Talk:Monarchs of Darnussia

Planned expansion of this into something of a family tree:

Something of a template to go on;

First principles for historical re-generation:
 * Royal line followed Agnatic primogeniture at first - females were totally ignored.
 * Eleonore I, the first Queen, came to power when the original male-only Darntus line ended with no living male-line descendents. She was on the direct line from Darntus I's daughter, who was granted the Duchy of Narikaton.  With no "Princes" remaining (Dantonite II's child died young?  Or perhaps was murdered), she won the power struggle against other nobles.
 * From Eleonore I on, the royal line followed Cognatic (male-prefered) primogeniture - sons before daughters, but daughters before uncles.
 * The heir apparent to the throne is Duke (or Duchess) of Narikaton from this point on. The Duke of Clenon (once established) was given to the head of the "next branch" of the family - where the throne goes if the current monarch has no eligible descendants.  Ben Aharon inherited from that position, notably, explaining the Jewish King.  But his direct heirs would have inherited Narikaton, had he had any survivors (they were killed in the civil war)
 * The return to the Darntus-Raux line needs to be explained - how did the throne leave that line, if there were still members of the line alive?
 * After the fall of the Monarchy in the 1900s, the "Would have been King" line still kept the hereditary "Duke of Narikaton" title, albeit with no legal power. The DofN becomes the Monarch-in-waiting for the restoration of the throne
 * By the modern day, virtually every Darnussian can claim descent from Darntus I, through legitimate or illegitimate ancestry. However, the noble class is somewhat self-regulating, and generally does not recognize illegitimate children, or lines unlikely to ever inherit a position due to birth order.  A lot of daughters with many brothers, or even fourth/fifth sons might be considered noble, but their descendants ultimately wouldn't be, as the first/second sons heirs crowded out the field.