Genealogy of the house of Luxembourg
Genealogy of the House of Luxembourg
Coat of arms of the House of Luxembourg
The House of Luxembourg was a royal family of the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages, whose members between 1308 and 1437 ruled as kings of Germany and Holy Roman emperors as well as kings of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia. Their rule was twice interrupted by the rival House of Wittelsbach. The House of Luxembourg, the House of Anjou and their descendants the House of Plantagenet (kings of England) and the French House of Lusignan are said in folk tales and medieval literature to be descended from Melusine, a figure of European folklore, usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down, much like a mermaid. The Luxembourg family claimed descent from the she-demon Melusine through their ancestor, Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes (c. 922 – 998), father of Saint Cunigunde, wife of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. The family city of Luxembourg was founded around a castle developed from a Roman fort built on a rock called “the Bock,” which was famous as one of the most powerful and defensible castles in Europe. Siegfried, who bought the site of the castle in 963 was said to have married Melusina, who made the castle of Bock magically appear, the morning after her wedding. Their marriage lasted until Siegfried broke his vow not to disturb her privacy each month. When he spied on her taking a bath, he discovered that she was half-woman, half-fish. As he cried out in shock, Melusina immediately sank beneath the castle and disappeared.
Henry VII, Count of Luxembourg upon the death of his father Henry VI at the 1288 Battle of Worringen, was elected Rex Romanorum in 1308. Henry arranged the marriage of his son John the Blind (1296 – 1346) with the Premyslid heiress Elisabeth of Bohemia in 1310, through whom the House of Luxembourg acquired the Kingdom of Bohemia, enabling that family to compete more effectively for power with the Habsburg and Wittelsbach dynasties. Their son was Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, father of Emperor Sigismund (1316 – 1378), founder of the Order of the Dragon. Charles’ sister Bonne, Duchess of Normandy married John II of France, whose several children were significant founders several dynasties and orders. It was John, Duke of Berry who requested that Jean d’Arras write the Roman de Mélusine or the Chronique de Melusine part of Le Noble Hystoire de Lusignan. Jean d’Arras dedicated the work to John’s sister Marie of Valois, Duchess of Bar (1344 – 1404) and expressed the hope that it would aid in the political education of her children. Their brother, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1342 – 1404) was the grandfather of Philip the Good (1396 – 1467), founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Sigismund was succeeded by his son-in-law, the Habsburg archduke Albert II of Germany (1397 – 1439), who married Sigismund’s daugther, Elizabeth of Luxembourg. The Habsburgs finally prevailed as Luxembourg heirs, ruling the Empire until the extinction of their senior branch upon the death of Maria Theresa in 1780.
SIEGFRIED, COUNT OF THE ARDENNES (associated with MELUSINE legend) + Hedwig of Nordgau
Henry I of Luxembourg
Frederick of Luxembourg + Ermentrude, Countess of Gleiberg?
Giselbert of Luxembourg + unknown
Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg + Clementia of Aquitaine
Ermesinde of Luxembourg (Frederick Barbarossa decided that she was the heir to the County of Luxembourg) + Godfrey I, Count of Namur
Count Henri IV, Count of Luxembourg + Agnes of Guelders
Waleran III of Limburg and Ermesinda of Luxembourg
Henry V, Count of Luxembourg + Margaret of Bar (see below)
Ogive of Luxembourg + Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
Baldwin V, Count of Flanders + Adela (daughter of Robert II of France + Constance of Arles)
Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders + Richilde, Countess of Hainaut
Count Baldwin II of Hainaut + Ida of Louvain
Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut + Yolande (daughter of Count Gerard I of Guelders)
Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut + Alice of Namur (niece of Godfrey I, Count of Namur)
Agnes of Hainault + Ralph I, Lord of Coucy
Yolande de Coucy + Robert II, Count of Dreux
Robert III, Count of Dreux + Alianor de St. Valéry
Yolande of Dreux + Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
John of Burgundy + Agnes of Dampierre
Beatrix of Bourbon + Count of Clermont
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (first Duke of Bourbon)
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy + Agnes of France
Margaret of Burgundy + Louis X of France
Joan of Burgundy + Philip VI of France (see below)
Mary of Burgundy + Edward I, Count of Bar (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION)
Peter I, Duke of Brittany + Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany
John I, Duke of Brittany + Blanche (see below)
Yolande de Dreux + Hugh XI of Lusignan (see below)
Philippa of Dreux + Theobald I, Count of Bar
Margaret of Bar + Henry V, Count of Luxembourg
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (first emperor since the death of Frederick II in 1250, ending the Great Interregnum. First emperor of the House of Luxembourg) + Margaret of Brabant
John the Blind, King of Bohemia + Elizabeth of Bohemia
Bonne of Luxembourg + John II of France (see below)
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Elizabeth of Pomerania (see below)
Maria of Luxembourg + Charles IV of France (last king of the direct line of the House of Capet)
Beatrix of Luxembourg + Charles I of Hungary (no issue)
Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut + Margaret I of Flanders
Isabelle of Hainaut + Philip II of France (see below)
Louis VIII of France + Blanche of Castile (see above)
Louis IX of France (founded Order of the Ship and the Double Crescent) + Margaret of Provence (see below)
Charles I of Anjou + Beatrice of Provence (see the Genealogy of the Kingdom of Naples)
Beatrice of Sicily + Philip I, Latin Emperor
Catherine + Charles, Count of Valois (see above)
Charles II of Naples (discovered remains of Mary Madgalene at Saint-Maximin) + Mary of Hungary
Charles Martel, Prince of Salermo
Charles I of Hungary (founder of the Order of Saint George) + Elizabeth of Poland
Margaret + Charles, Count of Valois (see above)
Philip VI of France + Joan of Burgundy
John II of France + Bonne of Luxembourg
Charles V of France + Joanna of Bourbon
Charles VI of France + Isabeau of Bavaria
Charles VII of France + Marie of Anjou (see below)
Louis I, Duke of Orléans + Valentina Visconti (see below)
Louis I, Duke of Anjou + Marie of Blois
Louis II of Anjou + Yolande of Aragon (see below)
JOHN, DUKE OF BERRY (requested that Jean d’Arras write the Roman de Mélusine or the Chronique de Melusine part of Le Noble Hystoire de Lusignan) + Joanna of Armagnac
Bonne of Berry + Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
AMADEUS VIII, DUKE OF SAVOY (antipope Felix V, elevated duke of Savoy by EMPEROR SIGISUMND, founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Mary of Burgundy
PHILIP THE BOLD + Margaret III, Countess of Flanders
John the Fearless + Margaret of Bavaria
PHILIP THE GOOD (founder of the ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE) + Isabella of Portugal (sister of Prince Henry the Navigator, Grand Master of the ORDER OF CHRIST)
Charles the Bold + Isabella of Portugal (d. of John I of Portugal + Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt)
Mary, Duchess of Burgundy + Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (s. of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor + Eleanor of Portugal, d. of Edward, King of Portugal, brother of Prince Henry the Navigator, Grand Master of the Order of Christ, and brother of Joanna of Castile who married Philip the Good, founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece)
Anthony, Duke of Brabant + Jeanne of Saint-Pol
John IV, Duke of Brabant + Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut
Philip I, Duke of Brabant + Yolande, Duchess of Brabant (sister of RENE OF ANJOU, see above)
Joan, Queen of Navarre + Charles II of Navarre
MARIE OF VALOIS, Duchess of Bar + Robert I, Duke of Bar (grandson of Edward I, Count of Bar, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)
Henry of Bar + Marie de Coucy, Countess of Soissons (d. of Enguerrand VII de Coucy, possible author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
Robert of Bar, Count of Marle + Jeanne de Béthune
Jeanne de Bar + Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (see below)
Peter II of Luxembourg (Order of the Golden Fleece) + Marguerite of Savoy (daughter of Louis, Duke of Savoy and Anne of Lusignan)
Marie of Luxembourg + Francis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme
Charles de Bourbon + Françoise d'Alençon
Antoine of Navarre + Jeanne III of Navarre (see above)
Henry IV, King of France + MARIE DE MEDICI
Jacquetta of Luxembourg + Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Elizabeth Woodville (accused of witchcraft) + Edward IV of England
Elizabeth of York + Henry VII of England
Henry VIII of England
Yolande of Bar + John I of Aragon (s. of Peter IV of Aragon + Eleanor of Sicily)
Yolande of Aragon + Louis II of Anjou (see above)
Louis III of Anjou
Marie of Anjou + Charles VII of France (see above)
Louis XI of France + Charlotte of Savoy (see above)
Charles VIII of France + Anne of Brittany
RENE OF ANJOU (Grand Master of PRIORY OF SION) + Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine
Margaret of Anjou + Henry VI of England (succeeded by Edward IV, s. of Richard Duke of York)
Edward, Prince of Wales
YOLANDE OF BAR (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION, inherited the Duchy of Lorraine in 1473 after the death without a male heir of Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine) + Ferri de Vaudemont (Order of the Crescent, with FRANCESO I SFORZA)
Margaret of Lorraine + René, Duke of Alençon
Françoise d'Alençon + Charles de Bourbon (see below)
Anne of Alençon + Casale to William IX of Montferrat
Margaret Paleologa + Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (see above)
LUDOVICO GONZAGA, DUKE OF NEVERS (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION)
RENE II, DUKE OF LORRAINE (Order of the Fleur de Lys) + Philippa of Guelders
ISABELLE OF VALOIS + Gian Galeazzo Visconti (father of FILIPPO MARIA VISCONTI, who commissioned Visconti-Sforza Tarot with FRANCESCO I SFORZA, member of the Order of the Cresent founded by RENE OF ANJOU)
Valentina Visconti + Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Charles, Duke of Orléans + Marie of Cleves
Louis XII of France + Anne, Duchess of Brittany
Claude of France + Francis I of France (Order of the Golden Fleece, sponsor of Guillaume Postel and Leonardo da Vinci)
Henry II of France + Catherine de Medici (practitioner of the Black Mass)
Elisabeth, Queen of Spain + Philip II of Spain (Order of the Golden Fleece)
Margaret II, Duchess of Berry + Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (called upon Nostradamus for an heir)
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (prophesied by Nostradamus)
Renée of France + Ercole II d'Este
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Elizabeth of Pomerania (see below)
SIGISMUND, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Barbara of Cilli
Marie of Luxembourg + Charles IV of France
Beatrice of Luxembourg + Charles I of Hungary (founder of the Order of Saint George)
Louis I of Hungary + Margaret of Bohemia (Sigismund’s half-sister)
Louis I of Hungary + Elizabeth of Bosnia
Mary, Queen of Hungary + SIGISMUND, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR, founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON
Waleran I, Lord of Ligny + Jeanne of Beaurevoir
Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny + Guyotte of Lille
John I, Lord of Ligny + Alix of Dampierre
Guy I, Count of Ligny + Mahaut of Châtillon
Waleran III, Count of Ligny and of Saint-Pol + Bonne of Bar (see above)
Waleran III, Count of Ligny and of Saint-Pol + Maud Holland (stepdaughter of Edward, the Black Prince)
Jeanne of Saint-Pol + Anthony, Duke of Brabant (son of PHILIP THE BOLD, see above)
John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir + Margaret, Countess of Brienne
Peter I of Luxembourg + Margaret de Baux (d. of Francesco del Balzo's third wife Sueva Orsini, a relation of Clarice Orsini, wife of Lorenzo de' Medici)
Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol + Jeanne de Bar (d. of MARIE OF VALOIS, see above)
Baldwin I, Latin Emperor + Marie of Champagne (see below)
Yolanda of Flanders + Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor
Baldwin II, Latin Emperor + Marie of Brienne
Philip I, Latin Emperor + Beatrice of Sicily (d. Charles I of Anjou and Beatrice of Provence)
Catherine + Charles, Count of Valois (son of Philip III of France + Isabella of Aragon)
Yolanda de Courtenay + Andrew II of Hungary (son of Béla III of Hungary + Agnes of Antioch, associated with Pontigny Abbey)
Yolanda + James I of Aragon