Posted by Johan on 7/5/2008, 19:01:12, in reply to "Re: Inheritance"
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Well your qualification of centuries just holds out if you count the French period. But the Dutch nobility laws exist only since 1814 and as such are less than 2 centuries old.
Don't forget that some of the oldest titles the Dutch monarch holds came through female lines:
Prince of Orange (through Claudia of Chalons)
count of Buren (through Anna van Egmond-Buren)
You cannot have it both ways Henri. Either our crownprince has only that title crownprince of the Netherlands and the Queen has no right on the historic titles used in her etc etc etc in legal documents or if those titles do belong to the monarch and the heir to the throne is Prince of Orange than you do accept that title can go through the female line (as they have done in Dutch history before) and as such that changing Dutch law to treat noblewomen equal to their brothers is right.
--Previous Message--
: I prefer the Dutch Government's stance not to
: change the for centuries existing principle
: of inheritance via the male lineage.
:
: With indeed the ultimate effect that
: families will become extinct and that hardly
: new nobility will be created (only the Van
: Oranje-Nassau van Amsberg family since
: WWII). They have put a glass cover over the
: historic institution that the nobility is. I
: prefer that above chaning a historic
: institution to modern insights.
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