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Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg,
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His Imperial Highness Prince George Friedrich of Prussia, present head of the House of Brandenburg and Pretender to the Prussian Crown, was born 10 June 1976 at Bremen. He became the representative of the Royal House of Prussia in 1994 on the death of his paternal grandfather, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Prussia (his father, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand the younger, having already died young and v.p. in 1977). He spent some years at a boarding school in Scotland, and in 1999 was a law student at Berlin. He has a younger sister, Cornelie-Cécile Viktoria Irene, born 1978. He was married civilly 25 August 2011 and religiously two days later, both at Potsdam, Princess Sophie von Isenburg, born 7 March 1978 at Frankfurt, daughter of Fürst Franz Alexander von Isenburg and Gräfin Christine von Saurma.
A more distant kinsman of the prince is Dmitrius Augustine, Prince Galitzine, who shares the descent from Marie Flamand and Philippe de la Fontaine dit Wicart.
Jérôme Tricot = (2) Michelle Sauvagie (1) = ____ Flamand |
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Catalyntje (Catherine) Tricot
(ca. 1605–1689) = Joris Jansen Rapalje (1604–1663), of the Wallabout, Long Island, New Netherland | |
Marie Flamand
(ca. 1594–1670) = Philippe de la Fontaine dit Wicart (ca. 1593–1660+) of Amsterdam | |
Daniel Rapalje (1650–1725),
of Brooklyn, N.Y. = Sara Clock (1651–1731) | | | |
Cathérine de la Fontaine
(1628–1708) = Jean de Mouson (ca. 1614–1676), of Amsterdam | |
Sara Rapalje (1687–1773)
= Pieter Cornelisz Luyster (1687–1759), of Newtown, L.I., N.Y. | |
Catharina de Mouson
(1648–1691) = Matthew Chitty (1648/9–1714), of Amsterdam, merchant | |
Sara Luyster (1714–1767)
= Isaac Lent (1707–1771), of Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. | | | |
Agneta Chitty (1681–1759)
= Theodorus Huyghens (1675/6-1740), of Utrecht and Franeker, Heer van Honkoop en Opvoorst | |
Catharina Lent (say 1743–1767+)
= Francis Harris (1740–1816), later of Sandy Cove, Digby Tp., Annapolis | |
Anthonia Huyghens (1710–1784)
= Rudolf Willem van Pabst (1706–1782), | |
Catherine Harris (1767–1846)
= John Comfort (ca. 1755-1830), of Clinton Tp., Lincoln Co., Upper Canada | | | | |
Jhr. Johan Maurits van Pabst (1740–1824), Vrijheer van Wolfsward, = rijksbarones Sara Agatha Hop (1753–1776) Vrouwe van de Lek, Lekkerkerk, en Zuidbroek | |
Francis Comfort (1800–1880),
= Jemima Wilcox (1801–1876) | | | | | |
Geertruida Sara Agatha van Pabst
(1774–1866) = Willem Hendrik Alexander Carel, Baron van Heeckeren van Kell (1774–1847), Heer van Roderloo (Ruurlo) en Kell, Governor of Gelderland | |
Margaret Comfort (1833–1916)
= John Kennedy (IV) (1832–1897), | | | |
baron Jacob Derk Carel
(1809–1875), Heer van Nettelhorst en Borculo = barones Isabella Antoinette (1823–1872) | |
John Kennedy (V) (1862–1939),
of Melita, Manitoba, Canada = Susanna Samantha Helena Young (1882–1937) | | | | | | |
barones Maria Cornelia
van Heeckeren van Kell (1855–1912), Vrouwe van Weldam, Olidam, Wegdam, en Obdam = graaf Willem Carl van Bentinck (1848–1912), | |
Jean Margaret Kennedy
(1917–2000) = Richard Harry Mitchelson, Jr. (1914–1998), of Winnipeg, Manitoba (my natural grandparents) | |
gravin Mechtild van Bentinck
(1877–1940) = Casimir zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1861–1933), Erzburggraf and later Fürst zu Castell-Rüdenhausen | |
Siegfried,
4th Fürst zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1916– ) = gräfin Irene zu Solms-Laubach (1925– ) | |
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fürstin Donata Emma
zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1950– ) = prinz Ludwig Ferdinand Oskar Christian (von Brandenburg) of Prussia (1944–1977), great-grandson and in his issue eventual heir of the last kaiser, Wilhelm II | |
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prinz Georg Friedrich (von Brandenburg)
of Prussia (1976-) = prinzessin Sophie von Isenburg (1978-) |
Sources: We are greatly indebted to the unfortunately now-defunct WorldRoots Genealogy Archive by Brigitte Ingeborg Gastel Lloyd, for making available two reports by Leo van de Pas, Ancestors of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia (6 generations) (http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/famous/g/georgprussiaanc.htm) and Ancestors of
Countess Donata zu Castell-Ruedenhausen (http://www.worldroots.com/~brigitte/royal/prussiaspouses/ donatacastellanc1950.htm). Also, José Verheecke’s excellent ancestor table of the prince’s mother, Donata gräfin zu Castell (apparently no longer available at its original location of http://users.pandora.be/jose.verheecke1/link/kwartieren /CASTELL.TXT), which unfortunately came to our attention only after the main outline of our work was complete, covers the lines shown here back to the prince’s ancestors Anthonia Huyghens (1710–1784) and Rudolf Willem van Pabst tot Bingerden (1706–1782), and has supplied some previously elusive dates. According to Leo van de Pas’s Genealogics database, the line from Agneta Chitty to Johan Maurits van Pabst is also covered in Kwartierstatenboek, 1983, which we have not seen.
The prince appears, with the photograph used here, in Daniel de Rauglaudre’s gigantic royalty database, Roglo (http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo). We have also drawn upon material on the prince’s ancestry submitted by the Genealogical Department Medieval Families Unit to the LDS Ancestral File. Our other main sources on his lineage are, working from the top downward:
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From the Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson
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This page written 1 October 1999
Last revised 28 December 2012