Lutheran Aristocracy

Lutheran Aristocracy

House of Ludovingian

Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia

:Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia

::Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia           

::Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, Patron of Wolfram von Eschenbach

:::Jutta  

::::Henry III, Margrave of Meissen    

:::::Albert II, Margrave of Meissen   

::::::Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen (Became Heir to House of Hohenstaufen)

::::Herman I, Count of Henneberg

:::Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

::::Hermann II, Landgrave of Thuringia

::::Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant

:::::Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse

:::Irmgard

::::Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

::::Bernhard I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

::::Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

:::::Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

:::Henry Raspe

:::Conrad, Grand Master of The Teutonic Knights

Reformation Era (16th Century)

Philip I, Langrave of Hesse (Heir of Henry I Landgrave of Hesse)

John the Steadfast Elector of Saxony (Heir of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen)

Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg as well as his brothers Otto and Francis 

Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (Another Patrilineal Descendent of Fredrick of Meissen)

Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Philip I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

John V Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (it was his brother who converted the family but he had no children)

Jobst II, Count of Hoya

Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe

Barnim XI, Duke of Pomerania

Philip I, Duke of Pomerania

Philip III Count of Waldeck and his nephew Count Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen

George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard and his brother Ulrich

Charles II Margrave of Baden-Durlach

John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg

Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (Mother and Wife were both Princesses of Hesse)

Christopher, Count of Oldenburg

Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg

John III Duke of Cleves (Mother was another descendent of Henry Landgrave of Hesse)

Albert of Prussia last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and first Duke of Prussia

Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg.  

(Progenitors of the later Kings of Prussia and Kaisers.  Their common ancestor was Albrecht III)

John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin a brother of Joachim II Hector.

Louis V, Elector Palatine

Frederick II, Elector Palatine

Otto Henry, Elector Palatine

John II, Count Palatine of Simmern

William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg 

Gustav I of Sweden

Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg

Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia

Christian III of Denmark 

Bavarian Illuminati Members (usually born in the 1740s or 1750s)

Ernest II Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Male-preference Primogeniture heir of John the Steadfast)

Prince August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Karl August Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Male-only Primogeniture heir of John the Steadfast)

Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel

Prince Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt

?Louis X, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

?Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel (1721-1792)

?Frederick William III of Prussia father of Kaiser Wilhelm I

Nazi Party Members and Sympathizers (alive in the 1930s and 40s)

House of Hohenzollern

Kaiser Wilhelm II sometimes expressed support for Hitler but sometimes condemned him

:Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (NSDAP – 24)

::Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia (NSDAP – 534782)

:Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia

::Prince Karl Franz of Prussia (NSDAP – 2407422)

:Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia

Princess Margaret of Prussia (NSDAP – 4814690)

Princess Marianne of Prussia (NSDAP – 4628851)

British Royals

Duke of Windsor/King Edward VIII (Male-preference primogeniture heir of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg)

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 4969451)

:Gottfried Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (NSDAP – 402307)

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Charles Edward Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 2560843)

:Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 1037966)

:Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 7213588)

Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland

:Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (NSDAP – 7900128)

:Berthold, Margrave of Baden

Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland

:Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (SS) (NSDAP – 504973)

:Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick

Other Princes of Saxony

Boris III of Bulgaria (Nazi Collaborator during WWII)

Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 300354)

Prince Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 196633)

Prince Leopoldine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NSDAP – 1453322)

Georg of Saxe-Meiningen (NSDAP – 2594794)

Bernhard Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (NSDAP – 898842)

Ernst II Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (NSDAP – 4868932)

:Georg Moritz Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg

House of Hesse

Frederick Charles Louis Constantine Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (NSDAP – 4814689)

:Philip Landgrave of Hesse (NSDAP – 418991)

:Prince Wolfgang of Hesse-Cassel (NSDAP – 1794944)

:Prince Christopher of Hesse-Cassel (SS) (NSDAP – 696176)

Chlodwig Langrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

:Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (SS) (NSDAP – 1187621)

:Alexander Friedrich of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (NSDAP – 1184026)

:Princess Viktoria Cacilie (NSDAP – 3515493)

Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

:Louis Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (NSDAP – 5900506)

:Georg Donatus Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse  (NSDAP – 3766312)

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (NSDAP – 3766313)

Prince Richard of Hesse (NSDAP – 1203662)

House of Lippe

Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe (NSDAP – 237533)

Prince Bernhard of Lippe

:Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (NSDAP – 2583009)

:Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld (NSDAP – 5854038)

Leopold IV Prince of Lippe

:Ernst Hereditary Prince of Lippe (SS) (NSDAP – 88835)

:Prince Leopold Bernhard of Lippe

:Prince Chlodwig of Lippe

Wolrad Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (NSDAP – 3681098)

Prince Stephan of Schaumburg-Lippe (NSDAP – 309344)

Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (NSDAP – 95146)

Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (NSDAP – 3681097)

Others

Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (NSDAP – 3452693)

Duchess Edda Charlotte of Anhalt (NSDAP – 4843880)

Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt (NSDAP – 7267717)

Princess Pauline of Württemberg

Nikolaus Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (NSDAP – 4085803)

Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg (NSDAP – 161001)

Josias Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (SS) (NSDAP – 160025)

:Princess Margarethe of Waldeck and Pyrmont (NSDAP – 8562493)

:Prince Wittekind of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler were his Godfathers)

House of Windsor's succession from Hohenstaufen

Frederick Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Margaret of Sicily, Wife of Albert II Margrave of Meissen

Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen

Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen

Frederick III, the Strict

Frederick I, Elector of Saxony

Frederick II, Elector of Saxony

Ernest, Elector of Saxony

Johann the Steadfast Elector of Saxony

Johann Friedrich I, Elector of Saxony

Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, Wife of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha

Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Wife of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria

King Edward VII

King George V

King George VI

Queen Elizabeth II

Charles, Prince of Wales

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

Prince George of Cambridge

J. R. Church's Guardians of The Grail 1989

My copy of this book was already an old used copy when I first obtained it years ago, I think when Church was still with us, everything highlighted and underlined in it was already like that when I got it.  I used to be a big fan of Prophecy In The News but never agreed with them on everything and over the last decade my views on a lot of subjects have changed.

This book is an American Evangelical Christian response to/appropriation of the Holy Blood, Holy Grail/Priory of Sion conspiracy theory before it was cool, before The DaVinci Code made it a mainstream cultural phenomenon.

Starting on page 14 is a genealogy of the supposed Grail Bloodline that has a lot of historical errors in it.  But I don't know how much that is Church's own fault and how much comes from the original Priory of Sion hoax documents forged by Pierre Plantard.

It starts as a genealogy of the Merovingian Dynasty which seems pretty accurate down to Dagobert II.  Then it lists a Sigisbert IV as a son of Dagobert II which is the foundational claim of the Priory of Sion hoax.  It's not impossible that Dagobert II had a son not known to the contemporary historians because of how weak our documentation of that era is in general, and also because the Merovingians tended to delay Baptizing and officially naming their children.  So it's a plausible claim, but right now any genealogy listing Dagobert II as having a known documented son is doing so based on that hoax.

So everyone on this list from Sigisbert IV until the first Eustace of Boulogne is probably purely the fiction of the original hoax.  I don't know whether or not the original hoax claimed Godfrey of Bouillon and his brothers were part of this bloodline or if that was simply added by Crusades Nerds later.  Their real Pater-Lineal ancestry can only be traced back as far as Baldwin I Margrave of Flanders who lived in the 800s and married a daughter of Charles The Bald an heir of Charlemagne.  It's not impossible he descended from an unknown cadet branch of the Merovingians, but it can't be proven.

This genealogy then makes two weird mistakes at the First Crusade generation.  1. It claims they had a sister named Alex who was married to Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor which is not the case, all known children of Eustace II of Boulogne were sons.  Henry IV had a couple different wives, none were directly related to the houses of Boulogne or Flanders.  2. It merges Baldwin I of Jerusalem who was a brother of Godfrey with Baldwin II of Jerusalem who descended from different noble houses, so that it can claim one individual has both the ancestors of Baldwin I and descendants of Baldwin II.

The next weird error is pretty much claiming all descendants of Fulk V of Anjou King of Jerusalem descended from Melisande of Jerusalem, in fact the Plantagenet Dynasty as well as other later Counts of Anjou descended from Fulk V's first wife.

However the most randomly weird claim of the genealogy is that Philip II Augustus of France was a son of Henry II of England.  That one really baffles me.

But from Philip II Augustus of France down to Karl Von Habsburg on page 18 it is accurate.  The next section which is about tracing the Holy Roman Emperors to the Habsburgs I can't comment on, I haven't looked into that history nearly as much.

The main objective of this genealogy is to trace the House of Valois-Anjou to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.  Amusingly the Valois Dynasty does descend from Henry II of England.

The Kings of France descend from Henry II of England starting with Louis IX and his full brother Charles of Anjou.  Their maternal grandmother was Eleanor of England a daughter of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.  Meanwhile their paternal Grandmother descended from a daughter of Fulk V,  and was also descended from the counts of Hainaut (another offshoot of Flanders) through a sister of the first Latin Emperors.

Louis IX was the direct Paterlineal ancestor of Charles Valois as well as the Bourbon Dynasty, and Charles of Anjou was the direct Paterlineal ancestor of Margaret, Countess of Anjou and Maine the wife of Charles Valois from whom he inherited his claim to Anjou.  Charles Valois through his mother descended from Agnes of Antioch a granddaughter of a sister of Melisande, and from Yolanda of Flanders & Peter II of Courtenay, as well as Eudokia Komnene a Byzantine Princess.

I talked about the Valois Dynasty including a little bit it's connection to Anjou in the post I made in April about the Crusader Crown of Jerusalem.  But ultimately that focused more on the Burgundian branch of the Valois Dynasty which descended from the youngest son of King John II of France.  The Valois-Anjou dynasty descends from an older son of John II, Louis I Duke of Anjou.

Direct Paterlineal descent from the Valois-Anjou line ends with sons of Rene I of Anjou and so the line continued long term through his daughter Yolande of Anjou who married Frederick of Lorraine.  In addition to being the progenitors of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty they also sired the Guise, the arch enemies of the Hugenots during the French Wars of Religion.

Rene I of Anjou is also on the list of alleged Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion, but it's weird because that timeline has him Grand Master already as a nine year old in 1418.  His family also played a role in the history of Jeanne d'Arc.

The Knights Templars and the Outremer Crown of Jerusalem.

Every European Noble who has formally and publicly claimed the title "King of Jerusalem" since the Crusader states fell has done so via some claim of succession from Baldwin II of Jerusalem.  But an argument can be made that Baldwin II was a usurper to begin with.

Now in my opinion the Crusader States were invalid to begin with, Christians should view Jesus as the only King of Jerusalem and that land as belonging to The Jews.  But this post is being done in the context of what old fashioned Feudal European logic was.

Godfrey de Bouillon declined the title of King in 1099 and instead went by Protector of the Holy Sepulcher under which title he founded the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.  By both the same father and mother Godfrey had an older brother and a younger brother, both of whom also took part in the first Crusade.

It was his younger brother Baldwin I who proclaimed himself the first King of Jerusalem.  Which was funny because even by the "Right of Conquest" logic he didn't take part in the siege of Jerusalem, he was too busy Little Fingering his way to the thrown of Edessa.

Their older bother Eustace III of Boulogne did take part in the siege of Jerusalem.  When Baldwin I died in 1118 he was offered the Throne of Jerusalem, at first he was hesitant to take it but then decided he would.  But then when on the way there he heard Baldwin II had been crowned and he decided to just head back home, he died in less then a decade anyway.

He only had one child, a daughter, Matilda of Boulogne.  She married Stephen of England and had five children, however only Marie I Countess of Boulogne had any children of her own.  Basically long term descent from Eustace III of Boulogne comes entirely from Matilda of Boulogne's marriage to Henry I Duke of Barbant, more often then not through Henry II Duke of Barbant.  His sons include the founder of the House of Hesse, but the claims to the title of Duke of Barbant all descend from Henry III Duke of Barbant, who was succeeded by three straight John of Barbants.  Henry II of Barbant's first wife was a descendant of Fredrick Barbarossa, and his second wife descended from Barbarossa's sister.

The Paterlineal ancestry of the Counts of Boulogne go back to Adalulf Count of Boulogne, his brother Arnulf I of Flanders would be the progenitor of other nobles involved in the Crusades including the Counts of Flanders and the Latin Emperors of Constantinople.  Their mother was  Ælfthryth of Wessex daughter of Alfred The Great.  Their father was Baldwin II of Flanders, son of Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith a great-granddaughter of Charlemagne.  Baldwin of Flanders' ancestry isn't known.

The Grandson of Charlemagne who was Judith's father was Charles The Bald, specifically he inherited West Francia, which basically became what we now know as France, though Flanders and Barbant specifically are in Belgium.  Judith was the first born child of Charles The Bald, older then any of his sons.  So an argument can be made that especially once all the male line Carolingian dies out the Heirs to Flanders became the rightful heirs to France.

Eustace III also became one of the early Patrons of the Knights Templars.  However another early noble supporter and maybe also member of the Knights Templars was Fulk V of Anjou.  A number of Grand Masters of the order also came from Anjou.  The Count of Anjou during the third Crusade was King Richard I of England, the Grand Master of the Templars at that time was Robert de Sable who was a very close ally to Richard.  Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the origin of associating the Templars with the Holy Grail, it also associates the Grail with a royal family from Anjou which produces Parzival himself and others.

In 1290 Charles of Valois became Count of Anjou by his marriage to Margaret Countess of Anjou.  He very strongly publicly opposed the execution of Jacques de Molay last Grand Master of the Knights Templars in 1314.  The sudden tragedies that befell the family of Philip IV following this resulted in the descendants of Charles and Margaret ruling France for over 200 years till the rise of the Bourbon Dynasty.

The House of Valois would go on to make a number of dynastic connections to descendants of Henry II of Barbant.  But the most significant of them was Philip the Bold's marriage to Margaret III of Flanders, through which their descendants would inherit the titles of Count of Flanders (and with it a potential claim to being the Latin Emperor) and Duke of Barbant, thus making them the heirs to Eustace III's claim to the Throne of Jerusalem.

The thing is, there is no need to look at weird Secret History to find a continuation of The Knights Templars.  The King of Portugal in 1307-1314 never went along with their suppression and thus the Templars in Portugal became the Military Order of Christ which continues to this day.  From 1417-1460 the Grand Master of the Order of Christ was Henry the Navigator, a younger son of the then King of Portugal, his mother was also a Lancaster. In January of 1430 his Sister Isabella of Portugal married Philip The Good.

Philip The Good was a paternal grandson of Philip the Bold.  At this time he had already inherited the title Count of Flanders and before 1430 is over he'll become Duke of Barbant upon the death of his paternal Cousin.  He celebrated this marriage by founding the Order of the Golden Fleece, and to this day the Grandmasters of that Order are the direct heirs of Philip the Good through Charles the Bold his son by Isabella. Charles the Bold's only child was a daughter Mary of Burgundy who married Maximilian Holy Roman Emperor, they were the grandparents of Emperor Charles V and Ferdinand making the Hapsburg Dynasty the Heirs of Barbant and Flanders right down to the current Karl von Hapsburg, and the King of Spain.

An offshoot of that order is the Order of Saint George which became the Imperial Order of St George.  Who's Grand Master is also still Karl von Hapsburg.  All of these orders are Roman Catholic orders, some more wiling to let non Catholics in then others.

Philip The Good was on the side of the English during much of the latter phase of the Hundred Years War, it was he who captured Jeanne d'Arc and the Cardinal who orchestrated her trail was a close associate of his.  He would switch sides later however.

Evidence that Thermusa was a daughter of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar

I'm unsure how much this fits here, I want to do a post on it, but am not comfortable doing it on any of my other Blogs.  But it's something I may need to reference for a future project.  All of these observations, and the main conclusion, which others have made before me.

In May 44 BC Cicero wrote to a friend indicating that Cleopatra (then in Rome) was pregnant with Caesar's child:

"I am grieved to hear of Tertia's loss of an expected child...(but) I should be glad of such a loss in the case of the queen (Cleopatra) and that [expected] scion of the breed of Caesar.​" [Cicero, ad Atticum, 14:20:2, 14:20:2, 15:1:5, 15:4:4]

There is also a coin of Cleopatra's which shows her suckling a child, usually interpreted to be Caesarion, and marked 'Kupr' (Cyprus).  Cleopatra only acquired control of Cyprus in 43 BC, when time Caesarion who was born in 47 BC would be too old to be a suckling infant.

[Update April 4th 2024: The only part of this post I still agree with is Cleopatra having an addition child with Julius Caesar and only her being d daughter explains escaping further mention.  But I no longer thikn Augustus would have given such a valuable marriage to the Parthians.  Thermusa was killed when she was because her people viewed her a low born.

Also much of this post was copy/pasting information from elsewhere I no longer remember the source of.  So I'm Sorry about that.]

The Boleyn Family

The Boleyns descend from a half brother of Godfrey de Boulogne and Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

Eustace II Count of Boulogne in addition to his 3 children by Ida also had a son out of wedlock, who's line moved to England where the surname Boulogne eventually changed to Bolyen.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Eustace_II,_Count_of_Boulogne
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/annes-roots/

I've also talked about how Eustace had documented descent from Charlemagne before.

The sisters Mary Boleyn and Anne Bolyen were also through their mother descended from the Howards Dukes of Norfolk.  Who descend from the Plantagenet dynasty.  Also at this time the ties between the Howards and the FitzAlans of Arundel were beginning, they hadn't fully become the same family as they are now yet, but regardless Anne and Mary were both direct descendants of Edmund FitzAlan 9th Earl of Arundel.

The FitzAlans were in origin the same family as the Stuarts, coming from Brittany in the time of William The Conqueror.

Anne Bolyen has no confirmed descendants alive today, but Mary through her two Carey children has many.  Both Carey children were conceived during the time of her affair with Henry VIII, and had been observed to kind of resemble Henry.  That she named the boy Henry is also interesting.

Wikipedia used to say of Mary.

"Mary Boleyn is a distant ancestress of many notables including Winston Churchill, John Davison Rockefeller, P. G. Wodehouse, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon [the late Queen Mother and therefore the Queen], Diana, Princess of Wales, Sarah, Duchess of York, Charles Darwin and Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr."

In the case of Darwin, I was curious if it's through Erasmus or not, it is through Erasmus wife it turns out, and that makes her also an ancestor of Francis Galton.  The Rockerfeller and Churchill connections are of course very interesting to conspiracy theorists as well.

As far as the connection to the current Queen Elizabeth goes.

Mary Boleyn → Catherine Carey → Lettice Knollys → Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex → Lady Frances Devereux → Lady Jane Seymour → Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork, 2nd Earl of Burlington → Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Cork, 3rd Earl of Burlington → Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle, Baroness Clifford → Lady Dorothy Cavendish → Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck → Rev. Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck → Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck → Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) → Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and N-Ireland

I wonder if the Bolyen descent is why this Queen is the Second Elizabeth.

The Genealogy of Karl of Hesse-Kassel

Charles/Karl of Hesse-Kassel has been talked about on this blog before, he was very important to late 18th Century Freemasonry and the history of the Bavarian Illuminati.

Through his mother he was a grandson of George II of England (like William V of Orange).  A sister of his mother was married to King Fredrick V of Denmark.  Karl married a daughter of theirs and had a number of children by her.  Interestingly William IV of Orange was through his mother grandson of an earlier Charles Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

His sons seem to have died without reproducing.  His oldest daughter married King Fredrick VI of Denmark.  But it was the son of Karl's youngest daughter who later became King Christian IX of Denmark.

Christian IX had a number of children.  Fredrick VIII from whom the current Queen of Denmark descends, and other Scandinavian Royalty as well.  And a daughter Alexandra who became Queen-Consort of England and an ancestor of Elizabeth II.

But most interesting to me is that King George I of Greece was a son of King Christian IX of Denmark.  George I is the direct Pater-lineal Ancestor of the current King in Exile of Greece who is named Constantine, and his children including the Crown Prince.  The oldest son of the Crown-Prince is also named Constantine, Prince Constantine-Alexios.  But the oldest child of the Crown-Prince is a daughter, Princess Marie-Olympia who's now doing magazine cover shoots like she was a Hollywood celebrity or something (I don't think Karl of Hesse-Kassel is the ancestor she gets her looks from).

But through a different son George I of Greece is the direct Pater-lineal ancestor of the husband of Queen Elizabeth.  Making him the paternal progenitor of Prince Charles, William and Harry.

Greece and Denmark having the same Royal Family makes me think of Ezekiel 27 referring to Dan and Javan being linked to each other.  So that family descending from a documented Illuminati member and leader of German Freemasonry at the time of the French Revolution is pretty interesting.

Fredrick V of Denmark's ancestry can be traced back through Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony to Anne of Bohemia and Hungry.  Anne was the daughter of Vladislaus II.  Through the Kings of Bohemia her ancestry can be traced back to Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, who was the son of Constance of Hungry, who was the daughter of Agnes of Antioch who was the daughter of Constance of Antioch who was the daughter of Alice of Antioch.

Alice was one of the daughters of Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Morphia of Melitene.  The later of whom's ancestry I discus here.

Update: September 11th 2015.

The direct Pater-lineal Ancestry of Karl of Hesse-Kassel can be traced back to Henry I Langrave of Hesse.

Henry was through his mother's mother also a descendant of Anges of Antioch through her son Andrew II of Hungry.  Through his mother he was heir to the Landgraves of Thuringia.

Through his father Henry II Duke of Barbant he was among other things potential heir to Stephen I of England and Matlida of Blounge daughter of Eustace III of Boulonge brother of Godfrey de Boulonge and Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

Descent from Matilda is the nearest line of descent possible from the original royal family of Crusader Jerusalem.  Everyone formally claiming the title King of Jerusalem today does so from Baldwin II, who's claim to even being a cousin of them seems unverifiable.

Stephen I of England was a grandson of William The Conqueror through his mother.  Through his father he was a descendant of Louis IV of France and Kings of Burgundy.

The direct pater-lineal ancestry of Eustace, Godfrey and Baldwin went back to Baldwin II of Flanders, son of Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith daughter of Charles The Bald, a successor of Charlemagne.  He was also a descendant of Louis IV.  Baldwin I of Flanders seems to be a count already when he shows up in history, it's possible he already had Merovingian ancestry, but we don't know for sure.

In the line from Henry I to Karl is Louise I of Hesse, father of Henry III of Hesse, who's daughter Elisabeth of Hesse married John V of Nassau.  Their son was William I Count of Nassau, who was the father of William I of Orange aka William The Silent.  He had a number of children by a number of wives, one of them was Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, great grandmother of King George I of England.  William the Silent was also the direct pater-lineal ancestor of William III who became King of England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.  He is the central figure behind the mythology of the Orange Order and the The Orange Lodge.

The Pater-lineal ancestor of King George I of England was Frederick IV Elector Palatine.  His mother was another Elisabeth of Hesse, daughter of Philip I Landgrave of Hesse.  Another son of her's was Charles IX of Sweden.

And of course the direct Successor of William of Orange was Queen Julliana of the Netherlands, who's husband  Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was one of the original founders of the Bilderberg group. They were the parents of Queen Beatrix.  Also of the Royal Family of the Netherlands was Prince Frederich son of King William Frederick I who was Grand Master of Dutch Freemasonry for much of the 19th Century.

I've talked about the two Dukes of Brunswick during Karl's time before, who Nesta Webster confused with each other.  The paternal common ancestor of both was Ferdinand Albert II Duke of Brunswick.  Through his mother he descended from Maurice Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.  And the younger Duke is an ancestor of Princess Helena of Nassau and thus of Queen Juliana.

Christian of Hesse-Dramstadt is also a known Illuminati Member inducted in 1783.  The house of Hesse-Dramstadt shares the house of Hesse-Kassel's descent from Henry I of Hesse.  Likewise Frederickt V of Hesse-Hormburg.  Another Illuminatus, Karl August von Sachsen-Wiemar-Eisenach, married Louise daughter of Louis IX of Hesse-Dramstadt (Christian's Sister).  From that marriage descended among other people Helene Duchess of Orleans and thus the current heir to the Orleanist Bourbon Crown.  And Charles Alexander who married Princess Sophie of the Netherlands.  Another brother to Christian was Louise X of Hesse-Dramstadt who was a known member of Amis Reunis Lodge of Paris which became allied with the Illuminati due to the efforts of Bode.

Going back to Frederick V of Denmark.  His paternal grandfather Frederick IV of Denmark was the son of Christian V by Charlotte Amaile of Hesse-Kassael, the daughter of William VI Langrave of Hesse-Kassel.  And she was actually his first born offspring, but standards of the time always favored oldest male over an older woman to be successor.

Update: September 20th 2015

The second wife of Philippe I Duke of Orleans and mother of his successor Philippe II was Elizabeth Charlotte of the Pallatine, daughter of Charles I Louis Elector Palatine and Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. daughter of William V Langrave of Hesse-Kassel.  The Orelanist house having a genealogical connection to Hesse-Kassel is very interesting.  Charles I Louise himself has descent from both Elisabeth of Hesse and William The Silent.

The daughter of Philippe I of Orelans and Charlotte of Pallatine was Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans.  Who was the mother of Prince Charles Alexander de Lorraine.  Who was one of the alleged Grand Masters of the Prior of Sion in Plantard's hoax.  Likewise she was the grandmother of the next alleged Grand Master Maxamillian de Lorraine.  I mention only because I suspect that obvious hoax drew on many real conspiracies.

The Hesse-Kassel family can be shown to have a connection to the occult already well before Karl.  Maurice The Learned (also a direct of ancestor of Charlotte) is an interesting figure, to copy/paste from Terry Melanson's Illuminati Conpsiracey Part One.

Maurice the Learned – It is revealing to note the long association of the Hessen-Kassel family to the occult. One particular ancestor is noteworthy. Karl is a direct descendant of “Maurice the Learned” of Hesse-Cassel (Landgraf Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, 1572-1632). Maurice procured the services of Rosicrucians and Alchemists such as Johannes Rhenanus and Michael Maier. The former served the Prince in many capacities, “working first in his chemical laboratory and towards the end of his life as the Prince’s family doctor. He was also the author of a number of Paracelsian and iatrochemical texts (e.g. Urocriterium Chymiatricum, Marburg, 1609) and clearly a practising alchemist.”⁴⁵ As for the latter, Maier was a very important figure and well-connected with many of the leading nobility of Europe and other famous occultists such as Robert Fludd. Maier produced an incredible amount of Rosicrucian/alchemical treatises and became the court physician to Maurice around 1614.⁴⁶ Francis Yates also underscores the fact that the town of Cassel is where the Rosicrucian Manifestos were first published (1614 and 1615).⁴⁷ Hardly a coincidence, Maurice had already founded the Collegium Mauritianum in 1599, which taught all sorts of advanced arcane studies – while at the same time he controlled “an extensive hermetic alchemical circle.”⁴⁸ The sudden open appearance of the Rosicrucians and their manifestos – perplexing to most historians – isn’t all that mysterious in an environment such as existed under his rule.

Much more research should be done on the House of Hesse as a whole; they appear to be the fulcrum of the most significant major revivals in western occult tradition.

The Hesse-Kassel family may well be the key to connecting a lot of esoteric mysteries.

Also if the theory about the Count of Saint-Germain being the son of Francis II of Transylvania is true, then his mother was of the house of Hesse also.  Which is interesting since at the end of his life Saint-Germain lived on Karl's estate.  Amusingly Francis II himself was descended from a Zsofia Bathori.

Update 2/26/2016: Barbarossa

The mother of King George I of England was Sophia Countess of Palatine Simmern.  She descends from Philip the Magnanimous Landgrave of Hesse, one of the pater-lineal ancestors of Karl of Hesse-Kassel.  He descends from Anne of Saxony daughter of Frederick I Elector of Saxony.

Frederick of Saxony descends on his mother's side from Henry I Landgrave of Hesse.  But his direct pater-lineal ancestry was from Frederick I Margrave of Meissen.  Frederick of Meissen's mother's pater-lineal descent was from Frederick Barbarossa an important Holy Roman Emperor.

Barbarossa was a descendant of Baldwin IV of Flanders making him a part of one of the most interesting to me lines of descent from Charlemagne and Alfred The Great.  He was also buried in Antioch and has become the subject of King in The Mountain type legends, giving him important esoteric significance.