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Agnatic seniority
Agnatic seniority Agnatic (or patrilineal) descent is established by tracing ... hereditary monarchies, particularly in more ancient times, seniority was a much-used principle of order of succession. Under agnatic seniority or patrilineal seniority, succession to ...
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Talk:Agnatic seniority
Talk:Agnatic seniority I feel that the article doesn't make sufficiently clear why agnatic succession "means basically the complete exclusion of ... there some masculine connotation to the term 'agnatic' that I'm missing? Other readers might ... does the sentence 'Its one form is agnatic seniority or patrilineal seniority, ....' mean that ...
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Talk:Primogeniture
... 125 16:24, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) Agnatic Poking around the web suggests that "agnatic primogeniture" means males, then females, rather than ... women are a bit subordinate to men. Agnatic means pure male line. If you poke ... some more in documents, you realize that agnatic relatives in literature are such that descent ... old term "cognatic" meaning the lineal. And agnatic in their minds also moved from ...
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Salic law
... wanted to forbid inheritance by a woman. Agnatic succession Main article: Agnatic succession Agnatic succession means succession to the throne or ... very distant cousins included). Chief forms are agnatic seniority and agnatic primogeniture. The latter, which ...
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Primogeniture
... children, by collateral relatives, in order of seniority of the collateral line. It is often ... warring, marauding, robber expeditions and duels. Definitions Agnatic primogeniture or patrilineal primogeniture (a form of ... happens at least in two known systems: Agnatic Primogeniture and Quasi-Salic Succession . Only males ... the subject has no sons. The term agnatic-cognatic primogeniture is used in the same ... not consistent. Historical examples A case of agnatic primogeniture is exemplified in the French ...
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Monarch
... based on some cognatic principles and on seniority, though also merits have influenced. Thus, the ... to win the battle against proximity, tanistry, seniority and election. Later, when lands were strictly ... noble families and tended to remain fixed, agnatic primogeniture (practically the same as Salic Law ... to the monarch's children after that (= agnatic seniority). In some other monarchies (e.g. ...
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Talk:Cognatic succession
... any other succession: appointment or election, partition, seniority, primogeniture, etc. cognatic primogeniture nowadays refers to ... children, by collateral relatives in order of seniority of the collateral line. Primogeniture is often ... the subject has no sons. The term agnatic-cognatic primogeniture is used in the same ... sort of succession or inheritance by females. Agnatic succession is inheritance by the male line ... opposite of cognatic succession. A case of agnatic primogeniture is exemplified in the French ...
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Matrilineal succession
... And a further one would be matrilineal seniority, where the eldest sister is succeeded by ... will have their turns, in order of seniority. Marriage of female relatives, particularly daughters, to ... is the analogy in female terms with agnatic succession). As matrilineal succession has already established ... needed, since there exists the precise counterpart, agnatic succession the concept is needed for hypothetical ... females, in the extreme male side is agnatic succession, and correspondingly the analogy of ...
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Talk:Kings of Jerusalem
... careful reasoning favor the said order of seniority. 62.78.124.208 07:04, 25 ... careful reasoning favor the said order of seniority. 62.78.124.208 07:04, 25 ... Charles II than Charles Robert. That was SENIORITY and proximity controlling - and those principles tended ... have been primogeniture and heir-general (and agnatic and male). Next, Joanna succeeded Robert. Or ... rights (Louis was superseded), primogeniture, Salic Law, agnatic. Joanna really got overwhelming support when ...
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User talk:Mississippienne
... in succession. I believe that so-called agnatic seniority was the most usual form of succession ... as a restriction in some succwessions by agnatic seniority: sons of those brothers who died before ... most often primogeniture, but sometimes proximity or seniority. Northern France was not a region ...
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