of most of the nobility dying in these battles, leading to a rise of royal power.

So this got me thinking, what other countries could benefit from such a trimming of the fat in the high to late middle ages? And what would be the opportunities for these to happen? The first countries that come to mind are Poland and Hungary, perhaps carried out by the Mongols?
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