tanistry

Tanistry as the system of succession left the headship open to the ambitious.

Robert Bruce pleaded tanistry and proximity of blood in the succession dispute.

Bruce also claimed tanistry through a female line.

In particular, very little material survives regarding succession practices, which have been reconstructed as the system of Tanistry.

The Scottish monarchy of this period based its succession system on the rule of tanistry.

The system of tanistry was semi-elective and gave weight also to merits and capability.

Some Chiefs of the Name favour tanistry while others see primogeniture as a more practical system.

Lineage was based on tanistry (rather than primogeniture).

"According to the tradition of tanistry, any of our close cousins might make an equal claim to the title," Donough pointed out.

In the succession dispute, he pleaded tanistry and proximity in degree of kinship to the deceased King.

When in 1943 Ireland appointed its first new Chief Herald, it did not reintroduce tanistry.

Blood tanistry is the principle that "the most talented male member of the royal dynasty should inherit the throne, commonly by murder and war".

Th' borders inherit by tanistry.

In Ireland, the tanistry continued among the dominant dynasties, as well as lesser lords and chieftains, until the mid-16th century.

Previously, succession was determined by tanistry - during a king's lifetime an heir was chosen and known as tanaiste rig, or 'second to the king'.

In 1296, the Bruce candidate to inherit the crown of Scotland pleaded the traditional tanistry in his favour.

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

Other hereditary systems of succession included tanistry, which is semi-elective and gives weight to merit and Agnatic seniority.

He also wished to see Kerry colonised by English gentlemen, and Irish customs such as tanistry abolished.

The Irish laws of Tanistry required that the title of chieftain be passed on to the most capable of the dead chief's family.

Both systems have been compared with the concept of tanistry found in Early Irish Law, although the political reality appears to have been more complex.

(These features make tanistry an agnatic succession mode, and a succession by appointment, as it was an elective monarchy.

The Gaels exported tanistry and other customs, to those parts of Scotland which they controlled after 400 CE.

Some sources indicate that Malcolm II designated Duncan as his successor under the rules of tanistry because there were other possible claimants to the throne.

Tánaiste in turn refers to the system of tanistry, the Gaelic system of succession whereby a leader would appoint an heir apparent while still living.