The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-01-06
REAL NAMES OF KINGS
Miss Victoria AEON Became Mrs,
Albert Victim.
K,g Alfonso Is Mr.. capet-.Francis Joseph
Is Ethichon d'AIsacs-.Jewish Blood
in Nearly Every Royal Line
.-Mostly in Russia.

There are only two classes Of people
in the civilized portions of the globe
who dispense with the use of family
names, the episcopal dignitaries of the
Roman Catholic, the Anglican and the
orthodox Greek churches in Europe
and members of the royal imperial
families.
The prelates content themselves,
says a New York Tribune writer, with
adding the name of their see to that
which they have received at their bap-
tism, the ''prelate Of all England" sign
ing himself edward of Canterbury
while the princes and princesses of the
blood assume in q similar manner the
name of the country to the reigning
family of which they belong.
This does not, however, mean that
they do not possess family The
clergy, of course, have those borne by
their fathers, while the royal person
nges, Notwithstanding Il widely circu-
lated statement to the contrary, fire.
%quently seen in print of late, are like
wise endowed with patronymics which
differ considerably from those popular
ly ascribed to them.
Thus the %pntronymic of the imperial
house of Russia is not Romanoff, that
Of the reigning family of Portugal is
not B%raganza, nor yet is Bourbon the
one to which Don Carlos, the Comte dc
Paris and the king of Spain are enti-
tied.
l will even go further; the patronymic
of Emperor William of Germany is not
ll~ohenzollern, nor yet is Hapsburg that
of the emperor of Austria.
Indeed, the only CASE in which popu-
lar belief in this matter is correct is in
the case OF the king of Sweden, whose
patronymic every u knows to be Ber-
nadotte, the name borne by his great
grandfather, who was n Pyreneean
peasant.
doubt as to the ~pntronynic of the king
OF Servia. which is Obrenopitch, inher-
tied from his ancestor, the swineherd,
and the same may be said of the ruler
of Montenegro, whose family name is
Niegoch.
by the word patronymic, which is of
Greek origin, and the chronological
derivation of which is from .'pater.n
father, and "onnma," name, i mean
the name of the father, which has de-
scended in a direct male line, and not
that which has been assumed by reason
OF marriage with heireSses, or for other
causes.
Thus the family of Bourbon became
extinct as far back as the reign of the
Capet king, ST. Louis. in the twelfth
century, when his sixth son, Robert
Capet, count of Clermont, married
Beatrice of Bourbon, the last and sole
surviving member of her house, whose
name, title and arms he thereupon as
sumed.
1t is from this union that descended
King Henry Nv of France, the ancestor
of Don Carlos; of ex-King Francis of
Naples, of Robert, ex-duke of Parma:
of the Comte de Paris and of little King
Alfonso of Spain, To these I should add
the name OF Dom Pedro, who up t O the
date of the overthrow of the imperial
regime in Brazil bore the title of crown
prince of that country.
The patronymic of all these princes
is, therefore, not Bourbon, hut Capet,
and they are n and all descended in
n direct male line from that Hugh Ca
pet, comtc de Paris, who, according to
tradition, was himself a grandson of
Wittikind, the celebrated antagonist of
Charlcmagne.
The major portion of the reigning
houses of Europe claim to be descended
from Wittil1ind, among others, King
Christian of Denmark, King George of
Greece, Peter, grand duke of Olden-
burg, aud Emperor Alexander of Rus
sia. The p%atronymic Of these four
rulers is O%idenburg, the emperor Of
Russia being neither n Romanoff, nor
yet a Holstein-Gottorp as has been
| stated.
Their joint ancestor, whose patron
ymic they are all entitled to bear, is
Thierry, surnamed The Fortunate,
count of O%ldenburg, and a great-grand-
son of Wittikind. He obtained the
duchy of Schleswig-Holstcin as a
dowry with his wife. His son Christian
assumed the name of Schleswig-Hol-
stein, and was elected king of Scandi-
navia in the fifteenth century.
1t was N of his descendants, n duke
of Schleswig-H Gottorp, who
married the Grand Duchess Ann Ro-
manotf, the last of her race, whose son,
in turn, assembled the throne of Russia
III = VI tiaSi ~ hsIillo VI ! ClSl LIZ.
1t is from from him that Alexander III
is descended in an unbroken male line.
Emperor Francis Joscph's patronymic
is not, as generally believed, Itaps-
burg, but Ethichon d'Alsacc. The
founder Of the family wa Ethichon.
duke of Alsace, who lived in the
seventh century. From him descended
the Hapsburgs and the ducal house of
Lorraine.
Tho former Of these families became
extinct by the death Of its last surviv-
ing member, Empress Marie Therese,
who married the senior member of the
junior branch of the Ethichon d'Alsace
family, namely, Duke Francis of Lor-
raine; the marriage thus reuniting the
two branches of this family after a
lapse of more than 1000 years.
The ~patronymic, Therefore, of En-
peror Francis Joseph Of Austria, OF
Ferdinand. ex-grand duke Of Tuscany,
and of the reignlng grand duke of Ba-
den, is not Hapsburg, but Ethichon
d'Alsace.
The house of H~ohenzollern ha.
sought in vain to establish a relation
ship between E%thichon, duke of Alsace,
and the founder of the family, who was
Tassilo, count of Zollern, of the castle
of Iollern, situated in the district OF
Sigmaringen.
The most important of the counts OF
Zollern in the middle ages was Count
Eitel Frederick Zollern, who lived
toward the year 1900, and who had two
sons, the elder of whom founded the
so-called house of Hohcnzollern Sigma.
ringen, while the younger, Rudolph
Frederick, appointed Burgravo of Nj
remburg. founded the house of which
young Emperor William is now the
recognized head.
The patronymic, therefore Of Empe.
o William of Germany, Of King
Charles of Roumania and Of the prince
regent of Brunswick is not Hoherlol.
lcrn, but Ioilern.
Victim is the patronymic of King
Leopold Of Belgium, of King Albert o
Saxony, of Prince Ferdinand OF Bull
garin, OF the duke Of Snxe-Coburg'
Gotha, of the duke of Saxe-Meiningen,
as well as the prince of Wales and his
brothers, and of King Charles of Por
tugal, the only person really entitled
to the name of Braganza being Dou
Miguel, the pretender to the throne OF