Editing Heir apparent (section)

===Heirs apparent of monarchs who themselves abdicated or were deposed===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Heir apparent
! Lived
! Heir of
! End of line/monarchy
|-
|[[Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus]]
|38–69
|[[Galba]]
|Assassinated in 69 under orders of [[Otho]]
|-
|[[Gaius Julius Verus Maximus]]
|217–238
|[[Maximinus Thrax]]
|Assassinated in 238
|-
|[[Publius Licinius Egnatius Marinianus]]
|249–268
|[[Gallienus]]
|Killed in 268
|-
|[[Licinius II]]
|315–326
|[[Licinius]]
|Both father and son were executed by Licinius' co-emperor [[Constantine the Great]]
|-
|[[Victor (emperor)|Victor]]
|Died 388
|[[Magnus Maximus]]
|Both executed
|-
|[[Constans II (son of Constantine III)|Constans II]]
|Died 411
|[[Constantine III (Western Roman emperor)|Constantine III]]
|Both killed in revolts
|-
|[[Chen Yin (6th century)|Chen Yin]]
|573–618
|[[Chen Shubao]]
|[[Chen dynasty]] fell
|-
|[[Theodosius (son of Maurice)|Theodosius]]
|583/585–602
|[[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]]
|Both father and son executed by supporters of [[Phocas]]
|-
|[[Niketas the Persian]]
|Died 636
|[[Shahrbaraz]]
|Shahrbaraz was killed after 40 days of rule
|-
|[[Tiberius (son of Justinian II)|Tiberius IV]]
|705–711
|[[Justinian II]]
|Both father and son overthrown and executed
|-
|[[Theophylact (son of Michael I)|Theophylact]]
|793–849
|[[Michael I Rangabe]]
|Michael I abdicated in the face of a military revolt
|-
|[[Constantine (son of Leo V)|Constantine]]
|800 and 810–?
|[[Leo V the Armenian]]
|Leo V was assassinated and his heirs banished
|-
|[[Crown Prince Maui]]
|912–?
|[[Gyeongsun of Silla]]
|Gyeongsun surrendered his throne to [[Taejo of Goryeo]]
|-
|[[Meng Xuanzhe]]
|937–991
|[[Meng Chang]]
|[[Later Shu]] was defeated by the [[Song dynasty]]
|-
|[[William fitz Duncan]]
|1090–1147
|[[Duncan II of Scotland]]
|Duncan II was killed in battle in 1094 and his uncle [[Donald III of Scotland|Donald III]] retook the throne
|-
|[[Daoud ibn al-Adid]]
|Died 1207
|[[Al-Adid]]
|The [[Ayyubid dynasty]] took power
|-
|[[Edward Balliol]]
|1283–1367
|[[John Balliol]]
|Abdicated following defeat in [[First War of Scottish Independence]]
|-
|[[Crown Prince Jeongseong]]
|Died 1394
|[[Gongyang of Goryeo]]
|Father and son were exiled and assassinated
|-
|[[Zhu Wenkui]]
|Disappeared in 1402
|[[Jianwen Emperor]]
|[[Yongle Emperor|Prince Yan]] sacked Nanjing. Disappeared with his father Jianwen Emperor.
|-
|[[Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria]]
|1488–1550
|[[Frederick of Naples]]
|Frederick was deposed in 1501 by [[Louis XII]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]]
|-
|[[Deposed Crown Prince Yi Hwang]]
|1498–1506
|[[Yeonsangun of Joseon]]
|Yeonsangun was deposed in 1506 in favor of his half-brother [[Jungjong of Joseon]]
|-
|[[John of Denmark (1518–1532)|John of Denmark]]
|1518–1532
|[[Christian II of Denmark]]
|Christian II was deposed in 1523 in favor of his uncle [[Frederick I of Denmark|Frederick I]]
|-
|[[Gustav of Sweden (1568–1607)|Gustav of Sweden]]
|1568–1607
|[[Eric XIV of Sweden]]
|Eric XIV was deposed in 1568 in favor of his half-brother [[John III of Sweden|John III]]
|-
|[[Gustav of Saxe-Lauenburg]]
|1570–1597
|[[Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]]
|Magnus' father [[Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]] reascended
|-
|[[Władysław IV Vasa|Władysław Vasa]]
|1595–1648
|[[Sigismund III Vasa|Sigismund of Sweden]]
|Sigismund was deposed in 1599 in favor of his uncle [[Charles IX of Sweden|Charles IX]]
|-
|[[Deposed Crown Prince Yi Ji]]
|1598–1623
|[[Gwanghaegun of Joseon]]
| Gwanghaegun was deposed in 1623 in favor of his nephew [[Injo of Joseon]]
|-
|[[:zh:朱慈烺|Zhu Cilang]]
|1629–1644
|[[Chongzhen Emperor]]
|Ming conquered by Manchu and founded the Qing dynasty
|-
|[[Yunreng|Yunreng, Prince Limi of the First Rank]]
|1674–1725
|[[Kangxi Emperor]]
|He was demoted by his father.
|-
|[[James Francis Edward Stuart]]
|1688–1766
|[[James II of England]]
|James II was [[Glorious Revolution|deposed]] in favor of his daughter and son-in-law [[Mary II of England|Mary II]] and [[William III of England|William III and II]] on 11 April 1689 for being Catholic
|-
|[[Yonglian|Yonglian, Crown Prince Duanhui]]
|1730–1738
|[[Qianlong Emperor]]
|Died of smallpox aged 8.
|-
|[[Emich Karl, Prince of Leiningen|Emich Karl, Hereditary Prince of Leiningen]]
|1763–1814
|[[Karl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen]]
|[[German mediatisation]]
|-
|[[Prince David of Georgia]]
|1767–1819
|[[George XII of Georgia]]
|Annexation by Russia
|-
|[[Franz Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein|Franz Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Dietrichstein]]
|1767–1854
|[[Karl Johann Baptist, Prince of Dietrichstein]]
|rowspan=2|German mediatisation
|-
|[[Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode|Henry, Hereditary Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]
|1772–1854
|[[Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode|Christian Frederick, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode]]
|-
|[[Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême|Louis-Antoine, Dauphin and Duke of Angoulême]]
|1775–1844
|[[Charles X of France]]
|Abdicated jointly with his father on 2 August 1830
|-
|[[Alexius, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt|Alexius, Hereditary Count of Bentheim and Steinfurt]]
|1781–1866
|[[Louis William Geldricus Ernest, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt]]
|rowspan=2|German mediatisation
|-
|[[Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg|Charles Thomas, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort]]
|1783–1849
|[[Dominic Constantine, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort]]
|-
|[[Louis XVII of France|Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France]]
|1785–1795
|[[Louis XVI of France]]
|[[French Revolution]]
|-
|[[Duke Pius August in Bavaria]]
|1786–1837
|[[Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria|Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen]]
|Annexation by Bavaria
|-
|[[Prince Constantine of Imereti (1789–1844)|Prince Constantine of Imereti]]
|1789–1844
|[[Solomon II of Imereti]]
|Annexation by Russia
|-
|[[Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg|Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|1794–1860
|[[Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|German mediatisation
|-
|[[Gustav, Prince of Vasa]]
|1799–1877
|[[Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden]]
|Gustav's whole family was excluded from the line of royal succession on 10 May 1809 by the [[Riksdag of the Estates]], after the deposition of Gustav IV Adolf in favor of his uncle [[Charles XIII]]
|-
|[[Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis|Maximilian Karl, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis]]
|1802–1871
|[[Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis]]
|German mediatisation
|-
|[[Jacques-Victor Henry]]
|1804–1820
|[[Henri Christophe]]
|Fearing a coup, Henri Christophe committed suicide and Jacques-Victor Henry was assassinated
|-
|[[Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte|Agustín Jerónimo, Prince Imperial of Mexico]]
|1807–1866
|[[Agustín I of Mexico]]
|Deposed in 1823
|-
|[[Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg|Auguste de Beauharnais]]
|1810–1835
|[[Eugène de Beauharnais|Eugène de Beauharnais, Grand Duke of Frankfurt]]
|Frankfurt again became a free city
|-
|[[Charles III, Duke of Parma|Charles, Hereditary Prince of Lucca]]
|1823–1854
|[[Charles II, Duke of Parma|Charles I, Duke of Lucca]]
|Per the stipulations of the [[Congress of Vienna]], upon the death of [[Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma]], Lucca was traded for the Duke's ancestral land of Parma
|-
|[[Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern]]
|1835–1905
|[[Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (died 1885)|Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern]]
|Annexed by Prussia on 7 December 1849
|-
|[[Prince Philippe, Count of Paris]]
|1838–1894
|[[Louis Philippe I of France]]
|Declaration of the Second Republic on 24 February 1848
|-
|[[Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover]]
|1845–1923
|[[George V of Hanover]]
|rowspan=2|Annexation by Prussia in 1866
|-
|[[Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal]]
|1846–1925
|[[Charles II, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal]]
|-
|[[Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil]]
|1846-1921
|[[Pedro II of Brazil]]
|Pedro II was deposed in 1889 by [[Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil)|Coup of the Republic]]
|-
|[[Marama Teururai]]
|1851–1909
|[[Ari'imate]]
|Ari'imate was deposed in 1868 in favor of his wife [[Tehaapapa II]]
|-
|[[William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|William, Hereditary Prince of Nassau]]
|1852–1912
|[[Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Adolphe, Duke of Nassau]]
|Annexation by Prussia in 1866
|-
|[[Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial]]
|1856–1879
|[[Napoleon III of France]]
|Napoleon III was deposed 4 September 1870 by the forces of the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]]
|-
|[[Gustaf V|Crown Prince Gustaf of Norway]]
|1858–1950
|[[Oscar II|Oscar II of Norway]]
|[[Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden]] in 1905
|-
|[[Agustín de Iturbide y Green|Agustín, Prince of Iturbide]]
|1863–1925
|[[Maximilian I of Mexico]]
|Monarchy abolished in 1867
|-
|[[Shō Ten]]
|1864–1920
|[[Shō Tai]]
|[[Ryukyu Kingdom]] was annexed by Japan in 1872
|-
|[[Abdulmejid II]]
|1868–1944
|[[Mehmed VI]]
|Ottoman Empire dissolved in 1922.
|-
|[[Teriivaetua]]
|1869–1918
|[[Pōmare V]]
|Tahiti was annexed by France in 1880
|-
|[[Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (1869–1931)|Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta]]
|1869–1931
|[[Amadeo I of Spain]]
|Abdicated in 1873
|-
|[[Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria]]
|1869–1955
|[[Ludwig III of Bavaria]]
|[[German Revolution of 1918–19|German monarchies abolished in November 1918]]
|-
|[[Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro]]
|1871–1939
|[[Nicholas I of Montenegro]]
|Annexed by Serbia
|-
|[[Kaʻiulani]]
|1875–1899
|[[Liliʻuokalani]]
|[[Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom|Annexation by the United States]]
|-
|[[Yuan Keding]]
|1878–1958
|[[Yuan Shikai]]
|Short lived Empire abolished in March 1916
|-
|[[Wilhelm, German Crown Prince]]
|1882–1951
|[[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]]
|Wilhelm was deposed by the German government on 9 November 1918
|-
|[[Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony]]
|1893–1943
|[[Frederick Augustus III of Saxony]]
|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Husain Bey, Crown Prince of Tunisia]]
|1893–1969
|[[Muhammad VIII al-Amin]]
|Deposed in 1957
|-
|[[Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line]]
|1895–1945
|[[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]]
|rowspan=2|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
|1896–1967
|[[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
|-
|[[Prince Wolfgang of Hesse|Wolfgang, Crown Prince of Finland]]
|1896–1989
|[[Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse|Fredrik Kaarle, King-elect of Finland]]
|rowspan=2|Monarchy abolished in 1918
|-
|[[Wilhelm von Urach|Prince Wilhelm of Urach]]
|1897–1957
|[[Mindaugas II of Lithuania]]
|-
|[[Yi Un]]
|1897–1970
|[[Sunjong of Korea]]
|[[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910|Annexation by Korea in 1910]]
|-
|[[Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg]]
|1897–1970
|[[Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg]]
|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Frederik IX of Denmark|Crown Prince Friðrik of Iceland]]
|1899–1972
|[[Christian X of Denmark|Kristján X of Iceland]]
|[[1944 Icelandic constitutional referendum|Monarchy abolished on 17 June 1944]]
|-
|[[Muhammad Abdel Moneim]]
|1899–1979
|[[Abbas II of Egypt]]
|Abbas II was deposed by the British for supporting the Ottomans in World War I
|-
|[[Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg]]
|1900–1991
|[[Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]]
|rowspan=2|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Lippe
|1902–1987
|[[Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe]]
|-
|[[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia]]
|1904–1918
|[[Nicholas II of Russia]]
|Nicholas [[Russian Revolution|abdicated]] on 2/15 March 1917 on behalf of both himself and his son. The monarchy was abolished 1 September 1917
|-
|[[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto, Prince of Piedmont]]
|1904–1983
|[[Victor Emmanuel III|Victor Emmanuel III of Ethiopia and Albania]]
|Victor Emmanuel was only partially recognized in those countries, renounced claims in 1943 in favor of previous holders
|-
|[[Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse]]
|1906–1937
|[[Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse]]
|rowspan=2|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|1906–1972
|[[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|-
|[[Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907-1938)|Alfonso, Prince of Asturias]]
|1907–1938
|[[Alfonso XIII of Spain]]
|Alfonso XIII was deposed by the formation of the [[Second Spanish Republic]] on April 14, 1931. Prince Alfonso renounced his claim on 21 June 1933 so he could marry a commoner
|-
|[[Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]
|1910–2001
|[[Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]
|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Ghazi of Iraq|Ghazi bin Faisal]]
|1912–1939
|[[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal I of Syria]]
|Deposed in 1920
|-
|[[Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1912–1988)|Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
|1912–1988
|[[William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]
|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Otto von Habsburg|Archduke Otto, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia]]
|1912–2011
|[[Charles I of Austria]]
|Austria and Hungary abolished the monarchy in 1918.
|-
|[[Abd al-Ilah]]
|1913–1958
|[[Ali of Hejaz]]
|Deposed in 1925
|-
|[[Carol Victor, Hereditary Prince of Albania]]
|1913–1973
|[[Wilhelm, Prince of Albania]]
|Fled into exile in 1914
|-
|[[Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914–1987)|Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover]]
|1914–1987
|[[Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick]]
|German monarchies abolished in November 1918
|-
|[[Amha Selassie]]
|1916–1997
|[[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie of Ethiopia]]
|Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974 after being taken by communist [[Derg]] power
|-
|[[Hasan as-Senussi]]
|1928–1992
|[[Idris of Libya]]
|[[1969 Libyan coup d'état|Deposed in 1969]]
|-
|[[Vong Savang]]
|1931–1978
|[[Sisavang Vatthana]]
|Monarchy abolished after [[Laotian Civil War]]
|-
|[[Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan]]
|1934–2024
|[[Mohammed Zahir Shah]]
|[[1973 Afghan coup d'état|Deposed in 1973]]
|-
|[[Bảo Long]]
|1936–2007
|[[Bảo Đại]]
|[[1955 State of Vietnam referendum]]
|-
|[[Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples]]
|1937–2024
|[[Umberto II of Italy]]
|Italy [[1946 Italian constitutional referendum|abolished the monarchy]] on 12 June 1946, after Umberto II had reigned 33 days
|-
|[[Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (born 1939)|Leka, Crown Prince of Albania]]
|1939–2011
|[[Zog of Albania]]
|Two days after Leka's birth, Mussolini's [[Italian invasion of Albania|Italy invaded Albania]] on 7 April 1939 and sent the royal family into exile
|-
|[[Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021)|Crown Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Apulia]]
|1943–2021
|[[Tomislav II of Croatia]]
|Tomislav II abdicated October 12, 1943 due to the [[Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces]], when Amedeo was only two weeks old
|-
|[[Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia]]
|Born 1945
|[[Peter II of Yugoslavia]]
|Peter II was deposed by Yugoslavia's Constituent Assembly on 29 November 1945
|-
|[[Abdelaziz bin Ahmed Al Thani]]
|1946–2008
|[[Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani]]
|Deposed in 1972; [[Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani]] took the throne
|-
|[[Charles III|Charles, Prince of Wales]]
|Born 1948
|[[Elizabeth II|Elizabeth II of Pakistan, Ghana, South Africa, Tanganyika, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Guyana, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ceylon, Malta, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Mauritius, and Barbados]]
|Countries became republics (in order mentioned)
|-
|[[Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran]]
|Born 1960
|[[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]
|The Shah was overthrown by the [[Iranian Revolution]] on 11 February 1979
|-
|[[Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece]]
|Born 1967
|[[Constantine II of Greece]]
|Constantine II [[Greek junta|fled into exile]] shortly after Pavlos's birth, and the [[1973 Greek republic referendum|monarchy was abolished]] 1 June 1973
|-
|[[Paras Shah|Paras, Crown Prince of Nepal]]
|Born 1971
|[[Gyanendra of Nepal]]
|Gyanendra was deposed 28 May 2008 in favour of a republican government
|-
|[[Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Crown Prince of the Central African Empire]]
|Born 1973
|[[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]]
|Deposed in 1979
|}