ABSTRACT
Over the centuries, morphological description of the powers, has scarcely acquired a positive connotation due to the use of competing terms to designate the bad forms of government by one person—tyranny, despotism, dictatorship. It thus ends up by designating the good form in the place of kingship, even though it is initially no longer attached to the concept of legitimacy. The devolution of the kingship, programmed by some rules of law, is assigned to a family line thus transformed into a royal dynasty, genealogically ordered. This explains why very often no ritual comes to sanction a reduced investiture to a short civil ceremony. Following a long exercise of institutional definition, in the 13th and 14th centuries, monarchy came to replace semantically kingship, by the effect of a progressive autonomisation of the political power on the basis of a hierarchical system arising from the three ‘Dumezilian’ functions and leading to the construction of a strong temporal royalty.
