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Those houses which have traditionally been designated as Mediatized Houses are marked with an asterisk.
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Note: Some updates to the genealogies of Italian families included here are based on information from Davide Shama's excellent site on Italian royal and noble genealogy at http://www.sardimpex.com/ .
Some information on Spanish families has been provided by Pedro Riquelmo.
GENEALOGIES OF SELECTED FAMILIES
BEFORE THE MODERN ERA
Some of these are families since
extinct in the male line; others are earlier generations of families whose more
recent generations are included in sections above
WETTIN: 1; 2; 3; 4
WITTELSBACH [including Löwenstein]: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
WELF & ESTE: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
HOHENZOLLERN: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7
NASSAU: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
BRABANT/HESSE/PERCY: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
HABSBURG: 1; 2; 3
LORRAINE: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 HOHENSTAUFEN
BABENBERGER
LUXEMBURG &
EARLY KINGS OF SWEDEN VASA KINGS OF SWEDEN EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY
EARLY KINGS OF DENMARK OLDEN
IVREA (including Castile & Leon, Orange,
etc.): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11 Old CASTILE; Asturias, etc.
BARCELONA & ARAGON: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9 BRITTANY
BAR, PFIRT, etc. NAVARRE
CHAMPAGNE & BLOIS: 1; 2; 3; 4 CAPET
(including Portugal): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9 MONTFORT-l'AMAURY
ANJOU & PLANTAGENET: 1; 2
NORMANDY: 1; 2
FLANDERS & HAINAUT: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
SAVOY: 1; 2; 3 HAUTEVILLE (Sicily) FARNESE
GONZAGA
VISCONTI
SFORZA MONTFERRAT
MEDICI
PIAST (Poland, Silesia, etc.): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 LITHUANIA
HUNGARY, House of Arpad: 1; 2
BOHEMIA: 1; 2
RURIK (Russia, Kiev, etc.): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
CRUSADER STATES
EARLY BALKAN HOUSES: 1-6; 7-11; 12-20
SOME BYZANTINE IMPERIAL HOUSES: 1; 2; 3-5; 6; 7-8
BADEN: 1; 2; 3 LIPPE HANAU
MECKLENBURG: 1; 2; 3
WÜRTTEMBERG: 1; 2 GÖRZ MANDERSCHEID
WALDECK THURINGIA
HOHENLOHE
HENNEBERG
OSTFRIESLAND
POMERANIA
OETTINGEN
REUSS
SCHWARZBURG 1; 2 RUNKEL/WIED/LEININGEN-WESTERBURG LIMPURG Kleve/Limburg 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
FÜRSTENBERG/FREIBURG WALDBURG
SALM
SPONHEIM/SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN/ORTENBURG 1-2; 3; 4
SOLMS: 1; 2; 3 STOLBERG
WINDISCH-GRÄTZ
LAMBERG
GIECH STADION METTERNICH
MANSFELD
HONSTEIN
BARBY/LINDOW-RUPPIN KIRCHBERG
KAUNITZ
FOIX ALBRET RETHEL NEVERS LUSIGNAN
AQUITAINE/POITIERS/LUSIGNAN 2: 1; 2 ARMAGNAC
GENEVA
MELUN BÉTHUNE-SULLY & -CHAROST de COUCY: 1; 2 ARENBERG & LIGNE CROY COLIGNY
BORGIA: 1; 2 CHATILLON
COURTENAY
BRIENNE
IBELIN
ROHAN & ROHAN-CHABOT: 1; 2; 3; 4
MONTMORENCY & LAVAL: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 La TOUR d'AUVERGNE TALLEYRAND
La TRÉMOÏLLE
MAZARIN & RICHELIEU ALTIERI
DORIA NEY d'ELCHINGEN BARCLAY de TOLLY (and Weymarn)
STUART
& FITZALAN: 1 (Fitzalan; early Stuart Kings; Earls of
Athol, Buchan and Menteith); 2 (later Stuart Kings of Scotland; Earls of
Orkney, Carrick, Bothwell, Moray; Dukes of Albany; Lords Avandale
and Ochiltree); 3 (Earls and Dukes of Lennox; Stuart Kings of
England and Scotland); 4 (Stewart of Appin,
etc.); 5 (Earls of Castle Stewart); 6 (Earls of Moray); 7 (Stewarts of Ramelton; Viscounts Mountjoy); 8 (Earls of Traquair); 9 (Stewarts of Ardvorlich);
10 (Earls of Galloway); 11 (Stuarts of Hartley Mauduit); 12 (Marquesses of Londonderry and miscellaneous
Baronetal lines); 13 (Earls and Marquesses of Bute, Earls of
Wharncliffe)
PAULET/POWLETT PIERREPONT/KINGSTON EGERTON/BRIDGWATER HOLAND
VILLIERS
SACKVILLE
HAMILTON
DOUGLAS
GORDON/SUTHERLAND/ABERDEEN ANCASTER, Abingdon, Lindsey
BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS COWPER LEEDS NEWCASTLE (Clinton/Pelham-Clinton) NEWCASTLE (Holles/Pelham)
VANE, Dukes of Cleveland; FANE, Earls of Westmorland
ODOJEVSKY
PROSOROVSKY
SALTYKOV
LOPUKHIN
ORLOV
Gotha Supplement: An assortment of
families of the higher nobility which do not have princely or ducal rank, or who
have not traditionally been listed as Mediatized
Houses. Click here.
Welcome to my Online Gotha.
Section I encompasses those families which have held hereditary sovereign status in European states, plus Brazil, since the Napoleonic era.
Section II includes two somewhat overlapping groups of houses: those which hold Princely or Ducal rank, and those which have traditionally been considered as "Mediatized" Houses. Traditionally, the term "Mediatized" has been defined as describing those Houses of the former Holy Roman Empire which lost their sovereignty during the Napoleonic era. The most important thing which traditionally distinguished the "Mediatized" houses from other non-sovereign houses is that they have traditionally been considered to have been granted by the Congress of Vienna the status of equal birth with the sovereign houses. Not all houses usually designated as "mediatized" were actually sovereign at the beginning of the Napoleonic era or, for that matter, at any time. Some seem to have fallen into this category by accident or misunderstanding by scholars and historians. Other houses, which have as good historical claims to be considered mediatized as some who are traditionally included, have not even been listed in the Almanach de Gotha or among the Fürstliche Häuser of Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. (For a discussion of these houses and the definition of "Mediatized", I refer the reader to a short essay by William Addams Reitwiesner.) After carefully reviewing the situation and the somewhat arbitrary way in which certain houses came to be designated as "Mediatized", I have decided to dispense with that classification.
The families included in this
Online
I have begun a
The advantage of an Online Gotha is that it can be instantly updated and corrected. A printed equivalent becomes obsolete as soon as it is published. Thus I welcome any additions or corrections which any reader may be able to supply, and will update the articles accordingly when I receive them. I am sure I have made some errors, and I am sure that I have missed some new events or have failed to find some old events which should be recorded. Please refer all such corrections and additions to me at my new email address: dptheroff@gmail.com.
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My sources, for the original files and any new additions and corrections, include CEDRE and Gotha Nieuwtjes, several published works including volumes of Europäische Stammtafeln, Almanach de Gotha, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern Immatrikulierten Adels, Koenig's Queen Victoria's Descendants, and works by Jacques Ferrand, Daniel Willis and others, various Usenet Newsgroup postings and magazines, as well as many correspondents who help me with information, especially William Addams Reitwiesner, R. Kenneth Sheets, Don Kuchison, Andrew Loughrey, José Verheecke, Michael Rhodes, Steven Lavallee, Hein Bruins, Stefan Höllriegl, Davide Shamà, and Lauren Strauss-Jones. The beautifully executed coats-of-arms displayed on this page were produced by Arnaud Bunel, who graciously authorized me to use them here. I also credit the many posters at Nobiliana (http://www.nobiliana.de) , formerly known as Royals Portal forums, where members post news covering a wide array of royal and noble families, for many updates to this site.
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news of events in the royal houses posted here, but this kind of news is now
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