Pernikahan morganatik

Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua (top), with his morganatic wife, the Anglo-Irish commoner Penelope Smyth (left), and their daughter, Vittoria (right).

Pernikahan morganatik adalah sebuah pernikahan antara orang-orang dengan peringkat sosial yang tidak setara, yang mana dalam konteks bangsawan dimaksudkan untuk mencegah gelar dan hak istimewa suami (atau istri) diberikan kepada istri (atau suami) dan/atau anak-anak yang lahir dari pernikahan tersebut.

Generally, this is a marriage between a man of high birth (such as from a reigning, deposed or mediatised dynasty) and a woman of lesser status (such as a daughter of a low-ranked noble family or a commoner). Usually, neither the bride nor any children of the marriage have a claim on the bridegroom's succession rights, titles, precedence, or entailed property. The children are considered legitimate for all other purposes and the prohibition against bigamy applies. In some countries, a woman could also marry a man of lower rank morganatically. As a result of the above, a king deciding to enter into a morganatic marriage who does not have children from a previous marriage thereby gives up the chance of being succeeded by his own children and accepts that succession would pass to his other relatives. Sejarah

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