Answer:
Themselves
Explanation:
Due to the large territory they occupied, that degraded the chain of command and the decisions were taken not in a wise way.
This would be matrilineal, where the line of the mother was the relevant line, and not of the father: in order to be a king, one needed to have the royal mother and the father was irrelevant. The dynasty would be traced by the female line in this case (even if the kings were the rulers).
<span>A common problem in feudal society that the Church tried to stop during holy days and seasons were private wars among the nobles</span>