Il Corvo Bianco
Warlord
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- May 5, 2006
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Why does everybody think the Holy Roman Empire was always fractured.
It only turned into fractured duchies fighting each other during the late middle-ages.
For most of it's medieval history Germany was more unified then France.
Sorry for going off topic.
By the time the Golden Bull rolled in, the Empire as an unitary state was done for - attempts would have been made later, but the Imperial authority was defied more than once. And the last attempt to rein in everyone (the big chaos between the Schmalkaldic League and the Thirty Years War) ended up in disastrous failure. But if we look at 1200 or so...yes, there was a moment when France was worse off than the HRE. But they got better - the Empire did not.