Daily Medieval

( Part One ) So the 13 claimants for the throne of Scotland came down to the four most likely candidates. The  An t-Adhbhar Mòr  (Scottish G...

Simply put, possession of land equalled power. The laws of primogeniture and ultimogeniture existed to keep estates together. There were pla...

Recent posts discussed practices of inheritance such as primogeniture and ultimogeniture . There was also, evolving from the feudal system,...

We are accustomed to linking inheritance with a preference for the eldest, even without strict primogeniture involved. In New York State in...

Primogeniture is actually a "generic" term for different systems of inheritance. The desire by human beings to create a system tha...

The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (sometimes called the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem) was a Western European creation established after the Fi...