The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-08-17
KINGS AND PRINCES:
The Numerical Strength of Eu'
ropes Royal Houses.

ropes Royal Houses.
The ups and downs of the reigning
houses of Europe have been much dis
cussed of late. All those are recogniz-
ed as being Of royal blood, members
of whose families now occupy or at one
time have occupied thrones. Aecord-
ing to official reports, published in
Harper's Weekly, there are now
~ such royal families in Europe, with
459 male members, so that each
dynasty averages II Princes, number
reached, however. only by 10 of them.
OF these 27 families no less than Is
are German, namely, the Hohenzoll-
ern, Wittelsbach, Victim, Wurtemberg,
Zahringen, Hessen. Mecklenburg,
Holstein, Anhalt, .Schwarzburg, Reuss,
Schaumburg, Lippe, Waldeck, Haps-
burg-Lorraine. Welt, Nassau and
Liechtenstein; six are Romantic or
Latin, namely, Bourbon, Savoyen,
Braganza, Monaco, Bonaparte, Berna-
dotte; two are Slav, namely,
Obrenowitch and Nienosh; and one
is Turkish, namely; Osmafl. Of the
German no less than five, and of these
the historic houses of Hohenzollern,
Welt and Hapsburg originated in the
little Swabian Wurtemberg. The pre-
ponderance Of the German dynasties
Is all the greater, because of the Al
actually existing thrones, they occupy
80. Of these % are In the German
Empire; IL are in other countries
namely, Austro-Hnngary, Russia, Eng
land, Denmark, Holland, Belgium,
Portugal, Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece
and Liechtenstein. The Romantic dy-
nasties occupy only five thrones, name
ly, those Of Italy. Spain; Brazil, Me-
naco and Sweden-Norway. The Slav
dynasties are found only in Servia and
Montenegro. Nothing is clearer from
these data than that tho nationality OF
the reighihg families has had but little
influence in determining the political
ideas and aims OF the people they
govern. Notwithstanding the thorough
German character of the Russian
reigning house, the politics of the
Beuhtry is Dis decided In its ar1ti-Ger'
man character as though its rulers
were Slavs.
The religion of eleven of these dyn-
asties is entirely Protestant, OF five
others the greater number of the men,
bers are Protestants. To these last
belong such houses as the Hohenzoll-
ern of Prussia, OF which the older and
Catholic side lines are not entitled to
the royal succession in any case; also
the house OF Victim, of which the Cath
Ollie King of Protestant Saxony is the
leading representative; the Holstein
house OF Denmark, of which the men,
bers in Greece and Russia belong to
the Orthodox Eastern church, and the
Wurtemberg and Lippe houses. The
Romantic dynasties are all Catholic,
except that Of Bernadotte, in Protest
ant Sweden-Norwsy. These excep-
tions to the predominating religion Of
dynasty have in nearly all cases re-
suited from the acceptance OF a throne
in a country with different nation
al religion. Where suce change is
not made 1t Is the result of special
stipulation, as is the cash with Prin-
cess Sophia, OF Prussia, who in be-
coming engaged to the Crown Prince
of Greece, insisted upon her adher-
ence to the Protestant faith. Three
German dynasties are entirely Catho-
lie, namely, the Hapsburg-Lorraine,
the Wittelsbach-to which the rulers
of Bavaria belong-and Liechtenstein.
Numerically the strongest Is the
Danish house of Holstein, with its So
living Princes, next to which comes
the Saxon house of Victim, with 81
Princes. Members of the former fami-
ly rule In Russia. Greece, Denmark
and Oldenburg; of the latter in five
German states and in Belgium, Portu-
gal and Bulgaria, and will, when the
Welt family becomes extinct at the
death of Queen Victoria, wear the
crown of Great Britain and Ireland.
The house of Hohenzollern, which lost
in 1888 not only the two emperors
Wilhelm /. and Frederick Ill, but also
the last member of its Oldest line. the
Hohenzollern-H echingen, still have
twenty Princes in its ranks, of whom
eight are less than fifteen years old
Another side branch will become ex-
tinct when childless Charles Of Rou
mania dies, who will be succeeded by
his nephew, Prince Ferdinand.
OF the once powerful house o
Bourbon, only one representative now
occupies throne, and he is an in
FAINT, namely, the King of Spain
There are still 40 Princes of this dy
nasty, of whom only one seems Il
have chance to occupy a throne
namely that of Brazil, where the hus
band OF the Crown Princess Isabella
| may succeed her father. The Haps
burg house has really been extinc
since 1740, and the present members
belong really to the Lorraine line
The death OF Rudolph causes no EN-
barrassment in the succession, thu
supply still exceeding the demand, a
there are yet "a Princes of the dynas
| ty alive. The most productive sol
for Princes is the dirninutive Liechten
stein, which has only 5000 inhab
itants but boasts OF Is Princes OF roy
al blood, or one for every 500 souls
The two influential houses of Savoyel
in italy and Bernadotte in Sweden
Norway are not correspondingly pro
life, the former having but eigh
princes and the latter seven. The oil
house OF Welt which lost the throne o
Hanover in 1864, and will lose that o
England at the death OF Victoria
which it has occupied since 1714, ha
five male members, the same numbe
| that goes to make up the contingen
OF the house of Zahringen that rule
in Baden. The house Of Bonapart
has three Princes, the older Luciel
line, with its four representatives
not being recognized as royal.
The senior of the forty-one rulers o
the European families, whose averag,
age is Afty-six, is the King of Holland
born in 1917. Five rulers are NOR
than seventy, among them the King o
Denmark, 10 are between sixty an,
seventy, among them are rulers o
England, Wurtemberg, Brazil, Saxony
10 are between fifty and sixty, anon!
them the rulers Of Sweden. Austria
Belgium, Portugal; nine are between
forty and fifty, among them the ruler
of Roumania, Turkey. Italy. Russia
Greece, Mon tenegro. Bavaria; two be
tween thirty and forty, namely, tn
rulers OF Schwerin and Servia; one be