royal lineage

collocation in English

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royal
adjective
uk
/ˈrɔɪ.əl/us
/ˈrɔɪ.əl/
belonging or connected to a king or queen or a member of ...
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lineage
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/
the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him ...
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(Definition ofroyalandlineagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He concluded that the residents in the valley had (1) extended family households, (2) lineages, (3) noble classes, and (4) a king androyallineage.
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It changed from designating absolute political supremacy to become a marker ofroyallineage.
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One among the many outstanding incongruities was the selection of rulers only from among members of theroyallineage.
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One of them even belonged to the 'royallineage', but he was rather embarrassed to tell me.
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While possibly at one time related directly to the fertility of theroyallineageor the fecundity of the kingdom, this no longer seems to be the case.
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The tribe has a strong central authority structure and a long-establishedroyallineage.
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Its main religious aspect was to offer thanks and gain the approval for ancestors of theroyallineage.
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He had been born of a secondary wife of his father and needed a stronger tie to theroyallineage.
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For some, this was probably mostly a political statement, asroyallineagewas necessary to be a candidate for the throne.
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He reiterates of theirroyallineageand how shameful it would be for her to even be seen with non-royal people.
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He would have had a motive because his position in theroyallineagewas not so strong as to assure his elevation to pharaoh.
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The kingdom's royal governmental structures remained intact, along with itsroyallineage.
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Bourbon wrote a book about his allegedroyallineage.
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These officials were permitted to marry female members of the royal clan, and some of the most important of them married women of theroyallineage.
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As we see that both the kingships were close to each other, geographically intermarriages were possible amongst them and so eventually that became one community ofroyallineage.
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Eiso succeeded him as king and began a newroyallineage.
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Similarly, ballcourts embodied ritual relationships with the underworld and through those relationships marked the authority of royal lineages.
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Although chiefs were drawn from one or more royal lineages, no right of automatic succession existed.
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It was mainly used by royal lineages.
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