The principalities were often ragged in outline and territorially dispersed because of the accidents of inheritance, grant, partition, and conquest.
As a product of communist east Germany, Merkel brings quite a different perspective to the merits of Europe compared with the west Europeans who have run the union until now and who might take their inheritance for granted.
He was forced first to annul his marriage to Agnes of Courtenay because she was his third cousin (rights of legitimacy and inheritance, however, were granted to his son Baldwin and a daughter by Agnes).
Gaunt dies soon after; Richard becomes increasingly dictatorial and confiscates Gaunt's vast inheritance from being granted to Bolingbroke; his banishment is converted to life, though his sons remain in the country.
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Only a few months later, Gilbert was granted his inheritance, and by March 1308 made Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, at the young age of sixteen.
6 Biological birth usually marks a transitional phase during which a baby is ritually prepared, through such procedures as bodily examination, washing, naming, baptism and the bestowing of inheritance rights, for being granted a social identity and being recognized as a member of a particular social collectivity.
The decision whether or not to grant inheritance rights requires placing some values ahead of others.
Her decision acknowledges that granting inheritance rights to posthumously conceived babies may complicate life for earlier-born heirs.
It would not grant inheritance rights, hospitalization or jail visitation rights or other privileges of legal marriage.
