If this is true then it's rather amusing :

An Oslo court has rejected an inheritance claim from a man insisting he descends from Norwegian king Haakon V Magnusson, who died in 1319, since the statute of limitation for such a claim is far past.

“In accordance with the inheritance law ... the right to claim inheritance expires if the heir does not demand his ... right within 10 years after the testator dies,” the Oslo District Court wrote in its decision, seen by AFP on Tuesday. Jorn Lepsoey, 42, had written a letter to the court at the end of July demanding that a DNA sample be taken from the late king, whose embalmed remains lie beneath the Akershus fort in Oslo, to prove he was a descendant and had a right to his inheritance. The court documents gave no indication what he expected to inherit from the man who ruled over Norway from 1299 until his death in 1319. In her written decision last week, judge Wenche Fliflet Gjelsten also pointed out that Lepsoey had provided no evidence that he was a descendant of Haakon V Magnussen, who according to history books left no male heirs and whose royal line had therefore died with him. Lepsoey has one month to appeal the decision.

[From Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Too late to claim estate after 14th century king]

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