Jure uxoris

Jure uxoris is a Latin term that is " out of the law of the wife " to translate. It is usually used to denote a ( noble ) titles, which is led by a man whose wife has this item in its own right (for example, due to inheritance).

The husband of an heiress became the owner of the goods and the title of his wife iure uxoris. In the Middle Ages it was used continuously, even for reigning queens and princesses, moreover, the husband of the monarch was himself monarch. In some cases he even remained king after the death of his wife, and sometimes he even left the kingdom to his descendants from other marriages (example: the Lithuanian Grand Duke Władysław II Jagiello, who had become the husband of Queen Jadwiga, King of Poland ). In a divorce, the husband initially remained monarch, while the woman lost her status (example: Mary of Boulogne and Matthew of Alsace, who were divorced in 1170 ).

In Portugal, a husband could be a king iure uxoris, as soon as he was the father of the heir. Queen Mary I had children when she ascended the throne by her uncle and husband so that he as Peter III. was at this moment the king. When Queen Mary II in 1836 married her second husband, Ferdinand of Saxe- Coburg- Gotha, this only iure uxoris monarch than on the first child was born in the year was: from now he reigned as Ferdinand II and his wife. Queen Mary's first husband Auguste de Beauharnais, however, was never iure uxoris monarch, because he died before the birth of an heir.

The title of a jure uxoris King is not to be confused with the Prince Consort, which is merely the husband of Queen, but not co-regent.

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