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Jul. 4th, 2015 08:11 pmHappy sod-off-colonies day ;-p
Died on this day in 1814 aged 50 Prince Emich of Leiningen (my toy,wikipedia). Emich's second wife married (after his death) Prince Edward of Kent and was the mother of Queen Victoria. So, sort of Victoria's step-father, only he was dead before her mother married her father. His second wife was his first wife's nice, which is a bit eurgh. I want to be able to draw A NICE GRAPH, but then along come people who do THINGS LIKE THIS and suddenly it is a very messy graph indeed (the whole enormous mess, only a bit cut down is at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~naath/bigGraph.png which is just too hard to really look at. I'm sure some of the generation-skipping arrows are indicators of TERRIBLE ERRORS but mostly when I look them up they turn out to be TRUE and then I get disheartened and stop thinking that "messy graph" and "wrong graph" should live in the same headspace, but if anyone wants to point out TERRIBLE ERRORS on it then please do feel free).
Born on this day in 1473 to Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and Anna of Saxony, Matilda of Hesse (my toy,wikipedia). Grandmother of Anne of Cleves (wife, briefly, of Henry VIII). Matilda married Duke John of Cleves after he had had *63* children with various mistresses and been nicknames "the babymaker". Together they had 3 children, the eldest (John) succeeded him as Duke of Cleves and was the father of Anne. Cleves was at the time a part of the Holy Roman Empire, the territory that was the Duchy of Cleves is now partly in Germany and partly in the Netherlands.
Died on this day in 1814 aged 50 Prince Emich of Leiningen (my toy,wikipedia). Emich's second wife married (after his death) Prince Edward of Kent and was the mother of Queen Victoria. So, sort of Victoria's step-father, only he was dead before her mother married her father. His second wife was his first wife's nice, which is a bit eurgh. I want to be able to draw A NICE GRAPH, but then along come people who do THINGS LIKE THIS and suddenly it is a very messy graph indeed (the whole enormous mess, only a bit cut down is at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~naath/bigGraph.png which is just too hard to really look at. I'm sure some of the generation-skipping arrows are indicators of TERRIBLE ERRORS but mostly when I look them up they turn out to be TRUE and then I get disheartened and stop thinking that "messy graph" and "wrong graph" should live in the same headspace, but if anyone wants to point out TERRIBLE ERRORS on it then please do feel free).
Born on this day in 1473 to Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and Anna of Saxony, Matilda of Hesse (my toy,wikipedia). Grandmother of Anne of Cleves (wife, briefly, of Henry VIII). Matilda married Duke John of Cleves after he had had *63* children with various mistresses and been nicknames "the babymaker". Together they had 3 children, the eldest (John) succeeded him as Duke of Cleves and was the father of Anne. Cleves was at the time a part of the Holy Roman Empire, the territory that was the Duchy of Cleves is now partly in Germany and partly in the Netherlands.