- A
secundogeniture (from Latin:
secundus 'following, second', and
genitus 'born') was a
dependent territory given to a
younger son of a
princely house...
- Empire. It
emerged when the
former county of Hanau-Münzenberg
became a
secundogeniture of Hesse-K****el in 1760. When the
reigning count,
William IX, also...
-
traces its
roots to the
Lords of
Seinsheim during the
Middle Ages. The
secundogeniture branch of the
Schwarzenbergs was
among the
foremost Czech patriotic...
- Austria-Este, a
cadet branch (originally a tertiogeniture,
later a
secundogeniture) of the
House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and is
sixth in line to the throne...
-
Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Tuscany had been
envisioned and
designated as a
secundogeniture, a
territory and
title bestowed upon the
second born son,
which was...
- such
testamentary provisions turned Austria-Este into a sort of "
secundogeniture"
title within the
Austrian imperial family.
Although the
first heir...
- Brunswick-Bevern was a
secundogeniture of the
Younger House of Brunswick,
itself a
branch of the
House of Welf. Its
first member was
Ferdinand Albert...
-
borne by a
cadet branch of the
House of Rohan,
which inherited the
secundogeniture of
Soubise from a Rohan-Chabot heiress, a
descendant in the female...
-
finally secularised in 1547; from 1656/57
until 1738 it was held by the
secundogeniture of Saxe-Merseburg. The town was the
scene of two
famous battles: The...
- power. By the 17th century, the
bishopric of Liège
became a
virtual Secundogeniture of the
Bavarian royal house of Wittelsbach, with
second sons of the...
