Was the Holy Roman Empire a financial union as well as a defensive union?
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The HRE was a feudal state with strong centrifugal (or separatist) powers and a varying degree of church involvement.
- The emperor could collect taxes with the permission of the Reichstag, often to pay for wars but also e.g. to pay for courts of law.
- Do you count the tithe as a tax? Note that some of the electors were ecclesiastical.
- Do you count a visit by an itinerant court as a tax?
Note that "financial union" as used in the political debate today is something completely different.
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