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The 24 pages that link to Personal union, each with the reason it gives.
Habsburg MonarchyRelated: Habsburg rulers held multiple crowns without merging all their territories into one state.
Crown of AragonNarrower topic: The Crown’s realms shared a sovereign, making this a useful broader model for its structure.
Acts of Union 1707Narrower topic: This broader constitutional form describes the 1603 arrangement that the 1707 acts superseded.
Ferdinand II of AragonNarrower topic: The crowns under Ferdinand and Isabella shared rulers without becoming a unified state.
James VI and INarrower topic: James’s crowns formed a personal union, not a single unified state.
Union of LublinNarrower topic: Earlier Polish–Lithuanian ties often resembled this looser arrangement rather than the 1569 union.
Wilhelm IICompared with: Wilhelm’s crowns of Germany and Prussia belonged to one federal empire, not separate sovereign states.
Union of KrewoNarrower topic: This model captures the early dynastic connection without implying a single merged state.
Treaty of KielRelated: The later Swedish–Norwegian arrangement differed from simple absorption into Sweden.
Commonwealth realmRelated: The realms share a monarch, though their constitutional relationship is more formally coordinated than many historical unions.
Union of the CrownsNarrower topic: It describes the constitutional arrangement created when James inherited multiple crowns.
Jagiellonian dynastyNarrower topic: Jagiellonian rulers often governed Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia, or Hungary through linked crowns.
Polish–Lithuanian UnionNarrower topic: For much of its history, the Polish–Lithuanian relationship functioned through a shared dynasty.
Kingdom of Great BritainCompared with: Before 1707, England and Scotland shared a monarch without sharing a state.
Catholic MonarchsNarrower topic: Castile and Aragon shared rulers through dynastic union but remained separate political communities.
DynastyRelated: Inheritance could place multiple states under one ruler without merging them.
Denmark–NorwayNarrower topic: This broader form helps distinguish a shared crown from a single unified state.
North Sea EmpireNarrower topic: The kingdoms remained distinct, united principally through Cnut’s personal authority.
Union between Sweden and NorwayNarrower topic: This was the union’s defining constitutional form.
Erik of PomeraniaNarrower topic: The union under Erik depended on a shared ruler rather than a unified state.
William III of the NetherlandsNarrower topic: It explains how William III ruled both the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Heinrich von BrühlNarrower topic: The Saxon and Polish crowns shared Augustus III, but their governments remained separate.
Croatia–Hungary personal unionNarrower topic: This constitutional form describes the union’s basic structure.
Royal intermarriageRelated: Royal marriages could prepare the inheritance claims behind such unions.