Map of Europe, 1500 AD

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1. Erig says

   July 4, 2017 at 8:38 am

   There’s a mistake in the status you allow to Brittany. Brittany was NOT a “french substate”… It was fully independant until 1548, and became united to France in 1548 before the 1532 treaty. This treaty was planning a union between France and Brittany, not a domination of one on the other.

   During its long history, Brittany had to compose with its problematic neighbors, France and England, and had to change its alliance often. If our sovereigns accepted the English and French suzerainty one after the other, they never became a serf nor a dominion, and never paid tribute to any of the english or french kings.

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2. Spiral says

   May 11, 2018 at 7:10 pm

   What’s the difference between an union, personal union and dynastic union?

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3. Rk says

   May 28, 2018 at 8:09 am

   Wales was not part of the kingdom of England in 1500.

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4. IceWare says

   August 12, 2018 at 4:05 pm

   In a (real) union two or more states share some institutions, however they are not as unified as states in a political union. A personal union is the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct. In a dynastic union two different states are governed by the same dynasty, but not the same monarch, although it depends on the country.

   The difference between dynastic and personal union is basicly this: If the ruler dies and one part of the union breaks away it was a personal union. If it stays it’s a dynastic

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