Talk:Spainball/@comment-30924651-20170127085337/@comment-29858130-20170130055601

Although the Spanish kings achieved the hereditary rights of the Byzantine emperors, they never saw the importance of using them. The Byzantine hereditary titles never had much connection with the Orthodox Church, so much that Andreas Paleologo (the last heir of the Byzantine Empire) tried to sell the rights to the King of France and later to the Kings of Spain (being that they were Catholics). Germany claimed to be heiress of Rome (Holy Roman Empire) and also Russia (Tsardom of Russia) ... but today the two countries are republics. It is ironic that Spain (which never gave importance to these rights) was who actually received them, not Germany and Russia.