Writ of Succession, 1659

[Principality of Curon 23]

Wʀɪᴛ ᴏғ Sᴜᴄᴄᴇssɪᴏɴ, 1659

Issued & confirmed by the Chancellor of Curon,

Sylvester II Adelheid of House Halcourt

 

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A convention has been held in Cyrilsburg, in the first year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Her Serene Highness the Sovereign Princess Linette Eliza. Accordingly, a declaration has been prepared to secure the succession of the crown in our most glorious nation. So as to avoid petty feuds and civil wars, all other claims to the throne are legally nullified; so long as the first in line to the throne lives, they alone may inherit, lest the sovereign doth declare otherwise.

 

PREAMBLE

I. We recognize the need and importance of a natural order of succession, and the smooth transition of power, in the prospective future, of the crown.

II. Whereas it is understood the ordeals pertaining to the succession of the crown, and the troubles which may culminate from such.

III. Insofar as we are concerned, the establishment of these accession laws do seek to maintain the stability of Curon, and the natural order of life.

 

RULES of SUCCESSION

I. Succession is hereby defined as the consequence generated as a result of the natural death or the abdication of the lawful reigning sovereign.

II. Lawful heirs are granted in absolute terms all the titles, claims, properties, and funds granted by the deceased sovereign, under the obligation that they further inherit any unfulfilled debts or expenses of the succession.

III. The party succeeding must be in existence at the immediate time of succession, as there can be no delay in the passing of titles, property, wealth, or hereditary claims.
III. Persons legally incapable of succession are;

a. They who are not yet conceived.

a. Foreign traitors illegally claiming the throne.

III. Those excluded from succession are;

a. All those who are not conforming to the Canonist faith. If there are heirs who are unbelievers, then the succession shall skim onto the next of kin who are Canonist.

b. Any whom are natural born and not legitimized. 

1. A legitimized natural born child shall not take precedence over a true born child.

2. The reigning sovereign is the only person who may legitimize one born out of wedlock.

 

ORDER of SUCCESSION

I. The crown of Curon will henceforth adhere to the system of absolute primogeniture, with the firstborn legitimate child of the sovereign inheriting, and the law will consider neither the nature or origin of that which is being passed on.

II. Offspring and their own descendants will succeed their father, mother, grandmothers or grandfathers or any other relevant ancestors without distinction to sex and primogeniture.
III. If the deceased sovereign is left with neither posterity, nor brother, or sister, or descendants produced by them, the succession is granted to the closest living ancestor, and will follow through with their own descendants.
IV. In the case that there is no closest living ancestor available, the line shall trace through the closest deceased ancestor, with a distinction being made according to sex, and will follow through to their descendants.
V. In case of no suitable lineage, the sovereign may see fit to adopt a strong leader upon their deathbed, securing the succession. Curon will never face civil war; it is God's will that rather than fight with one another, we fight the heathenry and villainy of this world.

 

LINE of SUCCESSION

I. His August Grace the Duke of Eastbourne, Wilhelm Leopold of House Devereux

II. Her Grace the Duchess of Eruthos, Odette Heloise of House Devereux
III. His Lordship the Count of Riga, Konrad Alfred of House Devereux

IV. His Lordship the Count of Westmark, Emmett Frederick of House Devereux
V. Her Ladyship the Countess of Beauclair, Esme Teresa of House Devereux
VI. Her Ladyship the Countess of Sunholdt, Emelie Frederika of House Deverueux

IN NOMININE DEI †
HER SERENE HIGHNESS, Linette Eliza of House Devereux, Sovereign Princess of

Curon, Duchess of Eastbourne and Eruthos, Countess of Riga, Westmark, Beauclair, Sunholdt, Wett, and Eastmark, and Baroness of Cyrilsburg

 

 

 

[Ankalagon_ 258]

Aragon Silversteed of Arbor nods as he reads the post "about time we got this sorted and put behind us, now we can focus on the bigger picture damn it; killing Norlanders, undead, and putting the heads of bandits on spikes where they belong." Aragon then pulls on the reigns of his horse, twisting around. Behind him dozens upon dozens of Knights of Arbor await his orders on horseback, many carrying lances with flapping banners in the wind of House Silversteed, in the sun the silver hued group of knights would almost be a blinding sight to look upon. And so they rode, a second sun upon the world, to vanquish the dark.