pardon me if this has been previously mentioned on some other thread or somewhere else, but is it possible to have a child that is: retardation, physiscal handicapped..ect. ? and what would you do in that case? thanks
Then you just have to have the "challenged" ones participate in some unfortunate hunting accident, primogeniture be damned.Originally posted by Dimwit
Well, it's quite simple...
you keep screwing the missus till you have a healthy one!!![]()
You wind up with a medieval version of Carlos II of Spain.Originally posted by Sveland88
pardon me if this has been previously mentioned on some other thread or somewhere else, but is it possible to have a child that is: retardation, physiscal handicapped..ect. ? and what would you do in that case? thanks
Err... it is like saying "who is playing the game of chess? a bishop or you?" when you intend to move a bishop other way than diagonally.Originally posted by Alexandru H.
Who's playing the game? Hunchback III or you?
Basically, the rule that first son/offspring inherits. Even if he is a hunchback midget moron.Originally posted by Dimwit
I've heard it many times before, and I don't have a dictionary, so what exactly is primogeniture?
Originally posted by Sheridan
Also, England had a whole run of kings with hemophilia.
Originally posted by bgibbard
No English king ever had hemophilia. Victoria was a carrier of the gene (it's not clear if she inherited it from her mother or if it occurred through mutation in her), and passed it on to one of her younger sons, as well as having several daughters that were carriers, but her eldest son Edward VII did not get the gene.
Originally posted by Sveland88
Thanks for replying guys, but uh... it isnt really answering my question. What I want to know is "what" do you "do" if this case arises and what effects can it hold on your government or whatever.
Originally posted by Sveland88
Thanks for replying guys, but uh... it isnt really answering my question. What I want to know is "what" do you "do" if this case arises and what effects can it hold on your government or whatever.
Originally posted by BarbarossaHRE
Germanic tradition dictated that the king must be without physical deformity. This is apparently one of the reasons why Conrad III von Rothenburg was elected King in 1127 instead of his older brother Frederick II of Swabia (One-eye), who was the true heir of the Salians according to primogeniture. Its the only case I can think of that relates to your question.
His deformity didnt prevent him from inheriting the Duchy of Swabia from his father and the Salian family lands from his mother, or from being the head of the house of Hohenstaufen. But it did exclude him from the throne. Now since he was a candidate in the election of 1125, I can only assume that either: 1) he lost the eye between 1125-1127, or 2) there was another reason he stood aside for his brother. Anybody know?
Even if this was true in Germany it wasnt necessarily so anywhere else. Anyway, sounds alot like the myth of Nuada of the Silver Hand losing the throne because he lost a hand in battle, so maybe it wasnt just a German thing?