apanage
Sign in to saveAn appanage, or apanage (; ), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of a monarch, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture (where only the eldest inherits). It was common in much of Europe.
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26 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Original appanage: in France
- History of the French appanage
- House of Capet
- House of Valois
- Post-Revolution
- List of major French appanages
- Direct Capetians
- House of Valois
- House of Bourbon
- Western feudal appanages outside France
- Appanages within Britain
- Scotland
- Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Brigantine Portugal
- Equivalents outside Western Europe
- Russia
- Serbia
- Indian subcontinent
- Indonesia
- Mongol Empire
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
An appanage, or apanage (; ), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of a monarch, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture (where only the eldest inherits). It was common in much of Europe.
The system of appanage greatly influenced the territorial construction of France and the German states and explains why many of the former provinces of France had coats of arms which were modified versions of the king's arms.
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