Ancestry of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
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Queen Elizabeth II, present sovereign of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, is the daughter of George VI, the second-eldest son of George V and Mary of Teck; and of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, and, after her daughter's accession to the throne, the Queen Mother), the daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Queen Elizabeth II is the male-line great-granddaughter of Edward VII, who inherited the crown from his mother, Queen Victoria. His father, Victoria's consort, was Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; hence Queen Elizabeth is a patrilineal descendant of Albert's family, the German princely House of Wettin. (Other notable members of this house are King Albert II of Belgium and former King Simeon II of Bulgaria.) Traced as far as possible, Elizabeth's male-line ancestry stretches back to Conrad the Great of Meissen; see Patrilineal descent of Elizabeth II.
Through Victoria, as well as several other of her great-great-grandparents, Elizabeth is directly descended from many British royals: from the House of Stuart, from Mary Queen of Scots, Robert the Bruce, and earlier Scottish royal houses, from the House of Tudor, and earlier English royal houses stretching back as far as the 7th century House of Wessex. Queen Elizabeth II is directly descended from Aethelflaed of Wessex's younger sister, Elfthryth.
As a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she is related to the heads of most other reigning and non-reigning European royal houses. Through her great-grandmother Queen Alexandra, she is descended from the Danish royal house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a line of the North German house of Oldenburg, one of the oldest in Europe. (Other members of the House of Glücksburg include Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh as well as Margrethe II of Denmark, Harald V of Norway, Queen Sofia of Spain and former King Constantine II of Greece — each of whom is also descended from Queen Victoria; one of her many cousins is King Juan Carlos I of Spain, also a great-great-grandson of Victoria). Elizabeth is likewise descendant of Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange (1687 – 1711), who is the most recent common ancestor to all reigning European royal houses.
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[edit] Ahnentafel
This table sets out the ancestry of Queen Elizabeth II for five generations, numbered according to the Ahnentafel genealogical numbering system.
1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Parents
2. George VI of the United Kingdom
3. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Grandparents
4. George V of the United Kingdom (father of 2)
5. Mary of Teck (mother of 2)
6. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (father of 3)
7. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (mother of 3)
Great-Grandparents
8. Edward VII of the United Kingdom (father of 4)
9. Alexandra of Denmark (mother of 4)
10. Prince Francis, Duke of Teck (father of 5)
11. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (mother of 5)
12. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (father of 6)
13. Frances Dora Smith (mother of 6)
14. Reverend Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (father of 7) - 2nd marriage
15. Caroline Louisa Burnaby (mother of 7)
Great-Great-Grandparents
16. Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (father of 8)
17. Victoria of the United Kingdom (mother of 8)
18. Christian IX of Denmark (father of 9)
19. Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (mother of 9)
20. Duke Alexander of Württemberg (father of 10)
21. Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (mother of 10)
22. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (father of 11)
23. Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (or Hesse-Kassel) (mother of 11)
24. Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis (father of 12)
25. Charlotte Grimstead (mother of 12)
26. Oswald Smith (father of 13)
27. Henrietta Hodgson (mother of 13)
28. Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck (father of 14)
29. Anne Wellesley, former Lady Abdy (mother of 14)
30. Edwyn Burnaby (father of 15)
31. Anne Caroline Salisbury (mother of 15)
Great-Great-Great-Grandparents
32. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (father of 16)
33. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (mother of 16)
34. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (father of 17)
35. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Dowager Princess of Leiningen (mother of 17)
36. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (father of 18)
37. Landgravine Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (mother of 18)
38. Landgrave William of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (father of 19)
39. Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (mother of 19)
40. Duke Louis of Württemberg (father of 20)
41. Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilberg (mother of 20)
42. Count Ladislaus Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (father of 21)
43. Baroness Agnes Inczedy de Nagy-Várad (mother of 21)
44. George III of the United Kingdom (father of 22)
45. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (mother of 22)
46. Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (father of 23)
47. Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (mother of 23)
48. Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (father of 24)
49. Mary Carpenter (mother of 24)
50. Joseph Grimstead (father of 25)
51. Charlotte Walsh (mother of 25)
52. George Smith (father of 26)
53. Frances Mosley (mother of 26)
54. Reverend Robert Hodgson (father of 27)
55. Mary Tucker (mother of 27)
56. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (father of 28)
57. Lady Dorothy Cavendish (mother of 28)
58. Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (father of 29)
59. Hyacinth Roland (mother of 29)
60. Edwin Andrew Burnaby (father of 30)
61. Mary Browne (mother of 30)
62. Thomas Salisbury (father of 31)
63. Frances Webb (mother of 31)
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[edit] Patrilineal descent
Elizabeth's patriline is the line from which she is descended father to son.
Her patrilineal descent (the principle behind membership in Germanic royal houses) can be traced back through the generations -- which means that if Elizabeth II were to choose an historically accurate house name it would be Wettin, as all her male-line ancestors have been members.
The line diverges from the British royal line at Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and from then on follows his paternal ancestors.
Descent before Conrad the Great is taken from fabpedigree.com and may be inaccurate.
House of Wettin
- Burkhard I, Duke of Thuringia, d. 870
- [[Burchard, #Dietrich II of Wettin, 991 - 1034
- Thimo I, Count of Wettin, d. 1099
- Thimo II the Brave, Count of Wettin, d. 1118
- Conrad, Margrave of Meissen, 1098 - 1157
- Otto II, Margrave of Meissen, 1125 - 1190
- Dietrich I, Margrave of Meissen, 1162 - 1221
- Henry III, Margrave of Meissen, c. 1215 - 1288
- Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, 1240 - 1314
- Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen, 1257 - 1323
- Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, 1310 - 1349
- Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia, 1332 - 1381
- Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 1370 - 1428
- Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, 1412 - 1464
- Ernest, Elector of Saxony, 1441 - 1486
- John, Elector of Saxony, 1468 - 1532
- John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 1503 - 1554
- Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1530 - 1573
- John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 1570 - 1605
- Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, 1601 - 1675
- John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1658 - 1729
- Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1697 - 1764
- Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1724 - 1800
- Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1750 - 1806
- Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1784 - 1844
- Albert, Prince Consort, 1819 - 1861
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1841 - 1910
- George V of the United Kingdom, 1865 - 1936
- George VI of the United Kingdom, 1895 - 1952
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, 1926 -
Her matrilineal descent can only be traced back six generations, to Mary Garritt, mother of Frances Webb.
[edit] See also
- Genealogy of the British Royal Family
- Direct descent from William I to Elizabeth II
- Descent of Elizabeth II from Cerdic
- Descent of Elizabeth II from the Romans
[edit] References
- Lyon linePDF (10.6 KiB)
- Cavendish-Bentinck linePDF (10.6 KiB)
- Yvonne Demoskoff "Ancestors of Prince William of Wales v.3"
- Yvonne Demoskoff. "Ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II"
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