Forerunner

Forerunner by Andre Norton

One of her SF works.  I noticed in this one there was rather more coherence about the problems they faced than the somewhat random jumble some of her characters face.

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legitimacy and heirs

Ran across a tidbit about the False Dmitriys -- one of whom actually reigned as Tsar for some time, claiming to be the the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible.  The tidbit was that the Russian Orthodox Church prohibited more than three marriages, and so Dmitriy was actually technically illegitimate.  (Even though "Terrible" means "Inspiring Terror" -- still he went through a lot of brides.)

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