Historians came to apply the name " Capetian " to both the ruling house of France and to the wider-spread male-line descendants of Hugh Capet.

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.

All other male-line descendants held the style Serenity, often translated as Serene Highness.

Of the current Dukes, four are male-line descendants of Charles in the illegitimate line: the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon, the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the Duke of Grafton and the Duke of St Alban's.

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.

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.

As of 2007, there are known male-line descendants of Eston Hemings / Jefferson, and known female-line descendants of Madison Hemings ' three daughters: Sarah, Harriet, and Ellen.

When he became King, he granted his children and further male-line descendants the titles Princes and Princesses of Württemberg with the style Royal Highness, and he styled his siblings as Royal Highnesses with the titles Dukes and Duchesses of Württemberg.

His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

He feels that the male-line descendants of Malcolm III and Saint Margaret managed to hold to the throne until the 13th century, precisely because none of them made the same mistake.

On 30 April 2008, shortly before the wedding of his younger son, Prince Joachim, to Miss Marie Cavallier, the title " Count of Monpezat " () was conferred by the Queen on both of her sons, and made hereditary for their male-line descendants, both male and female.

The male-line descendants of Grand Duke Adolphe held the titles Prince ( ss ) of Luxembourg and Prince ( ss ) of Nassau, with the style of His / Her Grand Ducal Highness.

Male line descendants of Grand Duchess Charlotte who are not the children of a Grand Duke or Hereditary Grand Duke are Prince ( ss ) of Nassau with the style of His / Her Royal Highness ( coming from their status as male-line descendants of Duke Robert of Parma ).

Another might include all members of a particular surname ( e. g. male-line descendants ).

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.

By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, his cousin once removed Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught.

The majority of Carlists, however, considered that Alfonso was disqualified because he did not share the Carlist ideals ( and, more importantly, because Spanish law excluded from succession the descendants of those who had committed treason against the king, just as Alfonso's male-line ancestors had done, according to carlists, ever since Infante Francisco de Paula's recognition of Isabella II ), and many regarded his descent as illegitimate, believing that Alfonso XII's biological father was Isabella II's lover Enrique Puigmoltó y Mayans, Captain of the Royal Guard, or even General Francisco Serrano.

Pierre remained in succession to the French title Duke of Polignac, as do his legitimate male-line descendants.

The unifying element of all these territories was that they were ruled by male-line descendants of Duke Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, nephew of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.

If descendants of Grand Duke Dmitri's marriage with Audrey Emery are considered ineligible to succeed to the ducal Holstein claim, it is unclear which, if any, of the various male-line branches descended from the Imperial Romanovs remain eligible.

Patrikeyev traced his male-line descent to Duke Patrikas of Korela and to Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Since Grand Duchess Charlotte's marriage to Prince Felix of Parma, all of their male-line descendants have used the style Royal Highness.

It stated that henceforth, only the children and male-line grandchildren of a Tsar would be styled Grand Duke or Grand Duchess with the style of Imperial Highness -- great-grandchildren and their descendants would be styled either " Prince of Russia " or " Princess of Russia " with the style of Highness.

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

Traditionally, male-line members of British royalty receive a dukedom a few hours before their marriage, the most recent being his elder brother Prince William, who became Duke of Cambridge.

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.

Men who marry the daughters and the male-line granddaughters of the Sovereign, however, do not acquire their wives ' royal rank or the style HRH.

She agrees to become his wife, on one condition: that Fergus allows Conchobar to be king for a year, so his children will be called the sons of a king ( under Medieval Irish law inheritance passed through the male line, and only those who had a king as a male-line ancestor were eligible for kingship ).

Seemingly, the only people who would officially hold the hyphenated surname under the Order in Council would be any male-line great-grandchildren of the Queen in cadet branches ; i. e., the children of any sons of the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex ( currently only Lord Severn ).

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.

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 ).

The existing Galtung family male-line can be traced back to Laurits Johanneson who was born around 1519.

Since 1892, the title has been borne by the male-line descendants of four princes of Sweden who married morganatically without the consent of the King of Sweden and thereby lost their Swedish royal titles, status and the right of succession to the throne of Sweden for themselves, their children and their descendants.

Menelik of Shewa, who descended from Solomonic Emperors, in the direct male line ( junior only to the Gondar line ), ascended the imperial throne following Yohannis IV's death, thus purporting to restore the male-line Solomonic tradition.

Traditions recorded about his ancestry vary: one tradition, recorded in 1840, claims his mother was the daughter of Ras Faris, a follower of Emperor Susenyos I who had escaped into Menz ; another tradition told by Serta Wold, a councilor of Sahle Selassie, was that Negassie was a male-line descendant of Yaqob, the youngest son of Lebna Dengel, and thus assert descent from the ancient ruling Solomonic dynasty.

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.

After Prince Frederick August, who had supported the English in the American Revolutionary War for financial reasons, died in 1793, the male-line of Anhalt-Zerbst perished and its territories were split.

Queen Elizabeth II is the male-line great-granddaughter of Edward VII, who inherited the crown from his mother, Queen Victoria.

Women marrying sons and male-line grandsons of a Sovereign are normally styled Her Royal Highness followed by the feminised version of her husband's highest title.

The agnatic ( male-line ) descendants of each of these four former princes of Sweden are entitled to the title Count of Wisborg.

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.

Princesses by marriage are the recognized wives of the Sovereign's sons and male-line grandsons.

The result is that there are no demonstratable male-line descendants of Ireland's last high-king recorded after the 1240s.

The Burghers are a Eurasian ethnic group, historically from Sri Lanka, consisting for the most part of male-line descendants of European colonists from the 16th to 20th centuries ( mostly Portuguese, Dutch, German and British ) and local women, with some minorities of Swedish, Norwegian, French and Irish.

No other current bearers of the surname worldwide are known to be related in the male-line to the Wiltshire and Sussex Ernle sib.

A peer's eldest living son and heir, or eldest male-line grandson and heir eventual are, however, allowed to bear a subsidiary title of the peer's ( if he ranks as an earl or higher ) as a courtesy title.