Had he not decided to renounce, he would have been a spare who would have succeed.
Although not a secons son but a third one.
Come to think of it, he (first cousin and husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain) would count as a spare who would have succeeded if he had lived, since he (a second son) never renounced his rights to the duchy.
ADk Franz Karl of Habsburg was a spare that might have succeed- Instead he left the crown to his son Emperor Franz Josef I
ADk Otto was the spare who did not outlive his elder brother Franz Ferdinand, paving the way for his son Emperor Karl I.
Pr.Philippe of Belgium count of Flanders, was Leopold II's younger brother and heir but did not outlived him, so L.II was succeeded by nephew Albert I
August Wilhelm of Prussia, next brother of the childless Friederich II the Great, did not outlive his brother either.
Jaime de Borbon, duke of Segovia and Anjou, a second son who was forced to renounce his rights.
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