I know it as a fact since i took world history, and our teachers explained that people had to claim their divine right, which is basically the right that God gives you to rule…

I AM 1000000…………….% SURE!!

HOPE IT HELPS! =]

Divine Right of Kings

The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of political absolutism. It teaches that a monarch owes his rule to the will of God, and not necessarily to the will of his subjects, the aristocracy or any other competing authority, implying that any attempt to depose him or to restrict his powers runs contrary to the will of God. More……

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Right_of_Kings

Divine Right of Kings, a theory which argued that certain kings ruled because they were chosen by God to do so and that these kings were accountable to no person except God.

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/DIVRIGHT.HTM

The idea of the Divine Right of Kings evolved in Europe during the Middle Ages. The theory claimed that kings were answerable only to God and it was therefore sinful for their subjects to resist them.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUdivine.htm