In the mean time he is governor and guardian of his wife and her provinces.

His children are to inherit the Netherlands and all that therein is.

What can be more consistent than laws of descent, regulated by right divine?
At the beginning of the century, good Philip dispossesses Jacqueline, because females can not inherit.

At its close, his granddaughter succeeds to the property, and transmits it to her children.

Pope and emperor maintain both positions with equal logic.