Early feudal monarchy

Early feudal monarchy is a form of government , chronologically the first form of feudal monarchy . It develops during the transition to feudalism , depending on the climatic characteristics of the region, either from the slave system ( Southern Europe , North Africa , Western Asia , Central Asia , India , China ), or directly from the primitive communal system ( Western Europe , see barbaric kingdoms , Northern Europe , Eastern Europe ). It also remains in the period of feudal fragmentation ^[1] . Chronologically precedes the estate-representative monarchy (some researchers identify the intermediate stage of the patrimonial monarchy ).

In the conditions of military democracy, the prince ( king ), relying on the squad , from an elected military leader turns into the head of state and begins to pass the supreme power by inheritance. He begins to appoint officials ( counts , "husbands") as his governors in the districts (in the urban centers of the tribal unions), and later the governors of the monarch replace themselves with elected officials of lower levels ( centurions ).

With the growth of the territory of the state, the growth of the bureaucratic apparatus, the ramification of the ruling dynasty , political decentralization takes place, and large feudal lords begin to influence the approval of a particular candidate on the royal throne. Supreme power becomes nominal.

At the next stage, with the full development of the layer of small feudal lords in the localities and the urban class, the head of state, in alliance with them, gets the opportunity to infringe the rights of the big feudal lords, territorially increase their domain and begin the process of centralizing the state, again to make their power real and hereditary.