250 WILLIAM THE SILENT

Frederick V. and Elizabeth were the King and Queen of

Bohemia, whose misfortunes rill so rnauy pagu.s of

history, till they found a refuge with tho NaHsaius in

Holland.

The children of the King and Queen of Bohemia (amongst others)

were:—

(1.) Charles Lewis, Elector, 1649-80.

(2.) Prince Rupert 1 nephews of Charles I. and his officers in tho
(3.) Prince Maurice / Civil Wars.
(4.) Sophia, m. Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanovor.

(1) Charles Lewis, the Elector, had a daughter, Charlotte
Elizabeth, who m. Philip, Duke of Orleans, only brother of
Louis XIV. of France.
From them descended Philip, the Regent, Philippo Egalito,

Louis Philippe, and the whole House of (Moans.
The present Duo d'Orleans is descended in tho twelfth de-
gree from William the Silent.

Elizabeth Charlotte of Orleans, daughter of Philip, first
Duke of Orleans and Charlotte Elizabeth of Bavaria,
m. Leopold Joseph of Lorraine,
Their son was Francis Stephen I. (1745-05), who
m. Maria Theresa of Hapsburg, daughter of tho
Emperor Charles VI.

Their descendants were the Emperors from 1765 down to

Francis Joseph, the reigning Emperor of Austria, who is

descended in the eleventh degree from William tho Silent.

Theresa of Tuscany, wife of Charles Albert, King of Sard in ia,

was a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa.
Adelaide, the wife of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, was

also a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa.
Humbert, King of Italy, is descended in the eleventh degree

from William the Silent.

From Francis I. and Maria Theresa were descended Marie.

Antoinette and her children, Maria Louisa, wife of

ISTapoleon I., her son the King of the Romans, and also the

so-called princes of the family of Jerome Napoleon.

Similar descents might be shown for the deposed royal

Houses of Naples, Parma, Modena, and Tuscany.
Alfonso XIII., reigning King of Spain, is descended in tho
eleventh degree from William the Silent, us is also thn
King of Portugal.

(2, 3) Princes Rupert and Maurice left no legitimate descend-
ants.

(4) Sophia, the youngest but one of the children of Frodnrick
V. and Elizabeth, King and Queen of Bohemia, I. 1630, m.
(1658) Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanovor. She AVIIH
the niece of Charles I. of England, and cousin of William
III., Mary, and Anne.
By the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Will. III. c. 2, 170.1) tho