| In some cases of royal genealogy, it is hard to | | | | the second monarch of the House of Tudor. He |
| believe the claim. For example, some people claim | | | | was married six times for Heavens sake. A |
| to be descended from Charlemagne, King of the | | | | mnemonic for the fates of Henry's six wives to |
| Franks, and Emperor of the West. He lived over | | | | help remember what happened to them is |
| 1200 years ago and many people could be related | | | | "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, |
| to him, but it would be a miracle if any records | | | | survived". Divergence In Bloodlines One more thing |
| had survived through fire, flood, worms, and the | | | | and this is important. Royal family genealogy |
| fury of the Vikings, the Black Plague, and | | | | resources shows that in the beginning because |
| numerous wars to prove such a claim. But it's | | | | there were very few nobles with royal blood, a |
| such fun to look into your family tree and see if | | | | certain amount of intermingling of the bloodline |
| there was any royalty involved. What makes it | | | | had to take place, and thus any royal genealogy |
| daunting is that many royals had so many titles | | | | that is undertaken will surely reveal divergence in |
| and names that it is hard to nail them down. Only | | | | blood lines which may then meet up again a few |
| Blue-Blooded Persons Need Apply The main | | | | generations later when two people with distant |
| reason why there is a lot of information available | | | | relations would come together and thus formed a |
| when it comes to royal genealogy is that nobility | | | | new line of nobility. In A Nutshell Some royal |
| and royalty had deep interest in their own family | | | | family genealogy bloodlines are easy to trace |
| trees and thus were much taken up with | | | | while others become a tangled maze of conflicting |
| recording the genealogy of their members, | | | | data that precludes the entry in a family tree. |
| because it was very important to know who in | | | | And you may not want to brag about some |
| fact was noble and who was not. In the beginning, | | | | European royalty with fancy pedigrees because |
| royalty meant having blood that was superior | | | | there is a list a mile long of madness, congenital |
| (blue blood) and thus it became necessary to | | | | malformations, and debauchery in every royal |
| determine the exact role that nobles had to | | | | house in Europe, Not only that they were plagued |
| perform so that the possibility of contaminating | | | | by alcoholism, sadism, plain ugliness, stupidity, and |
| the bloodline would not arise. I'm Henry VIII - I | | | | syphilis. They tried to keep the royal line "pure" by |
| Am (Herman's Hermits) This led to generations of | | | | inbreeding and the results were devastating. |
| nobility experiencing problems related to congenital | | | | Perhaps the best course of action would be to let |
| aspects and the reason was that there were a | | | | sleeping dogs lie, but then you might miss all the |
| number of genes that were improperly formed | | | | fun in Royal Family genealogy resources |
| and were being passed from one generation to | | | | Walt Brown is a researcher/writer who has |
| another just so there would be no dilution in the | | | | studied genealogy for many years. Please visit for |
| purity of the bloodline. And, when this was coupled | | | | more details on how you can start your family |
| with constant marriages and also remarriages, the | | | | tree and explore where you came from. Many |
| royal genealogy took some very interesting turns, | | | | more articles on genealogy can be found at his |
| as was the case with King Henry VIII of England, | | | | website. |