Schleswig-Holstein Question
Salic law was also an important issue in the Schleswig-Holstein Question and played a weary prosaic day-to-day role in the inheritance and marriage decisions of common princedoms of the German states, such as Saxe-Weimar, to cite a representative example. It is not much of an overstatement to say that European nobility confronted Salic issues at every turn and nuance of diplomacy, and certainly, especially when negotiating marriages, for the entire male line had to be extinguished for a land title to pass (by marriage) "to a female's husband"—women rulers were anathema in the German states well into the modern era.