Comments by "Florida Man" (@floridaman318) on "Romaboo Ramblings" channel.

  1. Funnily enough many of the Byzantines they married were not exactly "Roman" or even Greek themselves. Many of the princesses married to HRE emperors and nobles were Greek-Armenian, straight up Armenian, and other ethnicities. I think there was one Georgian, iirc. Plus on the HRE side, there were also the descendents of the Alans and Huns, the former being ethnically Iranians, and the later being "asiatic." The world of the royalty was pretty diverse from an ethnic perspective, moreso than common folk.
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  2. The HRE wasn't based on the donation of Constantine...
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  3.  @Kingedwardiii2003  me?
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  4.  @NickStrife  just look into the family trees of the emperor. Wikipedia is perfect for basic info like that.
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  5. The thing is that the German warlords viewed themselves, and were largely regarded, as the inheritors of imperial authority. Germanic (and the few Iranian tribes) tribes has been working for the empire for generations, and we're heavily influenced by the Romans. By the time of the rise of the Germanic warlords, "Roman" was already well passed becoming something cultural instead of ethnic.
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