41. He was the first male member of his agnatic house to rise to great prominence in his country. 42. Traditionally, the agnatic sibling group of a community constituted the most important level of decision-making. 43. In its origin, therefore, the agnatic principle was limited to the succession to the crown of France. 44. Lastly, there was yet a more junior agnatic branch that was eligible to succeed in Schleswig-Holstein. 45. Its agnatic line became extinct in Poland with the death of King John II Casimir of Poland in 1672. 46. An agnatic relative of William III, Tiburge d'Orange, who married into the des Baux family) 47. Those two forms of monarchy ( agnatic seniority and elective monarchy ) were mostly used in the same centuries. 48. Mary I succeeded to the Scottish throne only because there were no legitimate male agnatic descendants of Robert II. 49. The House of Valois had secured the principle of agnatic succession following their victory in the Hundred Years War. 50. The emperor's position, unless deposed in a rebellion, was always hereditary, usually by agnatic primogeniture.
