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Section I encompasses those families which have held
hereditary sovereign status in European states, plus
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
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Originally I intended to use a format which showed only those members of families who are living today, plus enough of their ancestry to show relationships between closely related branches. This is the format used in Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels and in the original Almanach de Gotha. However, I have decided to include all members of the families in the generations shown. In most families all generations since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century are shown, though in some families the articles do not go back quite so far, and in some they go back considerably further.
Within the individual articles I have chosen not to include all illegitimate issue, though I have included some. I have, however, included issue of morganatic marriages. These "morganauts" are generally shown in smaller font than the members not descended from morganatic marriages. In some modern houses it is not easy to determine who should be considered morganatic. I apologize to any persons whom I thus have misdesignated, and welcome further information about current morganatic status of various members of the Houses. I have added descendants of female family members to many of the articles. Generally only the descendants of females of the most recent three or four generations are included.
My main site, containing many of my
files on individual families, as well as my file on the descendants of King
James I of
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.
.......Paul Theroff
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SECTION II.
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, for which click here .
Some information on Spanish families has been provided by Pedro Riquelmo.
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.
Addendum: A selection of houses which became extinct since 1800, but which otherwise would deserve inclusion in this work.
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