Public Family Trees/Chakri Dynasty/Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri
1804 - 1868 Β· Male Β· Bangkok, Siam
Son of Rama II (Buddha Loetla Nabhalai) Chakri and Sri Suriyendra Chakri
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Mongkut, known as Rama IV, reigned as King of Siam from 1851 to 1868. Born in 1804, the son of Rama II and Queen Sri Suriyendra, he spent 27 years as a Buddhist monk, rising to become a respected scholar of Pali scripture, science, and Western languages, before his accession at age 47 following the death of his half-brother Rama III. As king he opened Siam to Western trade and diplomacy through treaties including theβ¦
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Born to Rama II (Buddha Loetla Nabhalai) Chakri, Sri Suriyendra Chakri.
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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 7 Β· b. 1957
Princess Chulabhorn Walailak is the youngest child of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and a younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X). Born in Bangkok in 1957, she trained as a scientist, earning a doctorate in organic chemistry, and has spent much of her career researching cancer and pesticide chemistry, founding the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok in 1987. Unlike her siblings, she has pursued an active scientific and academic career alongside her royal duties, representing Thailand at international science forums, and has also been involved in veterinary medicine and the arts.
Gen 4 Β· 1863 - 1919
Queen Saovabha Phongsri was a consort of King Rama V (Chulalongkorn) and one of the most influential royal women of the Chakri dynasty. Born in 1863, she was both a half-sister and a wife of the king, a marriage pattern then customary among Siamese royalty, and bore him numerous children, including three future kings: Vajiravudh (Rama VI), Prajadhipok (Rama VII), and, through their son Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the grandfather of Rama VIII and Rama IX. In 1897 she served as regent of Siam while Chulalongkorn undertook his first state visit to Europe, becoming the first woman to formally head the Siamese government. She died in 1919.
Gen 5 Β· 1900 - 1995
Srinagarindra, born Sangwan Talapat and known in her lifetime as the Princess Mother, was the wife of Prince Mahidol Adulyadej and mother of two kings, Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). Born a commoner in 1900, she trained as a nurse before marrying Mahidol in 1920. Widowed in 1929, she raised her children largely in Switzerland during their education. In her later decades she became widely known in Thailand for founding rural health, education, and forest-conservation programs, earning the popular title Mae Fah Luang, royal mother from the sky, for her work reaching remote hill communities. She died in 1995.
Gen 2 Β· 1770 - 1837
Somdet Phra Sri Sulalai (born Riam) was a royal consort of King Rama II and mother of his eldest surviving son, Prince Jessadabodindra, who reigned as Rama III. Born around 1770 near Nonthaburi, she came from a family involved in the court's confectionery service rather than high nobility, and never held the rank of queen. Her son's accession in 1824, chosen by the Accession Council over more senior-born half-brothers including the future Rama IV, made her one of the most consequential royal mothers of the early Bangkok era. She was posthumously honored with the title Somdet Phra Sri Sulalai. She died in 1837.
Gen 6 Β· b. 1932
Queen Sirikit is the widow of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) and mother of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X). Born Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kitiyakara in Bangkok in 1932 to an aristocratic diplomatic family, she met the young king while he was studying in Switzerland and married him in 1950, becoming queen consort the same year. During his reign she championed rural handicrafts, traditional Thai silk weaving, and conservation projects across the country through the SUPPORT Foundation she established. She and Bhumibol had four children: Ubolratana, Vajiralongkorn, Sirindhorn, and Chulabhorn. She holds the title Queen Mother.
Gen 5 Β· 1904 - 1984
Queen Rambhai Barni was the wife of King Rama VII (Prajadhipok), the last absolute monarch of Siam. Born a granddaughter of Rama IV in 1904, she married the future king in 1918 and became queen consort upon his accession in 1925. She accompanied him through the political upheaval of the 1932 revolution and his 1935 abdication, living with him in exile in England until his death in 1941. She had no children and returned permanently to Thailand after the Second World War, devoting her later years to charitable and educational causes until her death in 1984.
The House of Bourbon is a European royal dynasty, descended in the male line from the Capetian kings of France, that ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848, and that still reigns in Spain today under King Felipe VI. Over four centuries its members also held the thrones of Navarre, Naples and Sicily, Parma and Etruria, which makes it one of the most widely established royal houses in European history. ## Origins The family takes its name from the lordship of Bourbon in the Auvergne, centred on Bourbon-l'Archambault. Its royal line descends from Robert, Count of Clermont, a younger son of King Louis IX of France, whose marriage to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon, carried the name into the Capetian house in 1272. For three centuries afterwards the Bourbons were powerful French princes of the blood rather than kings. That changed with Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, whose marriage to Jeanne d'Albret, queen regnant of Navarre, produced Henry of Navarre. When the Valois line died out in 1589, Henry was the senior Capetian heir, and he took the French throne as Henry IV. ## Notable members Henry IV ended the French Wars of Religion and issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598. His son Louis XIII, guided by Cardinal Richelieu, built the centralised state that Louis XIV, the Sun King, carried to its height across a reign of seventy-two years, the longest of any European sovereign, and to the palace of Versailles. Louis XV and then Louis XVI inherited that system, and Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were swept away by the French Revolution in 1792. The dynasty returned with Louis XVIII in 1814 and Charles X in 1824, and in 1830 the crown passed to Louis Philippe I of the cadet House of Orleans, the last king to rule in France. ## The Spanish branch In 1700 the childless Charles II of Spain left his crown to Philip, Duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV. Philip became Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, at the cost of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended with his renunciation of any claim to the French throne. His descendants include the reforming Charles III, Ferdinand VII, Isabella II, Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931. The monarchy was restored in 1975 under Juan Carlos I, grandson of Alfonso XIII, who presided over Spain's transition to democracy and abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe VI. Felipe's elder daughter Leonor, Princess of Asturias, is heir to the throne. ## Significance No other family links the absolute monarchy of Versailles to a working constitutional monarchy in twenty-first century Madrid. Bourbon marriages tied the house to the Habsburgs of Austria and Spain, the dukes of Savoy, the Medici of Florence and the British royal family, so a Bourbon family tree doubles as a map of European dynastic politics from the Reformation to the present day. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | House of Bourbon (Maison de Bourbon, Casa de Borbon) | | Place of origin | Bourbon-l'Archambault, Auvergne, France | | Founder of the line | Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), son of Louis IX | | First king of France | Henry IV, reigned 1589 to 1610 | | Last king to rule France | Louis Philippe I, reigned 1830 to 1848 | | First king of Spain | Philip V, reigned 1700 to 1746 | | Head of the house in Spain | King Felipe VI, since 2014 | | Heir in Spain | Leonor, Princess of Asturias | | Principal seats | Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Louvre, the Royal Palace of Madrid |
The Rothschilds are a European banking dynasty founded in Frankfurt am Main by Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), whose five sons established banking houses in Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, London and Paris and together built the most powerful private financial network of the nineteenth century. ## Origins Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 in the Judengasse, the walled Jewish street of Frankfurt am Main, where the family took its name from the red shield that had marked an ancestor's house. He began as a dealer in rare coins and medals, became court factor to Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel in 1769, and turned that position into a banking business handling loans, bullion and government paper. With his wife Gutle Schnapper he had ten children who reached adulthood, five sons and five daughters. ## The five houses Mayer Amschel's decisive act was to place his sons in five cities so that the family could move money and news across borders as a single firm. Amschel Mayer stayed in Frankfurt, Salomon went to Vienna, Nathan to London, Carl to Naples and James to Paris. The brothers financed the allied campaigns against Napoleon, then the governments, railways and industries of nineteenth century Europe. The Naples house closed in 1860 with Italian unification, Frankfurt in 1901 for want of an heir, and Vienna in 1938 after the Anschluss. London and Paris survived, and their successors trade today as Rothschild and Co and the Edmond de Rothschild Group. ## Notable members Nathan Mayer Rothschild founded N M Rothschild and Sons and made London the centre of international lending. His son Lionel broke the bar on Jews sitting in Parliament, taking his Commons seat in 1858, and his grandson Nathan Mayer became the first Jewish member of the House of Lords in 1885. James Mayer de Rothschild dominated French finance under three regimes and bought Chateau Lafite, while his son Edmond funded the first Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. The family also produced naturalists and collectors rather than only bankers: Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, the zoologist to whom the Balfour Declaration was addressed in 1917; his brother Charles, the flea specialist who founded British nature conservation; Charles's daughter Dame Miriam Rothschild, a Fellow of the Royal Society; and another daughter, Nica, the patron of Thelonious Monk. Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild, built RIT Capital Partners and chaired the trustees of the National Gallery. ## Significance The Rothschilds were the first banking family to operate as a genuinely international partnership, and for much of the nineteenth century they were the principal lenders to European states. Their name is attached to railways, mines, hospitals, museums, nature reserves, Bordeaux first growths and a long tradition of Jewish philanthropy. Repeated marriages between first cousins kept capital and control inside the family, which is why the branches of this tree cross back into one another so often. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder | Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) | | Matriarch | Gutle Schnapper (1753-1849) | | Origin | The Judengasse, Frankfurt am Main | | Children of the founder | Ten, five sons and five daughters | | The five houses | Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, London, Paris | | Motto | Concordia, Integritas, Industria | | Principal firms | N M Rothschild and Sons, de Rothschild Freres, S. M. von Rothschild | | Still active today | Rothschild and Co, Edmond de Rothschild Group | | Known for | Government finance, railways, wine estates, natural history, art collections, philanthropy |
The House of Hohenzollern is the German dynasty that ruled Brandenburg from 1415, held the Prussian crown from 1701, and gave Germany its three emperors between 1871 and the fall of the monarchy in 1918. This tree follows the senior Prussian line in one unbroken descent, from Frederick William the Great Elector, through the kings of Prussia and the German Emperors, down to Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, the present head of the house. ## Origins The family takes its name from Hohenzollern Castle on a hill in the Swabian Alb, where a line of counts is recorded from the eleventh century. A Swabian Zollern married into the burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1192, and the Franconian branch that grew from it spent two centuries accumulating lands and credit with the Holy Roman Emperors. The decisive moment came in 1415, when Emperor Sigismund invested Frederick VI of Nuremberg as Elector of Brandenburg in return for his political and financial support. The Duchy of Prussia, a separate inheritance lying outside the Empire, passed to the Brandenburg electors in 1618, and Frederick William, the Great Elector, welded the two into a single functioning state after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. ## Notable members Frederick I turned the electorate into a kingdom in 1701. His son Frederick William I, the Soldier King, built the army and the treasury that his own son, **Frederick the Great**, used to seize Silesia and to make Prussia a European power, while also composing music, building Sanssouci and corresponding with Voltaire. **Queen Louise** became the emotional centre of Prussian resistance to Napoleon. **Wilhelm I**, with Otto von Bismarck as his minister president, was proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles in 1871. His son **Frederick III** and the liberal English princess he married, Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, reigned for only ninety nine days. **Wilhelm II**, the last Kaiser, abdicated in 1918 and died in Dutch exile in 1941. ## Significance No other German family shaped the modern state so directly. Hohenzollern rulers created the Prussian civil service, compulsory schooling and the general staff, sponsored the Berlin academies and the Humboldt university model, and then used Prussian power to unify Germany around themselves. The monarchy ended with the revolution of November 1918, but the house continues as a private family: the headship passed from Wilhelm II to his eldest son, then to Louis Ferdinand, and in 1994 to Georg Friedrich, whose own father and uncles are part of the succession story told in this tree. ## Quick facts | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family name | Hohenzollern | | Place of origin | Hohenzollern Castle, Swabia, southern Germany | | Ruled | Brandenburg from 1415, Prussia from 1618, Germany from 1871 | | Royal title | King in Prussia from 1701, King of Prussia from 1772 | | Imperial title | German Emperor, 1871 to 1918 | | German Emperors | Wilhelm I, Frederick III, Wilhelm II | | Monarchy ended | 9 November 1918 | | Present head of the house | Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, since 1994 | | Principal residences | Berlin City Palace, Sanssouci and Cecilienhof at Potsdam, Charlottenburg | | Branch shown here | The senior Prussian line only, not Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
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 |
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri's recorded parents are Rama II (Buddha Loetla Nabhalai) Chakri, Sri Suriyendra Chakri.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri has 1 recorded child: Rama V (Chulalongkorn) Chakri.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri married Debsirindra Chakri.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri has 1 recorded sibling: Rama III (Nangklao) Chakri.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri is recorded as King of Siam (Rama IV); Buddhist monk in the Chakri Dynasty family tree.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri's recorded native place is Bangkok, Siam.
4 ancestors and 10 descendants of Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri are recorded so far, within a tree of 23 people.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri is recorded as Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri's Grandson.
Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri is recorded in the Chakri Dynasty family tree on My rOoOts, alongside 22 other people.
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