Entitlement title
Claim titles or pretense titles are titulatures that are retained by the bearers and in some cases consciously accepted in order to document an - actual or even merely supposed - "claim" to a territory or an honorary rank.
Examples of claim titles
In the political-dynastic area:
- King of Jerusalem (until 1918 led by the emperors of Austria as successor to the Roman-German emperors)
- King of Navarre - led by the French kings
In the church sector:
- the Patriarchate of West India , which was formerly led by the court chaplains of the Spanish kings (vacant since 1963)
- the titular bishops of the Roman Catholic Church