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1566 - 1625 · Male · Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Son of Mary Stuart and Henry Stuart
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James VI and I Stuart
1566 - 1625
James VI and I was king of Scots from 1567 and king of England and Ireland from 1603, the first monarch to rule both kingdoms and the successor who followed the last of the Tudors. Born at Edinburgh Castle in June 1566 to Mary, Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnley, he became king of Scotland at thirteen months after his mother's abdication and was brought up by regents and tutors, among them the scholar George Buchanan.…
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Gen 1 · 1401 - 1437
Catherine of Valois was a French princess who became queen of England as the wife of Henry V and, by her second marriage, the grandmother of Henry VII. Born in Paris in 1401, the youngest daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria, she was married to Henry V in 1420 under the Treaty of Troyes, which was meant to settle the Hundred Years' War by making her husband heir to the French throne. Their only child succeeded as Henry VI of England at the age of nine months. Widowed at twenty, Catherine formed a lasting union with Owen Tudor, a Welshman of her household, and their sons Edmund and Jasper Tudor grew up under the protection of their royal half-brother. She died in 1437 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
Gen 1 · 1404 - 1444
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, was an English nobleman and soldier of the Lancastrian royal house and the father of Lady Margaret Beaufort. Born in 1404, he was a grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, through Gaunt's marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were legitimated by parliament but later barred from the succession by a clause of doubtful authority. Captured in France as a young man at the Battle of Bauge, he spent some seventeen years as a prisoner of war before being ransomed. He was created Duke of Somerset in 1443 and given command of an expensive expedition to France that achieved nothing and ended in his disgrace at court. He died in 1444, leaving his infant daughter Margaret as his heiress and, through her, the Tudor line.
Gen 1 · 1411 - 1460
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, was the English magnate whose claim to the throne opened the Wars of the Roses and whose sons became Edward IV and Richard III. Born in 1411, he inherited vast estates and a double descent from Edward III, through his father Richard of Conisburgh and his mother Anne Mortimer. He served as the king's lieutenant in France and in Ireland and twice as Lord Protector during the incapacity of Henry VI, pressing his case against the court party led by Queen Margaret of Anjou. In October 1460 parliament recognised him as heir to the throne in place of the king's son, but he died at the Battle of Wakefield that December. Through his granddaughter Elizabeth of York his blood passed into the Tudor line.
Gen 2 · 1442 - 1483
Edward IV was king of England from 1461 to 1470 and again from 1471 to 1483, the first monarch of the House of York and the maternal grandfather of Henry VIII. Born at Rouen in 1442, the eldest surviving son of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, he took the throne as a teenager after his father's death in the Wars of the Roses and won decisive victories at Towton, Barnet and Tewkesbury. His secret marriage to Elizabeth Woodville in 1464 alienated his chief ally, the Earl of Warwick, and drove him briefly into exile. His second reign brought England relative peace, a revived royal revenue and a fashionable court. He died in 1483, and three years later his eldest daughter Elizabeth of York married Henry VII.
Gen 2 · 1443 - 1509
Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, was the mother of Henry VII and the source of the Lancastrian claim that put the Tudors on the English throne. Born at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire in 1443, the only surviving child of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, she was a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt. Married to Edmund Tudor at twelve and widowed within a year, she gave birth to her only child at Pembroke Castle in 1457. Through the Yorkist decades she worked steadily for her exiled son's cause, helping to arrange the understanding with the Woodvilles that preceded Bosworth. As the king's mother she was a formidable landowner, a patron of printing and learning, and the founder of Christ's College and St John's College, Cambridge. She died in 1509.
Gen 2 · 1449 - 1478
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, was an English prince of the House of York, a younger brother of Edward IV and Richard III and the father of Margaret Pole. Born at Dublin Castle in 1449 while his father served as the king's lieutenant in Ireland, he was created Duke of Clarence at his brother's coronation in 1461. In 1469 he married Isabel Neville, elder daughter of the Earl of Warwick, and joined his father-in-law's rebellion against the king before changing sides again and being reconciled. Relations with Edward IV broke down once more after Isabel's death, and he was attainted by parliament and died in the Tower of London in February 1478. His daughter Margaret carried the Plantagenet bloodline into the Tudor century.
Gen 3 · 1457 - 1509
Henry VII was the first Tudor king of England, reigning from 1485 to 1509 after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Born at Pembroke Castle in 1457, the posthumous son of Edmund Tudor and Lady Margaret Beaufort, he spent most of his youth in exile in Brittany and France in the care of his uncle Jasper Tudor. His marriage to Elizabeth of York in January 1486 joined the rival houses of Lancaster and York and produced the combined red and white rose that became the dynasty's badge. He suppressed a series of pretenders, restored the crown's finances through close personal control of revenue and a formidable network of bonds, and married his children into the ruling houses of Spain and Scotland. He died at Richmond Palace in 1509.
Gen 3 · 1466 - 1503
Elizabeth of York was queen of England as the wife of Henry VII and the mother of Henry VIII, and the only Englishwoman to be the daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of kings. Born at the Palace of Westminster in 1466, she was the eldest child of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Her father's death in 1483 left her and her siblings declared illegitimate under Richard III, and her marriage to the victorious Henry Tudor in January 1486 was the settlement that closed the Wars of the Roses. She bore at least seven children, of whom Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary survived infancy, and was widely praised for her generosity, her piety and the dignity she brought to the new dynasty. She died at the Tower of London on her thirty-seventh birthday in 1503.
Gen 3 · 1473 - 1541
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was an English noblewoman and one of the last of the House of Plantagenet, a first cousin of Elizabeth of York and for many years a trusted figure at the court of Henry VIII. Born in 1473 to George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville, she was married to Sir Richard Pole, a loyal servant of Henry VII, and bore five children, among them Cardinal Reginald Pole. Henry VIII restored her to the earldom of Salisbury in her own right in 1513, a rare distinction for a woman, and appointed her governess to Princess Mary, to whom she remained devoted through the years of Mary's disgrace. Her family's opposition to the king's religious policy brought her attainder in 1539 and her death at the Tower of London in 1541.
Gen 4 · 1486 - 1502
Arthur, Prince of Wales, was the eldest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and heir to the English throne until his death at fifteen. Born at Winchester in September 1486, less than a year after his parents' marriage, he was named to evoke the legendary British king and to advertise the new dynasty's ambitions. He was betrothed in infancy to Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, and the two were married at St Paul's Cathedral in November 1501 in a match that anchored England's alliance with Spain. The couple were sent to Ludlow Castle to head the council of the Welsh Marches, and Arthur died there in April 1502. His younger brother became Henry VIII and in 1509 married his widow.
Gen 4 · 1489 - 1541
Margaret Tudor was queen of Scots as the wife of James IV and the grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots, the link through which the Stuarts eventually inherited the English throne. Born at the Palace of Westminster in 1489, the eldest daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, she was married to James IV in 1503 under the settlement known as the Treaty of Perpetual Peace. Widowed at Flodden in 1513, she served briefly as regent for her infant son James V, then married Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, by whom she had a daughter, Margaret Douglas. Scottish politics for the next two decades turned largely on the rivalry between her, the Douglases and the Duke of Albany. She died at Methven Castle in 1541.
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 Romanov family ruled the Russian Empire for more than three centuries, and this tree traces the dynasty's final direct line, from Emperor Nicholas I through to his great-great-grandson Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and the imperial household that perished with him in 1918. ## Origins of the Line The House of Romanov had governed Russia since 1613, but this tree begins with Nicholas I, who reigned from 1825 to 1855 and whose descendants form an unbroken line to the end of the dynasty. His son Alexander II, the 'Tsar Liberator' who abolished serfdom in 1861, married Maria Alexandrovna and fathered both his successor, Alexander III, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, who later governed Moscow and married Elizabeth Feodorovna, elder sister of the future Empress Alexandra. Alexander III, who married Maria Feodorovna (born Princess Dagmar of Denmark), presided over a conservative, stable reign before his early death in 1894 brought his son Nicholas II to the throne at the age of twenty-six. ## The Last Imperial Family Nicholas II married Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Alix of Hesse and a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, in 1894. Their five children, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei, grew up largely secluded within the palaces of Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof. Alexei's haemophilia, inherited through his mother, shaped the family's private life profoundly, drawing them into a controversial dependence on Grigori Rasputin. Nicholas's siblings, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, lived through the same collapse: Michael was briefly named Nicholas's successor in March 1917 before declining the crown, ending over three centuries of Romanov rule, while Xenia and Olga escaped Russia with their mother in 1919 and lived out their lives in exile. ## Notable Members and Their Legacy Beyond the throne, this branch of the family produced figures remembered for reasons other than politics: Elizabeth Feodorovna, widowed in 1905, founded a Moscow convent devoted to charitable work; the four Romanov sisters served as wartime nurses; and Anastasia became the subject of one of the twentieth century's most persistent identity mysteries, with impostor claims lasting decades until DNA testing in 2007-2009 confirmed her fate. Nicholas II himself remains a defining figure of early twentieth-century history, his reign bridging the industrializing, autocratic Russia of his father and the revolutionary Russia that followed. ## Significance The direct line traced here represents the final chapter of Romanov rule: a family whose personal history, from Nicholas I's conservative autocracy to Nicholas II's abdication, mirrors Russia's turbulent transition from empire to revolution. Its members remain among the most documented and searched royal figures in history. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Dynasty | House of Romanov | | Ruling dates covered | 1825-1917 (Nicholas I to Nicholas II's abdication) | | Last reigning Tsar | Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) | | Root figure | Nicholas II | | Notable in-laws | Alexandra Feodorovna (Hesse), Maria Feodorovna (Denmark), Elizabeth Feodorovna (Hesse) | | End of dynasty's rule | March 1917, with Michael Alexandrovich's refusal of the throne |
The Bachchan family is an Indian family of poets, film actors and industrialists, descended from the Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan of Allahabad and known above all for his elder son, the actor Amitabh Bachchan, whose own marriage and children have kept the family at the centre of Hindi cinema for more than half a century. ## Origins in Allahabad The family's documented line begins with Pratap Narayan Shrivastava, a Srivastava Kayastha from Babupatti in the Raniganj area of Pratapgarh district, in what is now Uttar Pradesh, who settled in Allahabad and worked in the city's paper trade. He and his wife Saraswati Devi had a son, Harivansh Rai, born in 1907. The boy was called "Bachchan" at home, a Hindi word meaning child, and he later took the nickname as his pen name. It has been the family surname ever since, which is why the Bachchans carry a name that began as a term of endearment rather than a caste or clan title. ## Poet, star and the generations after Harivansh Rai Bachchan became one of the most widely read Hindi poets of the twentieth century. His 1935 collection Madhushala is still recited across north India, and he combined writing with teaching English at Allahabad University, a Cambridge doctorate on W. B. Yeats, and service in the Ministry of External Affairs. His first wife, Shyama, died in 1936; his second, Teji Suri, was a Punjabi social activist who became a well-known figure in Delhi's cultural life. Their sons were Amitabh, born in 1942, and the businessman Ajitabh, born in 1947. Amitabh Bachchan's career, from Saat Hindustani in 1969 through Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay to Kaun Banega Crorepati, made him the single most recognisable figure in Indian popular culture. He married the actress Jaya Bhaduri in 1973, joining the family to the Bhaduris of Bhopal, whose head was the journalist and author Taroon Kumar Bhaduri. Their daughter Shweta became an author and columnist, and their son Abhishek an actor. ## The Nanda and Rai branches Two marriages widened the family considerably. In 1997 Shweta married Nikhil Nanda of Delhi, chairman of the Escorts Kubota engineering group, the son of the industrialist Rajan Nanda and of Ritu Nanda, herself a daughter of the film-maker Raj Kapoor. Their children are the entrepreneur Navya Naveli Nanda and the actor Agastya Nanda. In 2007 Abhishek married Aishwarya Rai, Miss World 1994 and one of Indian cinema's most internationally recognised stars, bringing in the Rai family of coastal Karnataka: her father Krishnaraj Rai, a biologist with the Indian Army, her mother Brindya, and her brother Aditya. ## Significance Few Indian families span so many fields in four generations: Hindi literature, mainstream cinema, heavy engineering and parliamentary politics, with Jaya Bachchan serving several terms in the Rajya Sabha. The Bachchan house in Mumbai has been a fixed point of Indian public life for decades, and the family's marriages have tied it to the Bhaduris, the Nandas and, through Ritu Nanda, to the Kapoor film dynasty. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founding figure | Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907-2003), Hindi poet | | Surname origin | "Bachchan", a childhood nickname meaning "child", adopted as a pen name | | Native place | Babupatti, Pratapgarh district, and Allahabad (Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh | | Best known member | Amitabh Bachchan (born 1942), actor | | Generations covered | Four, from Pratap Narayan Shrivastava to Navya Naveli and Agastya Nanda | | Families married in | Bhaduri of Bhopal, Nanda of Delhi, Rai of Mangalore | | Fields | Hindi poetry, cinema, business, politics |
James VI and I Stuart's recorded parents are Mary Stuart, Henry Stuart.
James VI and I Stuart is recorded as King of Scots, King of England and Ireland in the Tudor family tree.
James VI and I Stuart's recorded native place is Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.
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