Usually associated with monarchical and aristocratic titles, what is the term for a widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband?
"Dowager A dowager is a widow who holds a title or property—a ""dower""—derived from her deceased husband. As an adjective, ""dowager"" usually appears in association with monarchical and aristocratic titles. In popular usage, the noun ""dowager"" may refer to any elderly widow, especially one of both wealth and dignity. In the United Kingdom, the widow of a peer may continue to use the style she had during her husband's lifetime, e.g. ""Countess of Loamshire"", provided that his successor, if any, has no wife to bear the plain title. Otherwise she more properly prefixes either her forename or the word ""Dowager"","
"Hereditary title Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are titles of nobility, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families. Though both monarchs and nobles usually inherit their titles, the mechanisms often differ, even in the same country. The British crown has been heritable by women since the medieval era (in the absence of brothers), while the vast majority of hereditary noble titles granted by British sovereigns are not heritable by daughters. Often a hereditary title is inherited only by the legitimate, eldest son of the original grantee or that son's"
"Widow A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The treatment of widows and widowers around the world varies. A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed ""widowhood"". These terms are not applied to a divorcé(e) following the death of an ex-spouse. The term ""widowhood"" can be used for either sex, at least according to some dictionaries, but the word ""widowerhood"" is also listed in some dictionaries."
"Widow inheritance Widow inheritance (also known as bride inheritance) is a cultural and social practice whereby a widow is required to marry a male relative of her late husband, often his brother. Examples of widow inheritance can be found in ancient and biblical times in the form of levirate marriage. The practice was meant as a means for the widow to have someone to support her and her children financially, and to keep her late husband's wealth within the family bloodline. At the time it was initiated, women were responsible for the house chores and men were the providers, therefore"
"said to have a ""life estate"" in her husband's dignity. Thus a duke's wife is titled a ""duchess"", a marquess's wife a ""marchioness"", an earl's wife a ""countess"", a viscount's wife a ""viscountess"" and a baron's wife a ""baroness"". Despite being referred to as a ""peeress"", she is not a peer in her own right: this is a 'style' and not a substantive title. However, this is considered a legal title, unlike the social titles of a peer's children. The wives of eldest sons of peers hold their titles on the same basis as their husbands, i.e. by courtesy. Thus"
"the feminine form of her husband's title, which takes the form of ""Lady"", followed by her husband's given name and surname, as in the example of Lady Randolph Churchill. The holder is addressed as ""Lord Randolph"" and his wife as ""Lady Randolph"". The honorific prefix of ""Lady"" is used for the daughters of dukes, marquesses and earls. The courtesy title is added before the person's given name, as in the example Lady Diana Spencer. Because it is merely a courtesy with no legal implications, the honorific persists after the death of the holder's father but it is not inherited by"
"the queen, women of royal and noble status simply carried the title of ""Lady"". As a title of nobility, the uses of ""lady"" in Britain are parallel to those of ""lord"". It is thus a less formal alternative to the full title giving the specific rank, of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness, whether as the title of the husband's rank by right or courtesy, or as the lady's title in her own right. A peeress's title is used with the definite article: Lord Morris's wife is ""the Lady Morris"". A widow's title derived from her husband becomes the dowager, e.g."
"widow inherits the entire property. Women are culturally viewed as property and can be inherited like the rest of a husband's estate. Whether or not the widow can continue to reside on the property is dependent on her relationship with her eldest son or, if there are no sons, the eldest male relative of her husband. There have also been instances where the woman must return to her premarital home after refunding the bride price. The lack of sufficient property right makes these women dependent on men while single, married, or widowed. Though the Nigerian Supreme Court has yet to"
"the queen consort has been the chief power behind her husband's throne; e.g. Maria Luisa of Parma, wife of Charles IV of Spain. Past queens consort: Past empresses consort: Current queens consort: Current empresses consort: Because queens consort lack an ordinal with which to distinguish between them, many historical texts and encyclopedias refer to deceased consorts by their premarital (or maiden) name or title, not by their marital royal title (examples: Queen Mary, consort of George V, is usually called Mary of Teck, and Queen Maria José, consort of Umberto II of Italy, is usually called Marie José of Belgium)."
"half of the husband’s estate that could not be alienated during the husband’s life or claimed by creditors after his death unless the wife formally renounced her rights, or contractual dower (""douaire préfix""), a sum of money stipulated in a marriage contract by the spouses’ respective families, with the wife’s same rights applying. Dower by custom was more common among upper-class families in which both spouses held extensive assets, and contractual dower was much more common in general and used almost always by lower-class families. Ultimately, the couple's children would inherit the dower property, but a widow had the right"
"his death to any of his sons who are not also hers. On the death of her husband, her first-born son inherits arms from both parents and quarters them, creating a new coat to pass to his descendents in the usual way. Heraldic heiress In English heraldry an heraldic heiress is a daughter of deceased man who was entitled to a coat of arms (an armiger) and who carries forward the right to those arms for the benefit of her future male descendants. This carrying forward only applies if she has no brothers or other male relatives alive who would"
"term may be used for a life interest in property settled by a husband on his wife at any time, not just at the wedding. The verb ""to dower"" is sometimes used""."" In popular usage, the term ""dower"" may be confused with: Being for the widow and being accorded by law, dower differs essentially from a conventional marriage portion such as the English dowry (cf. Roman ""dos"", Byzantine ""proíx"", French ""dot"", Dutch ""bruidsschat"", German ""Mitgift""). The bride received a right to certain property from the bridegroom or his family. It was intended to ensure her livelihood in widowhood, and it"
"Courtesy tenure Courtesy tenure (or curtesy/courtesy of England) is the legal term denoting the life interest which a widower (i.e. former husband) may claim in the lands of his deceased wife, under certain conditions. The tenure relates only to those lands of which his wife was in her lifetime actually seised (or sasined in Scots law) and not therefore to an estate of inheritance. The customs and the meaning of the word has considerable doubt. It has been said to be a tenure peculiar to England and to Scotland, hence called the courtesy of England and the courtesy of Scotland,"
"Spanish: ""Su Majestad"", ""Su"" represents ""His or Her"") rather than the traditional ""Catholic Majesty"" (""Su Católica Majestad""). A prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant, will have the style ""His Royal Highness"" (""Su Alteza Real"").<ref name=""Royal Decree 1368/1987"">Real Decreto 1368/1987, de 6 de noviembre, sobre régimen de títulos, tratamientos y honores de la Familia Real y de los Regentes. Boletin Oficial del Estado (BOE) no. 271, 12 November 1987, pg. 33717. (Reference: BOE-A-1987-25284)</ref> The widows and widowers of monarchs are to retain these styles until they remarry. The heir from birth shall hold the title of Prince of Asturias"
"Duke of Soria). In European monarchies the dynastic wife of a male monarch shares her husband's rank and bears the female equivalent of his title (i.e., Empress, Queen, Grand Duchess, Duchess or Princess). The husband of a female monarch, however, does not acquire the crown matrimonial automatically. Only in Monaco has the male equivalent (""Prince"") of the dynast's title been conferred upon the husband of an heiress presumptive since the nineteenth century. In the medieval era, the husband of a female sovereign in Europe usually took the title, rank and authority of his wife ""jure uxoris"". Later, the husbands of"
"from holding public office. In 1489, Seongjong condemned a woman of the royal clan, Yi Guji, when it was discovered that she had cohabited with her slave after being widowed. More than 40 members of her household were arrested and her lover was tortured to death. Widow A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The treatment of widows and widowers around the world varies. A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost"
"is a change in marital status, including marriage, divorce, or even death of a spouse. Because of the worldwide prevalence of patrilineal inheritance customs, both productive resources and property such as household goods have ended up in the hands of men and not women. When only men have rights of inheritance or family succession, women have little opportunity to improve their status or living conditions within the family and community. Consequently, they are rendered dependent on male relatives for survival and have little say over how property is used to generate income or to support families. Additionally, within patrilineal communities,"
"is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. Abdication is the resignation of a monarch. Regnal title A regnal title is the title held by a monarch while in office. Monarchs can have various titles, including king or queen, prince or princess (Sovereign Prince of Monaco), emperor or empress (Emperor of Japan, Emperor of India), or even duke or grand duke (Grand Duke of Luxembourg) or duchess. Many monarchs also are distinguished by styles, such as ""Majesty"", ""Royal Highness"" or ""By the Grace of God"". Sometimes titles are used to express claims"
"keeping his or her property separate or combining properties. In the latter case, called community property, when the marriage ends by divorce each owns half. In lieu of a will or trust, property owned by the deceased generally is inherited by the surviving spouse. In some legal systems, the partners in a marriage are ""jointly liable"" for the debts of the marriage. This has a basis in a traditional legal notion called the ""Doctrine of Necessities"" whereby, in a heterosexual marriage, a husband was responsible to provide necessary things for his wife. Where this is the case, one partner may"
"more a title than Landlord of the Dog and Duck."" A manorial lordship is not an aristocratic title, but a semi-extinct form of landed property. Lordship in this sense is a synonym for ownership, although this ownership involved an historic legal jurisdiction in the form of the Court baron. The journal ""Justice of the Peace Local Government Law"" advises that the position is unclear as to whether a lordship of a manor is a title of honour or a dignity, as this is yet to be tested by the courts. A manorial lordship or ladyship is not connected to the"
"A widowed queen consort, or dowager queen, has an important royal position (regardless whether or not she is the mother of the reigning sovereign) but does not normally have any rights to succeed a king as monarch on his death unless she happens to be next in line to the throne (one possibility would be if the King and Queen were also cousins and childless, the King had no other siblings, and she in her other position as his cousin was also his heiress presumptive). A new reigning king would have (at accession or eventually) a wife who would be"
"to keep property within the same family, women—who on marriage in effect joined another family—were accorded very few property rights. Therefore, widows were universally disinherited, though they were varyingly entitled to a dower and/or a terce (or curtesy in the case of widowers), that is, one third of the heritable marital estate. The terce was earliest known as ""tertia collaborationis"" and first appears in the Ripuarian law code, making it also a localized Germanic custom. In the customs of York and London, for example, a widow was entitled both to her widow's part (""customary share"") and terce (""widow's chamber""), the"
"Occasionally, the word ""viduity"" is used. The adjective for either sex is ""widowed"". In societies where the husband is the sole provider, his death can leave his family destitute. The tendency for women generally to outlive men can compound this, as can men in many societies marrying women younger than themselves. In some patriarchal societies, widows may maintain economic independence. A woman would carry on her spouse's business and be accorded certain rights, such as entering guilds. More recently, widows of political figures have been among the first women elected to high office in many countries, such as Corazón Aquino"
"(""para"") the dowry (""phernē"")"". These sorts of property were considered the separate property of a married woman under coverture. A husband could not sell, appropriate, or convey good title to his wife's assets considered paraphernalia without her separate consent. They did not become a part of her husband's estate upon his death, and could be conveyed by a married woman's will. Changes in family law and inheritance law (mirroring trends in the wider society, such as the several Married Woman's Property Acts of the various common law jurisdiction), have generally rendered the legal concept of paraphernalia obsolete. The legal concept"
"back all the goods she brought with her during their marriage, including Asuohzhuh, Phichü or Awayu. Phichü is automatically retained by the husband if the divorce was on grounds of adultery or theft. WIDOW A widow, after the death of her husband, becomes the head of the family if her children are still unmarried and holds the responsibility of a husband. If a widow has a male child and wishes to return to her parent or to remarry, she does not get any share of the moveable properties of her late husband. Among the phor,if Ahdzii(party given after death) is"
"wives of male monarchs take the female equivalent (e.g., empress, queen) of their husband's title. In Brazil, Portugal and Spain, however, the husband of a female monarch was accorded the masculine equivalent of her title (e.g., emperor, king), at least after he fathered her heir. In previous epochs, husbands of queens regnant were often deemed entitled to the crown matrimonial, sharing their consorts' regnal title and rank ""jure uxoris"", However, in cultures which allow the ruler to have several wives (e.g., four in Islam) or official concubines (e.g., Imperial China, Ottoman Empire, Thailand, KwaZulu-Natal) these women, sometimes collectively referred to"
"female) acts as the personal representative of the deceased in relation to land and other property in the UK. Consequently, when the estate under administration consists wholly or mainly of land, the court will grant administration to the heir to the exclusion of the next of kin. In the absence of any heir or next of kin, the Crown has the right to property (other than land) as ""bona vacantia"", and to the land by virtue of the historic land rights of the Crown (and the Duchy of Cornwall and Duchy of Lancaster in their respective areas). If a creditor"
"Heir apparent An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in a line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person. An heir presumptive, by contrast, is someone who is first in line to inherit a title but who can be displaced by the birth of a more eligible heir. Today these terms most commonly describe heirs to hereditary titles (e.g. titles of nobility) or offices, especially when only inheritable by a single person. Most monarchies refer to the heir apparent of their thrones with the descriptive term of ""crown"
"her marriage to The Lord Seymour of Sudeley (and, indeed, she disputed precedence with the wife of her brother-in-law the Duke of Somerset on this basis). This usage died out later in the twentieth century, and women who remarry now ordinarily take a new married name and do not retain their former title. If a peer or knight enters into a civil partnership, his or her partner is not entitled to a courtesy title. Laird is a courtesy title which applies to the owner of certain long-established Scottish estates; the title being attached to the estate. Traditionally, a laird is"
"her children. The spouse of a woman with an honorific title does not hold any courtesy title in right of their spouse. Neither does the husband of a man with ""any"" title (including the husband of a peer). The younger sons of earls, along with all sons and daughters of viscounts, barons and lords of parliament are accorded the courtesy style of ""The Honourable"" before their name. This is usually abbreviated to ""The Hon."" The title persists after the death of the holder's father, but it may not be inherited by the holder's children. It is used only in third"
"meaning that in the event of the death of a spouse, half the estate went to the surviving spouse, with the other half divided among the children (both male and female). This could lead to an unusual (for the time period) number of women, generally widows, who were in charge of large amounts of property. However, it is also worth noting that most widows remarried within a short time of their spouse’s death and often the meticulous splitting of estates demanded by the Custom of Paris was disregarded in favor of quickly solidifying the new union. In order to preserve"
"Grand duke Grand duke (feminine: grand duchess) is a European hereditary title for either certain monarchs or members of certain monarchs' families. It is traditionally ranked in order of precedence below the title of emperor or king and above that of sovereign prince or sovereign duke. It is used in some current and former independent monarchies in Europe, particularly: Translations for ""grand duke"" include: in Latin, ""magnus dux""; in Luxembourgish ""Groussherzog""; in German ""Großherzog""; in French ""Grand-Duc""; in Spanish, ""Gran Duque""; in Russian, ""великий князь"" (""velikiy kniaz"", literally ""grand prince""); in Italian ""Gran Duca""; in Portuguese ""grão-duque""; in Finnish, ""suurherttua"";"
"Kingdom""). A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is called a marchioness in Great Britain and Ireland or a marquise elsewhere in Europe. The dignity, rank or position of the title is referred to as a marquisate or marquessate. The theoretical distinction between a marquess and other titles has, since the Middle Ages, faded into obscurity. In times past, the distinction between a count and a marquess was that the land of a marquess, called a march, was on the border of the country, while a count's land, called a county, often was"