tanist

The Tanist of Delbhna was brutally murdered in his own home.

Malachi's sons had died in battle and fallen to disease, even the youngest of them, but he was expected to name a tanist.

Murrough the tanist had a great stronghold.

It was built to be occupied by the Tanist, which was the name of the position held by the clan's deputy chief.

Perhaps simultaneously upon that succession, a Tanist was elected from another branch, to fill the position vacated by the one now risen to chieftainship.

In the partially elective system of tanistry, the heir or tanist was elected from the qualified males of the royal family.

"Why ... the fact that both our father and Murrough, his tanist, his chosen successor, died at the same time.

A story about Cormac mac Airt refers to his eldest son as his Tanist.

A game of the Warrior, with his King Spear and his friend, his tanist, Finn had said.

Among his children were two sons, Brian Óg (his tanist) and Tadhg, who succeeded him.

Tanist: A teenaged male Marvel who appeared in The Power of Shazam!

He swung about in his saddle and addressed his eldest brother, Pawl, Tanist of Kiik.

The figure of the tanist has appeared in modernist poetry, such as T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Under the very rule of succession that Brian had established to benefit his own son Murrough, Malachi's tanist would succeed him as High King.

Aedh, son of Lonan O'Guaire, Tanist of Aidhne, died.

Donough More O'Dowda, "Tanist of Hy-Fiachrach"

The tanist influenced Robert Graves' interpretation of The Greek Myths (1955) and The White Goddess.

He is succeeded as The O'Neill by his tanist, Turlough Luineach O'Neill.

The position of tanist went to Florence's cousin, Donal na Pipi (Donal of the Pipes).

Brian had been killed in a skirmish in April 1562 by Shane's Tanist Turlough Luineach O'Neill.

The latter bound himself in the sum of £10,000 not to divert the MacCarthy Reagh succession from MacCarthy, who was in turn his tanist.

It is also known as Jacob's Pillow Stone and the Tanist Stone, and in Scottish Gaelic clach-na-cinneamhain.

A quite usual pattern was that the chief (king, lord) was succeeded by his Tanist, elected earlier and from another branch than that which the incumbent chief belonged to.

As is ... usually ... the custom, in the absence of a tanist a tribe selects as its chieftain the best qualified man from the preeminent clan.

He was first Tanist and in 1543 had been granted the title of first Earl of Thomond by Henry VIII.