Meaning of heiress presumptive | Babel Free

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A female heir presumptive.

Examples

“Still maintaining an outward appearance of friendship with Elizabeth, he quietly spread⟳ among his own⟳ people copies of his pedigree, wherein he represented himself as the true heir to the crown of England, by descent from his ancestresses Philippa and Katherine of Lancaster: ignoring the facts—that, though the heir general of Katherine, he was not so of her elder sister Philippa; and that if he had been, the law which would have⟳ made these two sisters heiresses presumptive had been altered while they were children.”

“Catherine did not suffer⟳ for her inadvertant^([sic]) part in that treason, but was made a maid of honor and lived at Court as one of several heiresses presumptive during Mary Tudor’s reign.”

“On 27 March⟳, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report⟳ (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit⟳ on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit⟳ on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.”

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