Talk:Grand duchy

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"...King William III of the Netherlands, who was also Grand Duke Guillaume III of Luxembourg..." - Why is his Dutch name in English, but his Luxembourgian in French? In my opinion this should be either "...King Wilem III of the Netherlands, who was also Grand Duke Guillaume III of Luxembourg..." (all endonymic) OR "...King William III of the Netherlands, who was also Grand Duke William III of Luxembourg..." (all English). Andre Engels 09:58, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)


 * If adopting the all endonymic, we really ought to include all three official languages of Luxembourg, I suppose... --- 141.150.136.99


 * Of course it should be William + William, we do use English forms of historical monarchs' names here. (Henri will be Henry too, but not as long as he's alive, or considered contemporary.) I'm not sure that the paragraph in question is relevant to this article at all, though. The info is at Grand Duke of Luxembourg where people will more likely be interested of it. But I may be wrong. -- Jao 13:14, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

wrong description of inheritance difference
The article asserts that Luxemburg and Netherlands split on death of Willem III due to difference in inheritance rule. However, I've learned (from another Wikipedia article!) that both countries had the same "semi-Salic" inheritance law! Heirs differed because only the founder of the dynasty can inherit: the first King of Netherlands had left no legitimate male agnates whatsoever! Luxemburg, on the other hand, passed to the Heir of the House of Nassau, founded many centuries before the Kingdom of Netherlands, and which was not yet extinct.


 * The splitting had little to do with Salic law and is the result of Orange-Nassau house laws established in the aftermath of Vienna to deal with the family's German domains (I don't remember if it also dealt with the dutch succession, but the grand duchy of Luxemburg was a member of the German Confederation).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.180.97.173 (talk) 15:27, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

James Dow Allen

Title of Page
Why is the title of this page Grand duchy and not Grand Duchy with both words capitalized? RP459 (talk) 20:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

HRH is?
HRS needs to be defined or linked under Western Grand Dukes and their sovereignties. --Mistakefinder (talk) 16:19, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Grand Duchy of Savoy?
The second sentence of the article asserts that there were only two Grand Duchies prior to the 19th century; Tuscany and Savoy. The cited article from Britannica.com does not mention Savoy being a Grand Duchy and only speaks about Tuscany. I'm not an expert on Savoy but its wikipedia article makes no mention of ever being elevated to being a Grand Duchy, only a Duchy, and I've never heard of it referred to as being a Grand Duchy at any point. I'd like to know if theres a different source to this claim, and if not Savoy should probably be removed from the sentence. 68.105.166.33 (talk) 04:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)