What is the oldest European royal house? In the middle ages we had many powerful royal houses and they were said to be very subjective due to the impressive power they possessed
Powerful is a subjective word, but I guess you would cover an impressive powerbase with lining up the Houses of Romanov, Habsburg, Bourbon, Hohenzollern, Wittelsbach and the subsequent Houses from Plantaget to Windsor that ruled the (parts of) the UK.
However, in recent history, you can’t look passed the Oldenburgs and the Saksen-Coburgs.
They were the real masters in the games of thrones and also somehow managed to cleverly survive revolutions and world wars.
The Oldenburgs somehow officially are called House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and still rule Denmark and Norway.
The House of Saksen-Coburg-Gotha still rules the UK (now renamed to Windsor) and Belgium.
And Europe wouldn’t be Europe if the two wouldn’t be related: Prince Philip of the UK belongs to the House of Schleswig- … as does Queen Sophia of Spain.
And obviously the Swedes are part of the extended family too as king Carl-Gustav’s mother is a Saksen-Coburg-Gotha.
The Most Powerful Royal Houses Are Listed Below
- The Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia
- The House of Oldenburg of Oldenburg and Denmark
- The Hapsburgs of Austria, Hungary and Spain
- The House of Hollenzoller of Germany
- The Tudors of Britain
- The Stewarts of Britain
- The House of Anxious and their offspring, the House of Plantagenet in Normandy and Britain
- The House of Windsor of The British Empire, probably the greatest as they at one time ruled half the world.
- The Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Britain and Bulgaria
- The House of Valois of France
- The House of Bourbon of France and Spain
- The House of Bonaparte of France.
What is the oldest European royal house?
Step one identify what is the oldest European royal house in Europe. Sept two, identify the founder of that dynasty. Sound simple, doesn’t it?
But centuries ago, when the various dynasties of Europe had much shorter histories than now, it was common to invent longer histories and genealogies for those dynasties.
In the middle ages it was common to trace the ancestry of kings back to Adam and Eve, the first two humans in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mythology, often tracing them through the royal family of Troy.
In the early modern period it was not so common to trace royal ancestry all the way back to Adam and Even, but it was still common to add centuries of imaginary ancestors.
And there are many problems with the genealogy and history of early European dynasties, and many cases where it seems probable that person A was the father of person B, but there is no proof. Thus opinions vary about which theories of relationships should be accepted due to enough evidence and which should be rejected because of lack of sufficient evidence.
