Heirs of Genghis: where are they now?

[kataphraktoi]

http://www.giraydesigncompany.com/site.html

The Giray family are a royal family descended from Genghis Khan, they use to be Khans of Crimea and other breakaway Khanates from the Golden Horde.

The current head of the family owns a design firm, not likely to rule the world but still good

Share your interesting "where are they now" stories of descendants of Genghis Khan here!!

[Subedei]

Wow, interesting subject. How did you find out about that guy????

[Craterus]

Genghis Kahn slept with so many women, it is estimated that one in two hundred males are direct descendants.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Genghis Kahn slept with so many women, it is estimated that one in two hundred males are direct descendants.

to maintain the same population size over generations, each couple must get 2 surviving offspring at the very least on average, which results in a branching factor of 2 per generation. The result is that in about 10 generations, about 2 to the power of 10 people will be "distant relatives" of yours. So you could say the same for almost any man who lived way back in the Medieval period, and even more so about men who lived even further back. If you don't account for population increase and assume all people can choose their partner randomly from all over the world during the entire period of some 1000 years, and they choose their partners among people who aren't relatives of theirs during those 1000 years, you get 2 to the power of 30, which is 10 billion, people who would be distantly related to the average male of year 1000. In reality it's more complex, as you need to take into account limited mixing, non-random partner choices and population increase over time, people not mixing between classes (but children outside marriage was common so the point has limited impact), and people who are distantly related forming couples, but the conclusion is quite interesting - most people are distantly related to most Medieval persons.

[kataphraktoi]

I read a research report that says that Genghis Khan could be responsible for at least 0.5% of the world's male population or something like that.

Plus, i read wikipedia to find out about the Giray family. Very interesting. The branch in London took an interesting turn when one of its ancestors converted from Islam to Protestantism and married a Scottish lady of high lineage or something.

[Kralizec]

It's estimated that 83% of the Europeans descend from Charlemagne.

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All right, I made up the 83% because I couldn't remember the exact stats, but it was a significant majority.