Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of the individuals who were, at any given time, considered the next in line to inherit the throne of Scotland, should the incumbent monarch die.
Malcolm II King of Scots c. 980 –1034 r. 1005–1034: Bethóc: Crínán of Dunkeld Mormaer of Atholl d. 1045: Edward the Exile 1016–1057: Duncan I c. 1001 –1040 r. 1034–1040
Royalty portal; Scotland portal; This category covers individuals who were heirs apparent or heirs presumptive or were designated heirs by will or by legislation to the throne of the Kingdom of Scotland prior to the Union of the Crowns in 1603, but for some reason did not become Scottish Monarchs.
After the loss of the throne, the descendants of James VII and II continued for several generations to attempt to reclaim the Scottish and English (and later British) throne as the rightful heirs, their supporters being known as Jacobites. Since the early 19th century, when the James II direct line failed, there have been no active claimants ...
The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin were divided into two branches; the crown would alternate between the two, the death of a king from one branch often hastened by war or assassination by a pretender from the other. Malcolm II was the last king of the House of Alpin; in his reign, he successfully crushed all opposition to him and, having no ...
The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701.
Unlike most peerages, many Scottish titles have been granted with remainder to pass via female offspring (thus an Italian family has succeeded to and presently holds the earldom of Newburgh [1]), and in the case of daughters only, these titles devolve to the eldest daughter rather than falling into abeyance (as is the case with ancient English ...
The following is the Jacobite line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones as of the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, on 1 August 1714. It reflects the laws current in England and Scotland immediately before the Act of Settlement 1701 , which disqualified Catholics from the throne.