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Agnatic
Agnatic meaning
of the male bloodline; patrilineal
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Genetic genealogy main The fact that human Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) is paternally inherited enables patrilines, and agnatic kinships, of men to be traced through genetic analysis.
Instead, they upheld the rights of Philip IV's nephew, King Philip VI (an agnatic descendant of the House of France ), thereby setting the stage for the Hundred Years' War ( see family tree below ).
It has been non-primogenitural, more or less agnatic, based mostly on rotation.
Letters patent explicitly create a dignity and specify its course of inheritance (usually agnatic succession, like the Salic Law ).
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side, citation or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is traced through his or her father's lineage.
The small number of agnatic descendants of the kings of France, compared with a theoretical number, is explained by the frequent marriages between Capetian cousins between the 12th and 20th centuries.