| how do you list royalty in a family tree?
Ah, I love this kind of question as the Tudors of Merry Old England came from the Welsh (meaning "stangers"), the people they tried so hard to exterminate. In Welch, Tudor was Tewdr (or variations thereof). All of England's royalty since then have been descended for Owain Tewder. But, see: http://nygaard.howards.net/files/3/3303.htmBut, first of all, "Tudor" was NOT a surname, but refered to a clan or extended family. The name comes before the advent of surnames in Merry Old England. It was first a given name.More to the point: If you wish to somehow list Henry VIII, you MUST show it as his FIRST name, without any surname. (Which is one of many reasons why I refuse to use any of those genealogy family tree programs!) He had NO SURNAME; thus none should be shown. There were at that time lots of people from Lincoln; some at some point adopted Lincoln as a surname, but at that time, they would have been known as, e.g., "John of Lincoln". Henry's name was NOT Henry Tudor, but Henry of the Tudors.Also, unless there is some type of relatively close blood relationship, you should NOT show these people at all. Also, if you were to denote Henry VIII, you could conceivably thus also show Kings and Queens from Denmark (and other Scandinavian countries), Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal...Charlemagne the Great...the Caesars...Because they were all (more or less) related.
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