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The centralization process of the Norse kings was a slow and often haphazard process. Very gradually, the lands of the military nobility were brought under the control of the kings. The monarchies, which existed by around 1200, did not usually cover unbroken territory. The nobles came under the control of the king through conquest, pledges of vassalage backed up by gifts of money and land-marriage alliances, and eventually heredity succession.1
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Glassman, R.M. (2017). The Court Councils of the Centralizing Monarchies. In: The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51695-0_112
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