Becoming an Anglo-Saxon King
Gone Medieval
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The Variation of Kingship Practices in the Early Kingdoms
There are certain features that we seem to see between different kingdoms, sufficiently so that we can probably use some generalisation. Almost all of the early kingdoms of England have much more ad hoc succession practices than those we later come to know in success where we're thinking of formal rules and things like that. We do get hints of variation in terms of stability as well and other things like that,. So there almost certainly would have been significant variation, we can see some hints of this.
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