kings were fairly good in germanic nations because they generally governed kin a

kings were fairly good in germanic nations because they generally governed kin and near kin. It is in a king’s natural interest to produce a middle class polity from which he can draw wealth. It is in his natural interest to virtue signal for having done so. One does not need to ‘be’ anything other than dependent upon income(middle), and limited by the militia(all) and the judiciary(elite) and the church(lower).