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	Battenberg - LoveToKnow 1911
		BATTENBERG, the name of a family of German counts which died out about 1314, whose seat was the castle of Kellerburg, near Battenberg, a small place now in the Prussian province of HesseNassau.
		The fourth son, Francis Joseph, born in 1861, married in 1897 Anna, daughter of Nicholas I., prince of Montenegro, and is the author of Die volkswirtschaftliche Entwickelung Bulgariens von 1879 bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig, 1891).
		The only daughter of the princess of Battenberg, Marie Caroline, born in 1852, was married in 1871 to Gustavus Ernest, prince and count of Erbach-Schonberg.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Battenberg (283 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Battenberg
		Battenberg, German princely family, issued from the morganatic union of Alexander, a younger son of Louis II, grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Countess Julia von Hauke, who was created (1858) princess of Battenberg.
		Alexander (Alexander of Battenberg), 1857-93, prince of Bulgaria (1879-86); second son of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt and nephew of Alexander II of Russia.
		He was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice, daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, and a grandson of George I of Greece, great-grandson of Christian IX of Denmark, and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Battenberg (534 words)

	Battenberg family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battenberg was the title created for the wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse, Countess Julia von Hauke.
		Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg 1861 - 1924
		One son of this marriage, Prince Henry of Battenberg, married The Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria; their daughter, Victoria Eugenia Julia, became queen consort of Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battenberg_family (465 words)

	Untitled Document
		There are many historical buildings that tell the story of the development of Battenberg, which was first mentioned as a city in the year of 1234.
		The name Battenberg won popularity again in 1851, because at this time the children of the "morganatic" marriage of the Hessian Prince Alexander were given the title of "Princes of Battenberg".
		The meadows along the Eder which are partially a nature reserve with their rich animal and plant life at all seasons of the year is a paradise for everyone seeking peace and contact with nature.
	www.battenberg-eder.de /html/tourismus_eng.htm (361 words)

	The Royalist - Smiles & Goals Galore From 'Harry Wales'
		The family is known as the house of Windsor because the queen issued letters patent in the 1950s stating that members of the royal family will remain members of the house of Windsor.
		Phillip's father renounced his Battenberg titles and changed the family name to the Anglicized "Mountbatten" and was given the title of Marquess of Milford Haven.
		The first of the kings of Greece from this royal family was a son of a king of Denmark.
	www.theroyalist.net /content/view/1092/1 (432 words)

	Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Battenberg for the frist time in history has been cited by the "Lorscher Codex" in 788 as "Bettenberge".
		Today, Battenberg is a rural residential area without any businesses, except for wine growing and low volume farming.
		The Battenberg Farmer´s Market was held at the Battenberg Castle on October 3rd.
	www.battenberg-weinstrasse.de /Mountbat.htm (370 words)

	Battenberg History & Origins
		The first Battenbergs were a family of German counts that died out about 1314 and whose seat was the castle of Kellerburg, near Battenberg, in Hesse.
		In 1858 the countess and her children were all raised to the rank of Prince or Princess of Battenberg.
		Their marriage produced five offspring, and the eldest son was Prince Louis of Battenberg.
	www.tmbg.freeserve.co.uk /Battenberg/Origins.htm (532 words)

	St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight - The Battenberg Chapel
		As the Countess was of unequal rank, the marriage was morganatic and the Countess was made Princess of Battenberg in her own right.
		Prince Henry belonged to a branch of one of the oldest families in Christendom.
		It was bought by Queen Mary and given by her to Princess Beatrice who, in turn, presented it to St. Mildred's in memory of her son Prince Maurice of Battenberg who was killed in action in 1914 at Ypres.
	www.iow.uk.com /whippingham-church/battchap.htm (376 words)

	Margaret Weatherford Column
		The inclusion of a name honoring the non-royal side of the baby’s family is a step forward for the Windsors, who traditionally expect those who marry into the family to keep their own families in the background.
		The Battenberg family was established in 1851, when Prince Alexander of Hesse married Julie von Hauke.
		Thus the Battenbergs were closely linked to the British royal family during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	www.etoile.co.uk /Columns/Margaret/040307.html (800 words)

	The Damon and Taber Family Connections - Person Page 11818
		Victoria Eugenia (of Battenberg) was born on 24 October 1887 in Isle Of Wight.
		Victoria Eugenia (of Battenberg) married Alphonso XIII (of Spain), son of Alphonso XII (of Spain) and Archduchess Maria Christina (of Austria), on 9 March 1906 in, Spain.
		Victoria Eugenia (of Battenberg) died in 1969 in Lausanne.
	www.richard.damon.name /genealogy/p11818.htm (215 words)

	boys clothing: Hessian Bulgarian royalty -- Prince Alexander of Battenburg
		The younger sons of the reigning family of many small German states are generally lost to history.
		Francis Joseph, Prince of Battenberg, was born in 1861.
		The Battenberg in Britain was seen as a Teutonic by the increasingly anti-German British public during World War I. Anti-German feelings had reached hysterical levels by 1916.
	histclo.com /royal/bul/rb-pab.htm (1950 words)

	The Tecks and Battenbergs
		This family finds its origin in the morganatic marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse (1823-88), second younger brother of Grand Duke Ludwig III of Hesse and by Rhine.
		This prince accompanied his sister Marie to St. Petersburg in 1841, where she was to wed the future Czar Alexander II; he entered the Russian army, and later met and fell in love with Julie von Hauke (1825-95), whom he married in 1851.
		A few days later she was created countess of Battenberg and, on Dec 26, 1858, she and her posterity were created prince/ss of Battenberg.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/britain/Tecks_Battenbergs.htm (2042 words)

	Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Like all mediaeval German states, all the sons of the family shared and shared alike in the common inheritance of the family, and so were all equally Dukes of Brunswick.
		Needless to say, the family tragedy of dying cousins served to consolidate the Wittelsbach holdings and prevented the kind of fragmention seen in the Saxon Duchies.
		A younger son of Christian IX of Denmark became King of Greece as George I. King George's grandson is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of the Queen Elizabeth II of England.
	www.friesian.com /germany.htm (10308 words)

	Battenberg cake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battenberg cake (also: Battenburg cake, Window cake) is a light sponge cake which, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow.
		The origin of the name is not clear, but it is sometimes attributed to the Battenberg family, who lived in England during the late-19th century.
		One theory claims that the cake was created in honour of the marriage in 1884 of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battenburg_cake (207 words)

	England: In recent weeks Prince Philip of England has been on a visit to Israel and has accepted an award honoring his ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To keep things ‘sweet’ after the family ‘hit the roof,’ they revived an old family title for Alexander and his Jewess: Count of Battenberg (that’s where the Battenberg line begins) and later, as time somewhat eased the shock, they made him prince of Battenberg.
		The eldest son of these two was Prince Louis of Battenberg, who came to England and joined Victoria’s court and family.
		Now, his daughter, Princess Alice, married back into the Glucksberg family (the Danish/Greek group of direct Hesse ancestry) and she is the Mother of Philip; the Queen’s husband.
	www.israelect.com /reference/WillieMartin/RoyalLine.htm (428 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 2
		Known to the Royal Family as Bertie; Was Prince Albert, Duke of York (1920-1936); Acceded as George VI following his brother's abdication on 11 Dec 1936.
		Mary was to prove the brightest of the family.
		She rejected the fact that her son, Nicholas II and his family was murdered in Ekaterinburg.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r02.html (1502 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 5
		Because of anti-German sentiment, his father anglicized the family name to Mountbatten in 1917.
		Mountbatten served as British viceroy of India from March to August 1947, and governor-general of the new dominion of India from August 1947 to June 1948.
		Family: Edward George Nicholas WINDSOR, Duke of Kent
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r05.html (1057 words)

	thePeerage.com - Maria Cristina de Borbón y Battenberg, Infanta de España and others
		She married, firstly, Jaime Luitpold de Borbón y Battenberg, Infante de España, son of Alfonso XIII de Borbón y Habsburgo, Rey de España and Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena Prinzessin von Battenberg, on 4 March 1935 in Rome.
		She married, secondly, Jaime Luitpold de Borbón y Battenberg, Infante de España, son of Alfonso XIII de Borbón y Habsburgo, Rey de España and Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena Prinzessin von Battenberg, on 3 August 1949 in Innsbruck, Austria.
		She married Gonzalo de Borbón y de Dampierre, Duc d'Acquitaine, son of Jaime Luitpold de Borbón y Battenberg, Infante de España and Donna Emmanuela de Dampierre, on 25 June 1984 in Madrid, Spain, in a civil marriage.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10329.htm (1480 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| The hidden princess
		For the Battenbergs, the handsomest family in Europe, it was to be third time lucky.
		These were respectively the winter and summer homes of Alexander of Battenberg (born a prince of Hesse), his commoner wife Countess Julie von Hauke, created Princess of Battenberg, and the five children of that marriage, on account of Julie's non-royal rank, semi-royal, of morganatic blood: Marie, Louis, Sandro, Henry and Franz Josef.
		The Battenberg children were cousins once removed of Alice's children, the Queen's Hesse grandchildren, and so by marriage connections of the British Royal Family.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/12/23/smprin23.xml (654 words)

	Alexander Battenberg Square
		A bit further along is Alexander Battenberg Square, formerly called "9th of September Square".
		Built in 1873, as the seat of the local Turkish governor during the time of the Ottomans, it later became the residence of the Bulgarian monarchy, beginning with Knyaz (Prince) Alexander Battenberg.
		His family removed his remains in 1990, cremated and buried them next to his mother in the city graveyard.
	www.sofiaecho.com /alexander-battenberg-square/p_64 (1102 words)

	BATTENBERG - Online Information article about BATTENBERG
		Theresa von Haucke (1825-1895), who was then created countess of Battenberg.
		UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)
		Caroline, born in 1852, was married in 1871 to Gustavus Ernest, prince and See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BATTENBERG.html (499 words)

	An Avalanche of World Events by Steven LaTulippe
		While surfing around in some of the more "new age" corners of the web, I came across claims that Nostradamus (some sites say it was Rasputin) prophesized that if a member of the ancient Battenberg family ever ascends the throne of England, it will mark the end of the British monarchy.
		His first marriage was a globally publicized debacle, his personal staff has been beset by numerous sordid sex scandals, and his second wedding had the misfortune of being originally scheduled on the same day as the largest funeral in planetary history.
		But one needn’t be a prophet to predict that this is one Battenberg whose string of personal disasters may terminate what had been the most prominent ruling family in the world.
	www.lewrockwell.com /latulippe/latulippe47.html (2191 words)

	TIME.com: A Vow Is Kept -- Nov. 8, 1954 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For all that he was a close relative of the royal family and a veteran of 45 years' devoted naval service, Prince Louis' name and ancestry were a sight too much for many patriotic Britons to bear.
		The man to whom it fell to accept Prince Louis Battenberg's resignation in 1914 was Winston Churchill.
		Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he had had the satisfaction in World War II of seeing his superiors seethe as he was plucked from beneath them to be made first an acting admiral and later Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,857633,00.html (508 words)

	Battenberg — Infoplease.com
		], German princely family, issued from the morganatic union of Alexander, a younger son of Louis II, grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Countess Julia von Hauke, who was created (1858) princess of Battenberg.
		Alexander, prince of Bulgaria - Alexander (Alexander of Battenberg), 1857–93, prince of Bulgaria (1879–86); second son...
		Battenberg: No comment.(Delphi Corp.'s J.T. Battenberg III on company's bankruptcy filing)(Brief Article)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0806489.html (360 words)

	CBC News Indepth: The Royal Family
		The only son of Prince Andrew of Greece, his paternal family is of Danish descent.
		His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
		When the Greek monarchy was abolished, the one-year-old Philip and his family were forced into exile.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/royals/princephilip_bio.html (1030 words)

	thePeerage.com - Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of Albany and others
		He was the son of Henry Maurice Prinz von Battenberg and Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of the United Kingdom.
		Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena Prinzessin von Battenberg was born on 24 October 1887 in Balmoral Castle, Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
		She was the daughter of Henry Maurice Prinz von Battenberg and Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of the United Kingdom.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10068.htm (4753 words)

	Royalty.nu - The British Royal Windsor Family - Queen Elizabeth II
		On the weekends, the family went to their country house, the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, where the girls enjoyed working in the garden with their parents.
		According to Marion Crawford (who later angered the royal family by writing a book about the girls), Elizabeth and Margaret were fascinated by other children, and "used to smile shyly at those they liked the look of.
		Royal Racing: The Queen and Queen Mother's Sporting Life by Sean Smith is about the abiding passion of Elizabeth II and her mother for horse racing.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Windsor/ElizabethII.html (2916 words)

	Andrew Cusack: February 2006 Archives
		Of course it's not really that odd when one considers that the real name of the Mountbatten family is Battenberg, changed to disguise their Teutonicity during the Great War when the fervor of hatred against our cousin the Hun ran willy-nilly.
		His parents were Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine, while Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine was his grandfather.
		After the murder of Tsar St. Nicholas II and his immediate family, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth with a few other members of the Royal Family and their loyal servants who refused to leave them, were hurled down a mineshaft in Alapaevsk by the Communist Secret Police.
	www.andrewcusack.com /blog/2006/02 (6501 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		Leading the list of the fallen was Lord Louis Mountbatten, a member of the British royal family and a towering figure in modern British military history.
		He was the son of Prince Louis of Battenberg (the family anglicized the German name during World War I), the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and the cousin of the woman who became Queen Elizabeth II.
		He was simply a high-profile target because of his connection to the royal family and the British establishment.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=15129 (1184 words)

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