Royal DNA of Europe
Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome haplogroups extracted from historic human remains in Europe, or calculated from descendants, arranged chronologically. | |||||||||
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Royal house | Country | Individual | Sex | Date of death |
Y-DNA | mtDNA | Source | ||
Estridsen | Denmark | Sven II Estridsen, King of Denmark | M | d. 1074 AD | H | 7028C | Dissing 2007 | ||
Denmark | Margrethe, alias Estrid, Queen of Denmark (?Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter, spouse of King Harald III?) | F | 11th-century | H5a2 | 16093C, 16304C, reported as H5a | Dissing 2007 | |||
Bjelbo | Sweden | Birger Magnusson | M | 1266 | I1 | M253 | H | CRS | Malmstrom 2011 |
Bjelbo | Sweden | Erik, son of Birger | M | 1275 | I1 | M253 | Z1a | 16129A, 16185T, 16223T, 16224C, 16260T, 16298C | Malmstrom 2011 |
Sweden | Mechtild of Holstein | F | 1288 | U5b1 | 16189C, 16270T | Malmstrom 2011 | |||
York | England | Richard III | M | 1485 | G2 | P287; Differs from that of three male line descendants of Edward III via John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744–1803), which are U152 xL2,Z36,Z56,M126,M160,Z192. Infidelity must therefore have taken place somewhere on either the York or Lancester lines. | J1c2c | 73G, 146C, 185A, 188G, 263G, 295T, 315.1C, 16069T, 16126C, | Ehrenberg 2013; King 2014 |
Bourbon | France | Henry IV (from head thought to be his) | M | 1610 | G2a? | Partial Y-STR profile matching that thought to be Louis XVI below, but latter now discredited | U5b* | 16239T 16270T 16311C | Charlier 2012 |
Bourbon | France | Henry IV (from three known male-line descendants) | M | 1610 | R1b1b2a1a1b | U106, Z381 | Larmuseau 2013 | ||
Mukhrani | Kakheti [Georgia] | Ketevan | F | 1624 | U1b | Rai 2013 | |||
Bourbon | France | Louis XVI (from blood presumed to be his, but does not match that of Bourboun descendants, and genome does not match the appearance of Louis XVI) | M | 1793 | G2a | M52A, M216G, M174A, M181T, M201T, M91A, M96G, M214A | N1b | 73G, 151T, 152C, 189G, 194T, 195C, 263G, 315.1C, 16093C, 16145A, 16176(G), 16223T | Lalueza-Fox 2010; Larmuseau 2013; Olalde 2014 |
Bonaparte | France | Napoleon Bonaparte | M | 1821 | E1b1b1b2a1d | M123, M34, L791, L792 | 16184T | Lucotte 2011; Lucotte 2013 | |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | UK | Victoria, as deduced from living descendants in the female line and the remains of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and her children | F | 1901 | H | 263G, 315.1C, 524.1A,524.2C,750G, 1438G, 3010A, 4137T, 4769G, 8860G, 15326G, 16111T, 16357C, 16519C | Rogaev 2009; Coble 2009 | ||
Romanov | Russia | Nicholas II | M | 1918 | R1b | T* | 16126C, 16169Y*, 16294T, 16296T, 73G, 263G, 315.1C * Y= heteroplasmy | Rogaev 2009; Coble 2009 |