The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-21
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Where Victoria Gets 1.-THE UniOn Of the
House of Wolf aud Victim.
Baltimore Sun,
Tho 18th Of August was the Tooth au'
nivonary OF tho birth OF Victoria, prln'
cess OF Saxsn.saaltcld.C oburg, the
mother Of the present queen Of Great
Britain and Ireland aud cmprOss OF In
dia. For it is her mother whose name
was given to the infant who, on May 81
1919, made hor appearance At Kensing.
ton palace as tho only child Of Edward,
duke oil Kent, and fourth son OF King
George Ill, aiterward to DO known as
Queen Victoria, OF England. Her father
dying In 1920, and neither George II,
nor his two brothers, tho dukOs Of York
and Clarence, having surviving leglti.
mate issue, the daughter oil Louisa
Victoria eventually became holr.pre'
sumptive to the throne.
As to Queen Victoria's maiden name,
that is tho name derived from her
fathers family, she is a member OF the
old house OF the Gu0lphs, or Wells, IA.
nous in German history since the DAYS
OF CharlemaGne. Louis the Pious, his
son, thOn emperor Of Germany, married
Judith, the beautiful daughter OF Well
the First, son OF Count lseu6rand.
From Welt, who died in S25, that is to
gRy only ten years after Karl the Great,
descend the kings Of upper Burgundy
and the German limo OF tho Guelphs,
the English crown, in liza, belongs.
Thus Queen Victoria before her mar.
riago was, in Democratic parlauco, a
Miss Welt
Like her own daughter, Empress Vic.
tOria, the dowaGar widow Of Frederick
OF Germany, tho present emperor'a
father, more than one OF the princeasea
OF the Guelph family have worn tho
imperial purple, bnt only ono male
member OF tho long limo was an GIN
perOr, namely, tho son OF Henry tho
Lion, duke Of SaXony and Bavaria.
OltO w., who was ruler OF the German
Roman empire from los to l2l5. His
mother was Mathildes, tho daughter OF
King Henry IL. Of England.
When Queen Victoria, IN 1910, mar.
riod Prince Albert ol Saxe.Coburs.
GoIha she took, OF course, his surname.
Tho family name Of tho Prince consort,
for so he used to bn called a. tho hus.
band Of the English queen, was Victim.
This is the genealogical designation OF
all the Saxon princely linb5. While tho
mombers Of tho imperial house OF Ger.
many 20 by the surname OF lIOhenZol.
Tern tho Austrian dynasty by that OF
IiapIburg and tho Bavariau rulers Of tho
reigning families. as we'll rs tho media.
tizod petty princes Of Germany, has its
peculiar citizen surname, as It wore,
mostly Inherited from times OF wore,
when tho German froDhotdor politically
was tho equal Of the mighiiost vns'al.
Tho WolLins, an old line Of German
dynnstq wefo called after Victim, ono
Of their ancestral estates in SaIony.
Dietrich l., Thuringian. Is tho founder
Of tho line. llo fell, In 9S2, IN battle
against tho SnraConOs Ut BasentGllo,
Calabria Holy. udcr Emperor Otto ii.
All tho various prinCely lines Of Saxon
dynatios trace back their descent TO
this bravo warrior, tho first OF tho Wet
tins known in history. like her
mother, Louisa NicLoria, Of SaxOn'Saal'
ld.Coburg, was Queen Nictuna's COu.
sort q Victim. without hor crown aud
Sovereignty tho cmptoa3 ul lndi0 would
DO simply MIRA Victim"
Despite tho fact that tho mother oil
Qnoon Victoria liyod tNenty.lour yoara
after tho lnttors accession to tho throne
and had Bnmo influence upon hOr carly
education, an Influence which, indeed,
almost vanished mlct tho qucan's mar
riapO, BlO left hardly moro than her
name to hlf great dnughlOL Most OF
her character, kindly, slmpIo and M.
piolcnloua, Queen Victoria derived
from her father, thogbol, honoly duke
Of Kent lilo was famous IN those
fathsr registering days Tor his domestic.
nv. and II IL tho following episode In
lis life, whose account may properly
Introduce tho question Of tho quoon'H
Christian nnmoa,
one oil tho bI0graphors tolls ~ how
q lfayOor who. In tho latn hlonk diYa ol
March, 1919, tfayoraCl tho high fonda
that lao hntwcon AmorbnUh, tho capt.
tal Oi tho tiny principally Vi IuininuCn,
and tho Dutch Bra coast, might have
encountered M Oll.luhionpi, honvy'
travelling coach, driven bya tall, stout,
bnld.nOulod, fol.incod ganilongh llO
would sGntColy, however have imaI,
med that this UoaChnnn was no lass n
parsonage than tho duke Ol Konl, fourth
son Of the thOn rolsning English noyor'