Tanistry
Tanistry Tanistry (Irish/Gaeilge Táinste;Scottish Gaelic/Gàidhlig Tànaisteachd ... one's children grow up into adults. Tanistry, though not intended basically to be such ... 1296 pleaded, among other grounds, the traditional tanistry in his favor. He was primogeniturally seen ... the grandson of the candidate who pleaded tanistry, ascended the throne despite of the ...
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Tanistry   (translated from German)
Tanistry Tanistry (gaelisch Tànaisteachd, German about Chieftain choice) a ... alpine-dynastie that Scottish kings respected the Tanistry tradition to at least 1034 . Still around ... 1090 this custom was isolated used. Finally Tanistry under the rule of the Scottish king ... that Primogenitur by no means recognition. The Tanistry system often led to a rotation ...
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Tanistry   (translated from French)
Tanistry This article is one ébauche to be ... you can share your knowledge in modifying. Tanistry is a habit or a law of ... Enter 843 and 1005 , time when the tanistry applied in Écosse , only two sovereigns out ...
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Talk:Tanistry
Talk:Tanistry October 24 Revisions Just want to state ... t "the Tainiste" be the position, and "Tanistry" the posscess or system of which that ... definition is a little confusing, you define Tanistry as being the position, then use Tainiste ...
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British monarchy
... the system of elective monarchy known as Tanistry was replaced by primogeniture early in the ... were elected under a custom known as tanistry. Although such was not its original purpose, tanistry soon evolved into a system whereby the ... were either murdered or killed in battle. Tanistry and the rotation of the monarchy between ...
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Talk:Scotland in the High Middle Ages
... detail about as a complex system of tanistry involving election of chieftains and low and ... one for Later Medieval Scotland. As for tanistry/primogeniture, I'm personally not convinced that ... David, but wouldn't apply a strict tanistry/primogeniture divide at any period. - Calgacus 19 ...
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Primogeniture
... Scotland 1290-91, the Bruce family pleaded tanistry and proximity of blood, whereas Balliol primogeniture ... methods of alternative order of succession: Seniority Tanistry Degree of kinship, i.e proximity of ... one family "Lottery" Rotation (Taking turns: seniority, tanistry, lottery and election are used and practical ...
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Macbeth of Scotland
... time: One possibility is the system of tanistry, where the Tainiste or heir was chosen ... in Scotland. There is substantial evidence for tanistry from several sources, even up to relatively modern times. Tanistry tends to result in the crown's ...
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British monarchy   (translated from German)
... had not been the original intention, developed Tanistry to a system, with two lines of ... year 1005 had mounted the throne, the Tanistry system and thus the rotation between different ...
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Kenneth III of Scotland   (translated from French)
... inherited the crown by the habit of tanistry who had caused to make alternate the ... Malcolm cousin. This one definitively abolishes the tanistry while making kill all the male descendants ...
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