Editing Royal House of Saxe-Gessaphe (section)

==Dynastic background==
The family descends from Princess Anna of Saxony (13 December 1929 – 13 March 2012) and her husband Roberto Afif (1916–1978). Anna was a sister of [[Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen]], the childless head of the ex-royal House of Saxony and, as such, [[Wiktionary:titular|titular]] King of Saxony. Of the five children of the late [[Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen|Prince Friedrich Christian]] (1893–1968), son and heir of Saxony's last king [[Frederick Augustus III of Saxony|Friedrich August III]] (who was obliged to abdicate in 1918 coincident with Germany's surrender in [[World War I]]), Anna is the only one who has living, legitimate children.<ref>{{cite book|last= Willis|first= Daniel|title= The Descendants of Louis XIII|year= 1999|publisher= Clearfield|location= Baltimore|isbn= 0-8063-4942-5|pages= 327–328, 766|chapter= The Ducal Family of Parma}}</ref> 

Succession to Saxony's throne was [[Salic law#Female inheritance|semi-Salic]]: only if all male [[dynasty#Dynasts|dynasts]] were to become extinct would the female dynast nearest in kinship to the last male, or her descendants, inherit the throne. Both male and female dynasts, however, were required to "[[Royal intermarriage|marry equally]]" (to a member of a reigning, formerly reigning, or [[Mediatised houses|mediatised]] family) in order to transmit dynastic rights to their own descendants. Thus the eligibility of the Saxe-Gessaphe line for the royal Saxon legacy would depend on the dynasticity of their mother's marriage.<ref>{{cite web| last = Velde| first = François| title = Laws of the Kingdom of Saxony| work = Heraldica.org| url = http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/HGSachsen-K.htm#Introduction| access-date = 2008-04-18}}</ref>