Thread:BigLenny/@comment-27859838-20190916063254/@comment-3452092-20190916123706

Technically heir simply means the one who inherits. If the person was not their child and they had none, they were often called "heir presumptive" (because it was always possible they could marry and have a son . . . and both marriage and a son were required in actual history except in rare cases), but your hair could be your uncle or your third cousin if there were no others to take the role. I assumed he wasn't Richards's son, but the idea that he is Rosalyn's and Richards's is interesting and just the kind of BS that Pixelberry would pull. If he is, that makes him a bastard and not legally eligible to be Richards's heir, but you know so are we and we're female and yet we got the title which was rare during that time for a female and unheard of for a bastard, so it's probably what Pixelberry is going with and he absolutely has the hair for it. Now that's just for the title. Anything not entailed could be willed to whomever a person wanted, but this is talking about Percival gaining the dukedom (which might actually be forfeit to the throne under these circumstances and thus go to whomever the crown saw fit rather than to an actual heir of the traitor to the throne . . . but what does Pixelberry care . . . and I could be wrong about that, though I don't think so), which should imply that he is of legitimate birth and a blood relative of Richards's, but. . . we'll see.