Henry was apparently informed of the Wittelsbach's cruel tendencies and in an act of concern for his young daughter decided to terminate the marriage agreement.

To Jacobites, who trace the line of legitimate British monarchy down through the legal heirs of James II of England, the head of the house of Wittelsbach is the legitimate heir of the Stuart claims to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; this claim is not being actively pursued.

When his brother Engelbert III died without heirs in 1173 he could unite a significant number of territories under his rule and confirmed his independence when the Bavarian ducal title passed to the House of Wittelsbach in 1180.

When the last male member of the Salian dynasty, Emperor Henry V, had died without heirs in 1125, a controversy arose about the succession.

The heirs of the main Luxembourg dynasty were not happy with the arrangement the Burgundians had made, and managed at times to wrest the possession from Burgundy.

Thus, Luxembourg returned to the heirs of the old Luxembourg dynasty – at least those of the line of Elisabeth.

In 2002, a new treaty between France and Monaco clarifies that if there are no heirs to carry on the dynasty, the Principality will remain an independent nation, rather than be annexed by France.

On 7 July 1032, in Merseburg a meeting took place between Conrad II and the surviving heirs of the Piast dynasty.

Thus, Rudolph surpassed the two heirs of the Hohenstaufen dynasty that he had earlier served so loyally.

The Patriarchate was restored by the conquering Islamic Ottoman ruler, Sultan Mehmed II, who wished to establish his dynasty as the direct heirs of the Eastern Roman Emperors, and who adopted the imperial title Kayser-i-Rûm " Caesar of Rome ", one of his subsidiary titles but a most significant one.

The Tudor dynasty ended with the childless Elizabeth I, and the line of succession to the English throne was passed through Margaret's heirs.

In 2002, a new treaty between France and Monaco clarifies that if there are no heirs to carry on the dynasty, the principality will remain an independent nation rather than revert to France ( which were the terms of the previous arrangement ).

For political purposes, the early Manchu emperors took wives descended from the Mongol Great Khans, so that their descendants ( such as the Kangxi Emperor ) would also be seen as legitimate heirs of the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty.

In France, supporters of traditional rule by direct heirs of the House of Bourbon dynasty were labeled the legitimist reaction.

The crown of Denmark could be inherited by female heirs ( see Louise of Hesse ); in the duchy of Holstein the Salic law had never been repealed and, in the event of a failure of male heirs to Christian VIII, the succession would pass to the Dukes of Augustenburg — although this was debatable as the dynasty itself had received Holstein by Christian I of Denmark being the son of the sister of the last Schauenburg, Adolphus VIII.

Thus, the heirs of the five regent houses ( go-seike ) of the Fujiwara dynasty ( Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Ichijō, and Nijō ) all became princes.

Apparently, she had no heirs, causing the twelfth dynasty to come to a sudden end as did the Golden Age of the Middle Kingdom, which was succeeded by the much weaker thirteenth dynasty of Egypt.

Judaea at first retained its independence, but an internal struggle between pro-Roman and pro-Persian heirs of the Hasmonean dynasty, eventually led Herod the Great to assume power in 37 BCE, making Judaea a client Kingdom of Rome.

Its ruling family lay claim to being the heirs to the Mataram dynasty.

Ever since the Papacy recognized the Hanoverian dynasty in January 1766, none of the immediate royal heirs has been a Catholic, and thereby disallowed by the Act.

Though Vorian continues traveling the universe even after the fall of the machines, his heirs establish the Atreides dynasty there.

The marriage was arranged to provide the new Bernadotte dynasty with heirs and for the enormous dowry expected ; although in reality, the dowry was very small.

In addition to exercising considerable power and wealth, the Albany Stewarts were potential heirs to the throne ; Murdoch's grandfather was King Robert II of Scotland, who had founded the Stewart dynasty.

The Banu Qasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi (, meaning " sons " or " heirs of Cassius ") or Banu Musa were a Basque Muladi dynasty that ruled the upper Ebro valley in the 9th century, before being displaced in the first quarter of the 10th century.

At the time few members of the Tudor dynasty remained alive and several descendants of the previous English royal house of Plantagenet were seen as possible heirs to the throne.

The emancipation plan would not only be injurious to all the heirs, he contended, but would be a form of cruelty perpetrated on the hapless Negroes.

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

Although a concubine could produce heirs, her children would be inferior in social status to " legitimate " children.

In the second, since he had no heirs and if he should die abroad the estates would pass to his sister, Mary, he entailed the lands of the earldom on his first cousin, Hugh Vere.

He too had no other heirs ; so his emperor's brother would follow him on the throne.

Each of these brothers would ascend the throne as adopted heirs of Seinei, although it is unclear whether they had been " found " in Seinei's lifetime or only after that.

In Smithson's will, he stated that should his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, die without heirs, the Smithson estate would go to the government of the United States to create an " Establishment for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge among men ".

By the end of the year, he completed the manuscript for Astronomia nova, though it would not be published until 1609 due to legal disputes over the use of Tycho's observations, the property of his heirs.

Israel declared that they would be heirs to the inheritance of the house of Israel, as if they were his own children, just as Reuben and Simeon were.

John's position was undermined by Walter's relative popularity and by the news that Richard had married whilst in Cyprus, which presented the possibility that Richard would have legitimate children and heirs.

Mormons teach that " all who have died without a knowledge of gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God.

Many defendants charged with capital offences nonetheless refused to plead, since thereby they would escape forfeiture of property, and their heirs would still inherit their estate ; but if the defendant pleaded guilty and was executed, their heirs would inherit nothing, their property escheating to the Crown.

An example of this would be that if a person is electrocuted by a wiring defect incorporated into a structure in, say, 1990, a state law may allow his heirs to sue only before 1997 in the case of an open ( patent ) defect, or before 2000 in the case of a hidden defect.

Some Hungarian nobles proposed that Ferdinand, who was ruler of neighbouring Austria and tied to Louis II's family by marriage, be King of Hungary, citing previous agreements that the Habsburgs would take the Hungarian throne if Louis died without heirs.

He also allowed Hürrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of her life, breaking another tradition — that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.

A member of the Company would register the book, and would then have a perpetual copyright over its printing, copying and publication, which could be leased, transferred to others or given to heirs upon the member's death.

This means, for example, that any change to the Act of Settlement's provisions barring Roman Catholics from the throne or giving male heirs precedence over females would require the unanimous consent of the parliaments of all the other Commonwealth realms if the unity of the Crown is to be retained.