There are examples of Orthodox-Catholic and Protestant-Catholic marriages but that does not mean the general rule no longer exist.
As for his north-south devide also that is a general, rough line.Catholic lines in Saxony and Poland can hardly been called southern but still.
I'm just surprised that the author didn't mention them -- or Belgium, for that matter -- among the royal houses eligible for intermarriage with Catholic dynasties. Linguistic barriers aside, one occasionally witnessed marriages between German and Latin-language speaking countries. Didn't Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal (daughter of Queen Maria II) marry the future King Georg of Saxony?
Saxony is another good example of a kingdom not mentioned by the author: although the subjects were mostly Protestants, the sovereigns were Catholics.
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