Hello, and welcome to my website.
The aim of this website is to collect all lines of succession of the
currently existing European monarchies - not just those of the present,
but also the lines of succession in the (recent) past. Afterwards, I will
do the same think for the recently defunct European monarchies, and perhaps
later - though I am not very familiar with them - for the non-European
monarchies. I will usually start with the reign of the monarch that reigned
on the 1st of January 1801 - the first day of the 19th century. Perhaps
later, I will go further into the past.
Because of disagreements between myself and others on the nature of
sami-Salic succession, I have limited the lines of succession in monarchies
that operate under this system to the first in line to the throne whenever
a woman or a person related in the female line to the present sovereign
is heir(ess) presumptive.
In order to standardise my page as much as possibly, and because national
practice varies, I have assumed that women in general do not necessarily
loose their maiden name and title upon marriage (although they might not
use it anymore). Therefore, I will list women under their maiden name,
titles and styles, followed by the name they might take as wife (for example:
HRH Joséphine-Charlotte Princess of Belgium, by marriage Grand Duchess
of Luxembourg).
In monarchies that operate under primogeniture with preferrence for
males above females, or under gender-blind primogeniture, which tend
to produce an endless number of heirs, I have limited myself to mentionning
the first ten in line to the throne. An exception is made when the succession
is limited to people within a certain degree of consanguinity with the
sovereign (like the Netherlands, where the degree of consanguinity is explicitly
mentionned, or like Norway and Monaco, where succession is limited to the
descendants of the sovereign and his siblings)
If you have any corrections, comments, etc, feel free to mail
me.
Belgium
Denmark
Liechtenstein (unfinished)
Luxemburg
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
(by Dag T. Hoelseth)
Spain (unfinished)
Sweden
United Kingdom
- The jacobite succession