Are Germanics and Nordics bad at forming/maintaining centralized

>>140419121
Europeans werent cucks so no one would bow to another.

>>140419121
Bavaria is the true Germany. The rest is a bunch of mixed bastard bloodlines.

>>140419121
our borders have barely changed compared to your pic

>>140419121
Does B stand for Barony in this? Why are some of them bigger than Duchys?

>>140420037
Because barons didnt bow to duchies and didnt have formal title for their rank.

>>140420179
But how can a Barony be so big? Surely you'd have to have a grander title when you control so much territory

>>140420037
bishopric

>>140420393
A family managed to consolidate a lot of land and property via alliances and shares of titles to supporters.

>>140420697
If you had a lot of money you could afford lots of levies and thus your title.

>>140419121

Well they´re constantly occupied with fighting about who is the true german/nordic/whatever. I mean look at this board.

>>140419121
There wasn't really a need or a desire to centralize it, we flourished for hundreds of years without that

Overall the HRE was working fine for what it was supposed to do until the French took it too far with napoleon, after that it needed to change