inheritance and other problems
Feb. 21st, 2025 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliWas trucking along on a story. Carefully setting up the laws and customs of the kingdoms to move the characters around.
To marry into another royal family, you must renounce your claim to your own family's throne. Furthermore, while your family may come back to your children in order to get an heir, it will be after all the descendants of those who did not renounce the claim are extinct. And then your child must renounce his claim to the throne of the family you married into.
Consequently, kingdoms do not face the issue that personal union -- one monarch for two kingdoms -- may actually lead to merger.
This has been tried in history but has hit issues. See: War of the Spanish Succession. Notice that there the French king's attempt was to give it to a younger son.
In my story it also hit issues, since I realized that it might lead to my hero and my heroine both being the only heirs to their respective kingdoms.
Then I remembered I'm the author, and could just add another child. Originally I thought a son, and then I realized a daughter would make the villainess's plot all the more ironic.
To marry into another royal family, you must renounce your claim to your own family's throne. Furthermore, while your family may come back to your children in order to get an heir, it will be after all the descendants of those who did not renounce the claim are extinct. And then your child must renounce his claim to the throne of the family you married into.
Consequently, kingdoms do not face the issue that personal union -- one monarch for two kingdoms -- may actually lead to merger.
This has been tried in history but has hit issues. See: War of the Spanish Succession. Notice that there the French king's attempt was to give it to a younger son.
In my story it also hit issues, since I realized that it might lead to my hero and my heroine both being the only heirs to their respective kingdoms.
Then I remembered I'm the author, and could just add another child. Originally I thought a son, and then I realized a daughter would make the villainess's plot all the more ironic.