Talk:Salic law

message: Isn't Luxembourg's independence due in some way to the Salic Law?  If so anyone who knows the facts would be most welcome to add it to the interesting twists section at the end.
: Salic Law was invoked by Luxemburg to leave the personal union with the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1890, when the king died without a male heir and the parliament of the Netherlands decided that his daughter should become queen. In Luxemburg he was succeeded by a someone from another line (the Walram line) of the same family. The reason is obviously not that Luxemburg is inherently more misogynistic than the Netherlands: After the secession of Belgium (1831-1839), the Luxembourg Crisis (1867), and Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871) the relation between the Netherlands and Luxemburg was considered a liability by both sides. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 145.18.192.124 (talk) 14:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Luxembourg

message: I've moved a large part of the article out into a sub article and have split the article up more. - FrancisTyers 19:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, I've done a bit more cleanup of formatting etc. Moved a link to wikisource, added a template blah blah. I'm at a loss as what needs to be done with the Female inheritance section. It is way too long for the rest of the article, should it be split out into another article (like agnatic succession) ? A further point, isn't this article supposed to be about Salic law? I had a brief look and there was a hell of a lot more to it than just succession. I think the article needs to reflect that, perhaps with a general introduction before going straight into inheritance and history. It isn't my field so I'm going to pass on that. Oh, and it needs to be sourced. - FrancisTyers 20:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: this paragraph only states in general that Victoria could not inherit Hanover "because of Salic law", but it fails to explain what part of the law.  I assume it was because Salic law may require a male successor, but it doesn't say so.  It would be helpful if that was explained..
Dunnhaupt 19:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Consequences 

message: Both here and in the section above on Luxembourg, and in several places in the article itself, the "Salic" explanation given for various successions is wrong. Neither Luxembourg nor Hannover had Salic law. Rather, they had semi-Salic law, which means that a female member of a dynasty can only inherit the throne after all males of the dynasty have died out. In both Luxembourg and Hannover, since there were males (albeit distantly related) who belonged to the same agnatic dynasty, when their respective King Williams died, the thrones went to those men instead of to their nearer-related female kin. Salic law was extremely rare by the 19th century, only being practiced by France, Sardinia and Sweden (with Bernadotte: Vasa Sweden allowed females to succeed), until the new Balkan monarchies (and Norway) took it up in the latter half of the 1800s and the early 20th century. Nor does "agnatic succession" absolutely exclude women: in English it means hereditary succession exclusively through males, not exclusively by males. The article needs re-writing with corrections. Lethiere (talk) 03:55, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing Salic with semi-Salic

message: Please see Category talk:Earliest known manuscripts by language. Enaidmawr (talk) 01:15, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct category? 

message: It doesn't appear to me that the Frankish inheritance law described in this article and the material about male primogeniture in later kingdoms have much to do with one another except for the word "Salic". As the Frankish content appears fragmented and unclear to me (especially as it contains much less detail about Salic Law than the Early Germanic law article does), I wonder whether it would be improved by putting the two subjects in different articles. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 04:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Frankish and later materials. 

message: How about a link to Irish  celtic  Brahon(spelling?) law ? They seem somewhat / much related. Would be interesting with a few words of comparison between the two as well (by someone who knows a bit more than I do on both :) 84.215.32.86 (talk) 10:39, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's say someone DID put something in. You wouldn't be able to trust it. WP is known for giving amateurs a shot at writing something. How can you rely on what THEY say? Since you would have to check it anyway, you might as well do the work yourself. If you find out anything interesting maybe you could write something for here. The professionals write books, they don't write WP articles, or if they do, not on their topics. Book and articles are what you want.Dave (talk) 04:44, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  link to Irish celtic law? 

message: What is an "attestation" in here and how is it "direct"?  Is the meaning "the only known remaining written instances of Old Dutch"?
Richard Ong (talk) 05:57, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Dutch Frankish 

message: The article omits the use of the Salic Law after the death of Kings Louis XII and Henri III and the abdication of King Charles X. Thank you,Nerissa-Marie (talk) 22:39, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: More uses of the Salic Law in the French history