Becoming an Anglo-Saxon King
Gone Medieval
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The Origins of the Ordow in England
The earliest English ordow clearly is an evolution of earlier continental ones and that makes sense because on the continent the Carolingian dynasty very strongly emphasized its god-given nature. The Carolingian monarchs are all consecrated and that seems to be a practice that's picked up from there to England so interestingly enough king offer going back to him one of the more successful mercy in monarchs whose charlomaine's contemporary seems to have had his son consecrated in his own lifetime but we don't know how it was done.
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