Royal family trees, explained

Who was related to whom, who ruled next, and why. Every succession here is explained in plain words and cites its sources — and where nobody has reviewed it yet, the page says so instead of guessing.

The families

Why did each of them succeed?

All 23 succession questions →

How were they related?

Where the facts come from

Structure from Wikidata

Parents, marriages, children and reigns come from Wikidata (CC0) — 393 people in this collection, 207 of them with full records. Dates keep their precision: a record that only knows a century is not shown as a year.

Explanations reviewed by HistorIQly

Why a crown changed hands is a claim, not a data point. Each of the 23 transitions here was written and reviewed, with sources. Family links that sources dispute are labelled, not smoothed over.