posthumous child in a sentence
Examples
- The dying king, who knew that his wife was pregnant, willed Austria, Bohemia and Hungary to his posthumous child if his wife gave birth to a son.
- As Khanderao's widow, Maharani Jamnabai ( 1853 1898 ) was already pregnant with a posthumous child, the succession was delayed until the gender of the child could be proven.
- She remarried in 1326 to Sir Andrew Murray, the posthumous child in 1298 of Sir Andrew Murray, a joint victor of the battle of Stirling Bridge along with William Wallace.
- This provided for the possibility that William's wife, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, was pregnant at the moment of his death, since such a posthumous child, regardless of its sex, would have displaced Victoria from the throne.
- Did the title descend to the next-in-line ( the daughter or a brother of the peer ) and then revert to the posthumous child ( son ) ? talk ) 19 : 56, 12 October 2012 ( UTC)
- :In the succession of noble titles ( not exactly the same, but related ), a posthumous child who is eligible to inherit definitely does inherit the title . . . talk ) 17 : 18, 21 May 2013 ( UTC)