Jure uxoris

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Jure uxoris is a Latin term that means "in right of a wife."

It is commonly used to refer to a title held by a man whose wife holds it in her own right. For example, Louis XII was jure uxoris Duke of Brittany, due to his wife Anne of Brittany.

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