Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — Jewish Blood in Royal Veins. [ARTICLE]

Jewish Blood in Royal Veins.

Legend tells that when Count Albrecht (or Albert) HI, the real founder of the House of Hapsburg, returned to Rome from a crusade he fell in love with the pope’s niece, the farmer Jewess, and took her for his wife with the pope’s consent. The official genealogical table of the Hapsburgs designates Albrecht’s wife as a Roman woman and relative of a pope, but does not mention anything concerning her descent. It seems, therefore, very probable that she was a Pierleoni. Count Albrecht HI, dlso called the Rich, died in 1199. He was succeeded by his son, Rudolph 11, count of Hapsburg, whose son, Albrecht IV (died 1240), was the father of the later Emperor Rudolph. From emperor to emperor, or, rather, from King Rudolph, descend all the Hapsburg-Lorrainers of the present day. As all the ruling houses are. through intermarriage with the Haps-burg-Lorrainers, intimately related, it is obvious that through them Jewish bjood has come into the veins of all European dynasties.