Again, a very good picture drawn of the political decline of arustocracy. Thank-you. Considering the wars and upheavals, including invasions since the fall of Logres and the making of Anglaland, through fifteen hundred years of changing Royals and Religions, it is amazing that there were not more like The Earl of Athol with their own army. For most who only see the Bernard Cornwall series of Uhtred, the Island was always in upheaval or thinking about being so. Even the Royals after William 1, rarely saw a reign without some uprising. Since most of the original aristos came from being generals of war hosts or marrying their sons or daughters to families of such, that they were able to build enough peace, for the advent of their own downfall in the industrial revolution is a pretty good effort against the centuries it took. 😇