Well, Westeros as a whole didn’t have a succession dspute at a time when there was a powerful neighbor on the continent to ask. The Valyrian Empire was dead and done, the Volantine attempt to rebuild it was dead and gone, and none of the feuding Free Cities were powerful enough on their own for anyone to care about what they thought.
Reading your Great Council essays made me remember the Great Cause in Scotland after the deaths of Alexander III and Margaret, Maid of Norway. It’s especially interesting that Edward I was brought in to arbitrate because of his naked ambition for suzerainty over Scotland, though maybe John Balliol thought he wouldn’t be that hard to deal with. But from a comparative perspective does it make sense that Westeros never tried to involve a foreign power to help arbitrate succession disputes?
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