succession disputes
Inheritance power struggles
Succession disputes are conflicts over who rightfully inherits a position, title, or property.
Most often the term appears in historical and political contexts—wars fought over contested thrones, rival claimants to kingdoms: The succession dispute plunged England into civil war.
The term also applies to family battles over estates or business leadership after a death.
- interregnumRulership gap period
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
- regencySubstitute monarch's authority
- usurpationWrongful seizure of power
- pretenderIllegitimate claimant to power
family feud · heir apparent · crown prince · War of the Roses · power vacuum · rivalries · estate division · monarchy · military campaigns · constitutional crisis · factionalism · palace intrigue · royal abdication · fratricide · disinherited · alliances · royal courts · feudalism
- ancient diplomacyenvoys, ambassadors, emissaries, peace treaties, alliances
- royal recordsroyal decrees, royal edicts, royal lineage, birth records, death records
- Lunda Empiretitleholders, vassal states
- ancient Japanshogun, daimyo, Muromachi period, Yayoi period, emperors
- Carlism
- Dal RiataAntrim, Gaels, Scots, Iona, Kenneth MacAlpin