| Show KING GEORGES ROYAL ANCESTRY MOST ANCIENT IN EUROPE even among the reigning houses ot of europe not one can compare in an with the royal house of britain the kingly lines 0 of f the goths goehs the vandals vandale the franks and the lom lam bards the great northern nations which overwhelmed the roman empire all became extinct within a century or r two of the foundation of the barbarian kingdoms in the dark ages dynasties arose and disapproved wit with bewildering frequency they emers j ed and vanished amid the ceaseless wars chich convulsed europe the middle ages hardly brought greater creator stability to european thrones within one hundred and seventy years the descendants and the empires of 0 Chirle charlemagne mag ne succumb cd and a disappeared jip the oldest families in europe the Habs burgs the holf enzol berns and bourbons are proud brouil to be ae able to trace their descent to counts of the holy roman empire at that period king georges ancestors were kings of england and of the scots no beginning can be assigned to the monarchy which embraced the whole 0 of scotland north of the firths births ot of clyde and forth the and lines were probably joined in the person of kenneth lafa macalpin MacAI cAlpin pin who was king of the scots of For treen and fire fife whose queen was a princess an and d who reigned over the whole ot of alban and was overlord of the kingdom of Strath clyde it would be through kenneth macalpin MacAI pin that king george would be descended from the Dalr adlan kings of the line of fergus and the kings of irish Dab but th the assumption that because kenneth was called king of scots he be was therefore a prince of descent is now abandoned by scottish scholars alfred the great kenneth macalpin MacAI pin was the bontem po daiy of alfred the great king ot of the west saxons the one great character in early english history which still lives in popular memory alfred was never a king ot of all england any was never king of england any more than kennoth kenneth I 1 was king of 0 scotland but when the legends that have gathered around the name ot of tho the great saxon king have been dispelled he stands out one ot of the great figures in he history ot of the dark ages captain aw giver s saint aint 1 and scholar the saviour ot of the english name a man who combined the triple characters of prophet priest and king who person ally did more for the enlightenment of his hii people than any other king in english history kenneth who had just commenced his reign when alfred was born was likewise a great king with am them we may justly commence the royal british lineage from each onwards we are on sure historic ground alfred the great was the father of 0 edward the elder king of england father of 0 edgar father ot of ethelred Etbel red father of edmund ironside father of 0 edward the exile father of margaret queen of malcolm ill III clenmore Caen more 1 king of scots mother of matilda queen of henry 1 I henry I 1 was the fourth son of william wilham the conqueror by his queen matilda of scotland henry had a daughter maud who was married to goeffrey count ot of anjou their son henry Plantage nent became henry II 11 of er gl nd this prince was tile the first Plantage laet sovereign and united in his veins as we have shown the blood of alfred the great of eng aind kenneth macalpin MacAI pin and rolf the norseman the cono conjuror uror of france nud founder of the duchy of normandy the house of Plantage get the english line may now BOW be rapidly r sketched through the house ol of lanta genet and tudor of the union of 0 lie crowns henry II 11 was succeeded oy by hs his brother king john the first to assume the style of dominus Doi ninus hiber liae john was succeeded by his son henry III an r lc ic in turn by his son edward 1 I the powerful vow erful Longs banks who though of f aman torman line and a fiant enact asenet who habitual habitually dy spoke freidli Frei ch cli 2 is no giov x diquen aly described as the first king with strange contempt for tb tbt great alfred and the et ct duxon rule the it table at a glance atie he line ot of descent from edv aej a rj lo 10 to the union of tile the Cp EDWARD 1 I died 1307 1301 it EDWARD 11 II i EDWARD III lionel PIanta genet duke ot of clarence i lady philippa Phllip pa m earl of march roger mortimer ath th earl of 0 march lady ann mortimer in richard PIanta genet richard duke of york EDWARD IV elizabeth m HENRY VII margaret argaret tudor m JAMES IV JAMES V MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS JA JAMES IES VI of scotland L of england in this table only those sovereigns are indicated who are arc actual ancestors of king george those sovereigns who like ilke henry VIII and queen elizabeth are not ancestors of our king are om omitted bitted the scottish line of descent the list of scottish klags ances tors of king george irom from KL kinnet nileth i macalpin MacAI pin downwards is too ro ld u to be given in full the celtic line was continued until the death of alexander III in 1285 whose tragic death involved scotland in a disputed succession and the long war of independence with england for our purpose it Is only necessary to show how bow robert the bruce was related to the line of kenneth Ila macalpin Mae Alpin cAlpin cursory perusal of the history of the period leads to confusion in it many minds as to the person alit of that of robert de bruce who defeated tile the english at bannockburn Bannock Curn burn and founded the second scottish dynasty lie he was the eighth in lineal descent from the father to son to hear bear the name it was robert de bruce the fifth who married isobel second daughter of 0 david of huntingdon the younger brother of william the lion king of scots it was robert de bruce the sixth who was known as the competitor and was lord of annandale and one of the claimants to the scottish crown on fill the failure of the issue of alexandor alexander III the great bruce the victor of bannockburn burn was grandson of the competitor and ills his descent from the royal family may therefore be represented thus DAVID 1 I THE henry son who predeceased pre deceased his father dahllof david of huntingdon son of 0 henry isobel daughter of david ot of huntingdon robert bruce VI son ot of isobel the competitor robert bruce vill VII son bon of the corn ROBERT BRUCE king of Scots son of bruce VII the descent from king robert may now be rapidly sketched to the union of the crowns RODERT ROBERT B RUCE BRUCE king of scots 1 4 marjory bruce m walter stewart 0 ROBERT 11 II first stwart stewart aln king ROBERT III JAMES 1 I JAM JAMES ES il II JAMS JAMES III JAMES IV m margaret tudor daughter of henry VII of england JAMES V MARY QUEEN OF OF SCOTS JAMES VI il of scotland 1 I of england we have now traced the descent of king george from alfred the graat of england and kenneth macalpin of 0 scotland co contemporary kings who lived in the middle of the ninth century until the fusion of the lines and tlc alc union of the crowne browa at the beginning ning or of the seventeenth james the first sovereign of a united british kingdom was succeeded on an the throne by his son charles I 1 but in order to trace the royal descent we have to pass over the stewart kings and queens and show how the house of brunswick or guelph family was v as related to the house of stewart the inheritance came through the princess elizabeth daughter of james 1 I and VI who was married to frederick I 1 elector balatine Da latine of rhine and king of bohemia queen elizabeth of bohemia was the mother of the famous Electr soplia sophia of hanover in whom the succession to the throne of the united kingdom was settled by acts of the english and scottish parliaments during the life of queen anne fyhen the last ast of the numerous progeny of that princess died to the bitter grief and vexation of the ruling whig and protestant majority on account of their adherence to the roman catholic church james II if and ills his son james III were declared by statute to have forfeited all right to the throne thus the elder branch of 0 the stewart line became extinct by the death at rome in fit 1807 of the cardinal of yolk henry benedict stewart brother of donnie prince charlie and younger son or of james III and vil VII who alio bequeathed to 3 LIs Is cousin G george corge HI the jewels ot of the mouse house of stewart I 1 the genealogy of the hanoverian dynasty is as follows elizabeth daughter of janie james L I 1 in ill king of bohemia sophia m elector of hanover GEORGET GEORGE I 1 of great britain and ireland GEORGE 11 II frederick prince of wales GEORGE ill HI duke duhe of kent QUEEN VICTORIA EDWARD V vilu 4 |
