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1925 - 1968 Β· Male Β· Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Robert Francis Kennedy
1925 - 1968
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
b. 1951
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
b. 1952
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
b. 1954
David Anthony Kennedy
1955 - 1984
Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill
b. 1956
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
1958 - 1997
Mary Kerry Kennedy
b. 1959
Christopher George Kennedy
b. 1963
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
b. 1965
Douglas Harriman Kennedy
b. 1967
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy
b. 1968
Robert F. Kennedy was United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a Senator from New York from 1965 until his death. The seventh child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1925, served in the Navy, and graduated from Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School. He made his name as counsel to the Senate committee investigating labour racketeerβ¦
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Gen 4 Β· b. 1967
Patrick J. Kennedy is an American politician and mental health advocate who represented Rhode Island in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2011. The youngest child of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy, he was born in 1967 and elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives at twenty-one while still a student at Providence College. In Congress he was a lead author of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which required insurers to cover mental health and addiction treatment on the same terms as physical illness. After leaving office he founded the Kennedy Forum and co-founded One Mind for Research, and co-wrote the book "A Common Struggle".
Gen 4 Β· b. 1954
Bobby Shriver is an American lawyer, journalist and activist, and the eldest child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver. Born in Chicago in 1954, he was educated at Yale and Yale Law School and worked as a reporter before turning to advocacy. With the musician Bono he co-founded the ONE Campaign and Product Red, which raised very large sums for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and he produced the "A Very Special Christmas" albums benefiting the Special Olympics. He served on the Santa Monica City Council from 2004 and as the city's mayor in 2010, campaigning on homelessness and veterans' housing. He is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and a brother of Maria Shriver.
Gen 4 Β· 1955 - 2018
Christopher Kennedy Lawford was an American actor, author and public health advocate, the son of the actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Born in Santa Monica in 1955, he was educated at Tufts, Boston College Law School and Harvard's School of Public Health, and appeared in soap operas including "All My Children" and "General Hospital" as well as films such as "Thirteen Days", in which the family's own history figured. He wrote several bestselling books on recovery from addiction, beginning with the memoir "Symptoms of Withdrawal", and served as a goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment with the United Nations. He died in 2018 at the age of sixty-three.
Gen 4 Β· b. 1955
Maria Shriver is an American journalist, author and former First Lady of California. Born in Chicago in 1955 to Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, she graduated from Georgetown University and built a broadcasting career at CBS and then NBC News, anchoring the "CBS Morning News", co-anchoring "Dateline NBC" and winning Peabody and Emmy recognition for her work. She married the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1986 and stepped back from network news during his governorship of California from 2003 to 2011, using the role to run the California Governor's Conference on Women and to publish "The Shriver Report" on women and poverty. She has written several bestselling books, founded the Women's Alzheimer's Movement and is the mother of Katherine and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Gen 4 Β· b. 1957
Caroline Kennedy is an American diplomat, lawyer and author, and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Born in New York in 1957, she spent her early childhood in the White House, graduated from Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School, and wrote or edited books on constitutional rights and poetry, including "In Our Defense" and "The Right to Privacy" with Ellen Alderman. She led fundraising for New York City public schools, served for years as president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and was United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and Ambassador to Australia from 2022. She married the designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986; their children are Rose, Tatiana and Jack Schlossberg.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1989
Katherine Schwarzenegger is an American author, the eldest child of the journalist Maria Shriver and the actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a great-granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Born in Los Angeles in 1989, she graduated from the University of Southern California and published her first book, "Rock What You've Got", on body image while still a student. She has since written "I Just Graduated, Now What?" and "The Gift of Forgiveness", a collection of interviews about forgiveness, as well as children's books, and she is a longtime advocate for animal rescue and adoption. She married the actor Chris Pratt in 2019.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1993
Jack Schlossberg is an American writer and political commentator, the youngest child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy. Born in New York in 1993, he graduated from Yale and later took law and business degrees at Harvard. He has introduced the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the Kennedy Library, written for Time and Vogue on politics and public service, and built a large following for the political commentary videos he posts on social media. He campaigned publicly in the 2024 election cycle and in 2025 announced a run for Congress in New York. He is the brother of Rose and Tatiana Schlossberg.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1993
Patrick Schwarzenegger is an American actor and model, the son of the journalist Maria Shriver and the actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a great-grandson of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Born in Los Angeles in 1993, he studied business at the University of Southern California while beginning a modelling career, and has appeared in films including "Midnight Sun", "Daniel Isn't Real" and "The Staircase" on television. He drew wide attention in 2025 for his role in the third season of the HBO series "The White Lotus". He is the brother of the author Katherine Schwarzenegger and a nephew of Timothy, Mark, Anthony and Bobby Shriver.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1988
Rose Schlossberg is an American writer and performer, the eldest child of Caroline Kennedy and the designer Edwin Schlossberg and the first grandchild of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Born in New York in 1988 and named for her great-grandmother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, she studied at Harvard and took a master's degree in interactive telecommunications at New York University. She co-created and starred in the satirical web series "End Times Girls Club", which used comedy to address anxiety about the future, and has worked in video and performance art in New York. She is the sister of the journalist Tatiana Schlossberg and the writer Jack Schlossberg.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1990
Tatiana Schlossberg is an American journalist and author who writes about climate change and the environment. Born in New York in 1990, the second child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, she studied history at Yale and took a master's degree at the University of Oxford. She reported on science and climate for The New York Times and has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and other publications. Her book "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have" examines the hidden carbon and water costs of everyday goods, from streaming video to denim. She is the sister of Rose Schlossberg and Jack Schlossberg.
Gen 4 Β· b. 1959
Timothy Shriver is an American disability rights leader and educator who has chaired the Special Olympics since 1996, succeeding his mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver as head of the movement she founded. Born in Washington in 1959, he was educated at Yale, the Catholic University of America and the University of Connecticut, where he took a doctorate in education, and he began his career teaching in New Haven public schools and co-founding the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning. Under his leadership Special Olympics expanded to nearly two hundred countries and added health screening and inclusive schooling programmes. He is a producer of the film "Amistad", the author of "Fully Alive", and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
The Rockefeller family is an American business and philanthropic dynasty founded on the Standard Oil fortune of John D. Rockefeller, whose descendants have shaped American banking, conservation, medicine, modern art and national politics across five generations. From a modest upstate New York farmhouse the family rose to control the largest industrial enterprise of the Gilded Age, then spent the twentieth century converting that fortune into foundations, museums, parks and public office. ## Origins The line begins with William Avery Rockefeller (1810-1906), a traveling salesman from Granger, New York, and his wife Eliza Davison (1813-1889), who married in 1837 and raised six children in Richford, Moravia and Owego before the family moved to Ohio. Their eldest son, John D. Rockefeller, began as a Cleveland bookkeeper, entered oil refining in 1863 and incorporated the Standard Oil Company in 1870 together with his younger brother William Rockefeller. By the 1880s Standard Oil refined the great majority of American petroleum, until the Supreme Court ordered its dissolution in 1911. ## Notable members John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller had four children who reached adulthood, among them the Chicago arts patron Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the family's only son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. With Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art, John Jr. had six children who defined the family's public face: Abby "Babs" Rockefeller Mauze, the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, Nelson Rockefeller, who served four terms as Governor of New York and then as Vice President of the United States, the conservationist and venture capitalist Laurance Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas, and the banker David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan. Their children, known within the family as the Cousins, include Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the Asmat art collector Michael Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller of Arkansas, the economist Neva Goodwin and the Synergos founder Peggy Dulany. ## Significance The family's lasting mark is institutional rather than dynastic. The Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Colonial Williamsburg, Lincoln Center, the Asia Society and several national parks all trace their founding or their endowment to a Rockefeller. Few American families have moved so completely from industrial fortune to organized philanthropy and elected office within three generations. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Surname | Rockefeller | | Origin | Richford, New York, United States | | Founder | John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) | | Family business | Standard Oil, later Chase Manhattan Bank | | Known for | Standard Oil, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art | | Public offices held | Vice President of the United States, Governor of New York, Governor of Arkansas, United States Senator | | Generations covered | Five, from William Avery Rockefeller to the fourth-generation Cousins |
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 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 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 |
Robert Francis Kennedy's recorded parents are Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy has 11 recorded children: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., David Anthony Kennedy, Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Mary Kerry Kennedy, Christopher George Kennedy, Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Douglas Harriman Kennedy, Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy married Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy has 8 recorded siblings: Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Rose Marie Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy Smith, Edward Moore Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy is recorded as US Attorney General and Senator from New York in the Kennedy family tree.
Robert Francis Kennedy's recorded native place is Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.
6 ancestors and 13 descendants of Robert Francis Kennedy are recorded so far, within a tree of 56 people.
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