Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Royalty

Question

In honor of her platinum Jubilee, we're featuring Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the Connection Finder next week, alongside other royalty.

Here's who we're getting started on:

• Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania, needs biography and picture
• Håkon II, King of Norway, needs picture
• Empress Josephine Bonaparte

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

Help us plan other themes to feature for the rest of 2022 here.

Comments

Were there any nominated profiles from last year when Prince Philip died that didn't make the final "cut"?  If so, perhaps they could be revisited.  

Answer 1

Agustín de Iturbide, who reigned briefly as Emperor of Mexico (he was deposed and exiled; he returned a year later and was condemned and executed); connected, has a short bio and picture.

Pedro I of Brazil (connected, short bio and image).

Comments

Thanks, C.

Answer 2

Susuga Tanumafili I (1843 - 1939) has a profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tanumafili-1 , picture, wikipedia article but is not yet connected. It would be good to introduce diversity by having a Samoan or somebody non-European

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Agree. Is there a profile for Liliʻuokalani?

Also, aren't there still royals in Japan?

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I see that she does have a profile and it was featured last year when Prince Philip died.

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Lili'uokalani can be found at Kapaakea-3

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Thanks, Anne.

Answer 3

Empress Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie "Sisi" of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary and Queen Consort of Croatia and Bohemia. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wittelsbach-90   She was the longest reigning Empress of Austria serving 44 years. Her profile is connected and it contains multiple images.

Comments

Thanks, Russell.

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We are 12th cousins, 3x removed.

Answer 4

 Jean Baptiste Bernadotte:  

Not royal at birth became King of Norway and Sweden. Has bio and is connected.

Comments

Sounds good. I'm not going to dig up a Swedish competitor.

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Thanks, Helen.

Answer 5

1. Queen Noor, the former queen of Jordan, is connected to the big tree. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hallaby-1
2. Morocco has a King and the current one is here and connected. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Alaouite-1
3. I think this profile might be the one for Naruhito, the current Emporer of Japan.  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/%E6%B5%A9%E5%AE%AE-1

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Maybe a Japanese emperor further back might be easier. I see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/明宮-1 is connected and has profile pic. I am connected to him which I am impressed by ;) and he is connected to quite a few of the current featured profiles. Needs a biography but has a Wikipedia article so should not be hard.

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Thanks, Beverly.

Answer 6

Empress Josephine has a royal pedigree? I looked at her wikitree page and there doesn't seem to be much to it, however, if you were to include Napoleon 1, her spouse, that does go somewhere, and, what's more, we're cousins. .

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Napoleon, too, has no royal pedigree. He only married his siblings and their children to the European aristocracy, or better yet, forced them into marriage...

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I read somewhere that Napoleon based his claim to the title of Emperor on descent from Charlemagne. No, I don't know of any paper trail he had leading there. Of course, as it is now claimed that we are all likely descendants of Charlemagne, we could have a mob of pretenders to the crown such as the world has never known before, if such is grounds for governing regally.

Answer 7

Since so many trees lead to him, I would think Charlemagne Carolingian (abt. 0748 - 0814) is a must have.

Along with another royal many have in their tree, Guillaume (William) "William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, King of England".  

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Alfred the Great, King of Wessex https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wessex-33  perhaps.

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Thanks, Joe and Frank.

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Ahh...  Good ol' 30th-great-grandfather Al!

Answer 8

Boudica is one of the very very far back profiles that is connected, sourced and has an excellent profile would qualify under the Royalty theme. Nobody would have a close connection, but many would have a direct relationship

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I wouldn't use Boudica, although she is known to have had 2 daughters, nothing much is known about them, and certainly there are no known descendants.

The profile of the daughter who supposedly married and had children, and probably through whom Boudica's profile is currently connected, is marked as Probably never existed.

There is so little information about this time period in history that I think Boudica will never be connected to the bigger tree.

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She is showing as connected to the big tree.  She comes up as my 51st GGM. If there are incorrect "connections" they shouldn't be there.

As far as how much or how little is known about her and this time period, her bio is much more complete than most on Wikitree.

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She absolutely should not be connected (there is no traceable genealogy that connects anyone now living to a named historical person who lived in Europe before 476AD).

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Unfortunately many of these genealogical connections to early medieval figures were added to WikiTree before the pre-1500 badge was introduced or restrictions on downloads, and they can take longer to dismantle or disprove.

Particularly in this instance, where two unnamed daughters of Boadica are known to have existed, but legends seem to have developed that gives at least one of them a name, husbands and children which are not confirmed by any primary source or sources.

Answer 9

You might want to check out Quest for Great-Grandparents: Royal Edition.

Answer 10

Queen Elizabeth II and Lisa are 15th cousins four times removed.  I would love to be apart of this project. 

Thank you,

Lisa

Answer 11

I have so many and I truly want to know what is the average and I have used Ancestry, FamilySearch, mytrueancestry.com, and of course Wikitree and it all checks out as far as the research goes. I want to find someone to help me sort it all out and what steps I can take to make sure those connections are as accurate as possible. What is the norm for Americans of European descent?