0 A morganatic marriage is one in which one partner is of higher social rank, and the other cannot claim this partner's title or possessions or pass them to their children: --
Because of his morganatic marriage, his sons were excluded from succession.
However, it is certain that it was not a political marriage, since it was clearly morganatic.
She also had her marriage and children confirmed as legitimate, although morganatic.
The rules valid in 1870 did not prohibit morganatic marriages, but simply excluded their offspring from the succession to the throne.
Separate nobility titles were given to morganatic wives of dynasts of reigning houses, but it sometimes included no true property.
His wife however was a commoner, which indicates an almost morganatic status to the marriage.
This marriage was morganatic and only made by contract; the completion of the marriage in the presence of a clergyman was left to his discretion.
However, the marriage was to be morganatic and any children that they were to have would be ineligible to succeed to the throne.
