Who Would Be Monarchs of Germany? Part 2: Grand Dukes & Dukes
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Gott mit uns!
7:08
Aha, I see where this branch comes from: Holstein-Gottorp.
*Who Would Be Monarchs of Germany? Part 3: Princes*
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen
Waldeck and Pyrmont
Reuss-Greiz (pronounced Royce-Grites), the senior branch
Reuss-Gera (pronounced Royce-Guerra), the junior branch
Schaumburg-Lippe
Lippe
Interesting video idea, a video on the Ethiopian Coptic church telling of the Bible and how it differs from most other denominations
It’s crazy to see how many monarchs can trace their lines to a common ancestor, just goes to show how influential some of these family trees were.
Also they like to marry each other and relatives
Considering how short lived humans are gives a long view of power.
Thems that has, gets.
They are still. Just think about the British royal family, where the monarch is still the regnant of the Commonwealth and britain. And they are also basically german
European monarchies are a one big family tree after all
My goodness. My Grandmother was a Brandenburg. Some still live in the castle there. They have a very interesting history and can be traced back around 1006 . This is very interesting. Thank you.
Interesting! Do you pop over to the Schloss for Holidays?
Interesting my husbands mother was a Brandenburg from Settin. Might be a common name over there.
The surname Brandenburg does not make you a member of the particular Brandenburg family that is nobility. That particular family may be traced back to 1006 but not all Brandenburg's can make that claim.
Fun Fact: The founder of the House of Mecklenburg (aka the Obodrites) was Niklot, a slavic ruler. His son was subjugated by the Holy Roman Empire in 1167, but managed to retain his territory. His descendants ruled Mecklenburg for over 700 years as one of the few slavic dynasties in the HRE, and they are the only one that still exists in the male line today (with Borwin and his sons).
And Niklot's still watching us from a top the doorway of Schloss Schwerin.
And the House of Welf is actually Italian lmao.
Yep and the name "Borwin" was actually the name of Niklots grandson and is a slavic name. 700 years later, the descendant, Borwin of Mecklenburg, still carries a Slavic name.
@@tylerbozinovski427 nah they are franks, the first of Welf was bundled with the carolingians.
I’m curious as to where The House of Gans zu Putlitz fit into the line of The house of Welf & The House of Este. Everything I find is written in German.
Where would you find the “Uradel ”? Ancient nobility family tree.
I would appreciate if you make a video about the five regent houses of Japan. I came across it when studying Japanese history and found it very interesting
A video on the legendary houses of Minamoto, Fujiwara, Taira, Tokugawa annd Toyotomi would be great too
Hesse 3:08
Baden 5:46
Oldenburg 7:08
Mechlenburg-Schwerin/ Mechlenburg-Strelitz 9:33
Saxe-Wirmar-Eisenach 11:26
Brunswick 13:41
Anhalt 16:10
Saxe-Meiningen 17:53
Saxe-Altenburg 18:18
Saxe-Coburg & Gotha 19:06
Thanks!
i can't wait to see part 3 of this, the principalities, city states, and imperial territory
there's nothing to add about the city states and alsace-lorraine. they weren't inheritable titles.
city states didn't have hereditary rulers
@@valentinbezdan570 alright, at least we could get to see the leaders.
@@EmpireProductions1 ok then, maybe we can see all of the leaders.
City-states? just look at their current mayors.
8:23 For anyone wondering, the last member of the Swedish branch of Holstein-Gottorp was Carola of Vasa, who was the last Queen of Saxony (d. 1907), and the last undisputed member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov was Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, a great-great-granddaughter of Nicholas I who died in 2007. She is also notably the grandmother of actor Sebastian Arcelus
Sebastian Arcelus played Diego's daddy.
Whenever you upload I always get a different perspective on people I thought I knew throughout history!
Interesting-even fascinating-direction that this channel is now exploring, Mr. Baker.
Would you consider similar videos on the extant dukedoms of Austria, France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and (non-royal) UK?
I don't recommend one about those of Spain, however, since that country currently has more than 120 dukes-not unless you're really up for making another multiple-part video.
The swedish ones aren't that interesting. They are just the children and grandchildren of the current King. France had a lot of dukes too and on the level of Spain. I think why they focused on these is because there were mediatized. Pretty sure they have covered the Austrian dukes and the only interesting ones in Italy are the royal ones which we already know. Maybe Portugal and the UK are interesting here but honestly that would have to be the premier ones if that.
I hope you will discuss in your next vidoes the House of Bourbon in France, Bourbon-Anjou in Spain, Bourbon-Parma in Parma in Italy and Bourbon-Two Sicilies in Italy too. Also the House of Bourbon-Braganza. Thanks.
Wow I didn’t know that there were so many kingdoms or places ruled by kings, dukes, counts,etc. that is so cool thank you I am a person that has been a really old fan I been watching you for a long time
Fun fact, the Habsburgs are related to the nobles of Saxe-Meiningen, ever since the crown prince Otto von Habsburg married Regina von Sachsen-Meiningen. This happened some time in the 60s if I remember correctly, and to be honest the Habsburgs and this house were probably already related in some way, it's just more direct now.
It would’ve been quite distant. The Saxe-Meiningens, except for Regina’s immediate family, were Protestant. Only Regina and her siblings were Catholic because her mother was a Catholic noblewoman
She was also related to Queen Victoria, being a great great granddaughter of Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Queen Victoria’s older half sister
Habsburgs died out in 1780.
@@kolomaznik333 That's not true. They just merged with another house, that's not nearly the same thing as dying out.
@@lightgreen3479 No you are wrong. They did not merged with other house (that is not how it works: two men cannot have children together).
It went like this: House of Habsburg last male, emperor Charles VI. died in 1740. As last legitimate male-line Habsburg, so house of Habsburg died out in male-line. His possessions were inherited by his eldest living child (daughter) Maria Theresa. After 1744 she was only living child of her father. After 1757 she was last living female Habsburg. After she died in 1780, the House of habsburg died out in the female-line too. Her possessions were inherited by her eldest son Joseph. All her children from her marriage to Francis Stephen of Lorraine, belonged to remaining line of house of Lorraine which is known as house of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Looks like Prince Philip and his sisters are worth a video to show all their titled relations.
That family had married well
9:29
Oooh, I smell a Part 3 over the horizon!
King Christian the IX of Denmark here we go!
i swear this video is my dream come true (a neat family tree explaining it) became obsessed with the topic during lockdown and it never left, thank you
I wish you much fun when you have to fight through the family tree of the Reuss 😅
Jesus Christus
That family is a legitimate nightmare. Their choice of naming conventions is just… *why*
That chess "Opera Game" was also featured as one of the games played in the Netflix show "Queen's Gambit". Which was funny because in reality the people playing it would have known it was a Morphy game.
Amazing video, can't wait for the principalities, landgraves, margraves, electorates, and palatinates.
Wasn't there only one Palatinate?
@@_levi07: German word is Pfalzgraf, there had been in early years of HRE many ( for example the Pfalzgrafen of Tübingen), but as longer as Middle Ages lasted, nearly all dynasties ended, and their territories came under rule of other Houses. Now, what was a Pfalz? From start of HRE until the end, there was no official capital! So medieval german emperors and kings travelled through the Empire, with a large Gefolge ( don't know english word), snd at places, where the Emperor and his Gefolge did a longer stop, local nobles, officials, clerics, judges etc. came to speak with the Emperor ( and officials travelling with him) and all kind of things had been done , nowadays being done in capital. Those Pfalzen had been mostly only lightly fortified groups of houses on crown land. In those houses , surrouded by the fortifications, food, firewood, eqipment etc. produced on crownland was stored. The Emperor and his Gefolge travelled from one Pfalz to the next, there they could resupply and doing some necessary repairs and spend a few days of recovery (?) / Erholung. In socalled Interregnum, ehen between 1254 and 1274 HRE had no real Emperor, most nobles and knights ( up to 1496 no part of german nobility) grabbed the part of crownland they had to administrate , as their own territory, but this is annother long (!) story.
9:23 To clarify for anyone who is confused, Christoph is the great-great grandson of King Christian IX’s elder brother, Prince Friedrich. He is also a second cousin of the Duke of Oldenburg (both are great-grandsons of Frederick Augustus II), a grandnephew of Prince Philip’s brother-in-law Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and is a 4th cousin of Charles III through, unsurprisingly, Queen Victoria.
Very informative and well presented as ever.
Spotted the dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in your list ... so I thought it would be fun to leave a comment. 😊
At 11:25 you actually managed to pronounce the german "ch"-sound perfectly, congratulations :) (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach)
Note that this letter combination is being pronounced in two different ways, depending on if the preceding vowel is an E/I or an A/O/U.
For example the "ch" in Licht (light) and Lachen (laughter) is different.
And you, dear native english speaker, did it exactly right :)
Licht und lachen sind bei mir gleich.
@@thomashamann7035 Lassen Sie mich raten: Sie sind Schweizer? In der schweizerischen Variante des deutschen werden, glaube ich, einige Worte anders betont bzw. ausgesprochen als auf Hochdeutsch.
@@dorderre Nein. Ich bin deutscher und Hochdeutsch ist meine Muttersprache. Und sie?
In fact, the words for light and laugh in Middle English would have sounded more like the German words because the gh in light and laughen (which means laugh in Middle English) was actually pronounced around the same way as the ch in licht and lachen. As Middle English transitioned to Modern English, the gh in light became silent while the gh in laugh came to be pronounced like an f.
@@thomashamann7035 Dito, auch deutsch. Genauer: sächsisch, mit Einflüssen aus dem hamburgischen, berlinerischen, kölschen, hessischen, badischen und fränkischen (ich bin viel rumgekommen xD).
Der erste Gedanke war halt Schweiz, weil das "ch" auf hochdeutsch klar unterscheidet zwischen der Aussprache in zB, siehe oben, Licht und Lachen.
Falls ich daneben lag, tut mir das leid. Aus welcher Gegend kommen Sie bzw welchen Dialekt sprechen Sie hauptsächlich?
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍
I really hoped you'll do a second Part. Thank you
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS MATT
Just a small point about titles of nobility in current Germany. All such titles were abolished, *_but_* they became official parts of people's names instead. Like any other name parts, they have no longer any meaning, but the holders will put them on any official document together with the rest of their names.
That is comical, the larp is real
@@sebe2255I mean… not really, it’s just the law as it’s written.
@@Edmonton-of2ec No the law abolished titles, they just let them keep the larp
@@sebe2255 … you literally missed the entire point of the comment. Yes, the titles were abolished but they were INCORPORATED INTO THE LAST NAME of individuals. It’s not larp, it’s the legal last names people have held for a 100 years. Like, they would have to formally request as name change, like anyone altering their last name would
@@Edmonton-of2ec Sure it is their last name, but it is still larp. Larping as nobles they aren’t anymore. Because it isn’t just a last name they held for 100s of years. Their last name was never Prinz von Preussen lmao
Thank you for the information in this video.
Nice and I found this to be really interesting
Great Video of a great series! Looking forward for the princes Video!
Thank you!
It's amazing how many states of the HRE or German Empire had monarchs, makes u wonder how it all worked
It didn't 😂😂 that's why it slowly rotted away.
@@lightyagami3492It didn’t really slowly rot away. It was ended because of Napoleon’s humiliation of the Empire and Austria. Not as a result of the divided nature of the Empire. On top of that they replaced it with a slightly less confusing but equally divided confederation anyway
@@lightyagami3492 almost 800 Years and you call it "slowly", you should work on your sense of time.
The German Empire was a federal state, just like modern Germany or the USA. That's how it worked. The German Emperor wasn't really the overlord of the other princes but sort of a "crowned president", first among equals. (In reality he was of course the monarch of the most powerful german state, Prussia, and thus the de facto hegemon). But the other states still had a fair amount of internal autonomy.
Also, despite the fact that this state was an Empire, three of its member states (Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck) were city republics. This was the reason why the former bavarian crown prince Rupprecht proposed to reestablish the Kingdom of Bavaria after WW2 within a new german republic, arguing that if a republic had been part of a monarchy, a monarchy could as well be part of a republic. But of course this didn't happen.
what a nice unsuspected sequel. I bet you could talk about the free cities if you ever make a video about the Hanse, especially my home town of Lübeck.
Can you do who would be the Emperor/Empress of Russia today? (Before any says it, I mostly referr to the branch family of the Romanov since the main line died with Tsar Nic II)
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@@UsefulChartsthanks
Thank you. I will check out ground news
Thank you for doing this one. My ancestors are from Baden. I watched the royals version and was hoping there would be a grand-ducal version.
Thank you so very much for making this video, I have desperately wanted more information on the Royal and Noble families who ran the grand duchys and duchys. I can’t wait for the Principalities and Free Hanseatic City episode.
Ascania is a very cool house name. I always thought they had died out when they lost saxony, interesting to know they still exist.
The senior branch, that held the Electorate of Saxony, died out, but the junior Lauenburg and Anhalt branches still existed. The Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg (which lies nowhere near todays Saxony, it was located southeast of Hamburg) claimed to be the rightful heirs to the title and territory, but the Emperor gave the Electorate of Saxony to the House of Wettin instead, because they were more powerful and his allies. The Lauenburg branch died out later.
I mean… Catherine the Great belonged to this family so I’m kind of surprised it’s unknown
Everytime I see one of these I always want to say "Hey! That's me!" 😂😂😂
I love your videos.
Great job Matt, may I suggest doing a series on the monarchs of Malaysia? That would be great.
This is so cool! Specially since some od the houses reigned over small territories.
@UsefulCharts please please pretty please do the video on the principalities and Hanseatic Cities and Federal Territory. I’m so desperate for more knowledge about the post HRE German Monarchies, including those that were annexed by Prussia in 1834(Principality of Lichtenberg), 1850(Principalities of Hohenzollern) and in 1866, like The Duchy of Nassau, The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, Electoral Hesse and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg.
I’m also very interested in the mediatized German houses.
Nobility really fascinates me.
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Matt, I can really tell you have done your research by the volume of information presented in this video.
12:45 Technically true but not practically. The assumed candidate of succession at the time was Wilhelm Ernst’s first cousin, once removed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz, as no one expected the Grand Duke to renounce his throne to take up the Dutch throne.
I was honestly expecting Charles III to have a claim over some significant chunk of Germany (except they’re a republic)
Fun fact: The house of Bernadotte (the Swedish royal family) owns one of the 3 largest islands in Lake Constance (South of Germany - the island is called "Mainau island") along with a chunk of land next to it through one of their junior branches. The Swedish Queen apparently visits the place every year to relax (it's a tourist region) and meet with the Bernadotte relatives living there.
Nope. Charles is only a distant paternal relative of the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, and there are infinitely many more people before him who are in line to claim that throne
@@Edmonton-of2ec Maybe he meant that in sense that repeatedly on this channel succession rules were "twisted" so it magicaly ended with Elisabeth II. And her eldest son and heir is Charles III.
@@kolomaznik333 This comment had literally nothing to do with the late Queen’s half of the family
Have suggestion, who would be king/Grand duke of Lithuania
Brillant - last weekend i was in Mirow - mecklenburg-strelitz and in Torgau - the place of the last Ernestiner elector and ancestor of All the wettin dukes
Surprised that King Felipe of Spain didn't get in on at least one of these somehow
most of these are Protestant, so I guess there is less of inter-marriage with the Spaniards then with the British
@@deutschermichel5807 I remember from a past video that he *is* a cousin of Prince Philip, and hence Charles III, as Former Queen Sofia was a Princess of Greece and Denmark. But given she’s barred from inheriting any German titles by Salic law, she’s likely not relevant to this particular question of succession.
@@cakt1991Sophia renounced any claims thru her Greek family when she married her husband then King Juan Carlos, aka royalty prenups
@@omargonzales9344 I had a feeling that was the case, especially since I remember Prince Philip did as well. She’s not relevant either way, but it’s still a fun blood connection, since King Felipe is so well-connected in most other regards.
@@cakt1991Prince Philip was first cousin twice removed of King Felipe VI
This is a surprise to be sure but a welcome one
Covertly held power: It would be interesting and useful to include information (details) about who of these people hold power, without title, in significant EU offices. WEF too.
Hmm. Off the top of my head, I only remember Otto von Habsburg (the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, active in the EU parliament; at the time of his death, he was a citizen of Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia) and the two Grafen (counts) Lambsdorff (father and son), both prominent members of the German FDP party. The father rose up to minister for the economy; the son had a rather varied career (including both German federal and EU parliaments), but since 16 August 2023 (so four days ago) he is the German ambassador to Russia.
But I'm sure there are more, especially of the lower-ranking nobility, as those don't tend to stick in the mind as much.
@@KaiHenningsen The new German ambassador to Russia, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, is not the son of Otto Graf Lambsdorff. His father is Hagen Graf Lambsdorff, brother of Otto and himself a former ambassador/diplomat.
Prince Philip was a direct descendant of the house of Hesse-Darmstadr: his grandmother, Victoria, was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV and Princess Alice, second daughter of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Prince Albert, her consort. Which means that King Charles's great-grandfather was Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse.
Sorry, great-great grandfather!!
Brilliant
More like this please. Its interesting to see the families of nobility along with the royalty.
Oh, this is exciting. :)
5:12
FUN FACT: Friedrich Karl's grandfather, Prince Wilhelm of Hesse, had a wife from the main line of the House of Oldenburg through Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark.
I would be very interested in videos on the family trees of rulers in Southeast Asia. I see you have one on Vietnam - how about Thailand and it's neighbours? Especially as Thailand still has a reigning monarch!
0:00: 🗺 Germany had multiple monarchs, including an Emperor and several kings, as well as grand duchies, duchies, principalities, city-states, and an imperial territory.
3:15: 👑 Ludwig III of Hesse was the last Grand Duke of Hesse, and his title eventually passed to his nephew and then to his nephew's son Ernst Ludwig, who became the last Grand Duke of Hesse.
6:30: 👑 The Grand Duchy of Baden's claim passed to Maximilian, who is currently the heir, and the House of Oldenburg reigns in three European kingdoms.
9:35: 👑 The Mecklenburg family has two branches, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, with the current Head being Borwin.
12:49: 👑 The House of Wettin is a noble family with a controversial history and is soon to come to an end.
15:54: 👑 The most senior male-line descendant of King George III and the entire House of Welf is the current Duke of Brunswick.
19:18: 👑 The Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha passed through different family members, including a Nazi, and now belongs to his grandson Andreas.
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Hey Matt, can you maybe make a video about the Luitold-Babenberg-Habsburg family?
Let’s do who would be the monarchs of every state in the Holy Roman Empire
Which of these would you like to see restored to these positions?
Finally we can see the rest of them.
There are more, though
the Hanover-Brunswick family seems really determined to name everyone Ernst August
I love the intricate squares of the humble battenburg cake
14:51 That looks like Karl Theodore, Duke in Bavaria
Could you do a part 3 with the princes?
How about "who would be the Grand Master of the Knights Templar today"?
Wow, all of this is sooo overwhelming, but I enjoyed watching nevertheless!
7:31
FUN FACT: Orkney tried (and failed) several times to ask London for itself to leave for Oslo.
@UsefulCharts Presumably Carl Eduard of S-C-G is a _Lake Duke_ because of all the tears of disappointment that were shed about him?
Also interesting to see how many of the next heirs are called 'Alexander'!
could you make a video on what if they restore the formal japanese royal family? how would the line of succession works from no 4 onwards since the japanese line of succession is currently only 3 person
"Restore" the Japanese monarchy? It's still reigning :) But I did make a video about that here: ua-cam.com/video/bL-65NHzyJE/v-deo.html
@@UsefulCharts he means the cadet branches of the imperial family that lost their imperial status after wwii
Ah, I think someone on the subreddit made a chart about that.
As a descendent of baron mathias von sitler/seidler of Austria and all the inheritance drama, I hope you do a chart for him. It’s a whole thing.
Will you do a video on the ones annexed by Prussia like the grand duchy of Nassau?
part 3 with be the principalities whenever that comes out
hello! I think it would be cool to see videos on lesser known European monarchies, such as those of countries like Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Georgia, Circassia, etc.
thanks!
I know it's probably a bit late but you have revisited your colour schemes post release before, I think on your Christian denominations chart you should have all the Restorationist group in a different shade of grey. You know on your ancient history chart where you've used two different shades of grey for the Trojan war? Think if you did this here it would add a bit more character to that vast grey area.
Please a video about the prinzipalitys
Fun fact: the Houses Welf, Ascanier and Wettin had all held the title of dukes of Saxony (in that order).
I can’t wait for the Principalities and Free Cities
Geez - making my head hurt at how complicated and intertwined Germanic ruling families were! 🤯
9:58 Actually, this has never been proven. He was last seen alive on February 23rd, 1918, when he want for a walk with his dog and was never seen alive again. A search was quickly organized and on the 24th, the Grand Duke’s body was in the Kammer Canal with a gunshot wound to his chest, while the murder weapon was never recovered. So although it’s possible his death was a suicide (based on contemporary memoirs), it’s actually possible he was murdered.
It should also be noted that the gunshot was not actually the cause of death, but drowning after he fell into the canal following his been shot, whether attacked or self-inflicted.
I read some time ago that Prince Philip's niece lived in Vancouver and she uses the surname Von Hanover.
Lol! Im a distant relative of the House of Oldenburg (my mums name before marriage is von Oldenburg) - I didn't know any of this
Now we just need part 3 with the 7 princes
So weird when countries welcome rulers that aren't even from there
Talking about Grand Dukes and Dukes, how about discuss family connection King Charles III and UK's Non Royal Dukes (Duke of Manchester, Duke of Hamilton, Duke of Westminster, Duke of Norfolk etc)???
Will you also do a chart of the Principalities idependently ruled? Like the Princes of Wied.
Wied had already been mediatized (got its sovereignty cancelled, that is) up to the point when Napoleon swiped across Europe; maybe you should expect to see them in the episode of Monarchs of Albania.
however, there were additionally the Duchy of Aremberg (held by the House of Ligne), the Principalities of Isenburg (held by native lords, the Isenburgs), Salm (held by the Wild- and Rhinegravial House of Stein) and Leyen (held by the House of the Leyen (unrelated to Ursula von der Leyen; the two families just coincides in names)) spreading across the German lands when Napoleon initially set up the Rhine Confederation, as well as the Napoleonic creations of the Grand Duchy of Berg (for Joachim Murat) and the Kingdom of Westphalia (for his brother Hieronymus Bonaparte). making an extra episode about them might be good as well. @UsefulCharts
@@ignatiusqi9736 Well, but the King of Westphalia was Joseh Bonaparte, King "Lustick", not this Hieronymus.
¡José Bonaparte, 1º Nápoles, 2º Rey de España !@@davidcomtedeherstal
@@y4747t Sorry. Ich meinte Jerome.
I find the concept of seniority within these houses quite confusing, I don't know if you could try a little explainer on how that works?
That's because it's not always a hard rule. Seniority - in the case of salic law - means the line that comes from the oldest son's oldest son's... So when sons have sons things are dandy and fine. But when those sons don't have sons of their own, or that they disqualified themselves and their descandants , or when their marry below their rank (left to the appreciation of the house's head) figuring who is supposed to be the next head and who is the most senior can be tricky (and it's not liek politics and affinity don't play a role into it).
It’s basically who’s descended from the eldest descendants of the founder of a family.
Suggesstion: Who would be king of Poland? Who would be king of Lithuania?
The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth’s monarchy was elective rather than hereditary.
The Dukes of Urach, a morganatic branch of the House of Württemberg, would be the kings of Lithuania
@@ethanjacobrosca7833 Constitution of 1791 made the country unitary and hereditary (again). I do not want to point somewhere, but ehm... albertine Wettins.
Other possible ways may be Habsburg-Lorraine and for some even claimant to russian throne (acc. to constitution of congress Poland).
Their family reunions must be fun! 😉🥸
If your wanting to do a video that is full of multiple royal and noble families with rich histories, do a series on the Mediatised German Houses
Could you do the McCarthy family tree?
Christoph, prince of Schleswig-Holstein, that you mention around 9:25 , died just a couple of days ago (27.09.2023). I imagine the head of the house of Oldenburg is now his son, prince Friedrich Ferdinand.
These are not real titles though, they may use them privately but with the same legal right as I may call myself Emperor of the Antarctic. Perhaps they are part of their surnames, but nothing more.
Would be interesting to see a chart of all the European monarchs who are actually German, and how German those left today still are, genetically.
I'm A monarchist, I hope someday the monarchs of Europe would return.
Can you do one about some countries in the balkans
btw Frederik von Anhalt: his son Marcus was often seen in tv celebrity shows and is known to be a quite dislikeable person, worse behaviour than even his father.
7:04 Interesting to note, Bernhard and his wife were actually at the state dinner Charles and Camilla attended this March in Berlin
The house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is also connected to the current King of the Netherlands, Wilhelmina was married to Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Hey matt can you do this for Poland also? Thanks in advance
Well problem is the King of Poland was an elected position so many dynasties did hold it at some point in the long history of the kingdom.
@@thibautnarme6402 Constitution of 1791 made the country unitary and hereditary (again). I do not want to point somewhere, but ehm... albertine Wettins.
Other possible ways may be Habsburg-Lorraine and for some even claimant to russian throne (acc. to constitution of congress Poland).
Regarding Karl ii ( 2nd ) Duke of Brunswick being exiled - Where did he end up living and did he have any children , any heirs ? Will they have any future claim to any Royal Household ?