ABSOLUT (inbred) Primogeniture | House of Hugenotte Bernadotte and Salic Law | Norway succession crisis of 1935 - Naw-Rúz, Thursday, 21 March 1929, Märtha Bernadotte married (against the law) her cousin, a Danish Prince (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), in Oslo. After the birth of two daughters in 1930 and 1932, the New Kingdom of Norway, created in 1905 under Salic Law, faced a constitutional crisis. Luckily, Prince Harald was born at Skaugum on 21 February 1937. He was baptised in the Royal Chapel in the Royal Palace in Oslo on 31 March by Bishop Johan Lunde. His godparents were: his paternal grandfather, the King of Norway; his paternal grandmother, the Queen of Norway; his maternal grandfather, Prince Carl of Sweden; his maternal grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden; his uncle, the King of Belgium; King George VI and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom; and Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark. His parents already had two daughters, Princess Ragnhild and Princess Astrid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway Jens Christian Hauge (15 May 1915 - 30 October 2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Christian_Hauge Frederick VIII (Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl) (3 June 1843 – 14 May 1912) was King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912. In July 1868, Frederick became engaged to Princess Louise of Sweden, the 17-year-old only daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and IV of Norway. Princess Louise's family was related by marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte. She belonged to the Bernadotte dynasty, which had ruled in Sweden since 1818, when the founder, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's generals, was elected crown prince of Sweden in 1810 and later succeeded the throne as Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818. He married Désirée Clary, who had once been engaged to the French Emperor. Frederick and Louise of Sweden married at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on 28 July 1869. Frederick became king of Denmark as Frederick VIII on Christian IX's death on 29 January 1906. He was 62 years old at the time and had been Crown Prince for 43 years. Death On his return journey from a trip to Nice, King Frederick made a short stop in Hamburg, staying at the Hotel Hamburger Hof. The evening of his arrival, Frederick (incognito) took a walk on the Jungfernstieg. While walking he became faint and collapsed on a park bench and died. He was discovered by a police officer who took him to a Hafen hospital where he was pronounced dead. His cause of death was announced as a paralysis-attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_VIII_of_Denmark Prinsesse Ragnhild ble født den 9. juli 1930 på Det kongelige slott i Oslo som daværende kronprins Olav og kronprinsesse Märthas første barn. Seks år senere fikk foreldrene sin første sønn og dermed også en arving til tronen. Frem til 1990 var tronfølgen basert på de saliske lover, hvormed kvinner var uten arverett, og prinsesse Ragnhild kunne dermed ikke bli Norges Dronning. Hun hadde imidlertid arverett til den britiske trone, ettersom hun stammet fra kurfyrstinne Sophia av Hannover. http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnhild,_fru_Lorentzen Female inheritance - concerning terra Salica no portion or inheritance is for a woman but all the land belongs to members of the male sex who are brothers. Salic patrimony (or inheritance or land property, after the legal term Terra salica used in the Salian code) refers to clan-based possession of real estate property, particularly in Germanic context. Terra salica could not be sold or otherwise disposed; it was not alienable. For example, in 11th and 12th centuries, the Hereditary Kingdom of Norway was several times partitioned between males of the reigning dynasty. At the time, the Kingdom of Norway was looked upon as a property of the king. As such it would be divided among his heirs, like any other private estate under Ancient Norwegian property laws. First such partition between brothers took place in 1067 when Olav III of Norway, returning from England, demanded his younger brother Magnus II of Norway to cede him his portion of the kingdom. Magnus was to rule the northern half of the country and Olav the southern. This division is the beginning of a long series of partitions of the kingdom between the sons and heirs of the ruling king. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_patrimony Monaco succession crisis of 1918 The Monaco succession crisis of 1918 arose because France objected to the prospect of a German national inheriting the throne of Monaco. Albert I, Sovereign Prince of Monaco had only one legitimate child, the Hereditary Prince Louis, then heir apparent to the principality. As World War I drew to a close, Prince Louis, at the age of forty-eight, remained (legally) childless, unmarried, and unbetrothed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_succession_crisis_of_1918 Tutankhamun Autopsy Shows Benefits of Inbreeding and Primogeniture http://www.guyjest.com/tutankhamun-autopsy-shows-benefits-inbreeding-primogeniture/