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Salic law The Salic law ( or ; ), also called the was the ancient Frankish Civil law (legal system), civil law code compiled around AD 500 by Clovis I, Clovis, the first Frankish King. The name may refer to the Salii, or "Salian Franks", but this is deba ...

of succession, all monarchs of

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were male, electors from 1692 until 1814 and kings from 1814 until 1866. Their wives were thus electresses and then queens.

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