The House of Romanov

The Romanovs were the reigning royal house of Russia from 1613 to 1917, who became intimately interrelated with the British Royal family, through the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819 – 1861), a cadet branch of the House of Wettin, which takes its name from its oldest domain, the Ernestine duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, but its members later sat on the thrones of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, and Mexico. Before their rise to power the Romanovs were accused by their enemies of practising magic and possessing occult powers. The Romanov family came to power in the seventeenth century and ruled the country for three hundred years until they were deposed in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Romanov (1596 – 1645), the first Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, allegedly ascended the throne with the help of the British Secret Service and John Dee’s son Arthur (1579 – 1651). Arthur had accompanied his father in travels through Germany, Poland, and Bohemia. In 1586, Tsar Boris Godunov (c. 1551 – 1605), whose career began at the court of Ivan the Terrible, had offered Arthur’s father John Dee, who was mathematical advisor to the Muscovy Company, to enter his service, an offer which Dee declined.

The House of Wettin, one of the oldest dynasties in Europe, which once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, can be traced back to the town of Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt. The Wettins gradually rose to power within the Holy Roman Empire, and many ruling monarchs outside Germany were later tied to its cadet branch, the current House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who changed to the House of Windsor in England. In 1423, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370 – 1428), received the Saxon Electorate from Emperor Sigismund, founder of the Order of the Dragon. Frederick I’s son, Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (1412 – 1464), a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, married Margaret of Austria, daughter of Ernest, Duke of Austria (1377 – 1424), of the House of Habsburg and a member of the Order of the Dragon. Sigismund was succeeded as Holy Roman Emperor by Margaret’s brother was Frederick III.

The family split into two ruling branches in 1485, when the sons of Frederick II agreed to the Treaty of Leipzig in 1485, dividing the territories hitherto ruled jointly. Frederick II’s elder son Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441 – 1486), who had succeeded his father as Prince-elector, received the Electorate of Saxony and Thuringia, while his younger brother Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1443 – 1500), a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, obtained the March of Meissen, which he ruled from Dresden. Albert III’s possessions were also known as Ducal Saxony. Albert III’s son, George, Duke of Saxony, a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, married Barbara Jagiellon, the sixth daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland and Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, who was named after her great-grandmother, Barbara of Cilli, who co-founded the Order of the Dragon with her husband Emperor Sigismund. Barbara was the sister of Sigismund I the Old, whose daughter Anna Jagiellon married Stephen Bathory, sponsor of John Dee and uncle of Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous “Blood Countess.”

The older Ernestine branch played a key role during the Protestant Reformation. Ernest’s son was Frederick III the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1463 – 1525), one of the most powerful early defenders of Martin Luther, hiding him at Wartburg Castle. Frederick III’s brother was Elector John (1468 – 1532), was known for organizing the Lutheran Church in the Electorate of Saxony. It was Elector John’s son John Frederick I of Saxony (1503 – 1554) who commissioned the creation of the Luther Rose, a widely recognized symbol for Lutheranism, featuring the White Rose of York, superimposed by a cross within a heart. John Frederick would go on to later head the Schmalkaldic League, a military alliance of Lutheran princes within the Holy Roman Empire, with Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, who married Christine of Saxony, the daughter of George, Duke of Saxony and Barbara Jagiellon. Philip I’s descendants would found the Rosicrucian movement. Philip I of Hesse’s granddaughter Anna of Saxony would marry the famous William the Silent, Prince of Orange (1533 – 1584). Philip’s grandson, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, known as “the Learned,” was a close friend of the grandson of William the Silent, Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596 – 1632), whose marriage to Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James, was celebrated in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, by Johann Valentin Andreae, which followed the Rosicrucian manifestos. The invitation to the royal wedding includes John Dee’s symbol of Monas Hieroglyphica, representing the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in 1623, around which the advent of the Rosicrucian movement was timed.

The direct male line of the Romanovs ended when Peter the Great’s daughter Empress Elizabeth of Russia died in 1762, thus the House of Holstein-Gottorp—a cadet branch of the German House of Oldenburg that reigned in Denmark—ascended to the throne in the person of Peter III (1728 – 1762), the son of Elizabeth’s sister Anna Petrovna and Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700 – 1739). Through his great-great-grandmother, Peter III was also descended from the Albertine branch of the German House of Wettin, founded by Albert III, Duke of Saxony, a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Peter’s second wife, was his second cousin Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796), who succeeded him as Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796. Catherine the Great is remembered as one of the “Enlightened Monarchs,” because she implemented several political and cultural reforms on behalf of the Illuminati. Voltaire, with whom she maintained regular correspondence, called her “Semiramis of Russia,” in reference to the ancient Babylonian queen, on whom the worship of the goddess Astarte was based.

Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, was descended from Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601–1675), who married John Frederick I’s great-great-granddaughter Elisabeth Sophie. The duchies were later merged into Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was founded by Ernest I’s descendant, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1784 – 1844), the sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Ernest I’s younger brother Leopold I (1790 – 1865) became King of the Belgians in 1831, and his descendants continue to serve as Belgian monarchs. Leopold I was a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, as was his son and successor, Leopold II, who infamous for his extensive atrocities as the owner Congo Free Sate. Ernest I married Louise, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the daughter of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Alternberg (1745 – 1804), the first cousin of King George III of England. In 1775, Ernest II was appointed Grand Master of the Landesloge of Germany (Zinnendorf system), one of the founding members of the United Grand Lodges of Germany. In 1783, Ernest II became a member of the Illuminati. In 1787, following the disbanding of the order, Ernst II granted asylum in Gotha to its fugitive founder Adam Weishaupt. It was the Freemason Leopold I who promoted the marriage of his niece, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, to his nephew, Prince Albert, who thus is the progenitor of the British royal family, called the House of Windsor since 1917.

Victoria and Albert’s children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet of “the grandmother of Europe,” and spreading hemophilia in European royalty. Queen Victoria’s eldest son, the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VII (1841 – 1910), married Princess Alexandra of Denmark, a daughter of Christian IX and the Danish Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817 – 1898), of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, who had been intimately connected with the Rothschilds and the Rosicrucians. Louise’s grandfather was Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747 – 1837), whose brother Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel was a friend of Comte St. Germain and a member of the Illuminati and Grand Master of the Asiatic Brethren, the first to use the swastika as their symbol. Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel was descended from the Alchemical Wedding of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart. Prince Charles’ father, Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel, married Princess Mary of Great Britain, the daughter of King George II of England, Queen Victoria’s great-great-grandfather. Queen Louise was a close friend of the wife of Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, the founder of Synarchism, Marie de Riznitch, Comtesse de Keller (1827 – 1895), a Polish noble woman with mediumistic capacities from Odessa. Marie was a relative of Ewelina Hańska, the famous patron and wife of Honoré de Balzac, and the sister of the writer Henryk Rzewuski and Russian spy Karolina Rzewuska. Karolina was a friend of Alexander Pushkin and the Frankist Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, though claim that she was his mistress.

Christian IX and Louise’s six children married into other royal families across Europe, earning him the sobriquet “the father-in-law of Europe.” The majority of the royals sitting on the thrones of Europe are his descendants. Margrethe II of Denmark, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Philippe of Belgium, Harald V of Norway, Felipe VI of Spain, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Constantine II of Greece, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, Queen Sofia of Spain, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, are among his descendants. Louise of Great Britain, the youngest surviving daughter of King George II, married the King of Denmark Christian VII (1749 – 1808). In 1792, Prince Charles obtained a patent from England a Provincial Grand Master, and in the same year induced Christian VII to issue an order in Council recognizing Freemasonry his dominions on condition of being acknowledged as Grand Master. Christian VII’s grandfather, Christian VI, had been a member of Zinzendorf’s Order of the Grain of the Mustard Seed. Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark, officially regarded as the daughter of King Christian VII, married Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1765 – 1814), a member of the Illluminati. Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787 – 1867), the son of Charles’ brother Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, married Christian VII’s granddaughter, Princess Charlotte of Denmark.

Queen Victoria’s son, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844 – 1900), also a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the daughter of Alexander II. Another daughter of Louise and Christian IX, Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), married Maria Alexandrovna’s brother, Tsar Alexander III (1845 – 1894), the son of Alexander II. Another daughter of Victoria, Princess Alice, married Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837 – 1892), the great-grandson of Frederick William II of Prussia, who belonged to the Golden and Rosy Cross and fell under the influence of two other members, who also belonged to the Asiatic Brethren, Johann Christoph von Wöllner and Johann Rudolf von Bischoffwerder. Their daughter, Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (1872 – 1918), married the son of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna, the last Emperor of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (1868 – 1918), a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Genealogy of House of Romanov

• Mikhail Romanov (1596 – 1645). Ascended the throne with the help of the British Secret Service and John Dee’s son Arthur)

  • Alexis of Russia (1629 – 1676) + Natalya Naryshkina

    • Peter the Great (1672 – 1725, initiated by Sir Christopher Wren and introduced Freemasonry in his dominions) + Eudoxia Lopukhina

      • Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia + Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg

        • Peter II of Russia

      • Anna Petrovna + Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

        • Peter III of Russia (founder of the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov branch. Initiated by Sir Christopher Wren and introduced Freemasonry in his dominions)) + CATHERINE THE GREAT (1729 – 1796, corresponded with Voltaire. Affair with Sergie Saltykov, alias of Comte Saint Germain)

          • Tsar Paul I (Grand Master of the Knights of Malta) + Natalia Alexeievna (descended from Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, founder of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty, member of Fruitbearing Society)

            • Tsar Alexander I (under influence of Madame von Kruderer, famous psychic and friend of Madame Germaine de Staël)

            • Tsar Nicholas I (Order of the Golden Fleece) + Charlotte of Prussia (1798 – 1860, d. of Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, son of Frederick William II of Prussia, who belonged to the Golden and Rosy Cross)

              • Tsar Alexander II (Order of the Golden Fleece) + Marie of Hesse (interested in occultism) - (see above)

                • Tsar Alexander III of Russia (Order of the Golden Fleece) + Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

                  • Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Order of the Golden Fleece) + Alexandra Feodorovna (granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, grandson of Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745 – 1804), friend of Adam Weishaupt))

                • Maria Alexandrovna + Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

                  • Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia + Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (sister of Alexandra Feodorovna)

                    • Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (Sovereign Military Order of Malta)

              • Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (introduced Papus to Nicholas II) + Princess Anastasia of Montenegro