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<blockquote data-quote="Dogbrain" data-source="post: 1350537" data-attributes="member: 14980"><p>[TEAL'C]Indeed[/TEAL'C]</p><p></p><p>To elaborate on your elaborations:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And an interesting conclusion can be drawn from this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's stranger than that. "Archduke" was invented by one of the Austrian Hapsburg Emperors to describe his "personal" title. It had no precedent and there was only one Archduke, ever, the Archduke of Austria. However, Austria was not an Archduchy. Likewise, the "King of the Germans" was not the "King of Germany". By custom, treaty, law, or some silly thing like that, it was not "possible" to have a King of Germany. This was a problem in the 18th century for Brandenburg-Prussia. Technically, there could be no King of Brandenburg or of Prussia. Thus, when Brandenburg-Prussia got to be big and nasty enough to force some sort of "regal" recognition from other countries, the Hohenzollern ruler was internationally acknowledged as "King IN Prussia"--I kid you not.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the specific title has a very checkered history. Originally, it was associated with a great honking piece of land. Then the Earldoms disappeared. By the time of the late Renaissance, "Earl" was a personal title handed out to monarchical favorites.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dogbrain, post: 1350537, member: 14980"] [TEAL'C]Indeed[/TEAL'C] To elaborate on your elaborations: And an interesting conclusion can be drawn from this. It's stranger than that. "Archduke" was invented by one of the Austrian Hapsburg Emperors to describe his "personal" title. It had no precedent and there was only one Archduke, ever, the Archduke of Austria. However, Austria was not an Archduchy. Likewise, the "King of the Germans" was not the "King of Germany". By custom, treaty, law, or some silly thing like that, it was not "possible" to have a King of Germany. This was a problem in the 18th century for Brandenburg-Prussia. Technically, there could be no King of Brandenburg or of Prussia. Thus, when Brandenburg-Prussia got to be big and nasty enough to force some sort of "regal" recognition from other countries, the Hohenzollern ruler was internationally acknowledged as "King IN Prussia"--I kid you not. And the specific title has a very checkered history. Originally, it was associated with a great honking piece of land. Then the Earldoms disappeared. By the time of the late Renaissance, "Earl" was a personal title handed out to monarchical favorites. [/QUOTE]
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