Sentence examples for presumptive to from inspiring English sources

This viceroy was heir presumptive to the overlord.

From 1318 he was heir presumptive to his maternal grandfather, King Robert I the Bruce (died 1329).

Richelieu discovered the conspiracy and had Chalais beheaded; but Anjou, as heir presumptive to the throne, escaped prosecution.

By the time the big dog rolled out onto the stage the next night, Obama's nomination had gone from presumptive to official.

On the death of Henry III's brother, François, Duke d'Anjou, in 1584, Henry de Bourbon-Navarre became the heir presumptive to the throne of France.

In October 1190 Arthur was recognized as heir presumptive to the English throne by another uncle, the childless King Richard I the Lion-Heart.

Claude, a near-contemporary of Anne Boleyn, who served her at the French court as a prepubescent lady-in-waiting, was betrothed at the age of six to her cousin François, the Duke of Angoulême and heir-presumptive to the French throne.

1937 Prince Gives Up Royal Rights BUCHAREST — Prince Nicholas, brother of King Carol and heir-presumptive to the Roumanian throne, renounced, allegedly under compulsion, his right royals and resigned his position as a general in the army late last night [April 9] as the consequence of a new crisis in the affairs of the Roumanian royal family.

George died in 1899, leaving Michael as heir-presumptive to the throne.

But news of the arrival of the "second-in-line heir-presumptive to the throne" led the Los Angeles Times on the morning of Nov. 15, 1948.

In order for Charles' milestone fully to matter, however, he'll need to outlive and succeed his mother, Elizabeth II, thus becoming Charles III (or George VII, as some predict) -- as the record for oldest heir-apparent or heir-presumptive never to ascend to the throne will still be held by Sophia, Electress of Hanover, heir-presumptive to Queen Anne.