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1737 - 1809 Β· Male Β· Ayutthaya, Siam
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Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri
1737 - 1809
Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, known as Rama I, founded the Chakri dynasty in 1782 after the fall of the Thonburi kingdom and established Bangkok as the new capital of Siam on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River. Born in Ayutthaya in 1737, he rose through military ranks under King Taksin before taking the throne himself. As king, he rebuilt Siamese administration, law, and religion after decades of war with Burma, commisβ¦
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Gen 4 Β· 1853 - 1910
Chulalongkorn, known as Rama V, reigned as King of Siam from 1868 to 1910 and is regarded as one of the country's greatest modernizing monarchs. Born in 1853, the son of Rama IV and Queen Debsirindra, he abolished slavery and the prostration custom, reformed the civil service, judiciary, and tax system along Western lines, and built Siam's first railways and telegraph network, all while skillfully navigating British and French colonial pressure to keep the kingdom the only Southeast Asian state never colonized. With his consort Queen Saovabha Phongsri he had several sons who later reigned as kings, including Vajiravudh (Rama VI), Prajadhipok (Rama VII), and, through his son Prince Mahidol, grandsons Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). He died in 1910.
Gen 5 Β· 1880 - 1925
Vajiravudh, known as Rama VI, reigned as King of Siam from 1910 to 1925. Born in 1880, the son of Rama V and Queen Saovabha Phongsri, he was educated in Britain and became a prolific writer and translator, introducing Western drama and modern Thai literature to the court. He introduced the use of surnames in Siam, established the Wild Tiger Corps paramilitary organization, and brought Siam into the First World War on the Allied side in 1917. He had no son; a daughter was born to him only days before his death in 1925, so the throne passed to his younger brother, Prajadhipok, who became Rama VII.
Gen 5 Β· 1892 - 1929
Prince Mahidol Adulyadej was a son of King Rama V and Queen Saovabha Phongsri, and the father of two future kings, Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). Born in 1892, he studied public health and medicine at Harvard University in the United States, and is honored in Thailand as the father of modern medicine and public health for his work establishing medical education and hospital standards. He married Sangwan Talapat, later titled Srinagarindra, and the couple had three children. He died in 1929, well before either of his sons came to the throne, and never reigned himself.
Gen 5 Β· 1893 - 1941
Prajadhipok, known as Rama VII, reigned as King of Siam from 1925 to 1935 and was the last absolute monarch of the Chakri dynasty. Born in 1893, the youngest son of Rama V and Queen Saovabha Phongsri, he came to the throne unexpectedly after his brother Rama VI died without a surviving son. His reign was transformed by the bloodless Siamese revolution of 1932, which ended absolute monarchy and established a constitutional system; he initially cooperated with the new government but, after political disputes over his powers, abdicated the throne in 1935 while in England, where he remained until his death in 1941. He married Queen Rambhai Barni and had no children.
Gen 6 Β· 1925 - 1946
Ananda Mahidol, known as Rama VIII, was King of Thailand from 1935 to 1946. Born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1925, the elder son of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej and Srinagarindra, he was still a schoolboy in Switzerland when he inherited the throne at age nine following his uncle Prajadhipok's abdication, and a regency governed in his name for most of his reign. He returned to Thailand only briefly as an adult before his sudden death at the Grand Palace in Bangkok in June 1946, at age twenty. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Bhumibol Adulyadej, as Rama IX.
Gen 6 Β· 1927 - 2016
Bhumibol Adulyadej, known as Rama IX, reigned as King of Thailand from 1946 until his death in 2016, the longest reign of any Thai monarch. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1927, the younger son of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej and Srinagarindra, he succeeded his elder brother Ananda Mahidol at age eighteen. Over seven decades he became a unifying figure through repeated political upheavals, sponsoring thousands of rural development projects on poverty, agriculture, and water management. He married Sirikit in 1950, and their four children were Ubolratana, Vajiralongkorn (later Rama X), Sirindhorn, and Chulabhorn. He died in Bangkok in 2016.
Gen 7 Β· b. 1951
Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya is the eldest child of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the elder sister of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X). Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1951, she gave up her royal titles in 1972 upon marrying an American, Peter Ladd Jensen, and lived in the United States for over two decades, working as an actress and businesswoman. Following her divorce, she returned to live in Thailand in the early 2000s and resumed an active public role in royal family events, though without reinstating her full royal title. She has remained largely engaged in charitable and film-related work.
Gen 7 Β· b. 1952
Maha Vajiralongkorn, known as Rama X, has reigned as King of Thailand since 2016, succeeding his father Bhumibol Adulyadej. Born in Bangkok in 1952, the only son of Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit, he was educated in Australia and the United Kingdom and trained as a military pilot before being formally named Crown Prince in 1972. He assumed the throne after a period of mourning following his father's death, and was formally crowned in a traditional ceremony in 2019. He has been married several times; his current wife, since 2019, is Queen Suthida. He is the tenth monarch of the Chakri dynasty.
Gen 7 Β· b. 1955
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and a younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X). Born in Bangkok in 1955, she pursued advanced academic studies in history, Pali, and Oriental languages, and has long been regarded as one of the most publicly active and popular members of the Thai royal family for her work in education, rural development, and disaster relief. In 1977 she was granted the special title Maha Chakri, elevating her standing among the royal children. She has never married and remains a full-time working member of the royal family.
Gen 2 Β· 1767 - 1836
Somdet Phra Sri Suriyendra (born Boonrod) was the principal queen consort of King Rama II and mother of Prince Mongkut, who later reigned as Rama IV. Born in 1767, she was a cousin of her husband and held the highest rank among his consorts, giving her son a strong claim to the succession that was nonetheless passed over in 1824 in favor of his older half-brother, Rama III. She lived to see Mongkut spend nearly three decades as a Buddhist monk before finally ascending the throne in 1851, though she died in 1836, some years before his accession.
Gen 3 Β· 1834 - 1861
Somdet Phra Debsirindra (born Rampoei Sirindhara) was the principal queen consort of King Rama IV (Mongkut) and mother of his successor, Chulalongkorn, later Rama V. Born in 1834, she was a granddaughter of Rama II and thus a member of the royal family in her own right before her marriage. She died in 1861 while Chulalongkorn was still a child, seven years before he came to the throne, and did not live to see her son's reign. She is remembered as the mother of one of Siam's most celebrated modernizing kings.
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 Belgian royal family, formally the House of Belgium and dynastically a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, is the reigning family of Belgium, founded when the German prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld accepted the throne of the newly independent kingdom in 1831 and continuing today through King Philippe and his heir, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant. Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and chose a constitutional monarchy. Its National Congress looked abroad for a sovereign who could balance French and British interests, and settled on Leopold, a widowed, well-connected and famously cautious prince who had already turned down the crown of Greece. He took the constitutional oath on 21 July 1831, still the Belgian national day. Seven monarchs have reigned since: Leopold I, Leopold II, Albert I, Leopold III, Baudouin, Albert II and Philippe. ## Origins The dynasty's roots are in the small Thuringian duchy of Saxe-Coburg, whose princes married into half the thrones of nineteenth-century Europe. Leopold I was the uncle of both Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, and his second marriage, to Louise-Marie of Orleans, daughter of the French king Louis Philippe I, tied the new kingdom to Paris as well as London. The crown did not pass in a straight line: Leopold II's only son died at the age of nine, so the succession moved to Leopold II's brother Philippe, Count of Flanders, and then to Philippe's son, Albert I. Every Belgian monarch since 1909 descends from that collateral branch. ## Notable members Leopold II is the most studied and most criticised figure in the family, remembered for the industrial boom and monumental building of his reign and, above all, for his personal rule over the Congo Free State. Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria became wartime symbols of Belgian resistance behind the Yser in 1914. Leopold III's surrender in 1940 and his conduct under occupation triggered the political crisis known as the Royal Question and ended in his abdication. Baudouin reigned for 42 years and presided over Congolese independence and Belgium's transformation into a federal state. Daughters of the house carried its blood outward: Charlotte became Empress Carlota of Mexico, Marie-Jose was the last Queen of Italy, and Josephine-Charlotte was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. ## Significance In a country divided by language, the monarchy has been the one institution claimed by both Flemish and Walloon Belgians, and the king's role in brokering coalition governments remains politically real rather than ceremonial. The family has also changed with the country: equal succession was introduced in 1991, making Princess Elisabeth the first female Duchess of Brabant and the future first queen regnant of the Belgians, and in 2020 a court recognised Delphine of Saxe-Coburg as a daughter of Albert II. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Dynasty | House of Belgium (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) | | Country | Kingdom of Belgium | | Founder | Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790-1865) | | Reigning since | 21 July 1831 | | Monarchs to date | Seven, from Leopold I to Philippe | | Current head | King Philippe (born 1960), reigning since 2013 | | Heir apparent | Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant (born 2001) | | Principal residences | Royal Palace of Brussels, Castle of Laeken | | Motto | L'union fait la force / Eendracht maakt macht |
The House of Stuart was the royal dynasty that ruled Scotland from 1371 and both Scotland and England from 1603 until 1714, giving Britain fourteen monarchs from Robert II to Queen Anne as well as the Jacobite claimants who carried its cause into exile. Spelled Stewart in Scotland and Stuart after Mary, Queen of Scots adopted the French form, the family holds the unusual distinction of having united two crowns by inheritance rather than conquest, and of ending in a disputed succession that reshaped the British constitution. ## Origins The family took its name from its office. The Stewarts were hereditary High Stewards of Scotland, a post granted in the twelfth century to a Breton house settled in Renfrewshire. In 1315 Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward, married Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert the Bruce. Their son became Robert II in 1371 when the direct Bruce line failed, and the stewardship turned into a crown. For more than two centuries afterwards the Stewarts ruled Scotland alone, through a run of reigns cut short by battle, captivity and long royal minorities that left the nobility unusually powerful. ## Notable members James IV, the most cultivated of the Scottish kings, married Margaret Tudor in 1503 and so planted the claim that would carry his descendants to the English throne. His granddaughter Mary, Queen of Scots became queen at six days old, reigned briefly and turbulently, and was deposed in 1567 and executed in England twenty years later. Her son, James VI of Scotland, inherited the English crown in 1603 as James I and became the first monarch to rule both kingdoms. His son Charles I lost the Civil Wars and his throne; Charles II returned at the Restoration in 1660; James II and VII was deposed in the Revolution of 1688, after which his daughters Mary II and Anne reigned in his place. In exile his son James Francis Edward Stuart and grandson Charles Edward Stuart, remembered as Bonnie Prince Charlie, led the Jacobite attempts to recover the throne, ending with the rising of 1745. ## Significance No other British dynasty changed the shape of the state so much. The Stuarts brought Scotland and England under one sovereign, presided over the King James Bible and the theatre of Shakespeare's late career, lost a king to Parliament, and provoked the settlements of 1689 and 1701 that made the monarchy answerable to Parliament and Protestant by statute. When Queen Anne died childless in 1714, the crown passed under the Act of Settlement to the descendants of her cousin Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James VI and I, so every British monarch since is still a Stuart descendant. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder | Robert II, King of Scots from 1371 | | Ruled | Scotland 1371 to 1714; England and Ireland 1603 to 1714 | | Origin | Renfrewshire, Scotland | | Union of the Crowns | 1603, under James VI of Scotland and I of England | | Last reigning monarch | Anne, Queen of Great Britain, died 1714 | | Jacobite claimants | James Francis Edward, Charles Edward and Henry Benedict Stuart | | Succeeded by | The House of Hanover, through Sophia of Hanover |
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 |
Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri has 1 recorded child: Rama II (Buddha Loetla Nabhalai) Chakri.
Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri married Amarindra Chakri.
Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri is recorded as King of Siam (Rama I) in the Chakri Dynasty family tree.
Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri's recorded native place is Ayutthaya, Siam.
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