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sambhavami ... Ancestry charts of the current British Royal Family

All people are descended via various racial or ethnic lines of the antiquity, but in case of most, records do not exist. The British royal family is one of the few families, for whom ancestry can be traced to many notable lineages of the antiquity. They can be traced from Saxon, Scottish (Stuart dynasty), Welsh (Tudor dynasty), Irish, German (Hanover and Windsor), French (Norman and Angevin), Russian, Frank and perhaps even Byzantine lineages.

Saxon and Scottish descent
The earliest Saxon and Scottish connections were through Matilda of Scotland, whose father was a Scottish king and mother, a Saxon princess. The general descent through this connection, of the current British royal family, is shown below. Various special descents of members shown in this chart are discussed later.


 * Note: Biologically, the senior line of descent from Edward III was through the Clarence-March line (shown below under Ancestry of Diana Spencer and Catherine Middleton). The general descent shown above uses the Lancaster-Somerset line because King Henry VII claimed the throne by right of conquest and got crowned before his marriage.


 * The above chart is not exhaustive for Saxon descent. It can be shown in other ways too. For example, the Byzantine descent shown later through Irene Angelina is also valid for Saxon descent through her husband Philip of Swabia. His Saxon descent is as under:

Descent from the Franks

 * There are multiple descents from Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, some of which are shown below.
 * Note: Parentage of Aeda (m/o Oda, w/o Liudolf, Duke of Saxony) is disputed. Her identification with Adélaïde, known daughter of Pepin of Italy, is based on three primary sources. As per Vita Hathumodae and Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, her daughter Oda was of Frankish descent. As per a statement of Fasti Corbeienses under the year 885, duke Liudolf's wife Oda was a neptis through a daughter of Pepin of Italy. The last was shown by Eduard Hlawitschka to be a fabrication..
 * The above chart is not exhaustive for descent from Charlemagne. It can be shown in other ways too. For example, the Byzantine descent shown later through Irene Angelina is also valid for descent from Charlemagne through her husband Philip of Swabia. His descent is shown in the second Saxon descent chart above. Three members shown in that chart, Charles the Simple, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and the latter's sister Gerberga of Saxony, had descended from Charlemagne. The descent of Gerberga of Saxony is shown in the above chart. Charles the Simple was a grandson of Charles the Bald, brother of Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, shown in the above chart. Adelaide of Paris, mother of Charles the Simple, had also descended from Charlemagne.

Irish connection

 * Isabella de Clare (shown in the first chart) had descended from Brian Boru, High King of Ireland.
 * Another descent from Brian Boru is through the current queen's mother, through the dynasty of Thomond [this lineage has been publicly claimed by the British Royal Family (see Pretender)].

Viking-Norman descent
George I of Great Britain had descended, through both of his parents, from Rollo, the Viking founder of the ducal lineage of Normandy. Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, had a descent from King Henry II of England through his daughter Matilda.

Ancestry of Diana Spencer and Catherine Middleton

 * Two granddaughters of Edward III, Philippa of Clarence and Joan Beaufort, were common ancestresses of Diana Spencer, Catherine Middleton and George Washington. The following chart incorporates data from research done by William Addams Reitwiesner.
 * Note: Diana Spencer had descended from not one, but four granddaughters of King Edward III: Philippa of Clarence, Philippa of Lancaster, Catherine of Lancaster and Joan Beaufort. All four lines are shown below. Eleanor Neville and Cecily Neville, shown in the chart, were daughters of Joan Beaufort. Diana Spencer had also descended from Kings Charles II and James II as shown below. The chart shows Washington's descent through his father. His mother descended from Joan Beaufort through her son Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and from Constance of York (another granddaughter of Edward III) through her daughter Isabel le Despenser.

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 * Rosalind Bingham and Sarah Ferguson had descended from King Charles II of England through his mistress, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (This descent shown below under Byzantine connection).
 * Frances Roche, (mother of Diana Spencer), had Irish descent, her father being an Irish peer.
 * Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, (ancestor of Diana Spencer), had a descent from King Charles II of England through his daughter Mary Crofts (Mary Stuart) by mistress Lucy Walter (This paternity was claimed by Mary Stuart but not acknowledged by the king) as well as from Rory O'Moore (Irish noble) through the brother of Patrick Sarsfield.

Byzantine connection
One established connection is given below, starting with Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos (for his descent, see Descent from antiquity).

Other possible connections are as under:
 * As seen from the first chart (detailed), Prince Philip descends from the Romanov dynasty of Russia through his paternal grandmother. The first Romanov Tsar's mother, Xenia Shestova, was possibly sired by Ivan the Terrible, who, in turn, descended from Sophia Palaiologina, granddaughter of Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos.
 * Lady Calinica (w/o Radu I of Wallachia, see below), possible ancestress of Francis, Duke of Teck [shown in the first chart (detailed)], also had a Byzantine descent.

Questionable connections
Connections are also traced by enthusiasts to Arabic—Moorish and even Biblical lineages. (For Biblical lineage, see List of legendary kings of Britain).
 * A purported connection from Emperor Suzong of Tang dynasty of China enters the British line through Mary of Guise (shown in the first chart). The connection goes through the emperor's daughter Ninguo (w/o Bayanchur Khan, Khagan of Uyghur), Bavand Dynasty of Tabaristan, royalty of Vaspurakan Kingdom (descent of this family from the Bavandis and link between two branches of this family, as required for this connection, are unestablished ), the Lampron Hethumids (starting with Gaday Arcruni, w/o Oshin of Lampron), Lusignan dynasty of Cyprus and Margaret of Savoy, niece-in-law of  Jacquetta of Luxembourg (shown in the Frank lineage chart above).


 * A connection from Prophet Muhammad, entering the British line through Infanta Isabella of Castile (shown in the first chart), has been endorsed by Burke's Peerage, as per a letter written by them to the Prime Minister of the U.K. in 1986. The connection hinges on Zaida of Seville, who, for this connection to be true, needs to be daughter, wife and mother, respectively, of King Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad of Seville, King Alfonso VI of León and Castile and Sancha Alfónsez (wife of  Rodrigo González de Lara), all three of which are controversial. Controversiality exists further back in time also. This line goes through Maria of Portugal (shown under Byzantine connection above). Other lines of descent from Muhammad go through María de Padilla (shown under Byzantine connection above), Isabella of Braganza (shown under Ancestry of Diana Spencer and Catherine Middleton above) and the wife of Anselm Franz, 2nd Prince of Thurn and Taxis (father-in-law of Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, patrilineal ancestor of Mary of Teck), but all are disputed.
 * A descent from Genghis Khan was proposed by Iain Moncreiffe in Royal Highness that requires descent of Thocomerius, Voivode of Wallachia, from Jöchi (presuming parentage from Mengu-Timur, possibly identifying Thocomerius with Toqta, Khan of the Blue Horde or one of his brothers), which is controversial. However, further on, this connection leads to Francis, Duke of Teck (shown in the first chart) through the half-brother of Dracula as proposed by Moncreiffe and Gerald Paget (in The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales). This connection moves through Radu I of Wallachia. Another line through his sister Elisaveta (w/o Władysław Opolczyk, Duke of Opole), as proposed by William Addams Reitwiesner leads to Magdalene of Brandenburg (shown in the Viking lineage chart above). The Paget-Moncreiffe line has several uncertainties in between Mircea the Shepherd and Baroness Ágnes Kendeffy de Malmoviz (great-grandmother of Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde). (also see Descent from Genghis Khan). However, the lineage proposed by Reitwiesner is easily verifiable, as under: