Do you have roots in aristocracy ?

[BeatrixFan]

Most of my lot were nothing special. Distantly related to the Bohemian Royals on one side but it's very distant indeed. More recently there's a connection to the Liffords of Ireland but apart from that, nothing. I did have a Great Uncle hanged for murder though - not noble but always causes jaws to drop.

[TLLK]

My cousin did research our family history. We are descendents of Huegonot nobility. The family name was L'Hommedieu. We were from the city of La Rochelle.

[Next Star]

I do not know of my roots I would be shocked if I found out that I am of royal or noble blood. Sometimes I wonder what if I am and even if I am not that does not make me less of a person. I am still going to the best person I can be with knowing that I am of royal or noble descent or not.

[CourtSprite]

I think I can say with great certainty that the closest my tribe have ever got to blue bloods is the scullery.

[Briana_L]

Surprisingly enough I am descended and related to royalty on 3 of the 4 sides of my family (father's mother/father's side and my mother's mother/father's side).

On my father's paternal side, I am directly descended (so we've been able to discern from some gaelic scribblings) from Prince Anrothan (son of Aodh O'Neill, King of the North of Ireland, 1030-1033) and the Lords of Cowal. One relative was a former prime minister of England, William Lamb - also known as the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, tutor and friend to young Queen Victoria (1834-1841). The city of Melbourne, Australia was named after him. It's also been recently established that I am distantly related to the current ruler of England. Queen Elizabeth II is of Clan Lamont on her mother's side.

On my father's maternal side, there is a similar line of British isle royal heritage (though the pattern seemed to be rather random). I do not currently have any of the names in my books.

On my mother's paternal side, I am also descended again from Irish kings (though more recent than than the previously mentioned clan), namely of Ulster, who in turn were direct descendents of the Dalriada - one of the four original inhabitants of Ireland.

My mother's maternal is the only one not descended from any royalty or aristocrats that we know of.

[kirstengrafin]

On my father's side, my family tree has 55 generations of royal and noble ancestry. I am a direct descendant of Charlemagne, Gorm of Denmark (and 5 subsequent Danish kings), Hugh Capet, Kenneth MacAlpine of Scotland, William the Conqueror, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Maximilian I von Habsburg and numerous other ancestors from every royal house in Europe. QEII, Prince Phillip, Margrethe of Denmark and Juan Carlos of Spain are my 10th cousins. My family retains a noble rank that was granted to an ancestor in 1746 by Frederik V of Denmark.

[ashelen]

wow! this is impresive!!!! so do you have a title???? I decent too from the danish noble, my grnadfather was a noble in denmark and my grandmother the governest, becasue his family in those days would not accept a commoner , they married have children and escape first to england and after to argentina!

[CourtSprite]

Cripes. I feel like such a pleb.

[sinulord]

In my country, Fiji, we don't have any royalty, since we are not a monarchy like our neighbouring Tonga. However we do have a large nobility consisting of hereditary chiefs, ranging from paramount to minor ones. Titles are inherited through seniority of descent and not primogeniture, strictly following the male line, where males outrank females. In December 2005, upon his elder brother's death, my father inherited his family's chiefly title and now presides over everything to do with his clan. In Fiji, the Native Lands Commission has records of the lineages of every Fijian family since 1927, so family tree records are carefully consulted before there is any accession to a chiefly title, to avoid the issue being disputed in court.

[Crownprincess]

my family used to own a castle in brandenburg, near berlin and a villa in berlin. we lost both and our titles after the first world war, like so many others from prussian royal descent.
it is a pitty, as the castle had wonderful gardens as far as I can tell from the pictures, but I'm still happy !!

[Menarue]

Well I am definitely not descended from royalty but my husband is descended from the Plantagenets through Queen Phillippa of Portugal, the daughter of John of Gaunt. There are quite a few people descended from her here. If you want to investigate a noble or royal line a very good site is www.geneall.net my husband´s family can be traced through this back more than a thousand years. Once you find the first registered name you can go back and back.
We already had his family tree but he was really surprised to find he, and his family are all there on this site he then found out something that he didn´t know that he is also descended from the Kings of Granada. Now the palace of Alhambra would be very nice to claim....dream on, Menarue dream on.

[Prince of Chota]

Both my parents' families are listed in the Landed Gentry. Through a marriage in the late 15th century, my dad's family is descended from William the Conquerer's sister.
My paternal great-grandmother was born a baroness (Freiin), and was descended from a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse.
Both my parents are also related to the late Lord Litchfield.

As nice as that sounds, though, I still only classify as gentry...so I belong to the squire-archy...

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by Crownprincess

my family used to own a castle in brandenburg, near berlin and a villa in berlin. we lost both and our titles after the first world war, like so many others from prussian royal descent.
it is a pitty, as the castle had wonderful gardens as far as I can tell from the pictures, but I'm still happy !!

You mean after WWII? For I didn't know that WWI changed anything about noble possessions in the greater Berlin area. And today Brandenburg is just a part of Germany, so you could travel there, couldn't you?

Did your family try to reclaim possession? My aunt's best friend did and while she did not get back the main estate that the Soviets had confiscated, she was given back the hunting lodge and surrounding area that had been taken by GDR-government later. That is in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, next to Brandenburg.

[lucien]

Originally Posted by RubyPrincess168

Well, on my mother's side I'm descended from a von Otto and a von Puttkamer (and possible a von Mech). On my father's side I'm descended from a Brandenberg. I remember my paternal grandmother showing us a picture of the Crown Regalia of England and telling us we were related to it. I also found a Schloss Goetz for sale in Geermany (my paternal grandmother was born a Goetz/Gotz).
As for researching it, my maternal grandmother did alot of research but didn't get very far back into the tree. Not much was found about my maternal grandfather's side. My paternal grandmother never really talked about family geneology. In fact whenever my mom and grandfather got talking about it, my grandmother would leave the room at which point my grandfather would say something like "Be careful. You might not like what you find out." There are records at the old homestead, but they belong to a distant relative who wasn't very accomodating when requests were made to see the records in the past.

von Puttkammer you say.That is a wellknown family in diplomatic service in Germany.In fact,a von Putkammer was ambassador
to The Netherlands about ten years ago.His wife was the best hostess in diplomatic The Hague.

[ladyfizzle101]

when we did my family tree my grandfather would have been a prince of the geechee tribe in africa and my grandmother was the daughter of a seminole indian chief

[tete]

Originally Posted by sinulord

In my country, Fiji, we don't have any royalty, since we are not a monarchy like our neighbouring Tonga. However we do have a large nobility consisting of hereditary chiefs, ranging from paramount to minor ones. Titles are inherited through seniority of descent and not primogeniture, strictly following the male line, where males outrank females. In December 2005, upon his elder brother's death, my father inherited his family's chiefly title and now presides over everything to do with his clan. In Fiji, the Native Lands Commission has records of the lineages of every Fijian family since 1927, so family tree records are carefully consulted before there is any accession to a chiefly title, to avoid the issue being disputed in court.

It's pretty much the same here in PNG although there are probably thousands of chiefs representing as many clans and villages in the country. My father's eldest brother is a chief of a village and one day his son will take his place. There is nothing fancy with inheriting traditional titles as with Western royals, but there is a lot of land that gets transferred with the title as well as unquestionable respect within the "realm".

[oxygen]

Doubt it.

Even if I did want to research, I would go through a never ending list of people because my mother's last name is one of the most populous surnames in Latin America, and my father's last name is the second most populous surname in the U.S. And they're Black. I wouldn't know where to start.

[PrinceOfCanada]

I am, but it was relatively minor. Though we do have Royal blood in the family.. courtesy of Henry VIII tumbling a chambermaid.

[Prince of Chota]

LOL. Think of how many of us wouldn't be here if powerful men (and women) handn't been frisky with the help...or married morganatically...it would pretty much rule out all the reigning royals as well...

One thing I hate is that my father's family shares ancestry with George W. Bush (my grandmother is his 11th cousin)...but at least that means we're also related to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (via Mary Carpenter--Bush and I are descended from the Carpenters of Homme who came to New England).

[PrinceOfCanada]

You're related to the Queen Mum? She was such a lovely old bird. My Nan has told me more than once about seeing her (when she was still Queen, of course) coming through East London during the Blitz. Shook her hand once, I think.