Primogeniture

>>2735599
normans i guess?

>>2735769
oh, and it's a shame because gavelkind is such a cool word

>>2735769
>normans
Is this just for England or also for France?

>>2735599
It was never the standard law of succession in Europe, in fact one of the only places it was really practised was in Southern France.

>>2735812
Then how it became the standard amongst all the royal families?

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>>2735599
First, they achieved legalism 3 and high crown authority, then made sure no vassals are fighting each other and everybody has a positive opinion, and and then, after 10 years, they changed it to primogeniture.
> The germanic tribes had the tradition of electoral monarchy
Well ofc, non-reformed pagans and tribals can't have primogeniture, it would be unbalanced. They can have tanistry tho, which is OP imo.

>>2736127
Klu klux klan

Salic Law

>>2736066
It didn't.

>>2736496
>It didn't.

>>2736490
Primogeniture was always a thing, it's just when the dynasty in power start to weaken that elective monarchy happen

>>2738956
>it's just when the dynasty in power start to weaken that elective monarchy happen
But germanic tribes always had elective monarchy. They swapt to primogeniture later on