Salic

"I say, that unluckily there exists in France a law they call the Salic law, which destroys all our pretensions."

Chicot the Jester Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Custom, entitled the Salic law, has excluded them from the crown of France; but it is not, as Mézeray remarks, in consequence of their unfitness for governing, since they are almost always intrusted with the regency.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

This established the principle, later called the Salic Law, that the throne could pass only through males.

c. France 2001

The chief of these were the Burgundians, who were the first to establish themselves in burgs, in the country between the Alps and the Rhone, and were already Christians; and the Franks, who came over the Rhine, and whose royal line was properly called the Salic (from the river Yssel), but is also known as the Meerwings (sons of Meerwig), and as the Long-haired, because unshorn locks were a token of royal descent.

A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates 1871

Now there was an ancient law prevailing in certain portions of France, called the Salic law, [C] by which female children were excluded from inheriting the possessions of their fathers.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

In France, however, there is a law called the 'Salic' law, which excludes females from the throne; but it is maintained by many learned in the law, that although a female is held to be incompetent to reign because from her sex she cannot lead her armies to battle, yet she no ways forfeits otherwise her rights, and that her son is therefore the heir to the throne.

St. George for England 1867

Aragon on the other hand, followed Salic law which meant that only a male could inherit the throne.

Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Basing their interpretation feudal law on the ancient Salic Law, royal inheritance could not pass to a woman or through a woman to her offspring.

Archive 2008-03-02 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Basing their interpretation feudal law on the ancient Salic Law, royal inheritance could not pass to a woman or through a woman to her offspring.

Hundred Years War Background part 2 de Brantigny........................ 2008

And certainly inheritance is only through the male or line plus or minus the odd Salic Law or two.

Correcting Reality 2008