Public Family Trees/Romanov/Maria Alexandrovna
1824 - 1880 ยท Female ยท Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Maria Alexandrovna
1824 - 1880
Maria Alexandrovna, born Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, was Empress consort of Russia as the wife of Alexander II, whom she married in 1841. She was known for her piety and charitable work, founding hospitals and schools and supporting the Russian Red Cross movement. She and Alexander II had eight children, including Alexander III, who succeeded his father as emperor, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. Her hโฆ
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Gen 1 ยท 1796 - 1855
Nicholas I was Emperor of Russia from 1825 until his death in 1855, the third son of Paul I and younger brother of Alexander I, whom he succeeded after the Decembrist uprising. His nearly thirty-year reign was marked by military expansion, the codification of Russian law, and a conservative autocracy summarized in the doctrine of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality. He is the great-grandfather of Nicholas II and the founder of the branch of the Romanov dynasty covered by this tree: his son Alexander II succeeded him, beginning the direct line that ended with the last tsar.
Gen 5 ยท 1895 - 1918
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna was the eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. Born in 1895, she grew up alongside her sisters Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and her younger brother Alexei, within the close-knit and largely secluded world of the imperial family. She trained as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War, working in a military hospital at Tsarskoye Selo alongside her mother and sister Tatiana. Thoughtful and musically gifted, she was reportedly reluctant about prospective political marriages proposed for her. After her father's abdication in 1917, she remained with her family in captivity until her death alongside them in 1918, at the age of 22.
Gen 5 ยท 1897 - 1918
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna was the second daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1897. Tall and often described as the most poised of the four sisters, she was especially close to her mother and effectively ran the household during her father's absences at military headquarters. Like her elder sister Olga, she trained and served as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War, performing surgical assisting duties at the family's private hospital in Tsarskoye Selo. She, along with her sisters Olga, Maria, and Anastasia and her brother Alexei, remained with their parents throughout the family's captivity following the 1917 abdication, until her death with them in 1918.
Gen 5 ยท 1899 - 1918
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna was the third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1899. Known within the family for her warmth, physical strength, and fondness for children and soldiers, she was considered the most sociable of the four sisters. Together with her elder sisters Olga and Tatiana and younger sister Anastasia, she shared a close bond expressed in the family's habit of signing letters with the joint initials 'OTMA.' She spent her final months confined with her parents and siblings following Nicholas II's 1917 abdication, first at Tsarskoye Selo, then Tobolsk, and finally Yekaterinburg, where she died with her family in 1918 at the age of 19.
Gen 5 ยท 1901 - 1918
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna was the fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1901. Lively and known for her sharp wit, she was the youngest of the four sisters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and herself, who signed letters jointly as 'OTMA.' She died with her family in 1918, but persistent rumors that she had survived produced decades of impostor claims, most famously by Anna Anderson, making her the subject of enduring public fascination. DNA analysis of remains recovered near Yekaterinburg in 2007 and identified in 2009 confirmed that she died with the rest of her family, finally resolving the mystery that had surrounded her fate for most of the twentieth century.
Gen 3 ยท 1847 - 1928
Maria Feodorovna, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress consort of Russia as the wife of Alexander III, whom she married in 1866. The daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, she was the sister of Britain's Queen Alexandra, placing her at the center of Europe's interconnected royal houses. She and Alexander III had six children, including Nicholas II, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. After the family's downfall she was among the few Romanovs to escape Russia, eventually returning to Denmark, where she lived until her death in 1928, having outlived her son Nicholas II and most of his family.
Gen 3 ยท 1864 - 1918
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, was the elder sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, whom she married in 1884. Widowed in 1905, she withdrew from court life, sold her jewels, and founded the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary in Moscow, where she lived as a nun and devoted herself to charitable and medical work among the city's poor. Widely respected for her piety and humanitarian work even amid revolutionary upheaval, she was arrested with other members of the imperial family after the revolution and died in 1918, the same year as her sister and the Romanov branch she had married into.
Gen 5 ยท 1904 - 1918
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich was the fifth child and only son of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1904 and heir apparent to the Russian throne. He inherited haemophilia through his mother's line, a condition that caused recurring life-threatening episodes and shaped the private life of the imperial family, including its association with Grigori Rasputin, who was consulted for the boy's care. Despite his illness, he was reported to be lively and close to his four sisters. His father's abdication in March 1917 named him as successor before Nicholas instead passed the throne to his brother Michael. Alexei remained with his family throughout their captivity and died alongside them in 1918, aged 13.
Gen 4 ยท 1872 - 1918
Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was Empress consort of Russia as the wife of Nicholas II, whom she married in 1894. A granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, she carried the gene for haemophilia, which affected her only son, Alexei, and shaped much of the private life of her later years. She and Nicholas II had five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. Deeply religious and increasingly reclusive, she became associated with the controversial figure Grigori Rasputin, whom the family consulted over Alexei's illness. She was the elder sister of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. She died alongside her husband and children in 1918.
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 |
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 |
Maria Alexandrovna has 2 recorded children: Alexander III, Sergei Alexandrovich.
Maria Alexandrovna married Alexander II.
Maria Alexandrovna is recorded as Empress consort of Russia in the Romanov family tree.
Maria Alexandrovna's recorded native place is Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse.
0 ancestors and 11 descendants of Maria Alexandrovna are recorded so far, within a tree of 17 people.
Maria Alexandrovna is recorded as Nicholas II's Paternal Grandmother.
Maria Alexandrovna is recorded in the Romanov family tree on My rOoOts, alongside 16 other people.
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