Vlach ancestry of royals of Romania

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The Vlach ancestry of royals of Romania is a royal family of Romania.

The deposed current Royal Family of Romania, contrary to common misconceptions, and despite of the country having lost its independence, for at least a few centuries, to the Ottoman Empire, descends from earlier indigenous monarchs of Danubian principalities, both Moldavia and Valachia, as well as from Asen Tsars of Vlachs (the Second Bulgarian Empire) and from plenty of Emperors of "Romania" who ruled in Constantinople, were they Byzantine or Latin Emperors.

Scholars have traced several such bloodlines in their ancestry. Below a sketch of such lineages.

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[edit] Descent from the Basaraba of Valachia

[edit] Romance line to Carol I

  • Basarab I of Valachia
  • Alexander I of Valachia
  • Catherine of Opole (cf her immediate ancestry), married Henry VIII, Duke of Glogow
  • John I, Duke of Zagan
  • Margaret of Silesia (Zagan and Glogow; cf her immediate ancestry), married Volrad I, Count of Mansfeld
  • countess Margaret of Mansfeld, married Henry, Count of Stolberg
  • Botho VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
  • John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
  • John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (cf his immediate ancestry)
  • countess Claire-Marie of Nassau, married Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne
  • Henri Louis Ernest, 4th Prince of Ligne
  • princesse Marie Anne Antoinette de Ligne (cf her immediate ancestry), married Philippe Emmanuel, Prince de Hornes, comte de Beaucignies and so forth
  • Maximilien Emmanuel, prince de Hornes, comte de Beaucignies and so forth
  • princesse Marie-Therese de Hornes of Overisque and Beaucignies, married Philippe Joseph de Salm, 2nd Prince of Kyrburg
  • princesse Amelie de Salm-Kyrbourg (cf her immediate ancestry), married Anthony Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
  • Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, married comtesse Antoinette Murat, princesse francais
  • their sons included: Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (married Antonia of Portugal; their one son listed below; his issue), and next brother king Carol I of Romania, became elected Prince of Valachia and Moldavia (died without surviving children) - cf Carol's and his brother's immediate ancestry)

[edit] Slavic line from Valachia provided three queen-consorts of Romania

  • the abovementioned Catherine of Opole, daughter of Elisabeth of Valachia, Duchess of Opole in Silesia, had also another son:
  • Henry IX, Duke of Glogow, married princess Jadviga of Silesia, daughter of Conrad III, Duke of Oels
  • Anna of Glogow (of Silesia), married John II, Lord of Rozmberka
  • Elisabeth z Rozmberka, married Henry of Hardegg, Count of Kladsko
  • Julius II of Hardegg, Count of Kladsko
  • Sigismund II of Hardegg, Count of Kladsko
  • John William of Hardegg, Count of Kladsko
  • countess Joanna Susanna of Hardegg-Kladsko, married Julius III of Hardegg, Count of Kladsko
  • countess Esther of Hardegg-Kladsko, married Henry I of Reuss, Count of Schleiz
  • Henry XI of Reuss, Count of Schleiz (see some of his ancestry)
  • Henry I of Reuss, Count of Schleiz
  • Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, married Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
  • Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, married Emil August, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
  • the abovementioned Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg had, with her husband Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, other children, including son:
  • Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, married secondly Caroline of Saxe-Weimar
  • Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, married Ferdinand, Duke of Orleans
  • Robert, Duke of Chartres, married Francoise of Orleans-Joinville
  • Marie of Orleans-Chartres, married prince Valdemar of Denmark

[edit] Descent from the Bogdan-Musati of Moldavia

[edit] Movila lineage to Ferdinand I of Romania

  • Latcu of Moldavia
  • Peter IV of Moldavia
  • princess Maria of Moldavia (cf some of her ancestry), married secondly Ion Movila, Lord of Hudesti
  • Jeremy Movila, Prince of Moldavia
  • countess Anna Potocka (cf some of her ancestry), married count Alexander Kasanowski, Palatine of Braclaw
  • countess Maria Anna Kasanowska, married prince Stanislas Jan Jablonowski, Grand Marshal of Poland
  • princess Anne Catherine Jablonowska (cf some of her ancestry), married count Raphael Leszczynski, Duke of Lesno, Palatine of Lenczin
  • king Ferdinand I of Romania (cf some of his ancestry), married Marie of Edinburgh, daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
  • king Mihai I of Romania, married Anne of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Margaret of Denmark
  • princess Marguerite of Romania - see also her immediate ancestry

[edit] Descent of Anna of Bourbon-Parma from the Movilesti of Moldavia

[edit] Descent from the Vlach Tsars of the Second Bulgarian realm

The Asanesti brothers Teodor and Ioan, themselves highly likely of Vlach (Aromanian birth), founded the Second Bulgarian Empire, and particularly earlier (Asan) rulers of that realm were titled "Tsar of Bulgarians and Vlachs" ("...Bulgarorum et Blachorum"). They were generally overlords of both shores of the lower Danube, and thus ruling (through their vassals) the north shore which today is southern Romania. However, the focus of their realm was in Bulgarian-speaking lands and they particularly thrusted towards Constantinople and Greek Mecedonia, even Thessalia.

[edit] line through Counts of Tenda

1) Ioan Asan I of Vlachs and Bulgars

2) Ioan Asan II of Vlachs and Bulgars m (Ana) Maria of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary

3) Elena Asan m Emperor Theodoros II of Nicea (Theodoros Doukas Batatzes)

4) Eudocia Lascarina m Guillaume Pierre de Vintimille, Count of Tenda

5) Ioan Lascari, Count of Ventimiglia and Tenda

6) Guillaume Petru II of Tenda and Vintimille

7) daughter m Petru Balbi, Count of Tenda iure uxoris

8) Antoniu Lascari, Count of Tenda

9) Honoriu Lascari, Count of Tenda

10) Ioan Antoniu Lascari, Count of Tenda

11) Anna Lascarina, Countess of Tenda m René de Savoie, Count of Villars, batard de Savoie

12) Honoriu of Savoy, Marquess of Villars, Count of Tenda

13) Henrietta of Savoy, Marchioness of Villars m Charles de Lorraine de Guise, duc de Mayenne

14) Catherine of Lorraine-Guise m Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers was as Charles I, Duke of Mantua (descendant of the Palaiologos Marquesses of Montferrat)

15) Carol II, Duke of Rethel, married Maria, Duchess of Montferrat

16) Eleanor of Mantua, married Ferdinand III, nHoly Roman Emperor

17) Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland, married secondly Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

18) Leopold Joseph, Duke of Lorraine

19) Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, etc

20) Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

21) Francis I of Austria

22) Leopoldina of Austria, married Pedro I of Brazil

23) Maria II of Portugal, married Ferdinand

24) Antonia of Portugal, married the abovementioned Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern

25) the abovementioned Ferdinand I of Romania

26) the abovementioned Carol II of Romania

27) the abovementioned Mihai I of Romania

28) second daughter: Elena of Romania

29) Nicholas Michael Medforth-Mills de Roumanie - see also his immediate ancestry


[edit] Slavonian-Slovakian line

Another lineage from the Vlach tsars passes through Slovakian lands (Thurzo, Kohary) to King Ferdinand I's mother:

1) Ioan Asan I of Vlachs and Bulgars, one of the founders of Second Bulgarian Empire

2) Ioan Asan II of Vlachs and Bulgars, m Eirene Komnene Angelina, daughter of Theodoros of Epirus

3) Maria Asan, married tsar Mico Asan of Bulgaria

4) Ioan Asan III of Vlachs and Bulgars, m Eirene Palaiologina, daughter of Emperor Michael VIII of Rhomaion

5) Andronikos Palaiologos Asanes

6) Eirene Asanina m Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos of Rhomaion

7) Matthew Kantakouzenos, co-emperor of Rhomaion

8) Demetrios Palaiologos Kantakouzenos

9) Eirene Kantakouzene, married George (Djuradj Vukovic) Brankovici, monarch of Rascia

10) Stephen Brankovici, Prince of Syrmia and Rascia, saint, married Albanian heiress Angelina Komnene Arianite

11) Ioan Brankovici, Prince of Raitzen, Prince of Syrmia

12) Maria Brankovic m Ferdinand Frankopan, lord of Modrus, ban of Croatia

13) Catherine Frankopani (Frangipani) m Nikola Subic Zrinski (Miklos Zrinyi the elder)

14) Catherine of Zriny, married Francis Thurzo, Baron of Bethlenfalva, son of Janos Thurzo of Bethlenfalva and Anna Abaffy of Nagyabafalva

15) George Thurzo, Count of Bethlenfalva, Palatine of Hungary, married Elisabeth Czobor, daughter of baron Imre Czobor and Borbala Perenyi of Nagy-Ida

16) countess Judith Thurzo of Bethlenfalva, married Andrew Jakusith de Orbova

17) Emeric Jakusith de Orbova

18) Emeric Jakusith de Orbova the Younger, married countess Polyxena Serenyi of Kis-Sereny, daughter of Gabor Serenyi, Count of Kis-Sereny, and Erszebet Zahradetzky of Zahradek

19) Maria Polyxena Josepha Jakusith de Orbova, married Albert Louis Thavonat, Baron of Thavon

20) baroness Margaret Mary Theresa Thavonat of Thavon, married Andrew Joseph of Kohary, Count of Čabrad and Sitno in today Slovakia, son of count Lupus of Kohary and countess Maria Ludovica of Rechberg

21) Ignace Joseph of Kohary, Count of Čabrad and Sitno, married countess Maria Gabriella Cavriani, daughter of count Massimiliano Guidobaldo Cavriani and countess Maria Francisca of Thuerheim

22) Francis Joseph of Kohary, 1st Prince of Čabrad and Sitno, married Antonia of Valdstejna z Vartemberka, daughter of George Christian, Count of Valdstejna z Vartemberka, and countess Elisabeth Ulfeldt of Solvesborg (Antonia came from Bohemia, another descendant of the abovementioned Catherine Frankopan and Nicholas of Zriny through their youngest daughter Barbara of Zriny)

23) princess Antonia Kohary of Čabrad and Sitno, married prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf

24) prince Ferdinand of Kohary (Čabrad and Sitno), King-Consort of Portugal, married Reigning Queen Maria II of Portugal, daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and Leopoldina of Austria

25) infanta Antonia of Portugal (& Kohary of Čabrad and Sitno), married Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, son of Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Joséphine de Bade

26) king Ferdinand I of Romania, married Marie of Edinburgh, daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

27) king Carol II of Romania, married Elena of Greece, daughter of King Constantine I of Greece and Sophia of Prussia

28) king Mihai I of Romania, married Anne of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of prince René of Bourbon-Parma and Margaret of Denmark

29) princess Elena of Romania, married Robin Medfort-Mills

30) Nicolae Mihai de Medfort

[edit] Descent from Latin Emperors of Constantinople - "Emperors of Romania"

  • Catherine of Courtenay
  • Joan of Valois
  • John of Artois, Count of Eu
  • Philip of Artois, Count of Eu
  • Bonne of Artois, married firstly Philip of Nevers
  • John of Nevers
  • Elisabeth of Nevers, married John of Cleves, son of Adolf of Cleves and Maria of Burgundy


  • Margaret of Flanders
  • John of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut, married Adelais of Holland
  • John of Avesnes, Count of Haimaut and Holland
  • William of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut and Holland
  • Margaret of Avesnes, Countess of Hainaut and Holland, married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Albert of Bavaria, Count of Hainaut and Holland
  • Margaret of Bavaria, married John of Valois, Duke of Burgundy
  • Maria of Burgundy, married Adolf, Duke of Cleves
  • John, Duke of Cleves, married Elisabeth of Nevers, heiress of emperor Baldwin II
  • John II, Duke of Cleves
  • John III, Duke of Cleves, married Maria of Julich and Berg
  • William, Duke of Cleves, Julich and Berg
  • Mary Eleanor of Cleves, Julich and Berg, married Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
  • Sophia of Prussia, married William, Duke of Courland
  • James, Duke of Courland
  • Amalia of Courland, married Charles of Hesse
  • Marie Louise of Hesse, married prince John of Orange
  • Charlotte of Orange, married Frederick VIII of Baden
  • Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
  • Charles Louis of Baden
  • Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, married Stephanie de Beauharnais
  • Josephine of Baden, married Charles Anthony of Hohenzollern
  • Leopold of Hohenzollern, and Carol I of Romania, the abovementioned

[edit] Pedigree of Anna of Bourbon-Parma from the last Emperors of the Romaion

married Anna of Hungary (dc 1281), daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary and Elisabeth of Cumans

  • Emperor Ioannes V Palaiologos (1332-91), and his wife despoina basilissa Helene Kantakouzene (1333-96), daughter of Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakouzenos (1295-1383) and despoina Eirene Asanina of Vlach realm
  • despotes Thomas Palaiologos, Prince of Peloponnese, claimant to Imperial Throne (1409-65), and his wife despoina Aikaterini Zakhariaina (d 1462)
  • despoina Helene Palaiologina (d 1473), and her husband despotes Lazaros Brankovic Kantakouzenos, Sovereign Prince of Rascia (1421-58), son of despotes Georgios Vukovic Brankovic, Sovereign Prince of Rascia, and despoina Eirene Kantakouzene
  • despoina Eirene Brankovici Palaiologina, and her husband despotes Ioannes Kastriotes, Lord of Kroia etc (b 1457), son of despotes Georgios Kastriotes the Skanderbegh, Lord Sovereign of Kroia and the whole Arberia (c 1403 - 1468]], and despoina Andronike Komnene Arianite
  • despotes Ferrante Skanderbegh Kastriotis, 3rd Duke of San Pietro di Galatina, and his wife principessa Adriana Acquaviva d'Aragona, daughter of principe Belisarios Acquaviva d'Aragona, 1st Duke of Nardo and Sveva Sanseverino
  • despoina Eirene Skanderbegh Kastriote, 4th Duchess of San Pietro di Galatina (dc 1568), and her husband Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, 4th Prince of Bisignano
  • Vittoria di Sanseverino, Princess of Bisignano, and her husband prince Ferrante di Capua, 4th Duke of Termoli (d 1614)
  • prince Pietro Antonio di Capua, 5th Duke of Termoli (1569-?), and his wife Bernardina della Tolfa (d 1594)
  • princess Vittoria di Capua (1587-1648), and her husband Francesco Pignatelli, Duke of Bisaccia (d 1645)
  • Carlo Pignatelli, Duke of Bisaccia (d 1681), and his wife Claire della Giudice (b 1636)
  • Niccolo Pignatelli, Duke of Bisaccia (1658-1719), and his wife Marie Claire Angelique d'Egmont (1661-1714), daughter of Philippe Louis, 9th comte d'Egmont and Marie Ferdinande de Croy de Havré
  • princess Maria Francesca Pignatelli (1696-1766), Duchess of Bisaccia, Countess of Egmond, and her husband prince Léopold Philippe, 4th Duke of Arenberg (1690-1754), son of prince Philippe Charles Francois, 3rd Duke of Arenberg, and Maria Enrichetta del Caretto di Savona
  • prince Charles Marie Raymond, 5th Duke of Arenberg (1721-78), and his wife comtesse Louise Marguerite de Marck (1730-1820), daughter of comte Louis Engelbert de Marck des Vardes and Anne de Visdelou-Bienassis
  • princesse Léopoldine d'Arenberg, married count Joseph Nicolas of Windisch-Graetz
  • countess Sophia of Windisch-Graetz, married Charles, Prince of Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
  • Constantin, Hereditary Prince of Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
  • princesse Adelaide de Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, married Miguel of Portugal
  • princesse Antoinette de Braganza, married Robert I, Duke of Parma
  • prince René of Bourbon-Parma
  • princess Margarita of Romania

[edit] Descent from family of rulers of Transylvania

[edit] from Szapolyai dynasty

  • John, count of Spiš (Szepes), married Jadviga of Teschen (Silesia)
  • Barbara Szapolyai, sister of John Szapolyai the Prince of Transilvania and rival monarch of Hungary; married Sigismund I of Poland
  • Jadviga of Poland, married JoachimII, Elector of Brandenburg
  • Jadviga of Brandenburg, married Duke Julius of Brunswick
  • Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick
  • Elisabeth of Brunswick, married John Philip, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Elisabeth Sophie of Altenburg, married Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Gotha
  • Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha, married Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Amalie Frederica of Hesse, married Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
  • Charles Louis, Grand Duke of Baden
  • Josephine of Baden
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