An appanage, or apanage (/ˈæpənɪdʒ/; French: apanage [a.pa.naʒ]), is the grant of an estate, title, office or other thing of value to a younger child of...

maison d'Orléans) comprised two distinct parts : the apanage and the "biens patrimoniaux". The apanage of Orléans was originally formed by Louis XIII for...

favor to his brother, Duke Philippe, when he received the traditional apanage in 1660. It is likely, but not certain, that the title of count of Blois...

Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin. He received Saxe-Gotha as an apanage, but left its administration to his eldest brother. John Frederick was...

returned this duchy to the crown to receive instead the Duchy of Burgundy in apanage from his father as a reward for his courage at the Battle of Poitiers....

even baronies) have been raised to this French peerage, but mostly as apanages (for members of the royal house) or for foreigners; after the 16th century...

Press. ISBN 0-8511-5630-4. OL 995963M. Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy: 1224–1328. Harvard University Press. Wikimedia...

most of his life as a junior member of the ducal family. His original apanage was the district of Bresse, close to the French and Burgundian border,...

in Harburg) was a titular Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruler of the apanage Brunswick-Harburg. Otto was a son of Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Harburg...

of the family often ruled portions of the Hereditary Lands as private apanages. Serious attempts at centralization began under Maria Theresa and especially...

Capet duke. John then passed the duchy to his youngest son Philip as an apanage. In 1477, the territory of the Duchy of Burgundy was annexed by France...

second and younger son received more possessions and prestige than the apanage which was usual in principalities practising primogeniture. It avoided...

his elder brother Henry II inherited the Landgraviate. Louis received an apanage, consisting of castle and district of Grebenstein. Louis died in 1345....

territory further north. Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende...

primarily secured thereafter. The Principality was later split into three main apanage principalities: Chernigov proper, Novgorod-Seversk, and Murom-Ryazan. While...

and Jaffa itself became a royal domain. In 1151 it was designated as the apanage of King Baldwin III's younger brother, Amalric. After the siege of Ascalon...

the second and final time, the Duchy of Bourbon constituted part of an apanage, in this case that of the Duke of Angoulême, Duke of Orleans and Duke of...

Originally, the Duchy of Chartres (duché de Chartres) was the comté de Chartres, a County. The title of comte de Chartres thus became duc de Chartres....

money, although he still remained responsible under the Imperial laws of apanage for providing for his younger brother and had offered the sum of £375 per...

1350–1389) was "Bhre Lasem", "lady of Lasem". This system was similar to the Apanage system in Western Europe.[citation needed] Sultan Agung, king of Mataram...

History of the Crusades. Vol. II. University of Wisconsin. Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy. Harvard University Press....

to the royal domain between 1205 and 1246, when it was turned into an apanage for the king's brother, Charles I of Anjou. This second Angevin dynasty...

never actually possessed that Duchy. In 1710, he was invested with his apanage, consisting in the duchies of Alençon, of Angoulême, county of Ponthieu...

France, The Rebel Queen. Amberley Publishing. Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy: 1224-1328. Harvard University Press....

was appointed as the first regent of Blora. Blora's status changed from apanage into a regency on that same day. The War of Mangkubumi ended with the Giyanti...

6 November 1758), was until 1740 Prince of Schwarzburg-Keula (a small apanage) from 1713 to 1740, and the ruling Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen...

University Press. pp. 540–541. Prinet 1911. Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1224-1328. Harvard University Press....

France, The Rebel Queen. Amberley. Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1224-1328. Harvard University Press. Woodacre...

later became the most important crusader seigneury, held either as an apanage to the crown or granted to influential barons. The fall of Ascalon contributed...

their constituent divisions were ruled by vassal rulers, who lived off apanage grants and local taxes. The core region's bureaucracy was a continuation...