I think it would have been hard for them to sell that. Their entire political argument centered around the nobility’s resistance to a tyrannical monarch, not the need to put down over-mighty vassals.
Re: Richelieu’s destruction of castles: do you think Robert/Jon Arryn could have pulled off something similar in the wake of Robert’s Rebellion? It seems like a major missed opportunity for Robert’s new regime not to try some sort of reform, given the strength of the Baratheon-Arryn-Stark-Tully-Lannister coalition and the lack of credible opposition.
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