Posted by manuel on 7/5/2008, 19:31:56, in reply to "Re: Inheritance: Brabant law"
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That's what we call "guerra de devolucion" or the war of devolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Devolution
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: The ancient Duchy of Brabant actually had a
: law that gave the inheritance of a deceased
: to the daughter of a first marriage over a
: son from a second. That principle at least
: was used by Louis XIV when he decided to
: invade the Netherlands (north and South)
: claiming the inheritance of his wife Infanta
: Maria Teresa who was the daugther from a
: first marriage and as such had more rights
: than the deceased king who was her
: half-brother from a second marriage.
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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.
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: --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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