Gervase of Blois Gervase of Blois Gervase of Blois was the Abbot of Westminster in England between 1138 and around 1157. Historically, Gervase has a bad reputation for mismanaging the abbey, although modern historians have re-evaluated his performance as abbot. Gervase of Blois was the illegitimate son of King Stephen and his mistress, Damette. His father ensured that he was appointed as the Abbot of Westminster Abbey in the second half of 1138; the abbey would have hoped to receive additional royal funding as a result. Gervase was very young to be appointed abbot, but despite this probably attended the Second Lateran Council
Succession to the Spanish throne Succession to the Spanish throne Spain uses the system of male-preference cognatic primogeniture. Dynasts who marry against the express prohibition of the monarch and the "Cortes" are excluded from the succession together with their descendants. A prohibition expressed only by the monarch or only by the "Cortes" will have no consequences to the succession. Disputes about the succession are to be settled by legislation. Upon his succeeding to the throne, the monarch is required by article 61(1) of the 1978 constitution to take an oath on the occasion of his being proclaimed before the Cortes Generales. The above list is