Kongehuset - House of (Hugenotte) Bernadotte and Salian Law -- 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. Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen - Born 9 June 1930 [date of conception 9/9/1929] in the Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway | Princess Ragnhild was the first Norwegian princess born on Norwegian soil for 629 years.[7] She grew up at the royal residence of Skaugum near Asker, west of Oslo. The Princess was christened in the Palace Chapel on 27 June 1930 and her godparents were: her paternal grandparents, The King and Queen of Norway; her maternal grandparents, The Duke and Duchess of Västergötland; her granduncle, The King of Sweden; her grandaunt, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom; her maternal aunt, Princess Margaretha of Denmark; and The Duke of York. During World War II, the Princess fled the German invasion of Norway with her family in 1940,[2] spending the wartime years in exile with her mother and siblings in Washington, D.C.. Before the birth of her younger brother, it was assumed she would become Queen of Norway in the absence of a male heir, although this would have required a constitutional amendment, as women could not inherit the throne at the time.[2] Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway (9 June 1930 – 16 September 2012) was the eldest child of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden, and by birth a Princess of Norway and a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. She was the older sister of King Harald V of Norway and Princess Astrid of Norway. She was a great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and thus a second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II.[5] At the time of her death she was no. 77 in the line of succession to the British throne. Princess Ragnhild's maternal aunt was Queen Astrid of Belgium, which also made Princess Ragnhild a first cousin of Baudouin of Belgium and his brother (and successor) Albert II of Belgium.[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Ragnhild,_Mrs._Lorentzen 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 Salic law (/ˈsælɨk/ or /ˈseɪlɨk/; Latin: Lex Salica), or Salian Law, was the ancient Salian Frankish civil law code first comprised around 500 AD by the legendary first Frankish King, Clovis. It would remain the basis of Frankish law all throughout the early Medieval period and influenced future European legal systems. The law was maintained through legislations, similar to modern constitutions, governing all Frankish subjects of the Frankish Kingdom during the Old Period. The laws were written down many times, both in Latin and in what may have been the oldest known official usage of Old Dutch. They were arbitrated by a committee empowered by the ultimately supreme ruling King of the Franks. Dozens of manuscripts dating from the 6th to 8th centuries and three emendations as late as the 9th century have survived.[1] Salic law provided written codification of both civil law, such as the statutes governing inheritance, and criminal law, such as the punishment for murder. It has had a formative influence on the tradition of statute law that has extended to modern times in Central Europe, especially in the German states, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, parts of Italy, Austria and Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law 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. In Salic patrimony, the clan demesne is divided between male agnatic heirs, as often (but not necessarily) is also succession to supreme chieftainship of the clan within an agnatic extended family only upon entrusting the common domain to one of the agnates. It has been observed[according to whom?][year needed] that "Salic patrimony" is the usual pattern of landholding in most tribal societies. In Kent, a comparable practice survived into the Norman period under the name Gavelkind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_patrimony The Order of the Polar Star (Swedish Nordstjärneorden) is a Swedish order of chivalry, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Polar_Star