User blog comment:Imperium Guy/British-German Union/@comment-32656-20120925014416/@comment-32656-20120926034126

Tribes moved around so much in that period, that there is no way that an English ruler could get to the Saxons on the mainland. And the ones that stayed behind within a couple decades were completely different from the ones in England - and the areas they took over had entirely different cultures to begin with, too.

The HRE is not Germany. Not even close. Such a marriage would not have any real impact on Germany itself - the only result would be wars with France. He'd still break away from Rome at some point.

The third one is just ridiculous in general.