RE: Re: Priests in Space! [was nomenclature etc.]

From: Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org

>Actually, under the English system, the estate went to the oldest son;
it was younger sons who had problems. The French system of division,
which you outline, actually caused much bigger problems, because it 
often ended up with a situation in which nobody's parcel of land was 
big enough to support him.

And the Crusaders were largely French--in fact, a lot of the political
problems between the Crusader states came about because one power group
was from northern France and another was from Languedoc 

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