• A cadet branch consists of the male-line descendants of a monarch's or patriarch's younger sons (cadets). In the ruling dynasties and noble families of...
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    They are one of Europe's oldest royal houses, with numerous existing cadet branches. The origins of the Rurikids are unclear, as its namesake Rurik, a Varangian...
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    (安芸武田氏) – cadet branch. Takeda clan of Kazusa (上総武田氏) – cadet branch. Takeda clan of Wakasa (若狭武田氏) – cadet branch. Takenaka clan (竹中氏) – cadet branch of Toki...
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  • Philippe I, who belonged to the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the Bourbons. Cadet branches of the Capetian House of Bourbon are still reigning over...
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  • "cadet" is used to signify a junior branch of a family. Thus, the Orléans line was a cadet branch of the Bourbon family, which itself was a cadet branch...
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    sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is a cadet branch of the Saxon House of Wettin. One agnatic branch currently reigns in Belgium—the descendants...
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  • of the Arequipa Museum of Contemporary Art. The Peruvian branch also has a small cadet branch in Bolivia to which former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada...
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    several other members of a cadet branch of the dynasty descending from Charles's brother Childebrand I; this cadet branch is known as the Nibelungids...
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    the lordship of Bourbon. The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, serving as nobles under the direct Capetian and Valois kings. The senior...
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    nephew Peter III, an agnatic member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp (a cadet branch of the German House of Oldenburg that reigned in Denmark), ascended to...
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    outside Germany were later tied to its cadet branch, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Albertine branch, while less prominent, ruled most of Saxony...
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    The Princes of Ottajano (or Ottaiano) are a cadet branch of the ducal dynasty of Tuscany. Along with the Veronese Medici Counts of Caprara, and Gavardo...
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    their members who first declared himself a count palatine. The cadet Castilian branch of Ivrea ruled the Kingdom of Galicia from 1111 and the Kingdoms...
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    royal family, the Telai cadet branch killed Kalakani and re-established the second Barakzai Kingdom. The Telai cadet-branch are the descendants of Sultan...
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  • refer to: National Nanke International Experimental High School Nanke, a cadet branch of the Japanese Fujiwara family A place in the Chinese folktale The Governor...
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    still pretenders to the French throne today. The House of Orléans has a cadet branch in the House of Orléans-Braganza, founded with the marriage between Isabel...
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  • imperial line would have continued through the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke cadet branch under the terms of the 1889 house law. The Fushimi-no-miya house constitute...
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    cadet branch of the Sakai had been created in 1590. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Count" in the Meiji period. Finally, another cadet branch...
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    daughter Joan. By doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois. When Louis XII became king in 1498, he had his...
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    real descendants of the Takeda had a different name when they created a cadet branch. It is also acknowledged that members of the clan married into other...
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    ennobled as a viscount ("shishaku") in the kazoku peerage system. A cadet branch was created in 1601 for Ōkubo Tadasuke (1537–1613), the second son of...
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    of Ahmad Gragn. In the modern era, the Imperial dynasty has several cadet branches. The elder Gondarine Amhara line, starting with Susenyos I in 1606 (although...
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    VAL-wah, also US: /vælˈwɑː, vɑːlˈwɑː/ va(h)l-WAH, French: [valwa]) was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. They succeeded the House of Capet (or "Direct...
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    (2001–) A cadet branch descended from Inaba Masanari (1571–1628), who fought in the armies of Oda Nobunaga and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi. This branch of the...
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    Army Cadets are a part of the Canadian Cadet Organizations. The Royal Canadian Army Cadets and other cadet branches are generally administered by the Reserve...
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    at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. Originating as a cadet branch of the House of Welf (also "Guelf" or "Guelph") in 1635, also known then...
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    Lippe-Biesterfeld as a further cadet branch. Both, Biesterfeld and Weissenfeld were so-called paragiums (non-sovereign estates of a cadet-branch) within the County...
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    nobleman, descendant of the Dukes of Elbeuf, member of the House of Guise, cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. He was the renowned lover of Philippe I, Duke...
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    descend. In the 16th century, the claim arose that the Spencers were a cadet branch of the older house of Despencer, though this theory has since been debunked...
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    d'Austria-Este; German: Erzherzog von Österreich-Este), is a cadet branch (but not sovereign branch) of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, which originally also...
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