| 41. | He was the first male member of his agnatic house to rise to great prominence in his country.
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| 42. | Traditionally, the agnatic sibling group of a community constituted the most important level of decision-making.
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| 43. | In its origin, therefore, the agnatic principle was limited to the succession to the crown of France.
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| 44. | Lastly, there was yet a more junior agnatic branch that was eligible to succeed in Schleswig-Holstein.
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| 45. | Its agnatic line became extinct in Poland with the death of King John II Casimir of Poland in 1672.
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| 46. | An agnatic relative of William III, Tiburge d'Orange, who married into the des Baux family)
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| 47. | Those two forms of monarchy ( agnatic seniority and elective monarchy ) were mostly used in the same centuries.
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| 48. | Mary I succeeded to the Scottish throne only because there were no legitimate male agnatic descendants of Robert II.
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| 49. | The House of Valois had secured the principle of agnatic succession following their victory in the Hundred Years War.
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| 50. | The emperor's position, unless deposed in a rebellion, was always hereditary, usually by agnatic primogeniture.
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