> in the 11th to the 13th centuries the lands of halton and the land of merseyside were united under the normans, who created the kingdom of merseyside, who for a time was one of the major powers of the northeast under the scouse dynasty > however, in 1266, conflict between the scouse dynasty and the angevins led to the kingdom's conquest by wool i, duke of birkenhead, who proceded to woolify the place > this was highly unpopular amongst the peasants of merseyside, who revolted and made the beatles to be their new rulers, starting the war of the scouse vespers between scouse dynasty and the house of wool > the resulting peace divided the old kingdom in two, with the lamd in eastern merseyside remaining under wool control, alongside with the official title of kingdom of merseyside (although it would be retroactively be known as the "kingdom of wools") > meanwhile the scousers got the western lamds of liverpool, but since they couldn't crown themselves as kings of merseyside (since wools still kept the name rights), they named it the "kingdom of mersey beyond the lighthouse"  > later on, the beatles unified both halves of the old kingdom of merseyside, but still kept both titles separate since it meant more titles to stuff in their name, but simplified by just calling both titles as kingdom of merseyside, yet despite now being in personal union, they remained administratively separate. > in the next centuries, the spanish, the austrian habsburgs and the bourbouns took control over the kingdoms and maintained the same arrangement as the beatles > however, during the napoleonic wars, napoleon conquered the lands of liverpool, and reorganized it into a republic, later a kingdom ruled by one of his brothers, meanwhile, the king and the court to fled to manchester where they resisted > after the defeat of napoleon, the king returned, and redrew borders in europe, he decided to formally unite both halves, by dissolving the kingdom of merseyside beyond the lighthouse
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