An old family (don't include the Italian Borgia family, already heard about them and apparently they're ok)!. Just out of interest!. also, if the family then made a line out of those relationships!. thanksWww@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ---the brother/sister marriages of the Ptolemies: Cleopatra was the product of such a union; her first marriage was to her brother!. ---Roman emperor Caligula committed incest with his three sisters: Livilla, Drusilla, and Agrippina!. ---the Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, and Bourbon dynasties: Look at the portraits of some of these monarchs!Www@QuestionHome@Com Where do you draw the line and say it is incest!. Most states do not allow marriage between siblings and first cousins!. That is considered incest!. However, on this board, I believe I have seen people state that in England marriage is allowed between first cousins!. So you might say defining marriage between cousins of varying degree as incest is political, not scientific!. However, if you trace your family history back, you will probably find cousins of varying degree marrying!. Actually some people find out for the first time that they are married to a cousin, not necessarily a first cousin, when doing family history!. I know I have a multitude of cousins, not first cousins, I don't even know!. So if you consider incest marrying distant cousins(that is someone other than a first cousin), then a lot of people have incest in their family history and don't know it!. Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth are cousins, but not first cousins!. They are third cousins through Queen Victoria and second cousins once removed through Christian IX of Denmark!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Egyptian Pharaohs did indeed routinely marry their sisters, for the excellent reason that the crown was transmitted through the female line, and if a son of the Pharaoh wanted to be Pharaoh himself he could only do it by marrying his sister!. (also, the Pharaoh family reckoned they were divine, and if they married anybody but each other they'd be marrying beneath themselves!) Pacifist Warmonger is talking totally out of the back of his head!. The English and British monarchies have never ever married their siblings, and rarely married close cousins!. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries they tended to marry members of the minor Protestant princely families in Europe, of which there were scores, so in fact they really aren't seriously inbred at all; no more than the inhabitants of the average country village!. The really inbred European royalty were the Catholic royal families (particularly the Spanish royal family), because of a rule many of them had that they could only marry other Catholic royalty!. They often got a dispensation from the Pope to marry their first cousins or even their nieces, and the results in terms of inbreeding are mathematically startling!. The link below gives some of the most blatant examples!. (You'll note that the British monarchy - n!.b!. that there hasn't been an "English monarchy" since 1707 - doesn't figure in the list at all; it simply can't compete with the Catholic houses!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com The Pharaohs of Egypt, especially the Ptolemaic dynasty!. Cleopatra married her brother, apparently!. Roman Emperor Caligula is rumored to have had open sexual relationships with all three of his sisters!. Pre-contact Hawaiian royalty was also known to practice close incest!. Dynasties of the modern era where there was frequent familial intermarriage were the mid-Habsburgs; one branch ruled over Spain and the other over Austria!. Spanish princesses, however, did marry French kings, Louis XIII and Louis XIV who were not Habsburgs (but had Habsburg blood: Louis XIII's grandmother was Johanna of Habsburg, and Louis XIV was his wife's double first cousin: his aunt (a Bourbon) had been her mother, and her aunt (Anne of Habsburg) had been his mother)!. The Spanish branch died out in 1700, but the last Spanish Habsburg king, Carlos II had been married to María-Luisa of Orléans, grand-daughter of King Charles I of England and niece to King Louis XIV of France: she however had a large amount of Habsburg blood via Anne and Johanna of Habsburg!. In 1795 King George IV did marry his first cousin, Caroline of Brunswick, which evidently was an acceptable practice!. However, over the last century, Kings Philip II, Philip III, and (for his second time) Philip IV all married their Austrian cousins (in fact, nieces in the case of Ann of Austria and Mariana of Austria)!. The Austrian branch continued to rule until 1918, and they are still alive and prospering todayWww@QuestionHome@Com The current monarchy in England!. They no longer do that whole incest thing, but it was pretty prevalent at one time!. They are required to go to royalty for mating purposes, and sometimes war prevented them from going to other monarchies in other countries to get a mate!. If they couldn't find a lady or a knight or something within England, they often went to a cousin or sometimes even a sibling for a mate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Hapsburg royal family!. They ruled most of Europe at one point or another, and often married cousin and cousin, and even uncle to niece, many times over again!. They were known for having very prominent chins!. The last king of their line had a jaw so deformed he couldn't chew, and was mentally retarded!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Hatfields, McCoys and Mountbatten-Windsors all come to mind quickly!. The Romanovs were clearly incestuous, as well as most royal families in Europe except the Grimaldis!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The case of the inebriate widower Lot and his despicable scheming daughters usually gets mentioned in connection with this (I refer to the old testament)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com The ancient egyptians had a nasty habit of marrying their sisters!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Clinton linage!? I heard Bill screws anything that moves!. Good guess as any!? I dunno!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |