Definitions of appanage:

• noun:   a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family

  Example: "Bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"

• noun:   any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

  Example: "For thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"