Succession in Anglo-Saxon England followed a combination of elective monarchy and hereditary right.
the verdict
INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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the weight of evidence
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The available retrieved texts touch broadly upon Anglo-Saxon polity and research on succession, but they do not collectively or fully establish the precise combination of elective monarchy and hereditary right asserted by the claim.
613, 1053 Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902), 681 Anglo-Russian Convention (1907), 698 Anglo-Russian Treaty … Habsburg, Ferdinand II, abrogated the elective Bohemian monarchy and declared the kingdom hereditary. He … mixed with a pseudo-history of a simple Anglo-Saxon England that had been crushed by the despotism of
Review of Nicole Marafioti, The King's Body: Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014).
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in the Anglo - Saxon polity, as developed during their rule in England , all the constituent parts of parliament. In their own lands they had chiefs and
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