![]() Another illustrious ancestor of The Queen is Hugh Capet, considered the first King of France. ![]() It is possible, although not proven, that there was also a link from Owain Tudor.Some genealogies give his great-great-grandmother as Eleanor of Bar, the daughter of Eleanor of England, by her second husband, Henri III, Duke of Bar, and the wife of Llywelyn ab Owain.Llywelyn ab Owain was the 3 x great-grandson of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Wales, so such a marriage is not impossible.ĩ. Lest anyone think that the Tudors were not equally well connected, they too can be woven into the tree – Henry VII’s grandmother, Katherine de Valois, was descended from Charlemagne through Louis VII and his second wife, Adele of Champagne, who were both of the ancient line.Ĩ. Although her low birth was frowned upon at the time, Elizabeth’s mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg was a direct descendant of Charlemagne, through Marie of France, the daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her first husband, Louis VII of France.ħ. One of the shortest line of descent from Charlemagne passes through Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV. This couple are The Queen’s ancestors numerous times over, through their son, Henry I of England, and their daughter, Adela of Normandy, who married Etienne II, Count of Blois.Ħ. Pepin of the Lombards and Louis the Pious were the 6 and 7 x great-grandfathers of Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror. HM’s husband, Prince Philip, although descended from Charlemagne many times over, is also not a patrilineal descendant – instead, his furthest identified male-line ancestor is Maurice of Oldenburg d. Surprisingly, The Queen is not descended from Charlemagne in her patrilineal line.The earliest known ancestor in her male line (joining the British Royal Family through Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Queen Victoria’s Consort) was Theodoric of Wettin, who lived around 916 – 976.Ĥ. Isabella’s daughter, Margaret, Queen of Sicily, married Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, who is HM’s patrilineal ancestor (father’s father’s father etc.)ģ. ![]() The descent from Pepin passes through Eleanor of Aquitaine to King John’s daughter, Isabella, who was Holy Roman Empress, through her marriage to Frederick II of Hofenstaufen, one of the most celebrated Emperors of the Middle Ages. We have summarised fifteen interesting snippets about theġ.She is descended from two of the sons of Charlemagne who succeeded him in lands and power – Pepin, King of the Lombards and Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor.Ģ. Mid-eighteenth century with Mary Garritt, the wife of a Land Surveyor of Her maternal line (mother’s mother’s mother and so on) peters out in the Of the branches of her family tree can be traced back for many generations, although Otherwise, we are just peasants…Ĭourse, genealogy and history are practically the same thing. ( Figure from the History Database of the Global Environment, published by Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency 2007)įor most of us, however, this is merely a statistical quirk, and, unless we are lucky with our family tree research, we run into the sand in the mid-sixteenth century, before which time Parish Registers did not have to be kept.If we have linked into a family that was prominent by that time, we can boast of being descended from Charlemagne, from William the Conqueror, from Robert the Bruce or Hugh Capet. ![]() There are around 38 generations between Charlemagne and the present, which means, if there were no intermarriage between your ancestors, you would have 2 to the power of 38 individual progenitors in 800 AD – that is some 274 billion (yes, billion) people at a time when the world population has been estimated at around 240m. Statistically, if your grandparents were born in Europe before the First World War, you are almost certainly descended from Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned on Christmas Day in the year 800. The Conqueror, St Louis IX, the Emperor Maximilian I, and the Catholic Kings, ![]() Illustrious figures, and can trace her ancestry back to Charlemagne, Hugh Capet, William April, 2016, HM Queen Elizabeth II turns 90. ![]()
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