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The Salic law (/ˈsælɪk/ or /ˈseɪlɪk/; Latin: Lex salica), also called the Salian law, was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by...

Salic Law is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. It is named after the Salic Law which prohibits women from ascending to the...

in a specified order (e.g., male-preference primogeniture, Salic primogeniture, semi-Salic primogeniture). Variations have tempered the traditional, sole-beneficiary...

semi-Salic law until recently is Luxembourg, which changed to absolute primogeniture in 2011. Former monarchies that operated under semi-Salic law included...

Salic may refer to: Salian Franks, one of the division of the Franks Salic law, a Frankish law code Salian dynasty, medieval German dynasty of Frankish...

Carbonaria, a region the Franks later called Neustria, was called the Salic law. Their dynasty, the Merovingians, were named after Childeric's father...

of 15 solidi, as in the Salic Law, but on that of 18 solidi, it is clear that this part is already influenced by the Salic Law. Chapters 32-64 are taken...

throne in the War of the Spanish Succession, he brought with him the Salic law, which restricted succession to the throne to the direct male line. However...

precedent for the French royal succession that would be known as the Salic law. Philip restored somewhat good relations with the County of Flanders,...

Because of the Salic law of succession, all monarchs of Hanover were male, electors from 1692 until 1814 and kings from 1814 until 1866. Their wives were...

his authority. Salic law was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around 500 AD by the first Frankish King, Clovis. Roman Law was written with...

Europe, ruling every form of provincial unit from kingdoms to manors. Salic law, re-established during the Hundred Years' War from an ancient Frankish...

traditionally been reckoned patrilineally, such as those that follow the Frankish Salic law. In polities where it was permitted, succession through a daughter usually...

be easy for me to prove that the Salic law did not absolutely exclude the daughters from the possession of the Salic land, but only in the case where...

word companio ("one who eats bread with you"), first attested in the Salic law (c. AD 500) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally...

whose descendants would later become Kings of France in accordance to the Salic law. In the present day, family representatives are the King of Spain and...

grand duke's household costs. Succession to the throne was governed by Salic law, as dictated by the Nassau Family Pact, first adopted on 30 June 1783...

precedent in 1316 (later retroactively attributed to the Merovingian Salic law) which excluded females (Joan II of Navarre), as well as male descendants...

within the duchies themselves. The duchies were inherited according to Salic law among the descendants of a past heiress, Hedvig of Holstein, whose heir...

Isabella's birth, her father issued the Pragmatic Sanction to revert the Salic Law and ensure the succession of his firstborn daughter, due to his lack of...