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6 de nov. de 2018 · I heard that the Witan would elect an Ætheling to be King after the previous King died and it typically followed primogeniture. Was primogeniture a requirement for succession or did the Witan have the full authority to choose among any member of the royal family?
- There is a lot that we do not fully understand about the details of the succession in Anglo Saxon England. Indeed, it seems quite likely that the...
- Technically, at that time kings were decided upon by the Witenagemot (assembly). We're not sure how pro-forma that typically was, but this was th...
- Here is a list of the various successions of the monarchs of the house of Wessex beginning with the death of King Ecgberht who founded a new branch...
The rules of succession, being a product of the religious struggles of the seventeenth century, are now ripe for reform. So also is the Royal Marriages Act. Keywords: Act of Settlement, Bill of Rights, constitution, constitutional monarchy, constitutional reform, parliament, regency, royal family, Royal Marriages Act, succession.
This chapter examines the role which late Anglo-Saxon kings were expected to perform in the field of law and order. This is an important subject in its own right, but it is also crucial context in which to interpret the findings of the previous chapter and indeed those of the next two: late Anglo-Saxon kings’ legal achievements can only properly be assessed in the context of contemporary ...
A parallel is found in another familial entry in a gospel book from Christ Church, which included the names of Cnut and his brother Harold, followed by the names of three of Cnut’s Scandinavian followers: Liber Vitae, ed. Keynes, 55; N. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon, Oxford 1957, no. 247 (BL, Royal 1 D. xi (Christ Church, s. xi1), fol. 43v). 42 Carmen, ed. Morton and ...
- Tom Licence
Harthacnut was no better, and on his arrival in London in 1042 the new king ordered the remains of his half-brother to be exhumed, the body beheaded (according to some accounts), and the remains dumped in a swamp. his was unprecedented, high proile, and a deliberate act to vilify Harold as a usurper who was to be denied the protocol of honorable royal burial. his was, so the author suggests ...
- Christian Steer
3 de may. de 2024 · The royal line of succession is the order in which members of the British Royal Family stand in line to inherit the throne. Children of the sovereign are first in order, followed by the nearest blood relative should a ruling monarch be childless. Once a monarch's reign ends, the line of succession promptly shifts.
27 de jul. de 2023 · On 22 May 1997 at Dresden, all of the living princes and princesses of the Royal House of Saxony, including living consorts (morganatic or otherwise) who had married princes of the blood, agreed to a succession agreement as it pertained to the future of the Saxon royal family.
