One notable use was during the French Revolution, when the dethroned King Louis XVI ( a member of the House of Bourbon and a direct male-line descendant of Hugh Capet ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ) were referred to as " Louis and Antoinette Capet " ( the queen being addressed as " the Widow Capet " after the execution of her husband ).

There is suspicion that Emperor Keitai ( c. 500 AD ) may have been an unrelated outsider, though the sources state that he was a male-line descendant of Emperor Ōjin.

As a male-line descendant of George I, Queen Victoria was herself a member of the House of Hanover.

Henry IV of France was his direct male-line descendant.

Rather than proclaim his near kinship with recent kings — grandson of Flann, nephew of Donnchad and Niall Glúndub — Congalach's propagandists preferred to advance his claim to rule as a male-line descendant in the tenth generation of Áed Sláine ( died circa 604 ).

In Joseon Dynasty, the title " Prince " was used for the king's male-line descendant.

( As a male-line descendant of Charles Lyttelton, Lyttelton was in remainder to both the Viscountcy Cobham and the Barony of Lyttelton.

Madison's last known male-line descendant, William never married and was not known to have had children.

This noble family descended in the male line from Henry Spencer, claimed to be a descendant of the cadet branch of the ancient House Le Despencer ( died c. 1478 ), male-line ancestor of the Earls of Sunderland, the later Dukes of Marlborough, and the Earls Spencer.

As a male-line descendant of Christian IX of Denmark he retains his title as Prince of Denmark.

On the other hand, the German aristocrat Ernst August, Prince of Hanover ( born 1954 ), a male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom, possesses no legal British name, titles or styles ( although he is entitled to re-claim the once-royal dukedom of Cumberland ), was born in the line of succession to the British crown and is bound by Britain's Royal Marriages Act 1772.

However, he was still of the royal house since he was a direct male-line descendant of King Telumehtar Umbardacil.

He is the senior male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom.

Caroline is the wife of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, the head of the House of Hanover and pretender to the former throne of the Kingdom of Hanover, as well as senior male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom.

He was the last male-line descendant of Carlos V.

Officially, Don was the style for a principe or duca ( and any legitimate, male-line descendant ) who was a member of the nobility ( as distinct from a reigning prince or duke, who was generally entitled to some form of the higher style of Altezza ).

As a legitimate male-line descendant of George III, he remained a member of the British Royal Family, and second in line to the British throne, until the birth of Queen Victoria's first child, Victoria, Princess Royal, in 1840.

As a male-line descendant of the first Marquess of Atholl he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles and by special remainder to the Dukedom, which are now held by his kinsman Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl.

As a male-line descendant of the fifth Marquess of Lothian he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a male-line descendant of the first Earl of Powis he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a male-line descendant of Sir Henry Blunt, 2nd Baronet, he is also in remainder to this title.

The first Viscountess was the sister of Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Penrhyn, whilst Edward FitzRoy was the second son of Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton, and a male-line descendant of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton.

As a male-line descendant of both the third Baron Southampton and the second Duke of Grafton, he is also in remainder to these peerages.

As a male-line descendant of the first Marquess Conyngham, he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

Lord Rathcavan was also a male-line descendant of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester ( see the Marquess of Donegall ).

These represent all the male-line heirs of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ( 1844 – 1900 ).

However, it is now very unlikely that the Dukedom will be passed to a woman or through a woman, since all the male-line descendants of Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland-including the line of the Earls Spencer as well as the Spencer-Churchill family-would have to become extinct.

Although in the United Kingdom there is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty ( HM ), or Her or His Royal Highness ( HRH ) are always considered members, which usually results in the application of the term to the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widowed consorts of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the spouses and the widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.

Denmark's kings gave appanages in their twin-duchies of Schleswig-Holstein ( now three-fourths of them is part of Germany, but then the Holstein half of it was part of the Holy Roman Empire in personal union with Denmark proper ) to younger sons and / or their male-line descendants, with a specific though not sovereign title of Duke, e. g., Duke of Gottorp, Duke of Sonderburg, Duke of Augustenborg, Duke of Franzhagen, Duke of Beck, Duke of Glucksburg and Duke of Norburg.

The Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg however, styles all its members as " Royal Highness " since 1919 ; this is due to the fact that they are cadet members of the Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma, as male-line descendants of Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma.

*" Y-chromosomal Adam ", the most recent male-line common ancestor of all living men, was much more recent than Mitochondrial Eve, but is also likely to have been long before the Identical ancestors point.

Although a male-line relationship is suggested by the fact that Louis II and Rainer III shared the last name Grimaldi, this actually resulted from Prince Pierre taking his wife's maiden surname as his own surname, which is a form of " false paternal event " ( a situation in which a male's surname differs from that of his genetic father ).

Thus Queen Victoria belonged to the House of Hanover, but her male-line descendants belong to the house of her husband Albert, which is Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a branch of the House of Wettin.

Yet he is not a male-line member of the royal family, and is therefore not a dynast of the House of Windsor.

According to straightforward male-line descent, the current claimant is the 2nd Duke's great-grandson.

Arnulf is thus the male-line grandfather of Pepin of Herstal, great-grandfather of Charles Martel and 3rd great grandfather of Charlemagne.

Under the latter's jurisdiction, the right to arms is acquired exclusively either by proving descent in an unbroken male-line from someone registered as so entitled or by a new grant from the King of Arms.

However, this can only be so if the inheritor is a legitimate male-line descendent of the person originally granted with the arms.

His male-line descendants would have borne the title Count Bernadotte, but in fact his only child, is a daughter ( Mrs. Madeleine Kogevinas, Countess Madeleine Bernadotte ).

Numerous noble Russian and Ruthenian families claim a male-line descent from Rurik, and via Anne of Kiev, wife of Henry I of France, Rurikid ancestry can also be argued for numerous Western European lineages.

In Luxembourg, more senior members of the family have also been Royal Highnesses, but only due to their status as Princes of Bourbon-Parma ( itself an inconsistency as Parma was only ducal, but this family has male-line descent from kings of Etruria, Spain and France ).

Unlike the commoner status of a British peer's wife and descendants ( yet typical of the nobility of every continental European country ), the legitimate children and male-line descendants of any French nobleman ( whether titled or not, whether possessing a French peerage or not ) were also legally noble ad infinitum.

It was being decided who the next shogun would be, and Masako and Regent Yoshitoki finally decided on Kujō Yoritsune, otherwise known as Fujiwara no Yoritsune, who was not an adult, but a baby, and also not a Hōjō nor a male-line Minamoto, but rather, a member of the Kujō clan, which was part of the Fujiwara clan.

As the male-line granddaughter of a King of Hanover, Princess Mary Adelaide also bore the titles of Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Brunswick and Lunenburg

As the male-line grandson of a King of Hanover, Prince George of Cambridge also bore the titles of Prince of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick and Lünenburg.

As the male-line granddaughter of a King of Hanover, Princess Augusta also bore the titles of Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Brunswick and Lunenburg

A male-line grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was also, up until 1919, a Prince of the United Kingdom and held the British title of Duke of Albany.

Though his claim appeared contrary to Salic law, as his mother Princess Catherine was the daughter of William I, on his father's side he was also the senior male-line descendant of Frederick I of Württemberg through his younger son Prince Paul.

There was then a paragraph on the owner of the property, with his coat of arms illustrated, and all his children and remoter male-line descendants also listed, each with full names and details of birth, marriage, death, and any matters tending to enhance their social prestige, such as school and university education, military rank and regiment, Church of England cures held, and other honours and socially approved involvements.

Or also the paternal-paternal great-grandmother in the 5th field if the male-line coat-of-arms goes in the heart field.

When he died on 21 April 1992, Maria claimed to have succeeded him as head of the Russian Imperial Family, though this was disputed by Prince Nicholas Romanovich, a male-line great-great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I who also claimed to have succeeded Vladimir.

Following the death of Archambaud IX in 1249 on crusade, the title then passed through his daughters ; first, Matilda II ( also known as " Mahaut "), Countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre, and second, Agnes of Bourbon, whose husband, John of Burgundy, was the second son of the Duke of Burgundy, Hugh IV, and therefore a male-line descendant of Hugh Capet.

And Olav II is known to also have claimed male-line descent from Harald I, as great-grandson of Harald I's alleged son Bjørn in Vestfold.