- An appanage, or
apanage (/ˈæpənɪdʒ/; French:
apanage [apanaʒ] ), is the
grant of an estate, title,
office or
other thing of
value to a
younger child of...
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favor to his brother, Duke Philippe, when he
received the
traditional apanage in 1660. It is likely, but not certain, that the
title of
count of Blois...
-
maison d'Orléans)
comprised two
distinct parts : the
apanage and the "biens patrimoniaux". The
apanage of Orléans was
originally formed by
Louis XIII for...
-
Ernestine branch of the
House of Wettin. He
received Saxe-Gotha as an
apanage, but left its
administration to his
eldest brother. John
Frederick was...
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returned this
duchy to the
crown to
receive instead the
Duchy of
Burgundy in
apanage from his
father as a
reward for his
courage at the
Battle of Poitiers....
- even baronies) have been
raised to this
French peerage, but
mostly as
apanages (for
members of the
royal house) or for foreigners;
after the 16th century...
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Capet duke. John then p****ed the
duchy to his
youngest son
Philip as an
apanage. In 1477, the
territory of the
Duchy of
Burgundy was
annexed by France...
- in Harburg) was a
titular Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and
ruler of the
apanage Brunswick-Harburg. Otto was a son of Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Harburg...
- most of his life as a
junior member of the
ducal family. His
original apanage was the
district of Bresse,
close to the
French and
Burgundian border,...
- of the
family often ruled portions of the
Hereditary Lands as
private apanages.
Serious attempts at
centralization began under Maria Theresa and especially...