Was France the most powerful medieval kingdom/state?

No because they lost to Britain.

this honestly
France is Eurobe

Yeah they couldve taken over the world if it werent for democracy

Mashallah we will pursue french's fate in ruling Europe under Allah's will

Fuck the French. England for the win!

didnt england rule like 1/3 2/3 of france in that time ?

they would have been if the anglos didnt constantly cuck them

Easily the HRE.

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Nope. That goes to the Ottomans.

France is Western Europe incarnate. They betrayed all Christian people multiple times, and their heavy cavalry tactics where absolute fuck ups. Most degenerate piece of land after the vatican

Nope. It's the Vatican city, the Pope, and by proxy, Rome and the surrounding Italian city states.

Kinda funny, Italy still managed to rule Europe despite Rome falling. They just did it a different way (through religion) rather than brute force.

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meme country

>crashes your clergy's income with one simple thesis
Nothing personnel brother

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>implying France is good at anything but baguettes and revolts

They got lucky with napoleon, but everyone knows that prussia is the best country

Lithuania was at some point, then Poland. Before than, Mongolia, of course.

this. Rome was the true ruler of Europe

Not before the 7 year war.

They certainly handled diplomacy with Scandinavians better than others. Played the long game there pretty well. Not too bad when you consider they had a real long run at rampaging across all of Europe before it turned into a bunch of independent duchies. Lot of amazing military developments. I think they did so well since they weren't the most powerful, they were just often a bit more innovative when it came to warfare in multiple eras. Probably helps having a culture that strategist trying to optimize a strong economy typically since soldiers march on their stomachs, and that sort of thing is typically done by the non-soldiers.
Yet they adopted the lesser german kingdom tactics of hussars, improved it, and even turned it into a culturally revered story about the musketeers which is well admired even to the current day. Did you see the last one with the airships and shit? That was fucking dope. Hell the Foriegn legion invented the minne ball and revolutionized warfare in a way that hadn't been seen in quite a long time. Even modern day germany gives you uwe boll, at least he'll fist fight you over and all but French cinema and modern culture gives you stuff like district b13, how can Prussia or related places even compete?

Yeah but English rulers were French nobles

It was the Byzantine Empire up to the 12th century when they lost most of Anatolia and the Balkans and then finally stopped being one of the major players in 1204.
From then on it was indeed France.

This is the objectively true historical truth.

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England owned like 1/2 of France at a couple points in history

>Byzantines>Ottomans>France

But the English nobles and kings were French

The Ottoman became a factor in Europe in the 14th century just at the end of the medieval period we're talking about.

What kind of freakish history revision is this? France had over taken the majority of Europe after the fall of the western Roman empire. They controlled France, Italy, and huge sections of Germany. They lost a tiny bit of territory to Scandinavians integrating them into their society and giving up parts of Northern France and Italy. Then they kept raiding England which was basically already an integration of scythians/egyptians/picts/scandanavians/italians with a bunch of anglo saxons that had integrated scandanavians lead by french integrated scandanavians. Empire was literally propped up by scandanavians till the 12th century when they got sacked by other scandanavians.

The Franks were Germanic you disingenuous fuck.

You think Charles the Great was a fucking Gaul?

Are /his/ a bunch of r9k losers too?

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This was more late medieval ages

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You're deluded as fuck.

>byzantine empire was propped up by scandinavians
Kys

>the most powerful medieval kingdom/state

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His and r9k are my main boards, doesnt seem to be much of a difference in the board populations except there are are more middle easterners, less faggots and less poltards on his (which is a good combination imo)

Tbh most boards on Jow Forums seem to be exactly as r9k when it comes to being a socially awkward virgin loser

Uh no. While the greeks were busy colonizing everything they could and intigrating in places, they reached from the modern middle east, africa, and all the european places in between including spain and england. Horse archers did the same. Scandanavians are shit at domestic policy historically and had an export policy for immigration. It's all the same shit just different places mixed up at the same time. They're not all super independent different times kind of shit. It's even happening now in modern times, they suck at domestic policy anyone that fled their sphere of influence propagates in way larger numbers in other places doing way more things.

It really just depends on the period because the power shifted so often. You never really know who holds all the cards, is it Poland (God bless this country)? Is it France? Is it England? Oh wait England is actually ruled by the French, wait why are they fighting against themselves again? Oh. And what about the Mongols? HRE?

Oh shit actually it's the Pope.

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Ok, please post a kingdom or a state.

For me? The Iberian Empires

Yeah but that one time England took over and shit in their cheese.

based france, bane of germans

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I mostly hang out on /v/ and /his/
I rarely go on Jow Forums

Are you blind? Cant you see the massive fucking blue/turquois part of the map?

laughs at every answer in chinese

Second most powerful kingdom, maybe.

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Spain? king of of Castile or something you think?

They defeated France in Italy and then continued that tradition in the new world at Florida.

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I think the hre did a better job at being medieval they kept the ottomans at bay. Helped western Europe recover from the fall of Rome. And survived first contact of the khans. Lastly they're aesthetic as AF.

Yes they had the best chivalry ever, France has been known for century to be the best warriors of Europe. The French military history is full of testimony of bravery and brilliant military victories but due to recent history and anglo propaganda we are reduced to a bunch of surrender monkeys.

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>gets BTFO and occupied for centuries by shitskin Muslims
OH NO NO NO NO NO

>gets anally raped by Mongols
Lol okay chinky

French Knights are still rocking by the way

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