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Jeff Shaumeyer
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social
Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. Living the Suburban Dream with my husband near Washington, DC.
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TIL new word & idea*: "Porphyrogeniture", the theory that a son first-born *after* his father's accession to a throne has precedence to inherit the throne over brothers born outside the father's reign. * From reading David Mitchell's "Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens"
Well, I guess this won't mean anything in Charles III case. He acceeded the throne when he was 72. Can' t see him being a father after that, William should have no worries. 😂
In this case, in reference to Henry I's claim to the English throne in preference to his older brother Robert Cuthose, upon the death of their brother William Rufus, in 1100. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Born in the purple - Wikipedia
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Jeff Shaumeyer
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social
Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. Living the Suburban Dream with my husband near Washington, DC.
90 followers89 following441 posts