Royal House of Saxony (Wettin) - Page 6

Kataryn · #**101** 11-24-2011, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Kit

A member of the family she is although we don't know if the main branch of the Wettins even has contact or respects the morganatic branch of Xenia's mother.....

Yes, they have contact. Not with Iris, but with her brother Rüdiger. See my post above.

**Stefan** · #**102** 11-24-2011, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Kataryn

The Wettins have really different sorrows than to discuss Xenia. At the moment the Head of the House, the Margrave of Meissen, as well as the other agnats from equal marriages have no male offspring. Thus the Margrave of Meissen adopted his sister's son. But there's still prince Rüdiger, the son of prince Timo from his morganatic marriage. He is now one of the last of the Wettins of Saxony in the male blood-line. Plus he has thee sons from legitimate marriages. It is not yet clear who will inherit the position of the Head of the House - the adopted son of a Wettin-princess or the morganatic male-line descendant.But if Rüdiger inherits, then Xenia will be the niece of the Head of the House of Wettin-Saxony.

As to the question of who will inherit: obviously there is a dispute between the current Head of the House and his brother Albert. If the Margrave of Meissen dies before his brother, this brother will inherit. prince Albert already announced that in this case he will "de-morganise" (right word?) the marriage of prince Timo, thus officially acknowledge prince Rüdiger as his legal heir. But if prince Albert dies before his brother The Margrave, then the Margrave won't acknowledge Rüdiger. This would mean that the House dies out in the male-line and the female line will inherit: the son of his sister, who has already been adopted by the Margrave.

So it's: let's wait and see.

In the 1990's there was a Family agreement where the Prince's Albert, Dedo and Gero (the last 2 have now passed away) agrred that the Margrave adopts his nephew Alexander and he becomes his Heir. Nut in the meantime Prince Albert has changed his phews and now supports Prince Rüdiger. But none of Rüdiger's sons is married equal and he is also not.
But Alexander is married equal to Princess Gisela of Bavaria and has 3 sons and a daughter.

Kataryn · #**103** 11-24-2011, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

In the 1990's there was a Family agreement where the Prince's Albert, Dedo and Gero (the last 2 have now passed away) agrred that the Margrave adopts his nephew Alexander and he becomes his Heir. Nut in the meantime Prince Albert has changed his phews and now supports Prince Rüdiger. But none of Rüdiger's sons is married equal and he is also not.
But Alexander is married equal to Princess Gisela of Bavaria and has 3 sons and a daughter.

We know from the Bavarian Royal House that if need be, unequal marriages can be declared equal. Albert, his brothers and some other Wettin-descendants have after 2000 changed their opinion and accepted Rüdiger in their fold.

And it's opinion against opinion what is an equal marriage: the Gessaphe-branch are descended from a man who claims to be of oriental Libanese Royalty... For Albert, a prince of Saxony as in Timo is obviously the better male ancestor. Notwithstanding who the mother is. Which is an acceptable point of view, IMHO. The basic idea behind the upheaval of the Wettin princes and princesses against the Margrave was that as there two possibilities for the Headship and both somehow flawed, the family should decide together and not only the Margrave himself.

BTW: if it is decided that neither Rüdiger nor Alexander are born from an equal marriage, Alexander prince of Hohenzollern would be the next in line. His great-grandmother was a princess of Saxony, his father is married for the second time unequally but he himself is descended from an equal marriage and he is as yet unmarried.

**Warren** · #**104** 11-24-2011, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Kataryn

BTW: if it is decided that neither Rüdiger nor Alexander are born from an equal marriage, Alexander prince of Hohenzollern would be the next in line.

Friedrich August III, King of Saxony > Margarete > Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst von Hohenzollern > Fürst Karl Friedrich > Alexander, Erbprinz von Hohenzollern (b 1987)

Kataryn · #**105** 11-24-2011, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Warren

Friedrich August III, King of Saxony > Margarete > Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst von Hohenzollern > Fürst Karl Friedrich > Alexander, Erbprinz von Hohenzollern (b 1987)

Thank you Warren for making that line more visible.

Benjamin · #**106** 03-15-2012, 05:00 PM

Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (b.1929) died on March 13.

http://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogs...axony.html?m=1

**MAfan** · #**107** 03-15-2012, 05:18 PM

She was one of the sisters of the Margrave of Meissen. Her elder son Alexander de Afif, now Prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe, is the successor to his uncle the Margrave of Meissen to the headshiop of the Royal Family.