Map: Which of the world’s monarchies allow female royal succession
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Posted by Max Fisher on December 4, 2012
Sometime in the early sixth century, the king of a small Frankish tribe called the Salii, who lived in parts of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands, asked a handful of local elders to put together laws for their society. What became known as the Salic Laws formally codified such traditions as inheritance, criminal punishment, and royal succession: Only a male heir, according to the laws, could take the throne.
The king who had commissioned them, Clovis the First, went on to conquer much of modern-day France and Germany. His Salic Laws were passed down, first orally and then in Latin, and gradually became the basis for much of Europe’s legal practices. That included the requirement of male royal succession, which endured for centuries in Europe, including in the United Kingdom, which began the process of repealing it last year.
