Genealogy of the order of the garter

Genealogy of Order of the Garter


  • Boleslav I the Cruel, the conduit for the Schechter Letter of Hasdai ibn Saprut to King Joseph of the Khazars) + Biagota

    • Dobrawa of Bohemia + Mieszko I of Poland

      • Adelaide (according to the the Polish-Hungarian Chronicle) + Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (son of Taksony and his Khazar, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarian wife)

        • Hungarian princess + Gavril Randomir (son of Samuil, Tsar of Bulgaria)

          • AGATHA OF BULGARIA + Edward the Exile

            • Saint Margaret + Malcolm II of Scotland

              • DAVID I OF SCOTLAND (patron of the TEMPLARS)

              • Matilda of Scotland (patron of the TEMPLARS) + Henry I of England (son of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR)

                • Empress Matilda + Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou

                  • Henry II of England + ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE

                    • Henry the Young King

                    • Matilda of England + HENRY THE LION (see below)

                    • RICHARD LIONHEART + Berengaria of Navarre (d. of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile, d. of Alfonso VII of León and Castile)

                    • Eleanor + ALFONSO VIII OF CASTILE

                      • Berengaria, Queen of Castile + (see below)

                      • Urraca, Queen of Portugal + Afonso II of Portugal

                      • Blanche of Castile + Louis VIII of France

                        • Louis IX of France (founded Order of the Ship and the Double Crescent) + Margaret of Provence (d. of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence + Beatrice of Savoy)

                          • Philip III of France + Isabella of Aragon (see below)

                          • Philip III of France + Maria of Brabant (see below)

                        • CHARLES OF ANJOU (see Genealogy of the Kingdom of Naples) + Beatrice of Provence

                          • CHARLES II OF NAPLES + Maria of Hungary (see below)

                          • Beatrice of Sicily + Philip I, Latin Emperor

                            • Catherine of Courtenay + Charles, Count of Valois (see below)

                    • Joan + William II of Sicily (g-s of Roger II of Sicily and Elvira of Castile, d. of Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile) and later Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse)

                    • John, King of England + Isabella of Angoulême

                      • Henry III of England + Eleanor of Provence (see below)

                      • Isabella of England + FREDERICK II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

                        • Margaret of Sicily + Albert II, Margrave of Meissen

              • Mary of Scotland + EUSTACE III, COUNT OF BOULOGNE (brother of GODFREY OF BOULLION and BALDWIN OF JERUSALEM. See Genealogy of the Knight of the Swan)

                • Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne + STEPHEN, KING OF ENGLAND

                  • Marie I, Countess of Boulogne + Matthew of Alsace

                    • Ida, Countess of Boulogne + Renaud, Count of Dammartin

                      • Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne + Alfonso III of Portugal (no issue)

                    • Mathilde of Flanders + Henry I, Duke of Brabant

                      • Maria of Brabant + Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor

                      • Margaret + Gerard III, Count of Guelders

                      • Mathilde + Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine

                      • Henry II, Duke of Brabant + Maria of Swabia (see below)

                      • Henry II, Duke of Brabant + Sophie of Thuringia (see below)

      • Bolesław I the Brave + Emnilda of Lusatia

        • Mieszko II Lambert + Richeza of Lotharingia (d. of Matilda of Germany, d. of Otto II)

          • Richeza of Poland + Béla I of Hungary (great-grandson of Taksony)

            • Géza I of Hungary + Sophia

              • Álmos of Hungary + Predslava of Kiev

                • Béla II of Hungary + Helena of Serbia

                  • Béla III of Hungary (GESTA HUNGARORUM written by his notary, known as Anonymus) + Agnes of Antioch

                    • Andrew II of Hungary + Gertrude of Merania

                      • Béla IV of Hungary + Maria Laskarina

                        • Stephen V of Hungary + Elizabeth the Cuman

                          • Maria of Hungary + CHARLES II OF NAPLES (see above)

                            • Charles Martel + Clemence of Austria

                              • CHARLES I OF HUNGARY (founder of the Order of Saint George) + Elizabeth of Poland (great-great-granddaughter of Bolesław III Wrymouth)

                                • Louis I of Hungary (gave Chronicon Pictum or ILLUMINATED CHRONICLE to Charles V of France)

                                  • Mary, Queen of Hungary + EMPEROR SIGISMUND (no issue)

                                • Catherine of Hungary + Henry II of Świdnica (son of Bernard of Świdnica and his wife Kunigunde of Poland)

                                  • Anna von Schweidnitz + Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (see below)

                            • Margaret, Countess of Anjou + Charles, Count of Valois (see below)

                            • Eleanor of Anjou + Frederick III of Sicily (see below)

                            • John, Duke of Durazzo + Agnes of Périgord

                          • Ladislaus IV of Hungary (GESTA HUNNORUM ET HUNGARORUM, which is dated to 1282–1285, was written mainly by Simon of Kéza, a court cleric)

                      • ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, of the MIRACLE OF THE ROSES + Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (see below)

                    • Andrew II of Hungary + Yolanda of Courtenay (sister of Baldwin II, Latin Emperor)

                      • Violant of Hungary + JAMES I OF ARAGON (raised by TEMPLARS with his cousin Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence. See below)

                    • Constance of Hungary + Ottokar I of Bohemia

                      • Wenceslaus I of Bohemia + Kunigunde of Swabia

                        • Vladislaus III of Moravia

                        • Ottokar II of Bohemia + Kunigunda of Halych

                          • Kunigunde + Boleslaus II of Masovia

                          • Agnes + Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (son of Rudolf I of Germany, first king of Germany from the House of Habsburg)

                            • John Parricida

                          • Wenceslaus II of Bohemia + Judith of Habsburg (daughter of Rudolf I of Germany)

                            • Wenceslaus III of Bohemia

                            • Elizabeth of Bohemia + John the Blind (see above)

                              • Bonne of Luxembourg + John II of France (see below)

                              • Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Blanche of Valois (see below)

                              • Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Elizabeth of Pomerania

                                • SIGISMUND, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Barbara of Cilli

                                  • Elizabeth of Luxembourg + Albert II of Germany

                                • Anne of Bohemia + King Richard II (see below)

            • Sophia of Hungary + Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony (House of Billung. Family's property was divided between his two daughters)

              • Eilika of Saxony + Otto of Ballenstedt (grandson of Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, earliest member of House of Ascania)

              • Wulfhilde of Saxony + HENRY THE BLACK (House of Welf)

                • Judith of Bavaria + Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (son of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia + Agnes of Waiblingen)

                  • FREDERICK BARBAROSSA (first of HOHENSTAUFEN dynasty) + Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy

                    • Henry VI, Hoy Roman Emperor + Constance (d. of Roger II of Sicily and Rethel)

                      • FREDERICK II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR + Isabella II of Jerusalem

                        • Conrad II of Jerusalem + Elisabeth of Bavaria

                      • FREDERICK II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR + Isabella of England (see below)

                      • FREDERICK II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR + Bianca Lancia

                        • Manfred, King of Sicily + Beatrice of Savoy

                          • Constance of Sicily + Peter III of Aragon (see above)

                            • JAMES II OF ARAGON (founder of the ORDER OF MONTESA) + Blanche of Anjou

                              • Alfonso IV of Aragon + Teresa d'Entença

                                • Peter IV of Aragon + Eleanor of Sicily (see below)

                            • ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL (also of the MIRACLE OF THE ROSES) + DENIS I OF PORTUGAL (founder of the ORDER OF CHRIST)

                              • Constance of Portugal + Ferdinand IV of Castile (see above)

                                • Alfonso XI of Castile + Maria of Portugal (see below)

                              • Afonso IV of Portugal (Grand Master of the ORDER OF CHRIST) + Beatrice of Castile (see above)

                                • Maria of Portugal + Alfonso XI of Castile (see above)

                                  • Peter of Castile + María de Padilla

                                    • Isabella of Castile + Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (see below)

                                • Peter I of Portugal + Teresa Lourenço

                                  • John I of Portugal + Philippa of Lancaster (see below)

                            • FREDERICK III OF SICILY (hired Templar Roger de Flor) + Eleanor of Anjou (see above)

                              • Peter II of Sicily + Elizabeth of Carinthia (see below)

                              • Constance of Sicily, Queen of Cyprus + HENRY II OF LUSIGNAN (transferred property of Templars to Hospitallers. In contact with Ramon Llull)

                              • Elisabeth of Sicily + Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria

                    • Philip of Swabia + Irene Angelina of Byzantium

                      • Maria of Swabia + Henry II, Duke of Brabant (see above)

                        • Henry III, Duke of Brabant + Adelaide of Burgundy

                          • John I, Duke of Brabant + Margaret (daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders)

                            • Margaret of Brabant + Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (first emperor of the House of Luxembourg)

                              • John the Blind + Elizabeth of Bohemia (see below)

                              • Maria of Luxembourg + Charles IV of France (last king of the direct line of the House of Capet)

                              • Beatrix of Luxembourg + Charles I of Hungary (no issue)

                            • Marie of Brabant, Countess of Savoy + Amadeus V, Count of Savoy

                          • Maria of Brabant + Philip III of France (see above)

                            • Blanche of France + Rudolf III of Austria (no issue)

                            • Margaret of France + EDWARD I OF ENGLAND (see below)

                        • Matilda of Brabant + Robert I of Artois (see below)

                          • Blanche of Artois + Henry I of Navarre (son of Theobald IV of Champagne, who brought back Rose of Provins from the Barons’ Crusade)

                            • Joan I of Navarre + PHILIP IV “LE BEL” OF FRANCE (see below)

                          • Blanche of Artois + Edmund Crouchback (see below)

                  • Judith of Hohenstaufen + Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia

                    • Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia + Sophia of Wittelsbach

                      • Jutta of Thuringia + Theodoric I, Margrave of Meissen (see above)

                      • Irmgard of Thuringia + Henry I, Count of Anhalt (the first ruling Anhalt prince of the House of Ascania)

                      • Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia + ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, of the MIRACLE OF THE ROSES (see above)

                      • Conrad of Thuringia (fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights)

                      • Henry Raspe

    • Boleslaus II of Bohemia + Adiva

      • Oldřich of Bohemia + Božena

        • Bretislaus I of Bohemza + Judith of Schweinfurt

          • Vratislaus II of Bohemia + Adelaide of Hungary (daughter of Andrew I of Hungary, brother of Béla I of Hungary)

            • Judith of Bohemia + Władysław I Herman

              • Bolesław III Wrymouth, Duke of Poland + Salomea of Berg

                • Władysław II the Exile + Agnes of Babenberg (daughter of Leopold III, Margrave of Austria + Agnes of Waiblingen, grandmother of Frederick Barbarossa)

                  • Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile + Alfonso VII of León and Castile

                    • Sancha + ALFONSO II OF ARAGON, the Troubadour (patron of Guyot of Provins, source for Wolfram von Eschenbach)

                      • PETER II OF ARAGON (killed at the BATTLE OF MURET supporting CATHARS, founder of the ORDER OF SAINT GEORGE OF ALFAMA) + Marie of Montpellier

                        • JAMES I OF ARAGON (raised by TEMPLARS) + Violant of Hungary (see above)

                          • Violant + ALFONSO X OF CASTILE, el Astrologo

                            • Sancho IV of Castile (had affair with Rachel the Beautiful, Jewess of Toledo)

                              • Ferdinand IV of Castile + Constance of Portugal (see below)

                              • Beatrice of Castile + Afonso IV of Portugal (see below)

                            • Beatrice of Castile + Afonso III of Portugal (see below)

                          • Peter III of Aragon + Constance, Queen of Sicily (see below)

                          • James II of Majorca (student of Raymond Llull) + Esclaramunda of Foix (her grandfather was a cousin of Raymond-Roger Trencavel, identified with Perceval)

                          • Isabella of Aragon + Philip III of France (see below)

                      • Alfonso II, Count of Provence (his father transferred the County of Provence from his uncle Sancho to him) + Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier

                        • Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (raised by Templars) + Beatrice of Savoy (daughter of Thomas I of Savoy)

                          • Margaret of Provence + Louis IX of France (see above)

                            • Isabella of France + Theobald II of Navarre

                            • Philip III of France + Isabella of Aragon (see above)

                              • PHILIP IV “LE BEL” OF FRANCE (ordered arrest of Templars) + Joan I of Navarre

                                • Isabella of France + EDWARD II OF ENGLAND (see below)

                              • Charles, Count of Valois + Margaret, Countess of Anjou (see below)

                                • Isabelle + John III, Duke of Brittany

                                • Philip VI of France + Joan of Burgundy

                                  • John II of France + Bonne of Luxembourg (see above)

                                    • Charles V of France + Joanna of Bourbon

                                      • Charles VI of France + Isabeau of Bavaria

                                        • Charles VII of France + Marie of Anjou (see below)

                                        • Catherine of Valois + Henry V of England (see below)

                                      • Louis I, Duke of Orléans + Valentina Visconti (see below)

                                    • Louis I, Duke of Anjou + Marie of Blois

                                      • Louis II of Anjou + Yolande of Aragon (see below)

                                    • JOHN, DUKE OF BERRY (requested that Jean d’Arras write the Roman de Mélusine or the Chronique de Melusine part of Le Noble Hystoire de Lusignan) + Joanna of Armagnac

                                    • PHILIP THE BOLD + Margaret III, Countess of Flanders

                                      • John the Fearless + Margaret of Bavaria (see above)

                                        • Mary of Burgundy + Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (raised by EMPEROR SIGISMUND, founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON, as duke and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1417. Reigning from Schwanenburg Castle associated in legend with the Knight of the Swan, immortalized in Wagner's Lohengrin. See above)

                                        • PHILIP THE GOOD (founder of the ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE) + Isabella of Portugal (see below)

                                        • Anne + John, Duke of Bedford

                                        • Agnes + Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

                                    • Joan, Queen of Navarre + Charles II of Navarre

                                    • MARIE OF VALOIS, Duchess of Bar + Robert I, Duke of Bar (see above)

                                      • Henry of Bar + Marie de Coucy, Countess of Soissons (d. of Enguerrand VII de Coucy, possible author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

                                      • Yolande of Bar + John I of Aragon (see above)

                                        • Yolande of Aragon + Louis II of Anjou (see above)

                                          • Louis III of Anjou

                                          • Marie of Anjou + Charles VII of France (see above)

                                            • Louis XI of France + Charlotte of Savoy

                                              • Charles VIII of France + Anne of Brittany

                                          • RENE OF ANJOU (Grand Master of PRIORY OF SION) + Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine

                                            • Margaret of Anjou + Henry VI of England (see below)

                                            • YOLANDE OF BAR (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION) + Ferri de Vaudemont (Order of the Crescent, with FRANCESO I SFORZA)

                                • Joan of Valois + William I, Count of Hainaut

                                  • Margaret II of Avesnes + Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor

                                  • Philippa of Hainault + Edward III of England

                                  • Joanna of Hainaut + William V, Duke of Jülich

                                    • Gerhard VI of Jülich, Count of Berg and Ravensberg

                                    • William II, Duke of Jülich

                                • Margaret of Valois + Guy I, Count of Blois

                              • Charles, Count of Valois + Catherine of Courtenay (see above)

                              • Charles, Count of Valois + Mahaut of Châtillon

                                • Marie of Valois, Duchess of Calabria + Charles, Duke of Calabria (see below)

                                • Blanche of Valois + Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

                                  • Margaret of Bohemia + Louis I of Hungary (no issue)

                                  • Catherine of Bohemia + Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (no issue)

                                  • Catherine of Bohemia + Otto V, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (no issue)

                                • Isabella of Valois + Peter I, Duke of Bourbon

                                  • Louis II, Duke of Bourbon + Anne of Auvergne

                                    • John I, Duke of Bourbon + Marie, Duchess of Auvergne (see below)

                                  • Joanna of Bourbon + Charles V of France (see below)

                                  • Blanche of Bourbon + Peter of Castile (no issue)

                                  • Bonne of Bourbon + Amadeus VI of Savoy

                                    • Amadeus VII of Savoy + Bonne of Berry (see below)

                            • Philip III of France + Marie of Brabant, Queen of France

                              • Margaret of France + EDWARD I OF ENGLAND (see above)

                            • Agnes of France + Robert II, Duke of Burgundy

                              • Margaret of Burgundy + Louis X of France

                              • Joan of Burgundy + Philip VI of France (see below)

                              • Mary of Burgundy + Edward I, Count of Bar (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION. See below)

                          • Eleanor of Provence + Henry III of England

                            • EDWARD I OF ENGLAND + Eleanor of Castile (daughter of FERDINAND III OF CASTILE, who merged the ORDER OF CALATRAVA into that of the ORDER OF MONFRAGUE)

                              • Eleanor of England + Henry III, Count of Bar

                                • Edward I, Count of Bar (Grand Master of the Priory of Sion) + Mary of Burgundy (see above)

                                  • Henry IV, Count of Bar + Yolande of Dampierre (granddaughter of Robert III, Count of Flanders)

                                    • Robert I, Duke of Bar + MARIE OF VALOIS (see below)

                                  • Eleanor + Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (no issue)

                                  • Beatrice + Guido Gonzaga (see Genealogy of the Priory of Sion)

                                • Joan of Bar, Countess of Surrey (Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                              • EDWARD II OF ENGLAND + Isabella of France (see above)

                                • EDWARD III OF ENGLAND (founder of the ORDER OF THE GARTER) + Philippa of Hainault (see above)

                                  • Edward the Black Prince + Joan of Kent

                                    • Richard II of England + Anne of Bohemia (see above)

                                  • Isabella, Countess of Bedford + Enguerrand VII de Coucy (possible author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

                                  • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster + Blanche of Lancaster (see below)

                                  • Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York + Isabella of Castile (d. of Peter of Castile)

                                    • Richard, 3rd Earl of Cambridge + Anne Mortimer

                                      • Richard Duke of York + Cecily Neville

                                        • Edward IV of England + Elizabeth Woodville (d. of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, fourth cousin twice removed of EMPEROR SIGISMUND)

                                          • Elizabeth of York + Henry VII of England

                                            • Henry VIII, King of England

                                        • Richard III of England + Anne Neville

                            • EDWARD I OF ENGLAND + Margaret of France (see above)

                            • Edmund Crouchback + Blanche of Artois

                              • Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster + Maud Chaworth

                                • Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster + Isabel of Beaumont

                                  • Maud, Countess of Leicester + William I, Duke of Bavaria (see Genealogy of the House of Habsburg)

                                  • Blanche of Lancaster + John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (see above)

                                    • Philippa of Lancaster + John I of Portugal (see above)

                                      • EDWARD I OF PORTUGAL + Eleanor of Aragon (d. of Ferdinand I of Aragon)

                                      • PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR (Grand Master of the ORDER OF CHRIST)

                                      • Isabella of Portugal + PHILIP THE GOOD (see above)

                                    • Henry IV of England + Mary de Bohun

                                      • Henry V of England (ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Catherine of Valois (see above)

                                        • Henry VI of England + Margaret of Anjou (see above)

                                          • Edward, Prince of Wales