Editing Primogeniture (section)

===Quasi-Salic law===
During the [[High Medieval]] period, there arose a trend where the extinction of agnatic lineages forced the consideration of women's claims; nevertheless, the desire for a male heir saw the women themselves excluded from the succession in favor of their sons, so that women could transmit claims but not inherit themselves. Such a system was called "quasi-Salic".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebtehaj |first1=Fatemeh |last2=Herring |first2=Jonathan |last3=Richards |first3=Martin |title=Birth Rites and Rights |date=29 July 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-84731-670-7 |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ax7cBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA206 |access-date=18 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In 1317, to illegitimize [[Joan II of Navarre]]'s claim on France, [[Philip V of France]] declared "women do not succeed to the throne of France". In 1328, Philip's successor, [[Charles IV of France]], also died sonless; Charles' sister, [[Isabella of France]], claimed the throne not for herself, but through her to her son, [[Edward III of England|Edward]]. However, [[Philip VI of France]] took the throne and added another rule to illegitimize Edward, that being {{lang|la|[[nemo dat quod non habet]]}} – one cannot transmit a right that one does not possess.

A variation of this form of primogeniture allowed the sons of female dynasts to inherit, but not women themselves, an example being the [[Francisco Franco|Francoist]] succession to the throne of Spain that was applied in 1947&ndash;1978.