Public Family Trees/Chakri Dynasty/Sri Suriyendra Chakri
1767 - 1836 · Female · Bangkok, Siam
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Sri Suriyendra Chakri
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…
Born1767
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Gen 1 · 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, commissioning a revised legal code and restoring Buddhist temples and texts. His son with chief consort Amarindra, Isarasundhorn, succeeded him as Rama II. He reigned until his death in 1809 and remains the dynasty's namesake, its royal house named for his pre-royal title, Chao Phraya Chakri.
Gen 3 · 1788 - 1851
Phra Nangklao, known as Rama III, reigned as King of Siam from 1824 to 1851, succeeding his father Rama II ahead of his more senior half-brother, the future Rama IV. Born in 1788, he expanded Siam's trade with China and, later in his reign, with Western powers, while overseeing military campaigns that secured Siamese influence over Laos and Cambodia. A devout patron of Buddhism, he sponsored the restoration and construction of numerous temples, including Wat Pho and Wat Arun in Bangkok. He never married a principal queen and left no heir positioned to succeed him, so on his death in 1851 the throne passed to his half-brother Mongkut, who became Rama IV.
Gen 5 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 1 · 1737 - 1826
Queen Amarindra (born Nak) was the chief consort of King Rama I and the first queen consort of the Chakri dynasty. Born around 1737 in Samut Songkhram, she married the future king before his rise to the throne and supported him through the turbulent years following the fall of Ayutthaya and the Thonburi period. As queen, she was known for her piety and patronage of Buddhist temples in the new capital of Bangkok. Her son Isarasundhorn succeeded his father as Rama II. She lived to see her son and grandson (Rama III) both reign, dying in 1826 at an advanced age, one of the longest-lived consorts of the early dynasty.
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 House of Glücksburg is the reigning royal house of Denmark and Norway and the former royal house of Greece, a branch of the ancient House of Oldenburg whose modern members all descend from King Christian IX of Denmark (1818 to 1906) and his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel. Through the marriages of their six children, a minor ducal family from the Danish-German borderland became the common ancestor of monarchs in Copenhagen, Oslo and Athens, of a British queen consort, of a Russian empress, and of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ## Origins The house takes its name from Glücksburg, a small castle town in Schleswig, and belongs to the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg line of the House of Oldenburg, which had held the Danish throne since 1448. Christian IX was a prince of that cadet branch with no expectation of ruling until the childless Frederik VII made the Danish succession an open European question. Christian succeeded him in 1863, and within months his second son was elected King of the Hellenes as George I, planting the family in Greece for 110 years. In 1905 his grandson Prince Carl of Denmark accepted the Norwegian throne as Haakon VII, giving Norway its own dynasty after centuries of union with Denmark and then Sweden. ## Notable members Christian IX was nicknamed the father-in-law of Europe: his daughter Alexandra married Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and his daughter Dagmar became Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, mother of Nicholas II. The Danish line runs through Christian X, Frederik IX and Queen Margrethe II, a trained archaeologist and illustrator who reigned from 1972 until her abdication in 2024, to her son King Frederik X and Queen Mary. The Norwegian line runs from Haakon VII and Queen Maud through Olav V, an Olympic sailing champion, to King Harald V and Crown Prince Haakon. The Greek line produced Constantine I, Paul, Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie, Queen Sofía of Spain, and Prince Andrew's son Philip, consort to Elizabeth II for 73 years. ## Significance No other western dynasty connects as many surviving monarchies in a single documented lineage. Two of Europe's ten reigning royal families, Denmark and Norway, are Glücksburg in the male line, and the house also sits in the ancestry of the British and Spanish royal families. Its history traces the transformation of European monarchy itself: from the dynastic matchmaking of the 1860s, through the loss of the Russian and Greek thrones, to the constitutional, publicly accountable monarchies of modern Scandinavia. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | House name | Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg | | Founding figure of the modern house | Christian IX of Denmark (1818 to 1906) | | Ancestral seat | Glücksburg Castle, Schleswig | | Thrones held | Denmark (1863 to present), Greece (1863 to 1973), Norway (1905 to present) | | Current heads of state | Frederik X of Denmark, Harald V of Norway | | Best-known member abroad | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921 to 2021) | | Nickname of its founder | The father-in-law of Europe |
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 |
Sri Suriyendra Chakri has 1 recorded child: Rama IV (Mongkut) Chakri.
Sri Suriyendra Chakri married Rama II (Buddha Loetla Nabhalai) Chakri.
Sri Suriyendra Chakri is recorded as Queen consort in the Chakri Dynasty family tree.
Sri Suriyendra Chakri's recorded native place is Bangkok, Siam.
0 ancestors and 11 descendants of Sri Suriyendra Chakri are recorded so far, within a tree of 23 people.
Sri Suriyendra Chakri is recorded as Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) Chakri's Daughter-in-law.
Sri Suriyendra Chakri is recorded in the Chakri Dynasty family tree on My rOoOts, alongside 22 other people.
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