How do Lords Paramount of their Region and the King collect taxes? In Dragons, Stags, and Copper Stars? In items like food or cloth or etc.? Do the Stormlands receive less taxes because they have the Marcher Lords and those guys historically didn’t have to give taxes to their liege I think?
Probably a mix of in cash and in kind, although you can always sell the in-kind stuff if you need the readies and if you don’t need the goods.
That’s a very astute observation! My answer is, yes and no. Keep in mind, the feudal contracts of the marcher lords would have been written when the Storm Kings were their monarchs, so they wouldn’t have intermediate liege lords, but would owe their fealty to Storm’s End. That wouldn’t change when Aegon came around, so the Baratheons aren’t getting cut out completely. What is the case is that the Marcher Lords (and keep in mind, there are Marcher Lords in the Reach as well) wouldn’t pay as much as other lords, since they get to keep “feudal due, aid, grant, and relief" from their own vassals to pay for their castles out of their own pockets.
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