World Scholars Cup- History- The
History of Succession
Line of Succession
the order in which individuals are expected to succeed one another in some official position
absolute primogeniture
the first born becomes the monarch or inherited title, no matter if the child is a boy or girl
agnatic primogeniture
Succession only through males in a dynastic line (used in Feudal Europe Monarchies)
illegitimate child
offspring of unmarried parents
coronation
ceremony of crowning a queen or king
abdication
to give up one's position of authority
usurper
one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
regency
A government or period of time in which a regent rules in place of a king or queen.
Act of Settlement 1701
No Catholic could be king of England; this excluded the descendants of James II, known in
the following century as the Pretenders - James III and Charles(Bonnie Prince - the Old and
the Young Pretenders) who would receive some support from Jacobites who resisted
Hanoverian kings after last of Stuarts, Queen Anne died in 1714. This brought the Scottish
and English throne together.
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