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The heir to the grand duke of Luxembourg may be titled prince-lieutenant (' prince deputy ') during a period in which the incumbent remains formally on the grand ducal throne, but ( progressively, most ) functions of the crown are performed by the ' monarch apprentice ', as prince Jean ( still alive ) did 4 May 1961-12 November 1964 in the last years of his mother Charlotte's reign ( she lived until 1985 ), and Jean's own son prince Henri 3 March 1998-7 October 2000 until his father abdicated and he succeeded.
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Henry's marriage to Margaret, which had produced no heir, was annulled in 1599 and he married Marie de Medici, the niece of the grand duke of Tuscany.
With Baden's grand ducal family without a male heir, Leopold was enfranchised and married to a Princess of Badenese descent, ascending the throne in 1830.
Washizu plans to tell Miki and his son about his decision at a grand banquet, but Asaji tells him that she is pregnant, which leaves him with a quandary concerning his heir.
It has been a grand duchy since 1815 when the Netherlands became an independent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands, William I. Luxembourg remained in personal union with the Netherlands crown until 1890 when William III, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, died without leaving a male heir, so that in the Netherlands he was succeeded by his daughter Wilhelmina and, in the Luxembourgish Grand Duchy, by a distant male cousin, Duke Adolf of Nassau who became HRH Grand Duke Adolphe — an arrangement necessitated by Salic law being applicable to Luxembourg but not to the Netherlands.
Willliam declared the Protestant Counts of Merenberg to be non-dynastic and named his own ( Catholic ) daughter, Marie-Adélaïde ( 1894-1924 ) as heir to the grand ducal throne.
However, heirs apparent to non-imperial and non-royal monarchies ( i. e., wherein the hereditary sovereign holds a title below that of king / queen, e. g., grand duke or prince ), crown prince is not used as a title, although it is sometimes used as a synonym for heir apparent.
Financial difficulties continued to mount, however, until Edward Sutton III solved the problem by marrying his grand daughter and heir, Frances Sutton, to Humble Ward, the son of a wealthy merchant.
Local historian note the preeminence of Blagoveshchensk in the economy of the late 19th century Russian Far East, which was reflected by a " small detail ": when the heir to Russian throne, HRH Nicholas Alexandrovich ( future Tsar Nicholas II ) visited the city in 1891 during his grand tour of Asia, the locals presented him with bread and salt on a gold tray, rather than on a silver one, as it was done in other cities of the region.
Francis ' second surviving son Leopold I became grand duke of Tuscany and ruled until his brother Joseph's death without a male heir.
Francis Stepehen altered the laws of succession in 1763, when he declared his second son, Leopold, heir to the grand duchy.
Some of the first rulers of Hungary in the 10th century were grand princes: Geza and, until his royal coronation, his son and heir Stephen of Hungary.
The title grand prince is also used for Archduke Amadeo of Austria, the son and heir of the pretender to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
In 1893, his grand uncle, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, brother of his paternal grandfather, died without an heir.
While he seemed secure in the throne, being the legitimate heir and having been confirmed by the Khan in Sarai, Grand Prince Mikhail suffered a series of setbacks as grand prince which led to him losing the grand princely office for both himself and, in some ways, ultimately for his descendants.
Owing to his matchless stage presence and strong dramatic temperament, he emerged as a worthy heir to the grand tradition of Slavonic basses as exemplified by Fyodor Stravinsky, Lev Sibiriakov, Vladimir Kastorsky, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Kipnis and Mark Reizen, among others.
Her visit to her grandmother Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle in the autumn of 1891 coincided with a visit by her cousin Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse, heir to the grand ducal throne of Hesse.
His father was Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, the heir to the Margraviate of Baden, which was raised to a grand duchy after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
Nagpasha rejoiced and went, intoxicated, to Deva Kaljayi, the deity that also protected the grand royal treasure in form of a giant two-headed snake, and asked him to hand over the royal treasures, telling him that now he was the sole heir to the throne, so the treasure rightfully belonged to him.
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As compensation to the last sovereign duke, the title only could be continued by Francesco Maria II, and after his death by his heir, Federico Ubaldo.
After the duke died without a male heir in 1447, fighting broke out to restore the so-called Ambrosian Republic.
As the Welf duke Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to acknowledge the new king, Conrad III deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.
At the age of twelve, Hedwig married Henry I the Bearded, son and heir of the Piast duke Bolesław I the Tall of Silesia.
Succession to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein was disputed ; they were claimed by Christian IX ( Frederick VII's heir as King ) and by Frederick von Augustenburg ( a German duke ).
* 1125: Lothair of Supplinburg, duke of Saxony, is elected Holy Roman Emperor instead of the nearest heir, Frederick of Swabia, beginning the great struggle of Guelf and Ghibelline.
Peter, the heir, afterwards married Constance, daughter of the duke of Peñafiel ( near Valladolid ), and Afonso IV brought a strong Portuguese army to aid the Castilians against the Moors of Granada and their African allies.
When Edward became king, Clarence was chosen as his heir ; however, the births of Elizabeth of York ( 1466 ) and Edward V ( 1470 ) displaced the duke in the line of succession to the throne.
In 1928 Georg, Count von Carlow, morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg and commoner Natalia Vanljarskaya, became duke of Mecklenburg and heir to his uncle Duke Charles Michael.
The heir apparent of a duke, a marquess, or an earl generally uses his father's highest lesser peerage dignity as his own.
However, he was not the heir general of the previous duke, there being several females before him in the line of succession.
However, Charles's father was not the heir general of the deceased duke, only the male heir.
The mediation of Catherine de ' Medici led to the Edict of Union, in which the crown accepted almost all the League's demands ; reaffirming the Treaty of Nemours, recognizing Cardinal de Bourbon as heir, and making the duke of Guise Lieutenant-General.
However, in 1514 the emperor ordered that a duke of Saxony should be the heir to the count of East Frisia.
A political crisis loomed for the Prince because without any other heir, the throne of Monaco would pass to his first cousin Wilhelm, the duke of Urach, a German nobleman who was a son of Prince Albert's aunt, Princess Florestine of Monaco.
The etymological heir of the margrave, also introduced in countries that never had any margraviates, the marquess ( see that article ; their languages may use one or two words, e. g. French margrave and marquis ), still ranks in the British peerage between duke and earl ( equivalent to a continental count ).
Arnulf died without an heir and kingship passed to the Franconian duke Conrad I.
According to the medieval chronicler Widukind of Corvey, King Conrad designated Henry his heir, thereby denying the succession of his own brother Eberhard of Franconia, and in 919 the Saxon duke was elected King of East Francia by the assembled Saxon and Franconian princes at Fritzlar.
Sydney tells the duke that he had found a suitable heir to the Darkness in Ashley, and that their plan to inherit the powers of Darkness was successful.
Presently, the commonly acknowledged duke of Braganza and Portuguese heir is Duarte Pio of Braganza ( born 1945 ).
son-in-law and heir of Emperor Lothair of Supplinburg and became also Saxon duke after Lothair's death.
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Albert was an heir and descendant of Elisabeth of Austria ( d. 1505 ), queen of Poland, the youngest granddaughter of Sigismund of Luxembourg, the Holy Roman Emperor.
After Albert's childless death in 1621, Luxembourg passed to his great-nephew and heir Philip IV of Spain, who through his paternal grandmother Anna of Austria, queen of Spain, Albert's sister, was the primogenitural heir to the Queen Elisabeth of Poland.
Charles Theodore, who would thus have become Duke of Luxembourg, was genealogically a junior descendant of both Anna and Elisabeth, but main heir of neither.
Joachim ( 1505 – 1571 ), the future elector of Brandenburg, was the eldest son and heir of their current claimant of Luxembourg, Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1484 – 1535 ), the eldest son and heir of the late Margaret of Thuringia ( 1449 – 1501 ), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia.
When the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg found itself without a male heir at the beginning of the 20th century, the morganatic Counts of Merenberg proposed themselves as heirs, being the last legitimate descendants in the male line of the House of Nassau.
Enghien gave its name to a French duchy and to the commune of Enghien-les-Bains, a suburb of Paris, due to a complex series of family successions: in 1487, Mary of Luxembourg ( d. 1547 ), the only heir of Peter II of Luxembourg ( d. 1482 ), Count of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise and member of one of the branches of the House of Luxembourg, married François de Bourbon-Vendôme ( d. 1495 ), the great-grandfather of King Henry IV of France.
That is also the title borne by the heirs apparent of Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, and by the heir or heiress presumptive of Monaco.
Baldwin first married Ogive of Luxembourg, daughter of Frederick of Luxembourg, by whom he had a son and heir:
She arranged the marriage of her daughter, Claude, to Charles of Luxembourg in 1501, to reinforce the Franco-Spanish alliance and ensure French success in the Italian Wars ; however, Louis broke off the marriage when it became likely that Anne would not produce a male heir.
* Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg ( born 1981 ), heir apparent to the crown of Luxembourg
* Born: Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, heir apparent to the throne since 2000 ; Natalie Glebova, Russian-born Canadian beauty queen, Miss Universe in 2005, in Tuapse, USSR ; and Jyothika, Indian Tamil film actress, in Mumbai
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