The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-14
NAMES or KINGS.
Family Designations of European
Royalists Incorrectly Used.


From the Philadelphia Press.
Not one person in thousand. If he
had fair days start and the privilege
Of rummaging among encyclopedias.
could trace out the real family names of
the rulers of Europe. AS q matter of
fact, these are very complicated, anc to
know them is quite an effort of the mem
DRY. In the case of royalty the family
name mas 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 accept
ed as facts. The English royal family
are known, for example, as Guelphs, the
Russian royal family as Romanoffs, and
the Portuguese kingly house as Braganzas.
All of these, it seems, are WrongA
lie Figaro, of Paris, has gone into this
subject quite extensively, and the facts
that 1t has brought together are well
worth setting down. queen Victoria ac-
cording to this authority, was originally
Miss AEON, or Miss AEON Won Este. She
was descended. as were the other members
of the house of BrunsWick-Luneburg and
Hanover, from AEON, Margrave of Este
The Prince of Wales, the son Of Prince
Albert of Saxe-Coburg, has naturally his
fathers family name. He is spoken of
more correctly than any of the other
royal personages Of Europe. Descended
from the Victims, which line was found
ed in the twelfth century. his actual name
is Mr.. Albert Edward Victim.
Likewise the King of Portugal strictly
speaking. has the same family name. He
was the grandson of another Prince of
Coburg, who married the then Queen of
Portugal, and thereby became ruler of
that country. Ferdinand OF Bulgaria
comes from exactly the same stock and
is Ferdinand Victim. A cousin of his and
of the same family name, is the present
monarch of Belgium, Leopold II. q prince
of Saxe-Coburg having assembled the Bel
GUM throne in 1881.
Hohenzollern is not the family name of
the German line that IS now upon the
throne. Their true name Is Zollern
Thassilon, the first Count of Zollern having
founded the race about 800. In the year
1900 the ZolleTn family had two male de-
scendants, the Count of Zollern and the
Burgrave of Nuremburg. From the latter
comes the present royal house Of the
German empire. So William II is William
Zollern. The King of Roumania Is anoth-
er representative of this line, and has
precisely the same name.
The Capets are: The Duke of Orleans,
the son of the old Count Of Paris, Don
Charles and Alfonso XIII the infant King
of Spain. Their progenitor was Hughes
Capet, the original Count OF Paris. who as
cended the. throne of France in 9S7.
Francis Joseph, Emperor Of Austria
Hungary, the queen Regent of Spain and
Frederick, Grand Duke OF Baden, are
Ethichons. The original Ethichon was a
Duke of Alsace, who lived about the year
GA. Humbert. King of Italy. Is Mr.. Savo-
la, and Oscar II, of Sweden. BernaGotta
The original of this name was a French
general, who was made 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 Obrenowitch, and Nicholas /,
Prince of Montenegro. is Mr.. Niegoch.