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When a monarch dies without a clear successor, a succession crisis often ensues, frequently resulting in a war of succession. For example, when King Charles IV of France died, the Hundred Years War erupted between Charles' cousin, Philip VI of France , and Charles' nephew, Edward III of England , to determine who would succeed Charles as the ...
After her last child died in 1700, only Princess Anne was left in the line of succession set by the Bill of Rights. James II and VII, a Roman Catholic, followed his brother Charles II, despite efforts in the late 1670s to exclude him in favour of Charles's illegitimate Protestant son, the Duke of Monmouth. James was deposed when his Protestant ...
In addition to excluding James II, who died a few months after the Act received royal assent, and his Roman Catholic children, Prince James (The Old Pretender) and the Princess Royal, the Act also excluded the descendants of Princess Henrietta, the youngest sister of James II.
The years-long court battle over Prince’s $156 million estate came to a close this week when a Minnesota judge signed The post Estate of Prince, who died without a will, finally settled; 50/50 ...
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, eldest son of Maria Theresia; Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, second son of Rupprecht, his elder brother Luitpold died in childhood; Franz, Duke of Bavaria, elder son of Albrecht; When Franz dies, his claim on the English and Scottish crowns [14] will pass to his younger brother Prince Max.
There are few, if any, Old Testament or apocryphal writings that could be construed as implying particular judgment. The first century Jewish pseudepigraphal writing known as the Testament of Abraham includes a clear account of particular judgment, in which souls go either through the wide gate of destruction or the narrow gate of salvation.
Queen Elizabeth II has died at age 96, the Royal Family has confirmed."The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon," a statement issued by Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening at 6:30 p ...
Arms of Philip Howard from 1557 to 1572: Quarterly of 4: 1: Gules, on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard, with augmentation of honor); 2: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure a label of three ...