The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-16

AT Rennes- By this union he had two
daughters, one OF whom IS the mother Of
the present Prince Massimo. the other
while the son, who bore the title Of
Prince Eugene Of Savoy-Carignan, was
at the time OF his death. in 1888, the
ranking admiral OF the Italian navy, and
left considerable number Of children
by his mOrganatic union with an actress
known as Felcite Cfosis. They bear the
name OF Counts and Countesses de Villa
franca-SOissOn-
The dynasty Of Savoy, according TO re-
searches instituted at the instance OF
Queen Marguerite, is now shown 70 have
been founded By az soldier Of fortune
named GARNER, who achieved military
distinction under King RaouI Of Bur-
gundy, from whom he obtained the Wis
county of Sens.
Both King Edward and the Kaiser, as
we'll as the Grand Duke Of Hess. the
sovereign Duke Of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
the Czarina OF Russia, and the queens OF
Spain and Norway, the crown princesses
of Greece. of Sweden, and Of ROumania
have very humble French ancestor OF
the rather plebelan name of Poussard.
who fiourished in the early part OF the
seventeenth century.
His fair daughter, Jacqueline Pous-
saTd. Won the heart and the hand OF
country gentleman Of Potion, named
Alexander d'Olbreuse, and a daughter
OF this union aroused the admiration
and ended by deeply iHfatUating Duke
George William of Brunswick. After in
Vulnerable adventures and intrigues. they
were married. But the alliance would
seem TO have been a mOrganatiC one
For Eleanor d'Olbreuse never bore the
title OF duchess. but was known as the
Baroness Harburg. Until the time thas
he had met her. the duke had been the
most dissipated and proigate man in
Europe. but she entirely reformed him.
They lived most happily together, and
died within L few months OF one another.
at the age OF eighty-fOur. leaving an
only daughter Of the name Of Sophia,
Dorothea
This child was legitimized as a full
fedged princess OF the blood. by the leg
islatUrs Of the duchy OF Brunswick. and
growing up 20 be a wonderfully beauti-
ful girl. besides being known as a great
heiress. her hand was much sought
after. She married. first OF al, Prince
Augustus Louis Of Wolfenbuttel and
subsequently Louis. Elector OF Hanover,
VINO afterWaTd became King OF England
under the title Of George / Although
/ this second marriage was q most un-
happy one. yet she lived with King
George long enough 10 present him with
TWO children, a daughter. who became
the mother or Frederick the Great. and
from whom Emperor William Is descend
1 ed, while the son assembled the thrones
Of Great Britain and Hanover as George
III.
The d'Olbreuse family still fourishes
in France, and only the other day there
died in Paris Henri Desmier d'Olb-euse.
IneaI descendant in the male line d.
: rect OF the eldest brother OF Eleanor
dOlb-euse, mother OF Queen Sophia
! Dorothes Of England and Hanover
/ Henri d'Olbreuse was a weN-knOwn tis
ure IN Partisan Clublaud. and in tn
/ Faubourg St. German, where by relf
/ tiOnship with Edward VII he used
90 by the nickname OF Ia Petit Cons
/ du Rof' Cthe little cousin OF the King
Emperor William has another Fren.
ancestor besides Alexandra dOibreus
! IN the person OF the famous French
miral, de Coligny, who was killed, a-0
with thousands OF his coreligionists.
/ the occasion OF the massacre OF
! Huguenots, on the eve OF 81. Bartho
new.
| His daughter Louise de Coligny becs
the wife OF William the Silent. p.
OF Orange. and Stakeholder Of the \
erlands OF this union. one son, Henry
/ Frederick Of Orange. was born. whose
only child. a daughter. christened Louise.
after her grandmother. became the wife
Of the Great Elector Of Braudenburg.
The elector was the father OF Frederick.
first King of Prussia, and It IS by virtue
OF this particular ancestry that the
Kaiser includes among his other digni-
ties the old French title Of Prince Of
Orange. which is ordinarily regarded. and
that enormously. as being the exclusive
property Of the reigning house OF Hol-
land
The strain or nonroyal blood in the
veins OF the Emperor OF Germany Is
even still more strongly developed in
those Of his children and grandchildren.
For the Emperors grandmother. Duchess
Christian Of Holstein, was by birth a
Countess Danneskjold-Samso
Now. the counts and countesses OF
Danneskj old- Samsoe are all descended
from the morganatic union Of King
Christian Y OF Denmark with Sophie.
daughter Of q Flensburg physician Of the
name OF Dr. Moth. Moreover. Duchess
Christian of Schleswig- Holste.n, the
| grandmother Of the Kaiserin, was the IS
sue Of an alliance between Count Chris
tan -Samsoe. and Fraulein
Kasg. daughter Of the Danish admiral.
Jflrich Kaas, and OF his wife Mette Mat
thissen. a shopkeeper's daughter.
Germany's fascinating and universally
popular crown princess has. through her
maternal grandmother, the late Grand
Duchess Michael Richolaiovitch Of Rus
STA. who was a princess Of the house OF
Baden. another strain Of nonroyal blood.
since Grand Duchess Michael was her
self a granddaughter of Louise Geyer,
the consort OF Charles Frederick, SOW
ereign Grand Duke OF Baden.
Mile. Geyer. in spite OF the fact that
her mother had been a member OF the
purely bourgeois family of HedWigeT
noted in connection with tho rOpemaking
Industry of the town of Liegnitz. was
raised by tho decree of the Crown of
Baden, and by act or the national legis-
lature, 10 the rank OF a princess Of the
blood. in order 10 enable her children
to succeed to the throne. for which there
would otherwise have been no heir.
While this by no means exhausts the