So typical of other monarchs to pretend the Holy Roman Empire doesn’t exist, even though many European monarchies started out as elective, not hereditary. Elections for various positions were actually common in the Middle Ages, but usually only a small minority got to vote.
by Oversama
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To be fair, being deposed for ‘idleness and negligence’ is basically the medieval version of getting fired on your day off.
Elected monarchy was pretty normal in medieval times. Just look at Bohemia, HRE, early France. It is just that only the elite was able to participate in elections
Belgium voted to have a king which isn’t really the same but still.
And Wenzel was only one further king in the empire among others that got unelected. Adolf of Nassau (1298) was the first king that got deposed by the prince electors without a papal excommunication.
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Imagine getting elected king and then unfired later
In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
Poland had elected kings.
One even tried to bail for a chance of the French throne lmao.