oops messed up it is micheal beam instead of john teeter
This is a quote about our relationship to habsburgs on a family website.
"Michael Beam and Sarah Rudolph were married in 1729 in Hamburg, Germany.2 Sarah Rudolph1 was born in 1705 in Hamburg, Germany. She died in 1792 in Hamburg, Germany. She was buried in Near River Elbe. She was a daughter of Rudolph, once Emperor of Germany. as handed down by S. G. Goodrich, a German writer. Rudolph, once Emperor of Germany, had seven beautiful daughters who contracted alliances that proved to be happy ones.
Sarah Rudolph was a member of the ruling family of Germany. "Rudolph I of Hapsburg (1218-1291) Emperor of Germany, founder of the Imperial House of Austria, was the eldest son of Albert IV, Count of Hapsburg and Landgrave of Alsace. Elected Emperor in 1273. He defeated Ottokar, king of Bohemia and gave the latter's territories to his sons Albert and Rudolph. (see "Winston's Cumulative Loose-Leaf Encyclopedia" by Thomas E. Finegan, copyright 1926). The Rudolphs ruled Germany until 1830. One account states: One of 7 daughters of Emperor Rudolph.
Other accounts say that she is descendant of the Emperor Rudolph."