Dynastic history, the dominant model of early modern historiography, developed from the end of the Middle Ages at almost all the major European courts. Its key subject was the particular ruling house, and its job was to trace back to their origins and lend historical legitimacy to as old and illustrious a “lineage” as possible, using genealogies or succession sequences of royal or princely incumbents [5]; [6]. The building blocks of dynastic histories were the universal and regional historiography of the coun…