It was from about the seventeenth century that male primogeniture became practically universal.
Even though primogeniture concentrated the ie property in the hands of the male heir, female inheritance continued well into the sixteenth century.
The principal advantage in such strategies was the possibility of dividing landholdings between children (instead of primogeniture), and this could include granting land to daughters.
Though traditionally matrilineal, the family has acquired a touch of primogeniture in recent decades.
He wanted to cheapen the transfer of land and abolish primogeniture, which, he believed, would increase access to landed property.
The second is that inheritance was not limited to strict primogeniture, even in the highest classes.
However, the consequences of primogeniture apply equally to women.
Although the succession passed in principle to the king's eldest son, this rule of primogeniture was qualified in two ways.
