Directory of Royal Genealogical Data

At this site I have a database containing the genealogy of the British Royal family and those linked to it via blood or marriage relationships. It contains, in fact, the genealogy of almost every ruling house in the western world because of the intermarriage that took place between them at some time or another. There are in excess of 30,000 individuals from the earliest times to the present in the database. The date spread of the records is available for those interested, as well as statistics on the ten most popular monarchs, and the most prolific readers top 10.

The data may be browsed in several different ways. You can select indexes of the data that are ordered alphabetically, by dates, by ruling house or title or by some search string you specify. When you have located individuals you can then follow links to their most immediate family such as parents, spouse or children. You may also be able to follow links that lead to further data about a person held at in this database or others (even at other sites), or further information such a picture or sound recording. Links may also be to people mentioned in notes about someone.

A new (July 99) feature is a list of chronological implausibilities identified by an automatic scan of the data.

For further details on sources see the bibliography and also User Contributed Data Files.
You may also find the Answers to Frequestly Asked Questions useful.

Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk

Click here to return to the main Royal and Noble Genealogy page, which contains links to other royal genealogy data and other royal or genealogical related material.

Catalog of Royal Family Lineages

This index allows you to select further indexes of specific ruling lines.

The database, of course, contains far more than just these selections.

I am following the structure of Morby in his work "Dynasties of the World". Those dynasties with entries in the database will have links that can be followed. Many do not; mainly because they have not yet been genealogically linked to the lines within the database. You should note that (with minor exceptions) everyone in the database is related either by blood or marriage. This is a genealogical work of reference rather than a historical one.

The Ancient Near East
The Hellenistic World
The Roman and Byzantine Worlds
The Barbarian West
Europe
Islamic Dynasties
India
The Far East
Africa
The New World

Addendum:

Popes and Saints in the Royal database

The Roman and Byzantine Worlds

The Roman Empire
The Kingdom of Numidia
The Herodian Kingdoms
Persia: the Sasanids
The Eastern Roman Empire
The Kingdom of Armenia
The Empire of Thessalonica
The Empire of Trebizond

The Barbarian West

The Visigothic Kingdom
The Vandal Kingdom
The Frankish Kingdom
The Ostrogothic Kingdom
The Lombard Kingdom
The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Monarchs of Kent
Monarchs of Bernicia
Monarchs of Deira and Northumbria
Monarchs of Mercia
Monarchs of Wessex

British Isles

Monarchs of England
Monarchs of Scotland
Monarchs of Britain
The Principality of Wales
The Peers of the Realm

Eire/Ireland

The High Kingship of Ireland

Regional Irish Kings

Kings of Munster
Kings of Leinster
Kings of Thomond
Kings of Ailech
Kings of Connacht
Kings of Desmond

Islamic Dynasties

The Calipate
The Caliphate of Cordoba

Searching the database

The following functions can search the database but they are so slow that the use of the catalog or pre-computed indexes is preferred. These indexes are computed when requested and you should allow for the slight delay whilst the data is extracted. Please also be considerate in not overloading my machine with your requests: