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	Morganatic marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A morganatic marriage is a type of marriage which can be contracted in certain countries, usually between persons of unequal social rank (unebenbürtig in German), which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.
		The practice of morganatic marriage was most common in the German-speaking parts of Europe, where equality of birth between the spouses was considered an important principle among the reigning houses and high nobility.
		Morganatic marriage is not, and has not been, possible in jurisdictions that do not allow for the required freedom of contracting with regard to the marriage contract, as it is an agreement containing that pre-emptive limitation to the inheritance and property rights of the wife and the children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morganatic_marriage (1912 words)

	Morganatic Marriage - LoveToKnow 1911
		This equality by birth was formerly throughout Germany the necessary condition to a complete and perfect marriage, but it is now only applicable to members of reigning houses or of the higher nobility (hoher Add), and it is thus of force among the "mediatized" princes of the German Empire.
		Generally it may be said that members of a present or former reigning house, either in Germany or Europe, would be recognized as ebenbiirtig, but a former morganatic marriage would be taken as destroying the qualification.
		The term "morganatic marriage" is applied generally to any marriage of a person of royal blood with one of inferior rank.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Morganatic_Marriage (313 words)

	Morganatic and Secret Marriages in the French Royalty
		Morganatic marriages are marriages in a royal or sovereign family which somehow contravene the dynastic rules, either because they were not authorized, or more often because of a perceived mésalliance or inequality in rank between the spouses.
		The issue of the morganatic marriage is barred from succeding to the throne (sometimes the perpetrator as well), and the spouses are denied the rank they would have normally held as royal spouses.
		It could be argued that these secret marriages were the French equivalent of morganatic marriages; since the marriage was secret, the spouse was never given the rank that she would have had under normal circumstances, which is a common trait with morganatic marriages.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/morganat.htm (3636 words)

	Topical Words: Morganatic
		It’s a sensitive term in British royal circles, since in November 1936 King Edward VIII proposed a morganatic marriage to Mrs Simpson as a way of getting around the fact that she, too, was a divorcée.
		The word morganatic deeply puzzled etymologists at one time and some believed that it derived from the marriage of the fairy Morgana (also known as Morgan le Fey, from the Arthurian legends) to a mortal.
		Oddly, the source of morganatic turns out to be a German one meaning “morning gift”, which sounds like a contradiction (the medieval Latin term was matrimonium ad morganaticam, based on the sixth-century German morganegiba for which the modern German equivalent is Morgengabe).
	www.worldwidewords.org /topicalwords/tw-mor1.htm (505 words)

	Morganatic and Unequal Marriages in German Law
		The concept of morganatic marriage was always closely related to that of unequal marriage, because it was a useful legal tool to achieve a particular aim (curtail the rights of spouse and offspring).
		In a morganatic marriage, the reason is the marriage contract itself, voluntarily entered into (in particular, with the consent of both spouses, in principle, since it is a contract).
		Another interesting document, produced in the Anhalt-Dessau/Föse case, was the opinion of the law faculty of Helmstädt (1698), which held that the house law agreed by the princes of Anhalt-Dessau in 1637 against unequal marriages was not enforceable.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/royalty/g_morganat.htm (15433 words)

	morganatic - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Royalty (nobility) : aspects of royalty : morganatic marriage: John (archduke of Austria)
		Royalty (nobility) : aspects of royalty : morganatic marriage: Francis Ferdinand
		France : royalty: morganatic wife of Louis XIV
	ca.encarta.msn.com /morganatic.html (134 words)

	RussianImperialSuccession
		Although, by October 1938, 9 morganatic sons (including the present Prince Nicholas Romanoff) had been born to male dynasts since the fall of the monarchy, not a single one of the 9 was included among the 13 names on the succession list, for the obvious reason that not a single one qualified as a dynast.
		His morganatic son (and only child) Paul (born 1928) was not included in the succession list, because he was the child of an unequal marriage and thus was not a member of the dynasty.
		His morganatic son Michael (born 1924) was not included in the succession list because he was the child of an unequal marriage and thus was not a member of the dynasty.
	www.riuo.org /RussianImperialSuccession/russianimperialsuccession.html (14164 words)

	RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION, by BRIEN HORAN
		Although, by October 1938, nine morganatic sons (including the present Prince Nicholas Romanoff) had been born to male dynasts since the fall of the monarchy, not a single one of the nine was included among the thirteen names on the succession list, for the obvious reason that not a single one qualified as a dynast.
		His adherents seem to ignore the fact that the succession laws required each dynast to be born of an equal marriage, that is, born of a marriage of a dynast to a spouse of royal birth (or, to be more precise, to a spouse who was a member of a royal or sovereign dynasty).
		His rank was the morganatic rank of a prince of the nobility of the Russian Empire, not that of a Prince of Russia (Prince of the Imperial Blood), which latter designation belonged exclusively to dynasts.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/russuclw.htm (15580 words)

	Frontline: Pushkin Genealogy
		This term of precedence became more familiar as an increasing number of European royalty towards the end of the last century were slowly forced to adjust to the social changes that had begun to affect the rest of the world.
		The morganatic title created for Natalie was Countess of Merenberg with the right to bear the title of Count or Countess of Merenberg by her children.
		Battenberg was the principality bestowed on the Countess Julie Hauke and her children after her husband, the Prince of Hesse, had been reconciled with his father for having eloped with her.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/pushkingenealogy.html (2151 words)

	HERMANN1.HTM
		A morganatic marriage is a union between a man of exalted rank and a woman of lower rank, who remains in her former station with any issue of the marriage having no claim to succeed to the possessions or title of the father.
		By proposing a morganatic marriage, the King placed himself at the mercy of Parliament which he was necessarily petitioning for legislation.
		By requesting consideration of a morganatic marriage in his meeting with the Prime Minister on November 25, the King opened up the opportunity for the Prime Minister to propose consulting the government and the Dominions on the ultimate issue of the King's marriage to Mrs.
	www.chilit.org /HERMANN1.HTM (5403 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Morganat’ic Marriage (A). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The word is based on the Gothic morgjan, “to curtail” or “limit;” and the marriage settlement was called morgengabe or morgengnade, whence the Low Latin matrimonium ad legem morganaticam, in which the dowry is to be considered all the portion the wife will receive, as the estates cannot pass to her or to her children.
		A morganatic marriage is called “left-handed,” because a man pledges his troth with his left hand instead of his right.
		The “hand-fasted” marriages of Scotland and Ireland were morganatic, and the “hand-fasted” bride could be put away for a fresh union.
	www.bartleby.com /81/11664.html (216 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Charles ought to give up either Camilla or the throne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A week ago, few people in Britain were aware of the term ‘morganatic’; now it is being touted in the media as familiarly as the name of a reality television programme.
		Morganatic marriage is a German concept, the name deriving from the Morgengabe, the morning gift made by the husband to his wife on their marriage.
		Yet the key principle of morganatic marriage is to deny the unequal partner the name and style of the senior spouse (Sophie Chotek was created Duchess of Hohenberg).
	news.scotsman.com /archive.cfm?id=166312005 (1326 words)

	Transblawg: Morganatic marriage/Ehe zur linken Hand
		But apparently it was out of the question, in part because it is not a British tradition and in part because a morganatic marriage to Mrs Simpson was suggested by Edward VIII as a way for him to be king while married to a divorcee.
		Another name for it was left-handed marriage, because the custom was that at the altar the husband extended his left hand to the bride, not his right, as a mark of their unconventional union.
		In a magnificently ghastly article to accompany the Vogue prins(ess)es issue, Prince Wossname of Greece used "morganatic" to mean marrying commoners.
	www.margaret-marks.com /Transblawg/archives/001285.html (268 words)

	The Russian Throne and Morganatic Marriages.
		morganatic marriage is a marriage, usually that of a Royal male, to a woman of a lower station.
		Not only are the children denied the rank of the father, but also in the case of succession to a throne, the father may cease to be a valid candidate.
		However for a reigning and autocratic Emperor, as a single and final act of his reign, to bring to the throne a person in a morganatic marriage, which ipso facto discounts any continuing line via that person, would make a nonsense of that appointment unless, by that very act, the morganatic rule were abolished!
	www.netpages.free-online.co.uk /gms/morgnatc.htm (630 words)

	ABC NewsRadio: wordwatch, Morganatic
		The word morganatic comes from an old expression meaning "morning gift" (from the German word for "morning": morgan).
		This was a dowry paid to a spouse upon marriage.
		In a morganatic marriage the wife's entitled to no share in the husband's possessions beyond the 'morning-gift'.
	www.abc.net.au /newsradio/txt/s1363508.htm (109 words)

	THE ROMANOV IMPERIAL DYNASTY IN EMIGRATION XX CENTURY
		The laws were further altered in 1820 and to be considered a member of the Imperial House, members of the family had to marry a person of equal rank; meaning persons from another sovereign house.
		Accordingly, the offspring of these marriages were considered dynast, while children of morganatic (unequal) marriages were not considered members of the Imperial House.
		Therefore, under the succession laws, the descendants of these marriages were not members of the Russian Imperial House, and hence, not entitled to the Russian Throne.
	www.geocities.com /konnoff/romanovimperialdynasty.htm (1422 words)

	Press, Politics and the Abdication of Edward VIII by Brandt McCary "The Press creates; the Press destroys
		Baldwin in ascertaining the opinion of his colleagues, leaders of the Opposition, and the Dominion Governments as to whether they would be prepared to support legislation that would allow a, by this time, twice divorced woman to marry the King.
		A morganatic marriage, as previously stated, would have to be granted by an Act of Parliament and this Act would have to be approved by all the Dominions.
		It was the proposal of contracting a morganatic marriage which made the King's relationship a Parliamentary matter and thus a matter of public concern.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1995-6/mccary.htm (3431 words)

	Paper crown when Charles takes reign - Gerard Henderson - www.smh.com.au
		In his authoritative study The Monarchy and the Constitution, the British constitutional historian Vernon Bogdanor defined a morganatic marriage as "one in which the wife of the sovereign and any children who may be born of the marriage are denied royal status and all the claims or privileges that go with it".
		Yet, after seven decades on the constitutional interchange bench, the concept of a morganatic marriage is back in the news.
		The move to establish the Duchess of Cornwall as Princess Consort would, in effect, amount to a morganatic marriage - in that the wife of the king would be denied full royal status.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Gerard-Henderson/Paper-crown-when-Charles-takes-reign/2005/02/14/1108229933596.html (1133 words)

	Morganatic branches of the Russian Imperial F... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: Morganatic Marriage
		Of or being a legal marriage between a person of royal or noble birth and a partner of lower rank, in which it is agreed that no titles or estates of the royal or noble partner are to be shared by the partner of inferior rank nor by any of the offspring of the marriage.
		morganatic adj: (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior [syn: left-handed]
		Thus, the effect of your proposed Act of Parliament would be that any (purely) civil marriage entered into by a member of the British royal family would be automatically deemed a morganatic marriage.
	www.nationalcenter.org /2005/03/morganatic-marriage.html (364 words)

	Carol II - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		CAROL II [Carol II] 1893-1953, king of Romania, son of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie.
		While crown prince, he contracted a morganatic marriage with Zizi Labrino but divorced her to marry (1921) Princess Helen of Greece.
		He soon formed a liaison with Magda Lupescu, with whom he lived in Paris after being forced (1925) to renounce his right of succession.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-carol2.html (327 words)

	PRESENT DAY STATUS
		Such children are known as "morganatic" descendants, that is, non-dynastic descendants of unequal marriages.
		Second, he is not even the senior morganatic male descendant: among the morganatic male descendants in the Romanoff Family Association, Nikolai Romanovich is only the 4th or 5th most senior morganatic descendant by lineage, following the morganatic descendants of the late Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich.
		Under the monarchy, the descendants of morganatic marriages never were allowed to use the name "Romanoff" but instead were given other surnames, such as Paley, Krassinsky, Brassov and Torby.
	www.riuo.org /status/status.html (748 words)

	MORGANATIC MARRIAGE - Online Information article about MORGANATIC MARRIAGE
		Europe, would be recognized as ebenburtig, but a former morganatic marriage would be taken as destroying the qualification.
		Britain the regulations as to the marriages of members of the royal See also:
		term " morganatic marriage " is applied generally to any marriage of a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOL_MOS/MORGANATIC_MARRIAGE.html (604 words)

	Trinidad News, Trinidad Newspaper, Trinidad Sports, Trinidad politics, Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago News, Trinidad ...
		The word morganatic is an adjective and the etymology is New Latin "Morganaticus", from medieval Latin (matrimonium ad) morganaticam (marriage for the)-morning gift.
		Apparently the marriage of Prince Charles to Mrs Bowles will not be morganatic because it unfortunately reminds the British of the 1936 trauma of King Edward VIII, who desired such a marriage to Mrs Simpson, the American divorcee.
		One of the most famous morganatic marriages was between Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria to Sophie Chotek.
	www.trinidadexpress.com /index.pl/article_woman_mag?id=66713631 (853 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Camilla 'will be Charles' queen'
		The Labour MP asked Mr Leslie if next month's marriage was "morganatic" - a term which would mean that Mrs Parker Bowles would automatically not inherit the title of queen.
		Mr Leslie said that it was not a morganatic marriage.
		Government sources have said that legislation would be needed to "comply with her wishes not to become queen".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4369217.stm (344 words)

	The Fate of the Romanovs: The Survivors
		In addition to the thirty-five full-fledged members of the family, there were also a number of quasi-Romanovs resulting from morganatic marriages of various male members of the family.
		She was the mother of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent and aunt by marriage of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
		There were also several morganatic wives and children of various members of the Imperial Family that escaped or were living abroad at the time of the Revolution.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/survivor.html (3978 words)

	ST. VICTOR I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He decreed that after an emergency baptism, whether in river, spring, sea, or marsh, the neophyte should be treated as a Christian in full standing.
		The lull in the persecution was due to a woman named Marcia, who seems to have been a sort of morganatic wife of the Emperor Commodus.
		Friendly to Christianity, she used this influence to soften the lot of the hard-pressed Christians.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp14.htm (428 words)

	An Online Gotha
		These "morganauts" are generally shown in smaller font than the members not descended from morganatic marriages.
		In some modern houses it is not easy to determine who should be considered morganatic.
		I apologize to any persons whom I thus have misdesignated, and welcome further information about current morganatic status of various members of the Houses.
	pages.prodigy.net /ptheroff/gotha/gotha.htm (891 words)

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