what made them so powerful?
>>18443819Frisk
>>18443819Spanish cum
love me some frisians
>>18443819Purest Germanics. Further south or west you get Celtoid. Further east slavoid, further north Mongoloid
>>18444310the purest are Danes tho
Peasant Republic is an OP government form, two provinces (3 if you nab east Frisia early) is nice in the HRE when your neighbors are all tiny or in Burgundy's case very distracted, plus you're in a super valuable trade node and can relatively easily no CB an Irish minor to jump start new world colonizationI don't think it was that powerful in real life tho
>>18443869Delusional
>>18443819real remnants of Atlantis, not like that mixed germs who go serving jews
>>18445293>I don't think it was that powerful in real life thoThe Frisians in what would become the Netherlands never had "peasant republics" and were ruled by their dukes and princes not any differently than in any other part of the HRE.The proper Frisian Freedom only really developed in East Frisia and some parts of Jutland simply due to the fact that those regions were poor shitholes that often suffered floods and thus were unattractive for getting integrated in the normal feudal systrem. Still early churches and their associated holdings played a large role in codifying the custom laws of those East Frisians as well as their own self rulership. The Peasant Republic of Dithmarschen is the only notable outlyer because it was able to resist integration into the feudal order up until the middle of the 16th century - by that point all other frisian communities were already vassalised by the larger princes like the Archbishops of Bremen or the Dukes of Oldenburg, Braunschweig or Lüneburg. Most importantly however many frisian chiefs simply chose to become normal nobles of the HRE in order to consolidate their rulership.>pic rel: the Battle of Altenesch in 1234 where the frisian Stedinger loose to the troops of Bremen and Oldenburg for the last time and as a result become properly vassalised
