The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-12
FOUNDING OF ROYAL HOUSES.


as startling and piquant results as the
proyerbial examination of the dental
equipment OF gift horse, or the age OF
lady ir the parish register Eeth
| courses are superintendent interesting.
| There is not a royal house in Europe
that has held its throne for more than
! seven centuries, or that can be COM
pared with the Imperial House OF Japan,
founded by female Goddess OF the sun.
The Mikado is the one hundred and
| twenty second in broken descent in his
! line. his family having sat on the throne
| of Japan since the time of Nebuchad-
nezZar, $50 Is. c.
King Edward can claim descent through
I fifteen of the thirty-five monarchs who
! have preceded him On the English throne,
( from Alfred the Great and Egbert. nrSt
ring of England, and further back still
| from the Emperors of Rome, and even
| from the Hebrew house OF David Never
! theless. it is a fact that King Edward
! owes his crown TO a horse shoe The
/ act Of Settlement, by which in 17G1 Par
! lament elected the House of Hanover TO
the British throne, was passed by only
one vote. And this winning vote was
cast by Sir Arthur Owen, NJ p, for
! Pembrokeshire. who rode post-haste from
/ Wales for this purpose He had relays
/ Of fresh horses all along the route, but
| arrived. dusty and travel-worn, at West
minister only in time 10 enter the Aye
! lobby. If one of his horses had gone
lame or cast a shoe he would have been
/ too late. Great Britain would have had
no Georgian era, and hence no Victoria
| or Edward VII.
The declamations of the German En-
peror on the Divine Right of Kings in
/ general and himself in particular are very
picturesque in this age of prose. But,
as matter of history, the right of
William II. to the Prussian crown and
the German overlordship is merely the
right of a pawnbroker to an unredeemed
! pledge. Five centuries ago Frederick
Hohenzolle-n was the Burgrave of 4
small city in Nuremberg. The Emperor
Sigismund was in q state of pecuniosity.
He applied 10 the Burgrave for the loan
OF 100000 gulden. Frederick lent this sum
about 9l0,000), and as security for it
took the state of Brandenburg- After five
years, as Sigismund did not repay the
money, Frederick Hohenzollern foreclosed
the mortgage and established himself as
Frederick / of Brandenburg and an
elector of the empire. This was the
! first advance of the Hohenzollerns. Grad
ually increasing their domains, they be-
came Dukes of Prussia, and in 1701 pro-
NOTED themselves to the rank of king.
And now William Hohenzollern. descen-
dant of the money-lending BurgraYe Of
Nuremburg, is the third German EN-
peror.
Not cash, but children. formed the step
ping-stone of the imperial house of Aus
tria. The Hapsburgs are the most IL
lustrious family in Europe; but they
were only petty counts until the thir-
tenth century. The raiser of the fam
lily was Rodolph After serving the
usual apprenticeship TO knighthood in the
court of Emperor Frederick, II, he en-
Bohemia. Winning honor and renown
as warrior and ruler. his claims for cleo
tion to the imperial throne were pushed
forward. But his county of Hapsburg
was deemed too insignificant for the posi-
ton. Rodolph, however, was blessed
with seven daughters, six of them I'M
married, and by wedding these to the
kings and mobiles Of the empire, he Sc
cured his election. One daughter became
Queen OF Bohemia, another Queen OF
Hungary, two of them Duchesses, one
Warehouses, and the sixth Countess.
And so by the votes of his son-in-law
did Rodolph Hapsburg ascend TO the I'M
perial throne.
Religion, and that Paganism, constitut-
ed the stepping-stone of the Romanoffs
The Russian Imperial family is descended
from Il heather freebooter, fact which
contrasts curiousy with the Cars title
fourteenth century the Christian knights
Of Lithuania rose against a lordling call
ed kobyla, and for his worship of the
sun drove him out of his domain. Koby-
la fed TO Russia, where he was received
by Car Ivan l., of the ruling house of
Moscow. Though he had suffered exile
for his Pagan faith. Kobyla was per-
suaded TO accept Christianity by Ivan,
and baptized by the name of Andrew.
Serving as d soldier. he won honor
and position and established himself
among the mobiles of Moscoyy. Ivan ~.
married a daughter of the exiled chief
tain and successful adventurer. whose
family was thus allied to the royal house.
In 1888 Ivan, ". died, ard with him his
line. AS his successor he nominated
his cousin. Theordore Romanoff, the great
grandson of the adventurer Kobyla. Then
began a struggle between the various
claimants for the Russian throne. The
invasion of Poles. Swedes, and Tartars
carrying sword and fire into the dis
tracted realm gave the Romanoffs their
opportunity. Freeing Russia of these
enemies, they established themselves on
the throne of their country. which their
ancestor had entered as an outcast a
century or so before.
The last century had stories Of the
making of monarchs every whit as TO-
as those OF the ages of chivalry.
A tablet on a little, tumble down house |
in one Of the dingiest streets of Pau de-
clares the building to be the birthplace
OF Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, who
became King of Sweden. The elder Bern /
adotte was a lawyer in a small way of
business. but instead Of following his !
fathers profession. the son enlisted in the I
French army. After nine years service |
he was only a sergeant; but the revolt /
ton and its wars gave him his opportun- /
ity. He rose rapidly, and Napoleon, /
though disIiking him, made Beraadotte /
a marshal. and in ls06 Prince of Ponte ]
Torvo. Then Bsrnadotte was nominated 1
heir to childless Charles XII. OF Sweden. /
To his acceptance Of this Napoleon was /
bitterly opposed
OF even more pIebian descent than 4
King Oscar is Alexander Of Servia. The /
Servian Cromwell, or William Ten, who 1
rose 10 deliver mis- country from Turkish 4
uisrula, was Michael Cbrenovitch. Lcav-
ng his pigs TO feed and tend themselves. /
be headed his cOuntryInen. Sho rewarded 1
his success ~ eiectirg him Prince OF (
Servia- On his death. IN 1868. he was
by the late ex-HiES Milan.
.-ho handed over the crown 20 his son
b 1888 or English soVereigns. Queen
Aary II ana Queen Anne were the
yranddaughters OF q domestic servant
While he vas Duke of York. James H.
married Anne Hyde. TIE daughter OF
lord Clarendon and the two Queens
we're the children Of the union. As
5riefess 5arrister. Lord Chancellor car
,lden had married 2 houseuaic. and her
sraudc hildren sat or the British throne.
Victor Emanuel offered the tributary (
,rowa OF sicily 10 Garlbaldi. bUt The cd
sailor refused 10 exchange his red shirt
or the parnle robe TIE founder % the
Ming dynasty - China was "a Bu5dhlst
.riest. the son OF & Chinese potter. after