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This line's claim to the Crown is based upon the argument that Edward IV was not the son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and thus had no legitimate claim to the Crown. [5] Therefore, when Richard was killed at the Battle of Wakefield , his claim passed first to his eldest legitimate son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland , who was executed ...
Frances Margaret Kirkham CBE (born 29 October 1947) [1] is a British judge and former member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. [ 2 ] Kirkham was educated at King's College London where she obtained a BA degree and an AKC qualification, and became a solicitor in 1978.
Claimant Portrait Birth Marriages Death Claim Napoleon I 1814–1815 1815-1821 (Emperor of the French twice: 1st 1804–1814, 2nd Mar-Jun 1815) 15 August 1769, Ajaccio son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino • Joséphine de Beauharnais 9 March 1796 No children • Marie Louise of Parma 11 March 1810 1 son 5 May 1821 Saint Helena aged 51
Frances Batty Shand (c.1815–1885) was an early charitable activist in Cardiff, Wales. Shand was born in about 1815 in Jamaica, [1] the daughter of John Shand, a Scottish plantation owner, and an enslaved woman named Frances Brown. [2] She was sent to live in Elgin, Scotland in 1819, probably to live with an aunt. She remained unmarried. [1] [3]
The Bonapartist claimants since 1879 have been the descendants of Jérôme and Catherine of Württemberg in the male line. The Bonapartist laws of succession were far from traditional. The family members ignored primogeniture (by excluding Lucien Bonaparte and his descendants); they annulled marriages to achieve their goals; and they did not ...
Further invasions to claim the throne were attempted by Edward IV in 1475, Henry VII in 1492 and, finally, by Henry VIII who repeatedly invaded France between 1513 and 1523 with that objective. All failed—by this time the claim had become wholly unrealistic. England and France would continue to fight wars but none were over the claim to the ...
The Orléanist claimant to the throne of France is Jean, Count of Paris.He is the uncontested heir to the Orléanist position of "King of the French" held by Louis-Philippe, and is also considered the Legitimist heir as "King of France" by those who view the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht (by which Philip V of Spain renounced for himself and his agnatic descendants any claim to the French throne) as ...