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George I, who ascended the throne in August 1714, was the first of the Hanoverian monarchs of England. George’s claim to the British crown after the death of England’s Queen Anne was based on the terms of Britain’s Act of Settlement of 1701. His mother, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, was the granddaughter of James I, making George the next Protestant in line to the throne. Mr. Willis explains the royal history of the Hanoverian line in the front matter to the volume and also provides a select bibliography, a list of abbreviations, and a reader’s guide to the text itself. He then launches straight into a genealogy of the immediate family of George I, chronicling the births and marriages of his two children, the future George II and Princess Sophia Dorothea, and his grandchildren.

The bulk of the volume is arranged, chapter by chapter, according to the descendants of the following grandchildren who had significant issue: Frederick, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess of Orange; Mary, Landgravine of Hesse-Cassel; Louisa, Queen of Denmark; Charlotte, Duchess of Brunswick; Sophie, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt; Ulrike, Queen of Sweden; and August, Prince of Prussia. The work concludes with an intriguing chapter establishing the connections of George’s descendants to other European royal families and another outlining the current line of succession to the British throne. In all, this densely packed work identifies approximately 5,000 royal and noble connections emanating from the first of the Hanoverians and impacting the future course of European royalty and politics. These connections are easily traced by means of the name index at the back.

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In this very detailed, liberally illustrated volume Mr. Willis has endeavored to trace out every line of descent from Louis XIII, both male and female, legitimate and illegitimate. The various Bourbon lines are organized into chapters corresponding to each country or duchy controlled by the Bourbons, and the information is presented in outline format. The author has made every attempt to include the following information about each descendant of Louis XIII: his/her date and place of birth, date and place of death, full names and titles, and dates and places of all marriages. Spouses of descendants are identified by full name and title, date and place of birth and death, parents’ names, including the mother’s maiden name, and additional spouses, if any. In the case of illegitimate children numbered among Louis XIII’s descendants, Mr. Willis includes all children who were recognized either by the parent in question, the courts, or other family members. Besides providing a surname reference to the roughly 100,000 descendants, Mr. Willis has devised an extensive cross-referencing system to connect descendants who intermarried. The author has also included a bibliography and an appendix to the lineages, which shows the connections between Louis’ descendants and other sovereign houses.
In conclusion, The Descendants of Louis XIII, King of France is a stunning new contribution to the field of royal genealogy.

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Also new in this volume are the many connections to distinguished Dudley descendants identified by Gary Boyd Roberts in his two volumes of Notable Kin and elsewhere. Americans linked to Governor Thomas Dudley will find near or distant cousins in actor Humphrey Bogart, astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr., Ella Botts Rice (first wife of entrepreneur and movie mogul Howard Hughes), Mary Storer Potter (first wife of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), and many more “notable kin.”

Dudley descendants also share the governor’s royal and notable ancestry through his mother and likely his father, and through his second wife Katherine Deighton. His mother was a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, and John, King of England. Dudley’s progeny can also claim as ancestors at least seven of the twenty-five barons who witnessed King John’s signature on the Magna Carta.

This second edition is part of an ongoing multi-volume series concerning Americans of royal and noble ancestry, beginning with the immigrant of royal descent and continuing through the colonial period to the Revolutionary War and often beyond. The format of the work is a modified version of that used in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, with citations primarily to published vital records and major family histories.

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Following the arrangement of the Peerage and Landed Gentry volumes, this work seeks to put to rights this oversight by tracing the descent of some 300 cadet houses of the British nobility from Airey and Gorton to Swanzy and Yarker. In keeping with Burke’s scrupulous standards of evaluation, coats of arms are also provided, but only for those families for which clear official authority was forthcoming. Students of royal and noble genealogy will welcome the index to the more than 10,000 names found in this volume, now rescued from obscurity by Clearfield Company.

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Eight years have passed since the publication of the last edition of this work, however, and in the interval a great many additions, corrections, and revisions have accumulated. Brought to a very high standard by the unremitting efforts of its editor, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., this fifth edition incorporates new lines, corrects errors in existing lines, adds recently discovered material, and supplies references where they had previously been omitted. The result is a reliable and authoritative collection of interlocking pedigrees which carry the ancestry of some 160 American colonists back to the thirteenth century. With the possible exception of Weis’s Ancestral Roots (also published by Genealogical Publishing Co.), this is probably the very best work ever written on the pre-colonial ancestry of American colonists. Though there is some overlap between this work and Ancestral Roots, most of the material supplied here is different, and the books may be used together.

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