Declaration of Accession & Continuity
Public Archival Extract — House of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswick (Senior Ducal Line)
Declaration of Accession and Continuity of the Senior Ducal House of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswick
(Extract — Public Archival Text)
This declaration records the formal accession and continuity of the Chiefship of the senior Ducal House historically known as the House of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswick, made under principles of dynastic private law, historic house law, and recognized doctrines governing family patrimony and succession.
The declaration is executed in a private dynastic capacity, and does not assert, imply, or claim present territorial governance, public jurisdiction, or political authority. It concerns internal house order, succession, and continuity alone.
The Declarant acts as Chief of the senior Ducal House under historic house law and asserts, for historical and ceremonial purposes, the traditional style attached to that office.
Such style is recorded solely as a matter of dynastic continuity and historical dignity and carries no implication of contemporary sovereignty or public power.
This instrument concerns the continuity of the senior Ducal House and its internal succession under dynastic private law. For the avoidance of doubt, references herein to house law or dynastic law refer exclusively to the historic house law of the senior Ducal House of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswick, as constituted prior to and independent of any later statutes or family compacts promulgated by other branches.
The declaration does not adjudicate or deny the claims, styles, or internal arrangements of any other line or house.
Succession in the House of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswick follows primogeniture governed by blood and founding house law, transmitting intact through cognatic lines when required to preserve the continuity, identity, and indivisibility of the House.
Later administrative restrictions imposed without the consent of the competent Head of House are not binding intra domum.
The Chiefship of the House has not lapsed, been extinguished, nor been divested by any act competent in dynastic private law, whether by exile, annexation, political displacement, or non-exercise of territorial rule.
The Chiefship endures as a matter of private dynastic law, preserved through lawful succession, documentary continuity, and sustained protest where required by international custom.
Archival notice: The complete executed instrument, together with supporting exhibits, is preserved within the House Archives. Access may be granted to qualified researchers, jurists, and institutions upon request.
This public extract is issued for historical reference and archival clarity only.