Finding Aid for the Royal Genealogy, 1948-1965


MS-2458

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, July 14, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Royal Genealogy

Date/Date Range :   1948-1965

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection, Royal Genealogy, 1948-1965, contains many handwritten genealogical charts of the royal or dynastic families in Europe. It also includes two articles from January 1965 on the discovery of a tomb for a British princess, Anne Mowbray. There is also a 1948 letter for genealogical tables from the Harvard Press.

Call number: MS-2458

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Collection is property of the UT Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Royal Genealogy, MS-2458. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of a single folder.


Biography / History

No biographical information is available.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection, Royal Genealogy, 1948-1965, contains many handwritten genealogical charts of the royal or dynastic families in Europe. It also includes two articles from January 1965 on the discovery of a tomb for a British princess, Anne Mowbray. There is also a 1948 letter for genealogical tables from the Harvard Press.

Subject Terms

  • Europe -- Genealogy.
  • Royal houses -- Euorpe, Western.
Contents List
Folder   1     Item   1    
Letter to "Dear Professor" from L.J. Carrel of the Harvard University Press, providing a copy of Genealogical Tables to Illustrate European History by Henry F. Schwartz of Wellesley College, 1948 October 6

Folder   1     Item   2    
Newspaper articles: "1481 Crypt Yields Body of Princess" by Lawrence Fellows on Anne Mowbray, infant bride of the Duke of York, and "Crypt Gives Up Its Secret: Murders of British Princes Confirmed" by Richard Starnes on Anne Mowbray and the two princes, the Duke of York and his brother Edward V, killed in the Tower of London, 1965 January 15-1965 January 16

Folder   1     Item   3    
Handwritten genealogical charts for "Later French Carolingian dynasty and Capetian dynasty," undated

Folder   1     Item   4    
Handwritten genealogical charts for "Carolingian, Saxon, and Salian Emperors (dynasties)," undated

Folder   1     Item   5    
Handwritten genealogical charts for "Welf and Hohenstaufen dynasties," undated

Folder   1     Item   6    
Handwritten genealogical charts for "Emperors 1273-1517," undated

Folder   1     Item   7    
Handwritten genealogical charts for "La Marde Encyclopedia VII" undated

Folder   1     Item   8    
Copy of handwritten genealogical charts for "The anarchy of the Third Century: The Valerians and the Illyrian Emperors," undated

Folder   1     Item   9    
Copy of handwritten genealogical charts for the "German kings and Emperors" with the Saxon, Welf, and Hohenstauven lines, undated

Folder   1     Item   10    
Copy of handwritten genealogical charts for "The Habsburgs in the Age of the Reformation," undated