Articles of Succession, 1349

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Produced by the King's Council (Curia Regis), composed entirely of noblemen, on 4 August 1349, the Articles of Succession remain the rules that govern who the nobility, represented today by the Council of Peers elects a sovereign when there is no surviving legitimate direct descendent to the Crown.