Especially in France, bound by the Salic law, meaning that succession was restricted to male heirs in the male line. It would be interesting to note all the cases of breaks in the lineage, on the basis of questionable biological paternity ...
But Spain was different: like England and Scotland, it allowed the crown to pass to females -- something the Carlists had a hard time in understanding and accepting. Which was most unjust, since their own ancestor, King Felipe V, had come to the Spanish throne via a woman (his grandmother, Infanta Maria Teresa). There simply was NO justification whatsoever for him to change the succession law afterward, to bar women from the throne, after taking advantage of a system that had permitted him to acquire it through a female in the first place.
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