Stephen had to face the rebellion of his relative, Koppány who claimed Géza's inheritance based on the Hungarian tradition of agnatic seniority.

Later, when lands were strictly divided among noble families and tended to remain fixed, agnatic primogeniture ( practically the same as Salic Law ) became usual: succession going to the eldest son of the monarch ; if the monarch had no sons, the throne would pass to the nearest male relative in the male line.

However, the principle of agnatic primogeniture later became dominant, although succession to the throne at the death of the monarch could be claimed by any male blood relative of the Emperor-sons, brothers, uncles or cousins.

John William Friso, the senior agnatic descendant of William the Silent's brother and a cognatic descendant of Frederick Henry, grandfather of William III, claimed the succession as stadtholder in all provinces held by William III.

Therefore Luxembourg still had agnatic heirs from another branch of the House of Nassau left to succeed, while in the Netherlands the male line starting with William I was depleted.

They claim the principality of Orange on the basis of agnatic inheritance, similar to that of William the Silent, inheriting from his cousin René, though not being descendants of the original princes of Orange.

He died, childless, at Stuttgart on 6 October 1891, and was succeeded as King of Württemberg by his agnatic nephew, his sister's son, William II of Württemberg.

The problem lay in the fact that Henry was only the most prominent male heir, the most senior in terms of agnatic descent from Edward III.

The Duke of York was the heir-general of Edward III, and the heir presumptive ( due to agnatic descent ) of Henry's grandson Henry VI ( since Henry IV's other sons did not have male heirs, and the legitimated Beauforts were excluded from the throne ).

It was easy to see that the agnatic succession from King Frederick III of Denmark would probably become extinct within a generation.

The agnatic descendants of Frederick III became extinct when Frederick VII died, and at that point, the succession law promulgated by Frederick III provided for succession by male-preference primogeniture.

This is why it has been used as part of their titles by the emperors of Russia until 1917 since their agnatic line traces back to Peter III of Russia, first Russian ruler of the House of Oldenburg.

This was not to be a revival of the House of Lancaster, since Henry was not an agnatic descendant of John of Gaunt.

However, Salic law disregarded all female lines, and he was unable to wrest the throne from his Valois cousins, who were senior to him by agnatic primogeniture.

In a strictly agnatic line of succession, in which only a son, grandson, great-grandson, etc., or a brother, a half-brother who has the same father, a cousin who shares a paternal grandfather, etc., may inherit, every member of the line would theoretically have identical Y chromosomes, except for the pseudoautosomal region and any mutations that may have happened.

On 8 February 1960, after the death of Queen Mary and the resignation of Churchill, the Queen confirmed that she and her children would continue to be known as the House and Family of Windsor, as would any agnatic descendants who enjoy the style of Royal Highness and the title of Prince or Princess.

Still, Elizabeth also decreed that her agnatic descendants who do not have that style and title would bear the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.

The term " dynast " is sometimes used to refer to agnatic descendants of a realm's monarchs, and sometimes to those who hold succession rights through cognatic royal descent.

As such he is recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists who adhere to the succession of Louis-Philippe (" Orléanists "), as well as by the " Unionist " faction that rejects Louis-Philippe's title but recognizes his grandson Philippe, Count of Paris ( 1838 – 1894 ) as the heir of the rival claimant Henry, Count of Chambord, the last direct agnatic descendant of King Louis XV.

From the late Republic onward, a woman who inherited a share equal with her brothers would have been independent of agnatic control.

However, by Letters Patent of 8 February 1960, Queen Elizabeth II declared that her children with Prince Philip would belong to the House of Windsor, as would any agnatic descendants who enjoy the style of Royal Highness, and the title of Prince or Princess.

He was also an agnatic descendant of Hedwig of Schauenburg ( countess of Oldenburg ), mother of the first King Christian I of Denmark, whose sons were the " Semi-Salic " heirs of her childless brother Count Adolf VIII of Holstein, who died in 1459, the last Schauenburg Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein.

Succession based on agnatic seniority or rotation was often limited to those princes who were sons of an earlier reigning monarch.

The fully agnatic succession also did not serve the interests of individual monarchs who favoured close female relatives and their descendants over very distant male relatives.

It was sometimes used in Morocco by the Alaouite dynasty until it was definitely abolished by King Mohammed V ( 1957 – 1961 ) who introduced agnatic primogeniture.

Today, Japan uses strict agnatic primogeniture, which was adopted from Prussia, by which Japan was greatly influenced in the 1870s.

In parts of medieval and later Europe, the Salic Law was purported to be the grounds for males alone being eligible to inherit land, with particular emphasis applied to hereditary succession of monarchies and fiefs, i. e. in patrilineal or agnatic succession.

In the early Republic, inheritance could only occur within the family, and was therefore purely agnatic.

Rudolph I's last agnatic descendant was Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( 1717 – 1780 ), by Albert I of Germany's fourth son Albert II, Duke of Austria.

The Emperor's position, unless deposed in a rebellion, was always hereditary, usually by agnatic primogeniture.

In 1328, Philip's first cousin, King Charles IV, died without an agnatic male descendant ; however, at the time of his death his wife was pregnant.

The matriline of historical nobility was also called her or his enatic or uterine ancestry, corresponding to the patrilineal agnatic ancestry treated in depth in the article Patrilineality.

However, a grand prince was usually only primus inter pares within a dynasty, other princes of the dynasty were approximately as entitled to succession as the then ruler ( succession was for example through agnatic seniority or rotation ), and often other members of the dynasty ruled parts of the same realm as some sort of " sub-princes ".

In 1980, the old principle of agnatic primogeniture, which meant that the throne was inherited by the eldest male child of the preceding monarch, was replaced by the principle of equal primogeniture.

In 1980, the rule of succession was changed from agnatic to equal primogeniture.

The royal succession in Celtic Scotland was limited to the elective agnatic or male line of the Siol Alpein ( House of Alpin ) until the accession of King Malcolm II in 1005.

( These features make tanistry an agnatic succession mode, and a succession by appointment, as it was an elective monarchy.

Originally, the Danish prime minister Christian Albrecht Bluhme wanted to keep the separate principles, but in the end the government decided on a uniform agnatic primogeniture, which was accepted by the parliament.

The Ghicas also held the ( agnatic ) rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire ( Fürst ), a title first bestowed upon Grigore II Ghica in 1673 by Leopold I.

As a male agnatic descendant of both the first Earl of Iveagh and the first Guinness Baronet of Ashford, he is also in remainder to these two titles.

His family owned the village until they died out in the agnatic line in 1696, after which the Counts of Stadion were enfoeffed with Warthausen and thereby also Aßmannshardt.