During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal succession and marriage into other royal and princely families.
Michael Questier shows that while this secured political power, it also caused a lot of religious upheaval in this period of already-fraught western Christendom..
During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal succession and marriage into other royal and princely families