Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-12-07
RIGHT NAMES OF ROYALTY.
The Popular Notions on This Subject AFRO
All Wrong.


The Popular Notions on This Subject AFRO
All Wrong.
Not one person out of Thousand, if
he had fair days start and privilege
of rummaging among encyclopedias,
could trace out the real family name
of the rulers of Europe. rs II mat
ter of fact, these are very couplioat-
ed, and to know them is quite an
effort of tho memory. In the case Of
royalty tho family name has been
in most cases taken from The namc
of the castle in which the founder
of tho race lived,
Mistakes arc very frequently made
through ignorance, and these mis-
takes arc so frequently quoted they
become accepted facts. The English
royal family are known, for in
stance, rs Guelphs, tho Russian roy
al family as Romanotfs and tho Por-
tugueso kingly house as Bragan2as.
All of these, it now seems, arc
wrong
lie Figaro of Paris has Como into
this subject quito extensively, and
the facts that it has brought togoth-
er are we'll worth setting down.
Queen Victoria, according to this au-
tholity, was originally Miss Azon,
or Miss AEON Won Este. Sho was de-
seconded, as We're tho other members
of the houses of Brunswick Lune-
berg and Hanover, from AEON, mar
grave of Este. The Prince of Wales,
the son of Prince Albert of SaXo-Co-
burg, has naturally his fathers
namc. He is spoken of more correct
ly than any of tho other royal per.
sonagos Of Europe Descended from
the Victims, which limo WAS found
ed in the twelfth century, his actual
namo is Nh. Albert Edward Victim.
Likewise tho king OF Portugal,
strictly speaking has the Same fam
ily namo. He was Il grandson of an
other Prince of Coburg, who mar
ricd the then queen Of Portugal, and
thereby became ruler Of that coun-
try. Ferdinand of Bulgaria comes
from exactly tho Same stock and is
Ferdinand Victim. a cousin of his,
and of the Same family name, is tho
present monarch OF Belgium, Leo
pold ii, prince of SnXc-Coburg
having ascendod tho Belgian throne
in 1881
Hohenzollorn is not the family
namo of the German line that is
now upon tho throne. Their truo
numo is Zollcrn, Thassilon, the first
count of Zollern, having founded
the race about 500. In the year 1900
the Zollcrn family had two male de-
sccndants-tho Count of Zollern and
the Bulgrave of Nuremberg. From
the latter comes the present royal
house of tho German empire. So
William III is William Zollcrn. The
king of Roumania is another repre-.
sentative of this line and has pre-
ciscly the same name.
The Capets are: The Duke of Or
leans, the sons of old Count of Paris,
Don Carlos and Alfonso XIII, the in
FAINT king of Spain. Their progoni.
tor was Hughes Capot, the original
count of Paris, who assembled tho
throne of France in 0S7.
OF Oldonburgs, founded by the
Count of Oldenburg, who died in
1440, there arc many. The chief Of
those today who arc entitled to use
this family name arc Christian IN
of Denmark; George /, king of
Greece; the Grand Duke Of Oldon-
burg, Ernes; Duke of Sleswick-
Holstein, and Nicholas III, emperor
of all tho Russias. Emperor Nicho-
las is II Romanoif only through tho
female line. Rightly he is an Oldon-
burg, haTing descended from Peter
III, Il member of one of the Holstein
branches of that house.
Francis Joseph, emperor Of Aus
tlia Hungary; the queen regent of
Spain and Frederick, grand duke of
Baden, arc Ethichons. The original
Ethichon was a duke of Alsuce, who
lived about the year Gil. Humbert,
king of Italy is Mr.. Savola, and Os-
car II of Sweden, Bernadotto. The
original of this name was king of
Sweden in 1918, and was called
Charles XIV. Pope Leo Kills real
name is Joachim Pecci. Alexander
| of Servia has the name of Obreno.
witch and Nicholas |, prince Of Mon,
tenegro, is Mr.. Nicgoch,