Public Family Trees/Bernadotte/Martha Bernadotte
1901 - 1954 · Female · Stockholm, Sweden
Daughter of Carl Bernadotte and Ingeborg of Denmark
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Martha Bernadotte
1901 - 1954
Princess Martha of Sweden was born in Stockholm in 1901, the second daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergotland, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. In 1929 she married her first cousin Olav, crown prince of Norway, and became a popular crown princess in Oslo. When Germany invaded Norway in 1940 she took her three children to the United States, where she lived at the invitation of President Franklin Roosevelt, campa…
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Gen 1 · 1763 - 1844
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was born in 1763 in Pau in south western France, the son of a provincial lawyer, and rose through the revolutionary French army to become a Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon and Prince of Pontecorvo. In 1810 the Swedish Riksdag, looking for an heir for the childless Charles XIII, elected him crown prince of Sweden; he took the name Charles John and converted to Lutheranism. He succeeded to the thrones of Sweden and Norway in 1818 as Charles XIV John and reigned until his death in 1844, founding the House of Bernadotte, which reigns in Sweden to this day. With his wife Desideria, born Desiree Clary, he had one son, the future Oscar I.
Gen 1 · 1777 - 1860
Desiree Clary, who reigned as Queen Desideria, was born in Marseille in 1777, the daughter of a wealthy silk merchant. In her youth she was engaged to the young Napoleon Bonaparte, and her sister Julie married his brother Joseph; in 1798 she married General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, and their only child, the future Oscar I, was born in Paris the following year. When her husband was elected crown prince of Sweden she found the northern climate and the formality of the Stockholm court difficult, and lived largely in Paris between 1811 and 1823 before returning for her son's wedding and settling in Sweden for good. She was crowned queen in 1829 and died in Stockholm in 1860.
Gen 2 · 1799 - 1859
Oscar I was born Joseph Francois Oscar Bernadotte in Paris in 1799, the only child of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte and Desiree Clary, and came to Sweden as a boy of eleven when his father was elected crown prince. King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 until his death in 1859, he was the first Bernadotte brought up Swedish, and his reign brought liberal reform: equal inheritance rights for women in 1845, reform of the prison system, which he had studied and written a book about, freer trade, and a cautious sympathy for Scandinavianism. He married Josephine of Leuchtenberg in 1823, and their sons included Charles XV and Oscar II.
Gen 3 · 1826 - 1872
Charles XV was born in Stockholm in 1826, the eldest son of Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, and reigned as king of Sweden and Norway from 1859 until his death in 1872. Informal, popular and a gifted amateur painter and poet, he left much of the detail of government to his ministers, and his reign is remembered above all for the reform of 1866 that replaced the ancient Riksdag of the Estates with a two chamber parliament. He married Louise of the Netherlands in 1850; their only surviving child, Louise, became queen of Denmark, so the Swedish throne passed at his death to his younger brother Oscar II.
Gen 4 · 1858 - 1950
Gustaf V was born at Drottningholm in 1858, the eldest son of Oscar II and Sophia of Nassau, and reigned as king of Sweden from 1907 until his death in 1950, for nearly forty three years. His reign spanned the end of the union with Norway, the arrival of full parliamentary democracy and Swedish neutrality in both world wars. In the Courtyard Crisis of 1914 he made the last serious attempt by a Swedish monarch to direct policy against his government, and afterwards the crown's political role steadily receded. A lifelong tennis enthusiast, he competed into old age under the pseudonym Mr G and founded the Swedish tennis association. He married Victoria of Baden in 1881.
Gen 5 · 1882 - 1973
Gustaf VI Adolf was born in Stockholm in 1882, the eldest son of Gustaf V and Victoria of Baden, and was king of Sweden from 1950 until his death in 1973. A genuine scholar, he was a serious archaeologist who took part in excavations in Greece, Italy, Korea and China, a recognised authority on Chinese art and a notable gardener and botanist, elected to several learned academies on merit. His unassuming manner and his motto, Duty before all, made him personally popular and helped carry the monarchy through the republican debates of the 1950s and 1960s. He married Margaret of Connaught in 1905 and, after her death, Louise Mountbatten in 1923, and was succeeded by his grandson Carl XVI Gustaf.
Gen 5 · 1884 - 1965
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Sodermanland, born in 1884, was the second son of Gustaf V and Victoria of Baden and had a long career as a writer. A naval officer by training, he published poetry, essays and travel books, and was an early documentary film maker whose expeditions to Africa and Asia in the 1920s and 1930s produced both films and popular accounts of them. He married Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia in 1908; their only child was Lennart, later Count Bernadotte of Wisborg, and the marriage was dissolved in 1914. He spent much of his later life at Stenhammar in Sodermanland and died in 1965.
Gen 6 · 1906 - 1947
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, born in 1906, was the eldest son of the future Gustaf VI Adolf and Margaret of Connaught, and from 1950 would have been crown prince of Sweden. A cavalry officer and a notable horseman, he was chairman of the Swedish Olympic Committee, of the national scouting association and of several sports federations, and was widely seen as a capable future king. In 1932 he married Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; they had four daughters and then a son, the future Carl XVI Gustaf, who was nine months old when his father died in January 1947 at the age of forty.
Gen 6 · 1907 - 2002
Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, born in 1907, was the second son of Gustaf VI Adolf and Margaret of Connaught and one of the first members of a European royal family to earn his living as a professional designer. He lost his Swedish royal title in 1934 on marrying Erica Patzek, and was created Count Bernadotte of Wisborg by Luxembourg in 1951. Trained in Stockholm and Munich, he designed silver for Georg Jensen in Copenhagen from 1930 and in 1950 founded the firm Bernadotte and Bjorn with Acton Bjorn, an early industrial design partnership whose work ranged from the Margrethe mixing bowl to typewriters and kitchen appliances. He died in 2002.
Gen 7 · b. 1934
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, born in 1934, is the eldest child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She grew up at Haga Palace with her three sisters and her much younger brother, and carried out official duties in Sweden as a young princess. In 1964 she married John Ambler, a British businessman, and moved to England, where she has lived ever since, keeping her Swedish title in the style Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler. She is the senior surviving member of her generation of the Swedish royal family.
Gen 7 · 1937 - 2024
Princess Birgitta of Sweden, born in 1937, was the second daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, and Princess Sibylla, and a sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf. In 1961 she married Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, and because she married into a royal house she was the only one of the king's four sisters to keep the style of Princess of Sweden as a member of the royal house. She lived in Germany and from the 1980s mainly on Mallorca, where she was a keen golfer and took part in Swedish and German charitable work, returning to Stockholm for family and state occasions. She died in December 2024 at the age of eighty seven.
The House of Plantagenet was the royal dynasty that ruled England for 331 years, from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, making it the longest-reigning royal house in English history. Fourteen Plantagenet kings held the throne in unbroken succession, and in the fifteenth century the family's two junior branches, the houses of Lancaster and York, fought each other for the crown in the civil wars later known as the Wars of the Roses. ## Origins The dynasty came from Anjou in western France. Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, is said to have worn a sprig of broom, *planta genista*, in his cap, and from that nickname the family eventually took its name, although it was not used as an actual surname until Richard, 3rd Duke of York, adopted it in the 1440s. Geoffrey's marriage in 1128 to Empress Matilda, daughter and designated heir of Henry I of England, gave their son a claim to the English throne that he made good in 1154. With Normandy and Anjou behind him, and Aquitaine gained through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II ruled lands reaching from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, the assemblage historians call the Angevin Empire. ## Notable members The early, or Angevin, kings are among the most familiar names in English history: Henry II, whose itinerant justices and sworn juries laid the foundations of the common law; Richard the Lionheart, a leading commander of the Third Crusade; and King John, who sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey, Edward I conquered Wales and summoned the Model Parliament, and Edward III opened the Hundred Years' War and founded the Order of the Garter. Later generations produced Edward the Black Prince, the victor of Poitiers, Henry V of Agincourt, and Richard III, whose lost grave was rediscovered in Leicester in 2012. ## Lancaster and York Edward III's many sons divided the dynasty. From his third surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, came Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and, through Gaunt's Beaufort children, Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII. From his fourth son, Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, combined with the senior Mortimer descent from his second son, Lionel of Antwerp, came Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and his sons Edward IV and Richard III. The rivalry of those branches produced thirty years of intermittent civil war, ending when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth and married Elizabeth of York, uniting the red and white roses. ## Significance No other family has shaped English institutions so deeply. Under the Plantagenets, Magna Carta became a settled principle, parliament grew from an occasional royal council into a body whose consent was needed for taxation, the common law took its enduring form, and English displaced French as the language of the court. Their castles, abbeys and cathedrals still define the medieval landscape of England and Wales. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Ruled | England, 1154 to 1485 | | Founder | Henry II, son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and Empress Matilda | | Place of origin | Anjou, France | | Kings | Fourteen, from Henry II to Richard III | | Branches | Angevin, Lancaster, York | | Emblems | The broom flower, the red rose of Lancaster, the white rose of York | | Last king | Richard III, killed at Bosworth in 1485 | | Legacy | Magna Carta, English common law, the growth of parliament |
The Vanderbilts are an American family who rose from Dutch farming stock on Staten Island to hold the largest private fortune in the United States, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt, known as the Commodore, out of nineteenth century shipping and railroads, and known today for the Gilded Age houses their descendants built and for figures from Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, to the journalist Anderson Cooper. ## Origins on Staten Island The family descends from Jan Aertsen van der Bilt, a Dutch settler who reached New Netherland in the seventeenth century and whose descendants farmed on Staten Island for generations. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was born there, the son of a boatman, and began work as a teenager carrying freight across New York Harbour in a single sailing barge. He married his first cousin Sophia Johnson in 1813. ## The railroad fortune Vanderbilt moved from sail to steam, dominated the Hudson River and coastal trade, and after the Civil War turned to railroads, consolidating the New York Central system and building Grand Central Depot. He left almost the whole fortune to one son, William Henry Vanderbilt, who nearly doubled it in eight years before dividing it evenly among his own eight children. They built the family's great houses: The Breakers and Marble House at Newport, Biltmore House in North Carolina, Hyde Park on the Hudson, Florham in New Jersey and Shelburne Farms in Vermont. ## Notable members The third and fourth generations produced Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the 9th Duke of Marlborough and became a social reformer in England; the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who died in the sinking of the Lusitania; and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, who won the America's Cup three times and invented contract bridge. The modern line runs through Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt to the designer Gloria Vanderbilt and her son, the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. ## Significance No American family is more closely identified with the Gilded Age. The Vanderbilts set the pattern for how new industrial wealth was spent, and then for how quickly such a fortune disperses across many heirs. What endures is institutional: Vanderbilt University, the Whitney Museum, and the houses at Newport, Hyde Park, Shelburne and Asheville that are now museums and public estates. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder | Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), the Commodore | | Origin | Staten Island, New York, of Dutch descent | | Source of wealth | Steamboat shipping, then the New York Central railroads | | Famous houses | The Breakers, Marble House, Biltmore House, Hyde Park | | Best known members | Consuelo Vanderbilt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper | | Generations covered | Five, from the Commodore to Anderson Cooper |
The House of Tudor was the royal family that ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603, founded by Henry VII after his victory at Bosworth Field and ending with the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I. In five reigns the dynasty took England out of the Roman Catholic church, made the monarch the head of a national religion, and turned a peripheral kingdom into a naval and literary power. This tree follows the line from the Welsh courtier Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois down to Elizabeth I, together with the Brandon, Grey and Clifford cousins and the Scottish line that ended in James VI and I. ## Origins The family name comes from Penmynydd in Anglesey, north Wales, where the Tudors were landed gentry in the service of the princes of Gwynedd. Owen Tudor came to the English court in the 1420s and married Catherine of Valois, the widow of Henry V. Their sons Edmund and Jasper Tudor were half-brothers of Henry VI, who raised them to earldoms in 1452. Edmund's marriage to Lady Margaret Beaufort, a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, added the senior Lancastrian claim to the throne, and their only child, born after his father's death, became Henry VII. His marriage to Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV, joined the two houses whose rivalry had driven the Wars of the Roses and gave the dynasty its red and white rose. ## Notable members Henry VII rebuilt the crown's finances and secured the new dynasty through marriage alliances with Spain and Scotland. Henry VIII married six times and broke with Rome, and his three surviving children each reigned in turn: Edward VI as a Protestant boy king, Mary I as the first queen to rule England in her own right, and Elizabeth I for forty-four years. Around them stand the cousins who carried royal blood without the crown, among them Lady Jane Grey, queen for nine days, her sisters Catherine and Mary Grey, and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, one of the last Plantagenets. ## The Scottish and Suffolk lines Henry VII's daughters carried the blood outward. Margaret Tudor married James IV of Scotland, and her line runs through James V and Mary, Queen of Scots, to James VI and I, who inherited England in 1603. Mary Tudor married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and their daughters Frances and Eleanor Brandon produced the Grey and Clifford claimants whom Henry VIII's will preferred over the Scottish descendants of his elder sister. ## Significance No English dynasty changed the country more in so few generations. The Tudors created the Church of England, absorbed the wealth of the monasteries into the crown, brought Wales formally into the English legal and parliamentary system, and built the navy that met the Spanish Armada. The Elizabethan settlement shaped English religion for centuries, and the Elizabethan decades produced Shakespeare, Spenser and the first English voyages to the Americas. When Elizabeth I died unmarried in 1603, the throne passed peacefully to her Scottish cousin, and the two crowns were joined in one person for the first time. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Origin | Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales | | Ruled | England, Wales and Ireland, 1485 to 1603 | | Founder | Owen Tudor, through his son Edmund Tudor | | Monarchs | Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I | | Emblem | The Tudor rose, red and white combined | | Principal seats | Richmond, Greenwich, Hampton Court and Whitehall palaces | | Ended | Death of Elizabeth I in 1603, succeeded by James VI of Scotland |
The Kennedy family is an Irish American political dynasty from Boston, Massachusetts, whose members have included the 35th President of the United States, three United States senators, four congressmen, several ambassadors, and the founders of the Peace Corps and the Special Olympics. Across four documented generations the family moved from a County Wexford farm to the White House, and its name became shorthand in American public life for both political ambition and public service. ## Origins The American line begins with Patrick Kennedy, a farmer's son from Dunganstown, near New Ross in County Wexford, who emigrated to East Boston during the Great Famine. His son, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy (1858 to 1929), built a livelihood in the liquor and banking trades and served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, becoming one of the Democratic ward leaders who ran the city's Irish Catholic politics. On the other side stood John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (1863 to 1950), congressman and twice Mayor of Boston. The two families joined in 1914 when P. J.'s son Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. married Honey Fitz's daughter Rose Fitzgerald. Their nine children, raised between Brookline, Bronxville and the compound at Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, form the generation the world knows. ## Notable members John F. Kennedy served as President from 1961 until his death in 1963, having previously represented Massachusetts in the House and Senate. His brother Robert F. Kennedy was Attorney General, then Senator from New York, and a candidate for the presidency in 1968. Their youngest brother Edward "Ted" Kennedy sat in the United States Senate for almost 47 years and was one of the most productive legislators of his era. The eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was a naval aviator killed on a volunteer mission in 1944. Away from elected office, Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics, her husband Sargent Shriver created the Peace Corps and Head Start, and Jean Kennedy Smith founded the arts and disability organisation VSA before serving as United States Ambassador to Ireland. The following generations have produced congressmen, a lieutenant governor, ambassadors, documentary filmmakers, human rights advocates and journalists. ## Significance No other American family has combined electoral success, philanthropy and public visibility on this scale for so long. The Kennedys shaped the civil rights era, the space programme, immigration reform, health care legislation and the modern understanding of disability rights, and their private losses were mourned publicly in a way usually reserved for royalty. The Kennedy Library in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington and dozens of schools and institutions carry the name. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | Kennedy | | Irish origin | Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland | | American home | Boston and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts | | Founding couple | Patrick Joseph Kennedy and Mary Augusta Hickey | | Best known member | John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States | | Generations covered | Four | | Offices held | Presidency, US Senate, US House, ambassadorships, state office | | Institutions founded | Peace Corps, Special Olympics, Best Buddies, Citizens Energy |
Martha Bernadotte's recorded parents are Carl Bernadotte, Ingeborg of Denmark.
Martha Bernadotte has 1 recorded sibling: Astrid Bernadotte.
Martha Bernadotte is recorded as Crown Princess of Norway in the Bernadotte family tree.
Martha Bernadotte's recorded native place is Stockholm, Sweden.
8 ancestors and 0 descendants of Martha Bernadotte are recorded so far, within a tree of 43 people.
Martha Bernadotte is recorded as Charles XIV John Bernadotte's Great-Great-Granddaughter.
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