Juan Carlos, King of Spain

The seize quartiers of Juan Carlos are as follows:
1. Juan Carlos King Spain b 1938

2. Juan Count Barcelona 1913-93
3. Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies 1910-2000

4. Alfonso XIII King Spain 1886-1941
5. Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg 1887-1969
6. Carlos of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies 1870-1949
7. Louise d’Orleans 1882-1958

8. Alfonso XII King Spain 1857-85
9. Maria Christina of Austria 1858-1929
10. Henry of Battenberg 1858-96
11. Beatrice of Great Britain 1857-1944
12. Alfonso of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies 1941-1934
13. Antonietta of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies 1851-1938
14. Philippe Count of Paris 1838-94
15. Marie Isabelle d’Orleans 1848-1919

16. Francisco Duke of Aviz, of Spain 1822-1904
17. Isabel II Queen Spain 1830-1904
18. Karl Ferdinand of Austria 1818-74
19. Elisabeth Franziska of Austria 1831-1903
20. Alexander of Hesse 1823-88
21. Julia von Hauke 1825-95
22. Albrecht of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1819-61
23. Victoria Queen of Great Britain 1819-1901
24. Ferdinand II King Bourbon-Two-Sicilies 1810-59
25. Maria Theresa of Austria 1816-87
26. Francesco of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies 1827-92
27. Maria Isabella of Austria 1834-1901
28. Ferdinand of Orleans, Crown-Prince of France 1810-42
29. Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1814-58
30. Antoine d’Orleans 1824-1890
31. Luisa of Spain 1832-97

Some comments: the average age of the 2G-grandparents is 62. Three of them are sovereign monarchs. 3 are Spanish, 4 are Austrian, 4 German, 1 British, and 2 Italian. The Catholic dynasties mainly comprise of Austrian Habsburgs, and Bourbons of Spain, Siciliy, France, and Parma, who were all (as good Catholics, of course) very prolific. Occasionally Catholic dynasties in Germany, such as Saxony or Bavaria intervene, but the Germans here are all Protestant. Of interest here is 21 Julia von Hauke, another morganatic marriage which started the Battenberg/Mountbatten families off.

No 16 and 17 are first cousins, and both the products of uncle/neice marriages. 18 and 19 are first cousins. 22 and 23 are first cousins. 24 and 26 are brothers. 25 and 18 are brother and sister, and 17 and 31 are sisters. 25 is the neice of her husband No 24. 28 and 30 are brothers. Because of the shortage of Catholic royal blood, there is a great deal more intermarriage, with many cousin marriages, and quite a few uncle/neice marriages.

For my next entry, I shall look at Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, to see the mix of more Protestant royalty in the north of Europe.