Spain, Flanders, Hungary, Denmark
The development of royal (or princely) law in the period of the Papal Revolution and thereafter was not confined to the "great powers" of that time or of a later time; together with the systematization and expansion
510- of feudal law, manorial law, mercantile law, and urban law, the systematization and expansion of royal law occurred throughout the West, wherever the Roman Catholic Church asserted its independence of the secular authority and wherever the kingship had the task of organizing peace and justice in the secular sphere.
It is important, therefore, to avoid a nationalist interpretation of the development of royal law. That it was a Western phenomenon, and not merely a national phenomenon repeating itself in various countries, is illustrated by the fact that it occurred almos t everywhere_on the geographical periphery of the West as well as at the geographical center.