zaangalewa
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- Jan 24, 2015
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... Charlemagne portrayed himself as the restoration of the Western Empire under the Carolingians... then the Hohenstaufens and finally the inbred Habsburgs.
But the HRE kind of stopped being an actual thing after the Protestant Reformation, and all these German Kingdoms just went around doing their own thing.
When Napoleon finally put the HRE out of it's misery, the Habsburgs didn't mind, because they had their own empire in the Balkans... and they were too inbred to care at that point.
No comment - except: What you say is bullshit.