The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-03-09
EuRoPE's RULING FAMILIES.
The Descendants of Two Sisters Are at
the Head of MANY Cou,4;

The Descendants of Two Sisters Are at
the Head of Many Countries.
1t is not generally known that the
relgning houses of Europe. with few ex-
ceptions, are descended from two sisters.
the one being the mother of almost ali
OF the Catholic princes and princesses.
anu the other OF the majority of those
OF the evangelical confession. The late
| frederick Theodore Richter, the his
torlan, first discovered this interesting
historical fact in 1915. The genealogical
records OF the various families in proof
of the assertion of Richter, however,
have been published for the first time bv
DIR. Ottokar Lorenz, professor of history
in the University of Jena.
: The parents of the two sisters whose
descendants have become so powerful
were two German rulers of comparative
lnslgnificance: Duke Louis Rudolph of
Brunswick-W olfenbuettel, who died in
1875, and his wife, Christine Louis. who
departed this life in l747-a daughter of
Prince Albrecht Ernst of Oettingen.
The elder daughter Of the ducal pair.
the Princess Elizabeth Christine, after
| her conversion to the Catholic church.
married in l7O9 the subsequent Emperor
| Charles vi of Germany.
The Empress Elizabeth Christine.
through her daughter, Maria Theresa,
| the ancestor of the houses of Habsburg-
Lothrlngia, Tuscany, Sicily and Modena,
and-through the marriages of female
descendants-the reigning families of
Portugal, Brazil and Italy (Savoy-Ca-
rignan), Saxony, the present reigning
families of Spain and Bavaria, the Span
ish Bourbons and all of the Orleans fam
lily. These descendants number all told
about 400, and belong in the majority of
instances to the Catholic church.
The second daughter of the ducal pair
mentioned above, the Princess Antoi-
nette Annals, married her cousin, Duke
| Ferdinand II of Brunswick Bevern. The
fruits of this marriage were three daugh-
tiers, the Princesses Louise, Aualie and
Julianne, and one son, the Duke Carl.
From Princess Louise-Amalie, who mar
ried Prince August William of Prussia.
brother of Frederick the Great, and
thus became the mother of Frederick
William Ii, is descended tho present
royal house of Prussia. Through the
marriages of other female descendants
she is also the female progenitor of the
reigning families of Russia, Mecklen-
urg-Schwerin, Baden and the Neither
lands.
The second daughter of the Princess
Antoinette Amalie, the Princess Sophie.
became the wife of Duke Ernst Friedric
of Cobdrg- Saalfield, and the ancestor in
the female line of the entire house of Co
burg, and through it of the ruling fami-
lies Of England. Belgium, Hesse-Darnl-
stalt and Portugal.
The third daughter of the Princess An
toinette Anaiie, the Princess Julianne,
married King Frederic V of Denmark.
From her are descended the reigning
honaes of Denmark, Holstein Gluecks-
buzz, HGsse-C assel and Greece.
Finally, from Duke Carl of Brunswick,
who died in 1870, the only son of Prin-
cess Antoinette Amalie, was descended
The house Of Brunswick, which became
extinct i'll 1885 by the death of the late
! duke. Thus Antoinette Amalie, who was
gathered to her ancestors in 1862, has had
800 descendants, who, with few excep-
lions, profess the Protestant form of be-
lief. Duke Louis Rudolph, who died in
1875, has had up to the present time al
most 800 descendants, including almost
all OF the ruling families in Europe
| New York Tribune.