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Could the Empress Matilda have stayed in the Germany without getting remarried or becoming a nun? Could she have lived her life as an independent widow?

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At what point did the unified kingdoms of Castille and Aragon start to be referred to as "Spain"?

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How was it that Holy Roman Emperors managed to get their sons elected as King of the Romans during their lifetime? Could the Emperor just "call" an election whenever? Or was the election automatically called at some point?

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Religiously-speaking, why was male adultery not considered to be a big deal in Early Modern Euopre?

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Why did Austraia need the forged Privilegium Maius to have the right to practice primogeniture, when other fiefs in the empire (i.e. Lorraine, Burgundy) seem to have been already doing so?

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Why didn't the Bolsheviks also arrest the Tsar's mother and sisters?

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In medieval western europe, what was the average age of marriage for men & women of the nobility?

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Could the Empress Matilda have stayed in the Germany without getting remarried or becoming a nun? Could she have lived her life as an independent widow?	8
At what point did the unified kingdoms of Castille and Aragon start to be referred to as "Spain"?	5
How was it that Holy Roman Emperors managed to get their sons elected as King of the Romans during their lifetime? Could the Emperor just "call" an election whenever? Or was the election automatically called at some point?	3
Religiously-speaking, why was male adultery not considered to be a big deal in Early Modern Euopre?	3
Why did Austraia need the forged Privilegium Maius to have the right to practice primogeniture, when other fiefs in the empire (i.e. Lorraine, Burgundy) seem to have been already doing so?	2
Why didn't the Bolsheviks also arrest the Tsar's mother and sisters?	2
In medieval western europe, what was the average age of marriage for men & women of the nobility?	1