Parenté et successions dynastiques aux XIVe et XVe siècles

Kinship and Dynastic Succession in the 14th and 15th Centuries. The present article study of kinship within the nobility offers comparative analysis of the political events represented by the crisis in dynastic succession throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. The fact that noble lineages had no children and notably no sons became even more frequent due to the demographic crisis and to high masculine mortality rate caused by violent deaths. This phenomenon became an important total social fact. In order to compensate for the physical extinction of the lineages noble society sought to achieve social perpetuation by transmitting to the female filiation the patrimony and lineage identity. A system became crystallized comprising heraldic pratices, types of descent and types of alliances, homogamic and hypogamic. It is within the framework of this system that the crisis of dynastic succes sion were met. Notably in the Dauphine inheritance (1343) in that of the Brittany Dukedom (1499-1532) and in the two Burgundian inheritances (1363 1477 we can see the devolution of patrimony and of the maternal identity to the youngest sister after homogamous marriage.Nassiet Michel. Parenté et successions dynastiques aux XIVe et XVe siècles. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 50ᵉ année, N. 3, 1995. pp. 621-644