You could not create a better example of every single thing wrong with what qualified as "demobilization" during the medieval era if you were trying.
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So typical of other monarchs to pretend the Holy Roman Empire doesn't exist, even though many European monarchies started out as elective, not hereditary. Elections for various positions were actually common in the Middle Ages, but usually only a small minority got to vote.
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