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unusual facts about War of Succession




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Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg

Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg (died 1385), competed with Brunswick in Lüneburg War of Succession

Argerich

18th-Century Spanish documents record both the granting of (and confirmation of prior Central European) titles of nobility, of unclear degree, to the family following the Spanish War of Succession by "Cedula Real" (Royal Decree) of King Phillip V of Spain.

Château de Wangenbourg

In 1504, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilien I, having vanquished the Prince-elector, Philipp, in the war of succession of Bavaria, confiscated the castle from the cousins Hans and Stephan von Wangen for the count Tiestein, who himself gave it to the Archbishop of Strasbourg, Wilhelm III von Hohnstein, in 1516.

Jean de Montfort

John IV, Duke of Brittany (1294-1345), contested Duke of Brittany, one of two sides in the Breton War of Succession

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

Marava War of Succession

Marava War of Succession is used to refer to the war of succession between Bhavani Shankar, the illegitimate son of Raghunatha Kilavan and Tanda Teva, the heir designated by the deceased king, Vijayaraghunatha Sethupathi, for the throne of Ramnad kingdom, also known as the "Kingdom of the Marava".

New Barcelona

New Barcelona was the name of a settlement of Catalan-Austrian exiles that existed between 1735 and 1738, created after his defeat in the War of Succession and located in the Banat of Temesvár, the current town of Zrenjanin, in the Serbian Vojvodina.

Songhai Empire

Following the death of Emperor Askia Daoud, a civil war of succession weakened the Empire, leading Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur of the Saadi Dynasty of Morocco to dispatch an invasion force (years earlier, armies from Portugal had attacked Morocco, and failed miserably, but the Moroccan coffers were on the verge of economic depletion and bankruptcy, as they needed to pay for the defenses used to hold off the siege) under the eunuch Judar Pasha.

William II, Duke of Jülich

William intervened in favor of Edward in the catastrophic war of succession between his brothers-in-law Reinald and Edward for control of the Duchy of Guelders.