Those dreams might, as Europe feared, have been realised, had not other States followed France in the path of internal consolidation.

Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, drove out the Moors, and founded the modern Spanish kingdom.

Maximilian married Mary, the daughter of Charles the Bold, and joined the Netherlands to Austria.

United France found herself face to face with other united States, and the political system of modern Europe was roughly sketched out.

The boundaries of the various kingdoms were fluctuating.