St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-10-19
RIGHT NAMES or KINGS.
Family Names OF European Koyalts
Which Are Incorrectly Used.

Which Are Incorrectly Used.
Not one person out of a thousand. II
he had fair days start and the priv
ilege of rummaging among encyclope.
dias, could trace out the real family
names of the rulers of Europe. As =
matter of fact, these are very compile
Gated. and to know them is quite an
effort of the memory. In the case OF
royalty the family name has been in
most cases taken from the name of the
castle in which the founder of the race
lived.
Mistakes are very frequently made
through ignorance, and these mistakes
are so frequently quoted they become
accepted as facts. The English royal
family are known, for example. as
Guelphs. the Russian royal family as
Romanoffs and the Portuguese kinyly
house as Braganzas. All of these, it
now seems, are wrong.
lie Figaro. of Paris, has gone into
this subject quite extensively, an. the
facts that it has brought together are
we'll worth setting down. Queen Vic.
toria. according to this authority, was
originally Miss Azon. or Miss Azop Won
Este. She was descended. as were tho
wick-Lunebury and Hanover, from
Azon, margrave of Este. The prince
of Wales. the son of Prince Albert. OF
Sake Cobury. has naturally his fathers
family name. lie is spoken of more
correctly than any of the other royal
personages of Europe. Descended
from the Victims, which line was
founded in the twelfth century. his
actual name Il MIR. Albert Edward
Victim.
Likewise the king of Portugal.
strictly speaking, has the same family
name. lie was grandson of another
prince of Coburg. who married the
then queen of Portugal, and thereby
became ruler of that country. Ferdi.
nand of Bulgaria comes from exactly
the same stock and is Ferdinand Wet
tin. A cousin of his, and of the sa me-
family name, is the present monarch
of Belgium, Leopold H., a prince of
Saxe-Coburg having ascended the Bel
gium throne in 1881.
Hohenzollern is not the family name
of the German line that is now upon
the throne. Their true name is Zol-
lern, Thassillon. the first count of Zol-
lern, having founded the race about
SON In the year 1900 the Zollern fam
lily had two male descendants. the
count of Zollern and the Burgrave of
Nuremburg. From the latter comes
the present roval house of the German
empire. So William ii. is William
Zollern. The king of Roumania is an
other representative of this line and
has precisely the same name.
The Capets are: The duke of Or
leans. the SON of old count of Paris,
Don Carlos and Alfonso ILL.,, the in-
FAINT king of Spain. Their progeniior
was Hugues Capet. the original count
Of Paris. who asccnded the throne OF
France in 9s7.
OF Oldenburgs, founded by the count
Of Oldenburg. who died in l44O. there
are many. The chief of those to-day
who are entitled to use this family
name are Christian IN, of Denmark;
George l.. king Of Greece; the grand
duke of Oldenburg. Ernest. duke Ol
Schleswig- Hols.ein. and Nicholas H..
emperor of all the Russias Emperor
Nicholas is Romanoff only through
the female line. Rightly he is an
Oldenburg. haring descended from,
Peter ILL.,. member of one of the
Holstein branches of that house.
Francis Joseph. emperor of Austrie'
Hungary. the queen regent of Spai7
and Frederick, grand duke of Rader,
are Ethichons. The original Ethicho,'
was a duke of Alsace. who lived abou
the year GA Humhert. king of Italy,
is Mr.. Savoia. and Oscar H.. of Swcder
Bernadotte. The original Of this namr
was a French general. who was mad;-
king of Sweden in 1915. and was called
Charles NV. Pope Leo NILS real
name is Joachim Pecci Alexander L.,
of Servia, has the name of Obreno'
witch, and Nicholas l.. prince of Mon.
tencgro, is Mr.. Niegoch.-N. y. World