Secundogeniture

The Sekundogenitur (Latin secundus " following, second," and genitus "born" ) is justified by the second-born or another later generations of a noble house collateral line. It is a special form of inheritance that can get more possessions and prestige to the later generations than in the normal severance pay. The establishment of a branch line is possible, if not primogeniture is practiced.

Often a house Act regulates the establishment of a Sekundogenitur, their equipment ( material, also with the territory, usually far less than the main line) and their relationship to the main line (side line often remains legally dependent). Examples: Testament of Johann Georg I of Saxony, in 1651, and Freundbrüderlicher main comparison of 1657th

A distinction is emerging as the Sekundogenitur from a division of the state in which two or more separate, largely independent territories. Example:. Division of Hesse among the sons of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous, 1567 The transitions are fluid, however.

Sometimes secundogenitures were not formed from a division of the parental genotype, but by the later- Prince were equipped with a foreign principality, whose ruling family was extinct, or were newly formed from assigned territories.

Secundogenitures were, inter alia:

• Ccb Armenia 63 AD - 224 AD (see History of Armenia )
• Saxe- Weissenfels
• Saxe- Zeitz
• Saxe- Merseburg
• Hesse -Homburg
• Hanau coins Mountain Blackrock
• Habsburg- Tuscany
• Württemberg- Montbéliard
• Margraviate of Brandenburg- Kuestrin
• Bourbon -Parma, Bourbon- Sicily