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The 41 pages that link to Salic law, each with the reason it gives.

• Hundred Years' WarRelated: French jurists invoked it to reject Edward III’s claim through his mother.

• Capetian dynastyRelated: Its interpretation helped justify the Valois succession after the direct line ended.

• Kingdom of FranceRelated: It shaped dynastic succession and helped determine which royal houses could claim the crown.

• War of the Austrian SuccessionRelated: Claims invoking female succession restrictions supplied one argument against Maria Theresa’s inheritance.

• French monarchyRelated: It shaped claims to the crown and was invoked to justify male-only succession.

• Clovis IRelated: It illustrates how written law helped organize Frankish society under royal authority.

• Edward III of EnglandRelated: French rejection of Edward’s claim relied on excluding inheritance through his mother.

• House of BourbonRelated: It helped determine who could inherit the French Bourbon crown.

• LegitimismRelated: Its interpretation shaped disputes over who could inherit the French crown.

• French royal domainRelated: Rules of royal succession shaped which inheritances could enlarge or divide crown lands.

• Frankish kingdomRelated: Its inheritance provisions became associated with the division of royal lands among male heirs.

• House of ValoisRelated: Its interpretation helped exclude Edward III’s claim and support Philip VI’s accession.

• Philip VI of FranceRelated: Its interpretation supported rejecting Edward III’s claim through his mother, Isabella of France.

• DynastyRelated: Its use in some monarchies barred female-line claims to the throne.

• Charles IV of FranceRelated: Its interpretation helped bar Charles's daughter and Isabella from succeeding to France.

• Henry III of FranceRelated: It made the Protestant Henry of Navarre the lawful heir despite opposition to his faith.

• John II of FranceRelated: Its interpretation underpinned the dynastic dispute behind England’s claim.

• Charles II of NavarreRelated: Its application helped block Charles’s maternal claim to the French throne.

• Pragmatic Sanction of 1830Related: The decree reversed the exclusion of women established by this succession rule.

• Bourbon dynastyRelated: It shaped the male-line claims through which Bourbon succession was justified.

• Louis X of FranceRelated: Its application became central to excluding Joan from the French succession.

• Philip V of FranceRelated: Its later interpretation helped justify excluding Louis X’s daughter from the crown.

• War of the Breton SuccessionRelated: The dispute exposed disagreement over whether a woman could transmit a claim to Brittany.

• William III of the NetherlandsRelated: Its application in Luxembourg prevented William III’s daughter from inheriting the grand duchy.

• PrincessRelated: Its use barred women from succession in several European monarchies.

• LegitimistsRelated: It shaped arguments about which male Bourbon descendants could inherit the throne.

• Royal intermarriageRelated: Rules excluding female succession shaped which royal marriages could carry claims.