| We just watched the Dreamworks movie
"Amistad", and the used the
Presidential Family Forest to gain additional
perspective on some of the key characters. Of
course U.S. Presidents Martin Van Buren and John
Quincy Adams were there, as well as U.S. Vice
President John Caldwell Calhoun, but we were
interested in the 11 year old girl who fanned the
flames of this controversy, Queen Isabella II of
Spain. Marie Isabella Louise, who became Queen
of Spain as Isabella II, was born on October 10,
1830 and died on April 9, 1904. As long ago as
the time frame of Amistad seemed to be, Queen
Isabella II was actually living during the
lifetimes of people who are still living today.
Queen Isabella II was not included in the
first edition of the Presidential Family Forest,
but is included in the new edition that is about
to be published within the American &
European Family Forest. It is fascinating to see
all of the European history that lead up to this
11 year old girl being the Queen of Spain at the
point in time of the Amistad incident.
A ten generation ancestor view of Queen
Isabella II, which reaches back about three
centuries, in the Presidential Family Forest has
432 of the possible 512 boxes in the tenth column
filled in. Some of the names in those tenth
generation boxes are:
King Christian IV of Denmark & Norway,
Emperor Ferdinand II, Duke Albert Friedrich of
Prussia, King Charles I of England, King Louis
XIII of France, King Anthony of Navarre, Queen
Joan III of Navarre, Grand Duke Francis Medici of
Tuscany, King Philip II of Spain & Portugal,
Anne of Austria, Archbishop Karl of Steiermark,
Marie of Bavaria, Duke Francois I of Lorraine,
Princess Anne of Denmark, Elector Wilhelm II the
Religious of Bavaria, Duke Emanuele Filliberto of
Savoy, Duke Alessando Farnese of Parma, Marie of
Portugal, King Henry IV the Great of Navarre
& France, Grand Duke Fernando I of Tuscany,
Duke Caesare I d'Este of Modena & Ferrara,
Duke Karlo Emanuele I the Great of Savoy,
Princess Anne of Denmark, King James I of
England, Duke Caesar of Vendome, Duchess Anne of
Aumale, Duke Henrico I of Nemours, Elector
Christian I of Saxony, Elector Johann Georg I of
Brandenburg, Landgrave Georg I of
Hessen-Darmstadt, Wilhelm V of Cleve-Julich &
Berg, Pfalzgr. Wolfgang of Pfalz-Zweibrucken,
Duke Georg I of Hanover, Duke Christian of
Baireuth, Markgrave Joachim Ernst of Ansbach,
Duke Johann Friedrich of Wurtemberg, Johan
Casimir of Pfalz-Zweibrucken, Princess Henrietta
Maria of France,Count Victor Amadeus I of Savoy,
Elector Maximilian I the Great of Bavaria, King
Philip IV of Spain, King Philip II (III) of Spain
& Portugal, Duke Charles of Mantua &
Nevers, King Frederick V of Bohemia, Princess
Elizabeth Stuart of England, Princess Marie Anne
Eleanore of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Duke William of
Brunswick-Luneburg.
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