The term dynast is sometimes used only to refer to agnatic descendants of a realm's monarchs, and sometimes to include those who hold succession rights through cognatic royal descent.
However by the time of his nephew's marriage, alienation among the male dynasts in the family had become entrenched.
Individuals born to unmarried dynasts or to former dynasts that married without royal permission, and their descendants, are excluded from the throne.
Those dynasts who contracted undesirable marriages often did so morganatically.
Female descendants were eligible to inherit the throne in the event there were no eligible surviving male dynasts born in the male line.
That act angered yet more of those already rebellious other dynasts and groups in monarchist circles.
In contemporary sources he is only named king of the former, but his sons and later descendants appear as dynasts of the latter.
A dynast who had passed his toddler years was regarded suitable and old enough.
