The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-01-06

D'Este, notably the duke of Sussex, q
younger son OF King George Ill, who
gave the name of D'Estc after marriage
to his morganatic wife.
Although claims have been put for.
ward to the effect that the reigning
house of Italy is also descended from
the everlasting Wittikind, yet no salts
factory proofs have ever been produced
in support of the assertion, and the
founder of the family rs far as anyone
can trace, is Humbert Of the White
hands, count of Savoy, who died about
the time OF the fist crusade. The
%patronymic of King Humbert Is, there
fore, Savoy.
A remarkable feature in correction
with the ancestry of all those reigning
houses of Europe is the fact that
nearly one of them has strains
of Semitic blood in the
viens of its members, Alberta. Queen of
Sicily. from whom almost every one Of
the now ~reigning families is descended,
having been a daughter of the old Heb.
rev banker, Perleoni, who was the
first of his race to be admitted t o the
ranks Of the European aristocracy,
Pope IN, enrolling him in the year
ll16.
Later on one Of his sons, who became
converted to the Roman Catholic
church, assembled the papal throne
under the title of Anaciotus, Ii.
This, however, by no means consti-
tutes the only source of Jewish blood
in the royal and imperial veins of to-
day. There are others of n far less re-
mote character.
Thus, King Ferdinand of Portugal,
1 tho rro nlFafhn. <La nno.o-A
king, had, as grandfather, a
Hungarian Hebrew named Kohary,
whose daughter aud heiress mar
ried Prince Ferdinand Of Saxe-Coburg.
King Carlos Of Portugal is therefore Of
Individually Jewish descent, and SO,
too, is Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria,
whose features are remarkably HeDraic
and who is a grandson of old Kohery's
heiress.
A second OF the latter's grnndsons,
Duke of SaXe-Coburg, is welded to the
eldest daughter of King Leopold Of
Belgium, while q third, Augustus by
name, married n daughter of the late
Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil.
1t is one of the granddaughters of the
kohary heiress who is married to the
Archduke Joseph of Austria, while an.
other has become the wife OF Duke
Macmillan of Bavaria, the brother of
the Empress Of Austria and the ex-
queen OF Naples.
Queen Victoria's favorite son in law,
Prince Henry of Battenburg. is a great
grandson of n converted Jew named
Hauke, established in Poland, whose
Son won his way into the favor OF the
Grand Duke Constantine Of Russia.
And apropos of this Jewish descent,
let me add in conclusion the astound-
ing fact that the country which is dis
tinguished above all others for it's ami
mostly toward the Jewish race,
namely, Russia, is precisely the very
one where the strain of Hebrew blood
is the strongest in the blue blood of its
~aristocracy.
There is not a single family of the
higher grades of the nobility in the
cars empire which has not at one
time or another during the last two
centuries affiliated or intermarried
with the four great princely houses of
Bragagion, Davidoff, Imeriatinski and
Muskranskl.
Now, each OF these claims to be de-
scended in an unbroken and direct line
from the biblical King David. and, like
the Georgian princely family of Guriel,
are proud above everything else Of
their Jewish ancestry.