Wikipedia's article on the divine right of kings, the doctrine of monarchical legitimacy derived directly from God, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on the divine right of kings, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for 1 Samuel and Romans 13:1 to 7, James VI and I's Basilikon Doron and The True Law of Free Monarchies, James I's 1610 parliamentary speech, Bossuet's preaching before Louis XIV, Henry VIII's caesaropapism, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to 1689.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
Source Typereference
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- Doctrines, 60 claims: 56 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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