This was followed by the Lex Burgundionum, applying separate codes for Germans and for Romans ; the Pactus Alamannorum ; and the Salic Law of the Franks, all written soon after 500.

Without Salic Law, upon the death of John I, the crown would have passed to his half-sister, Joan ( later Joan II of Navarre ).

However, Joan's paternity was suspect due to her mother's adultery ; the French magnates adopted Salic Law to avoid the succession of a possible bastard.

However, since primogeniture and the Salic Law provided for the succession of the French throne for most of French history, here is a list of all the predecessors of the French monarchy, all the French kings from Hugh until Charles, and all the Legitimist pretenders thereafter.

Regardless, his Imperial titles did not pass to his daughters ( the Empire operated Salic Law which prevented female succession ), so became extinct on his death in 1722.

According to Salic Law Hanover could only be inherited by males.

Merovingian law was not universal law equally applicable to all ; it was applied to each man according to his origin: Ripuarian Franks were subject to their own Lex Ripuaria, codified at a late date ( Beyerle and Buchner 1954 ), while the so-called Lex Salica ( Salic Law ) of the Salian clans, first tentatively codified in 511 ( Rouche 1987 p 423 ) was invoked under medieval exigencies as late as the Valois era.

The British monarch is understood to not be the Duke with regards to mainland Normandy described herein, by virtue of the Treaty of Paris of 1259, the surrender of French possessions in 1801, and the belief that the rights of succession to that title are subject to Salic Law which excludes inheritance through female heirs.

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.

The true scope and sway of the Salic Law was never defined rigidly, the original 6th century text being both ambiguously worded and originating in a kingdom long extinct.

The last practical effect of the Salic Law at the international level was the separation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1890, almost fourteen centuries after the Law was codified.

) was a value placed on every human being and every piece of property in the Salic Code ( Salic Law ).

King Clovis I dictates the Salic Law

* Clovis I dictates the Salic Law ( Code of the Barbaric Laws ) to the Franks.

The Duchy of Burgundy was also claimed by the French crown under Salic Law, with Louis XI, King of France vigorously contesting the Habsburg claim to the Burgundian inheritance by means of military force.

Despite his many marriages he did not have a son so on 30 June 1833 he was influenced by his wife to abolish the Salic Law so that her daughter, Isabella, could become queen depriving his brother, Don Carlos, of the throne.

The Salic Law prevailed in France, and women were ineligible to inherit the throne.

Succession to the Danish throne followed the Salic Law 1853 until the Danish Act of Succession of 1953.

Letters patent explicitly create a dignity and specify its course of inheritance ( usually agnatic succession, like the Salic Law ).

The birth of a girl came as a relief to the comte de Provence, who kept his position as heir to Louis XVI, since Salic Law excluded women from acceding to the throne of France.

His only surviving sibling was his sister Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, Madame Royale, who was not considered a candidate for the throne because of France's traditional adherence to Salic Law.

Although Margot herself is excluded from the throne by the Salic Law, her marriage to a Protestant prince offers a chance for domestic reconciliation during the late 16th century reign of the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX, a time when Catholics are vying for political control of France with the French Protestants, the Huguenots.

Salic law ( or ; ), or, was the major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period, approximately equal to the early Middle Ages.

Edward III of England argued, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance by a woman, it did not forbid inheritance through a female line – under this argument, Edward should have inherited the throne, and formed the basis of his claim during the ensuing Hundred Years War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

* Another sentence can be found in the early 6th-century Salic Law, which was drawn up during the reign of King Clovis I, a Salian Frank himself.

Latin was the written language of Gaul before and during the Frankish period ( e. g. Salic law ).

When Philip V, from the French Bourbon acceded to the Spanish throne in the Spanish War of Succession, he brought with him the Salic Law, which restricted succession to the throne to the direct male line.

The new kingdom existed from 1815 to 1866, but upon accession of Queen Victoria ( who could not inherit Hanover under the Salic law ) in 1837, it passed to her uncle and thus ceased to be in personal union with the British Crown.

They based their claim on the Salic law, which excluded females ( Joan II of Navarre ) as well as male descendants through the distaff line ( Edward III of England ), from the succession to the French throne.

Parliament debated the abolition of the Salic law, which excluded females from the succession and was long held inviolable.

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.

Philip rose to the regency with support of the French magnates, following the pattern set up by Philip V's succession over his niece Joan II of Navarre, and Charles IV's succession over all his nieces, including the daughters of Louis X and Philip V. A century later this pattern became the Salic law, which forbade females and those descended in the female line from succeeding to the throne.

Twelve years earlier, a rule against succession by females, arguably derived from the Salic Law, had been recognised – with some dissent – as controlling succession to the French throne.

The word baron comes from the Old French baron, from a Late Latin baro " man ; servant, soldier, mercenary " ( so used in Salic Law ; Alemannic Law has barus in the same sense ).

The story is particularly doubtful since Countess Godiva would herself have been responsible for setting taxation in Coventry ; Salic law, which excluded females from the inheritance of a throne or fief, did not apply in Anglo-Saxon society.

The Navarrese monarchy itself had been inherited by dynasties from outside of Navarre, which followed different succession laws ( usually male preference primogeniture, until Navarre was absorbed into the French crown when it followed Salic law ).

Later, the new monarchies or dynasties of France ( under the Bonapartes ), Belgium, Denmark ( from 1853 ), Sweden ( from 1810 ), and the Balkan realms of Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia introduced Salic law.

A variation on Salic primogeniture allows the sons of women to inherit, but not women themselves, an example being succession to the throne of Spain from 1947 – 1978.

With the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830, Ferdinand set aside the Salic Law, introduced by Philip V, that prohibited women from becoming sovereigns of Spain.

Daughters were excluded from the system: a now-archaic interpretation of Salic law generally prohibited daughters from inheriting land and also from acceding to the throne.

As a fifth son, initially Ernest seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but Salic Law, which barred women from the succession, applied in Hanover and none of his older brothers had legitimate male issue.

However Salic law prevented Victoria from ascending the throne of Hanover, which instead passed to Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

The most elaborate rules of succession were those included in the Siete Partidas, but on the accession of Philip V ( who was a French prince, France being a country where Salic law applied, and therefore female succession was not permitted ), this traditional order of succession had to give way to a semi-Salic system, which excluded women from the crown, unless all the male issue from Philip, in any line, became extinct.