The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-04-13
THE KING AND Ills KIN.
EDWARD WINS BRITISH ANCESTRY
OLDER THAN ELCLANO.

Dates Back to the Time When the Saxon
Part of the Island Was Still Known as
Saxony-Thirty.fifth Generation From
Egbert.
The new sovereign of the United
Kingdom has selected to be known as
Edward, a name borne, as he says py
six of his ancestors, and he was &C
cordingly proclaimed as King Edward
VII. In speaking Of the six Edwards
as his ancestors" he, of course. used
that word in its original sense OF pre-
decessors, and not as synonymous
with forefathers. for, as a matter OF
fact, he is descended from only TOUR
of the numbered Edwards, the fifth and
sixth Kings Of that name having left
no issue. OF the two Edwards before
the Conquest, who are not numbered,
he is descended from one. 1t was said
pf Victoria that she was the first really
English sovereign they had for many
years. We shall, indeed, find few SOW
ereigns more truly identified with their
countries by long descent than she was
and her son is. The Kings English
ancestry is actually older than the
name of England itself, dating back
to the time when the Saxon part OF the
island was still known as Saxony, a
fact which gives a peculiar fitness to
his choice of the fine old Saxon name
of Edward.
We may perhaps best begin the
Kings genealogy with the early Saxon
family Of Cerdic, a member of which.
Ealhmund, bore rule in Kent in the
eighth century. His son, Egbert, in
the last year of that century became
King of the West Saxons. and in the
year 1928 became the first king Of
England" Egbert's son was Ethel
wolf, and his son in turn was that
great Alfred the mellennial anniver-
sary of whose death Is to be comment
GRATED next October. From Alfred the
line of descent runs through Edward
the Elder, Edmund /, Edgar, Ethelred
the Unready and Edmund Ironside.
Then it passes away from the reign
Ing line into the collateral line Of Ed
ward Atheling, who did not reign, st.
Margaret, the patron saint OF Scot
land, and wife of King Malcolm III of
Scotland, whose father, Duncan, was
murdered by Macbeth, and who him
self avenged that crime in the over
throw of the usurper at Dunsinane;
Matilda, wife of Henry l of England,
and Godfrey Plantagenet. 1t becomes
the reigning line again in Henry II, and
thence proceeds through King John,
Henry III, and the three Edwards, /,
II and III. Then 1t becomes a dual
line. One branch runs through John
of Gaunt, "time-honored Lancaster"
John, Marquis of Dorset; John Beau
fort, Duke of Somerset; and Margaret,
Countess Of Richmond, to Henry VII.
The other runs through Prince Ed
mund, son of Edward III; Rich
ard, Duke of York, second Rich
ard, Duke of York, and King Ed
ward Nv to Elizabeth, wife of Henry
VII. Thus in the first Tudor reign the
two are united into single line,
Thence it proceeds through Margaret,
wife of James w of Scotland; James
v of Scotland, Mary Stuart, Queen of
Scots; James / of England, Elizabeth,
wife of King Frederick of Bohemia;
Sophia, wife of Ernest Augustus,
Elector of Hanover; George I and
George ii Of England, Frederick
Lewis, Prince of Wales; George III
of England, Edward Augustus, Duke
of Kent, and Victoria, Queen and EN-
press.
Edward VII is thus in the thirty-fifth
generation from Egbert, the first King
of England, though he is the fifty
eighth sovereign in the line&' It will
be observed that many famous sover-
eigns are not among his progenitors,
among these being Edward the Comics
sor, all the Normans, Richard the Lion
Heart, Henry VIII, the two Charleses,
and William and Mary. The line
includes members Of the Houses Of
Plantagenet, York, Tudor, Stuart and
Hanover, and non-reigning Lancas-
TRANS. In the Wars Of the Roses it was
divided between the two sides. 1t has
been said that the name of Edward
will not be pleasing to Scotland. But
it is exceedingly doubtful that the
Scots of to-day cherish any animosity
on account OF what occurred six CEN
turtles ago, especially toward a King
who is descended from their patron
saint, Queen Margaret; from Mary
Queen of Scots, and from other purely
Scottish sovereigns. The Kings gen.
ealogy includes descent from the then
reign1ng houses of Scotland, France,
Bohemia, Aquitaine, Angouleme, Prov
ence, Hainault, CASTLE, Denmark, Han
over, Brandenburg, Anspach, SAKE
Coburg- Gotha and Mecklenburg-Stre-
litz. The non-royal English families
of Neville and Woodville are also in
cluded. To such descent the King adds
matrimonial alliances Of the most i'm
portant and distinguished character,
through which he Is son-in-law of the
King Of Denmark, brother-in-lawo of the
King Of Greece and uncle of the En-
peror of Russia. If to this we add that
he is an uncle OF the German Emperor
it is apparent that in his kin, past and
present, Edward VII enjoys a status
second to that Of no other sovereign
in the world.-New York Tribune.
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