Juan Carlos of Spain?
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Juan Carlos of Spain?
Right you are! Juan Carlos of Spain can, by virtue of being the heir to the title King of Naples, style himself King of Jerusalem. He's the only reigning monarch who can. Victor Emmanuel, head of the House of Savoy, and heir to the throne of Italy, can claim the title King of Jerusalem via the Savoyard branch of the Cypriot claim; but he doesn't currently rule. Otto von Hapsburg, current head of the Hapsburg family, can also make the claim, via the Angevin line; but he doesn't currently rule and the Angevins lost Naples to the Aragonese, which is how it got to King Juan Carlos. The only other living descendants of a claimant to the Kingdom of Jerusalem are Carlos, Duke of Calabria, and Prince Ferdinando Maria, Duke of Castro, both Bourbon claimants to the title King of the Two Sicilies, which was nominally given up by the Kings of Spain even though they still claim the title.
You get the next question. Want to take a crack at the bonus question? King Juan Carlos and one other reigning monarch are descendants of the longest continuously ruling family line in Europe, which is the...
As far as I know, the longest continuous ruling family line in Europe is the grimaldi's from monaco. But I'm afraid that Juan carlos doesn't belong to that family.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aenlic
I got the girmiladis as well. ok hmmmm. Name Texas's first capital
I feel like I'm cheating when answering Texas questions since we have to study it so damn often in the schools here, up to and including college; so I'll pass.
As for the longest continually ruling family in Europe. Continuously ruling family, not the family which has ruled in one place the longestin Europe. For that, the Grimaldi's would be correct, at just over 700 years. But far older is the family which has, since its beginning, ruled somewhere in Europe. The correct answer is the Capetians, of which line Juan Carlos is descended. The other current ruler who is a Capetian is Henri, Duke of Luxembourg. Both are currently considered the ruling royals of their respective constitutional monarchies. Both are descended from cadet branches of the Capet line, not necessarily male only. The senior member of the House of Capet is currently Louis Alphonso, Duke of Anjou, who is descended in a direct male line from Hugh Capet and, and thus, under Salic law, is considered the heir to the throne of France. (Legitimist as opposed to Orleanists, who propose the Duke of Paris, whose name I've forgotten for the moment as the correct heir).
Do you mean the Republic of Texas? In that case, it would be Washington-on-the-Brazos, which served as capital from March 2 to March 16, 1836.
Aelnic We must enlighten the masses and Homo you are correct
Aenlic, does this mean the BBC or whatever it was was incorrect? On a Russian Revolution movie I watched it said that the Romanovs were the oldest ruling family in Europe, at a mere three hundred years. Or are they just looking at passing down to males, as opposed to just keeping it within the family?
The Romanovs certainly weren't. By that time, the Habsburg were much older: since before 1300. If anything, the Capets had been ruling since before 1000 A.D., and then survived in various names. The first major male line, the Capets themselves, ended a decade or so after Philip IV; the successing house, Valois, was also of Capet blood; and so on and so forth with the Bourbons and other branches that come to rule other realms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiberius
You must have misheard it or they were making some other point about the Romanov's, Tiberius.
The Grimaldi's of Monaco have the record for the longest current continous rule of any one particular country in Europe, at over 700 years. The Capetians have the record for the longest continuous rule by a family of at least one country somewhere in Europe up to the present. They can trace the line back to Cheribert, a claimant to the throne of Nuestria, and half-brother of the Merovingian king Dagobert I. They first ruled in Europe when King Odo (also called Eudes - grandson of Louis the Pious) was chosen king of the Western Franks and crowned in 888. But they've ruled at least one country somewhere in Europe since Hugh Capet was crowned King of France in 987. That far surpasses any other ruling house. In comparison, the Hapsburgs first ruled the HRE beginning in 1273, the Grimaldi's took Monaco in 1297, the Romanovs no longer rule but their dynasty began in 1613. The Valois and Bourbon dynasties are cadet branches of the House of Capet, by the way.
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Ah-hem, ok then, name Germany's first overseas colony.
IIRC, Namibia (which still has a German community) was the first overseas colony of Germany as a unified state, but I think pre-unification German states had smaller possesions much earlier than that, I think in South America?
Antagonist
isn't it Nambia
Antagonist is on the right track. I'm looking for the first colony founded by Germans, not neccessarily the unified state of Germany.
is it Germanna?
Does the Germans include the French? Technically they are Germans since they're ruled by the Franks, and both the HRE and the Frankish kingdom were originally part of the Frankish kingdom which split. The English as well are kind of German (Angles and Saxons).
By the way, Aenlic: Must have been my rubbish history teacher, then.
Well, I assume by "Germans" you mean individual Germans or states such as Brandenberg etc. rather then "Germanics" which would be a lot more vague.
Was it in North Africa then? I had to read something a while back about German emigration in pre-modern times and it said something about a colony in Mauritania, or maybe it was an island nearby. Can't really remember the details though...
Antagonist
Well, from what I can find, there seem to be several answers.
German East Africa was founded in 1880 by a German commercial interest; but wasn't under direct control of the German government. It ran inland on the coast across from Zanzibar, including what is now Tanzania, and parts of Rwanda and Burundi; and was protested by the Sultan of Zanzibar, until Germany sent a battleship to Zanzibar and pointed the big guns at the Sultan's palace.
German Southwest Africa was founded in 1884, and came under direct German government control, and constitutes what is now Namibia. It is the first official German government colony
However, in 1681 William Penn had advertisements published in broadsides in Germany recruiting settlers for the newly established colony of Pennsylvania. The first to arrive were some Mennonites from the Ruhr in 1683, followed by more Germans over the years. Francis Pastorius established the German township in 1685 and William Penn signed the official charter for Germantown in 1689, with Pastorius as the bailiff. (Interestingly, Pastorius wrote the first documented protest against Negro slavery in U.S. history in 1688). My own paternal ancestors from further south on the Rhine, south-southwest of Mainz, established a Lutheran community in 1748 further northwest in central Pennsylvania near what is now Beavertown.
So, which one are you looking for, Homo Sapiens? Or do we need to dig back even further?
Further back everybody, further back.
(scratches head) Well, drat! Back to digging. :oops:
It's the Welser Kolonie, also Known as Klein Venedig (little Venice) in South America, which Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor gave to the Welser family of Augsburg as a form of repayment for the huge sums of money they (and also the Fugger family) had lent him so that he could bribe the Electors into choosing him as HRE over Francis I of France.
The area is now known as Venezuela (also from Venice).
I'd never heard of the Welser colony until you made this post. Very interesting stuff. Apparently Bartholmeus Welser gave a reported 12 tons (!!!) of gold to the emperor. That's just staggering. No wonder he was given permission to fund and settle the colony in Venezuela. His son, Marc, was also somewhat notable, as a correspondent of Galilleo's.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Henry V
Is this the correct answer, Homo Sapiens? If so, kudos to King Henry V!
Edit: doing some quick conversions here. If that 12 tons of gold was in short tons, then that would be roughly 350,000 troy ounces. At today's price of $611 US per troy ounce, Welser gave Charles V the equivalent of $213 million US. And that's just using today's final gold price. For the 16th century that's just outrageously rich! And he gave it away!
Congratulations King Henry V, you are correct!
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So, yeah...
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So, yeah...
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Who was the first person to break light up into different colours?
If you mean the first person to realize that the colors of the spectrum were all components of light rather than produced by the object, such as a prism, which caused the spectrum, then the answer is Newton. The ancient Greeks, and probably many others knew about the rainbow and spectra in general; but they connected the phenomenon to the object which produced it rather than light itself. It was Newton who showed that light itself consisted of all of the colors. He was able to consistently produce a spectrum from white light using prisms and then recombine the colors using another prism back into white light. Newton called it "corpuscular" in his book, Optiks. While not entirely correct, since he viewed light as being composed of different size particles; it was thus, the first scientific explanation of light as particles. The answer, of course, is much more complicated.
Probably some DJ from England :laugh4:
I am looking for the first to break up light with a prism, but isn't Newton. Much, much earlier (after Antiquity, though).Quote:
Originally Posted by Aenlic
Hmm, OK. I think I know. I'll let someone else give it a shot first. Good question!