Sentence examples for secure succession from inspiring English sources

As a result, Jane and her mother were able to secure succession rights, and their landlord was ordered by the judge to make repairs.

Without swearing allegiance to Edward III, David was released for a ransom of 100,000 marks in 1357, but he was unable to pay, resulting in secret negotiations with the English and attempts to secure succession to the Scottish throne for an English king.

Deaths among his rivals in Gascony enabled him to secure successions that were more divided and less hostile such as in Armagnac.

Within the circle of prince-electors, August the Strong, Elector of Saxony, had secured the Polish crown in 1697, and the House of Hanover had secured succession of the British throne.

Based in the Electorate of Brandenburg, the main branch of the Hohenzollern intermarried with the branch ruling the Duchy of Prussia, and secured succession upon the latter's extinction in the male line in 1618.

Efforts to secure the succession show high regulatory standards; in Egypt a complicated succession theology linked the new and old king as Osiris and Horus.

Also, having no sons and wishing to secure the succession of his daughters Marie-Adélaide and Charlotte, he had the Luxembourg Parliament allow succession in the female line.

She was determined to secure the succession to both thrones for her family, and by a series of successful maneuvers she married her son Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

Mary and Matthew's failure to secure the succession is becoming tedious.

Charles's last wish was to secure the succession to the throne for his eldest son, Wenceslas.

After the death of the peshwa Narāyan Rāo in 1773, his uncle Raghunath Rāo tried to secure the succession.