This is the place to find my latest charts, for personal or educational purposes, on monarchy and nobility throughout Europe.
This is the place to find my latest charts, for personal or educational purposes, on monarchy and nobility throughout Europe.
Hi, my name is François Gervais. I was born in 1976 in Montreal, Canada. I'm a restaurant owner since 2012 in Quebec City (province of Quebec, Canada). I'm an amateur genealogist and cartographer in my spare time, and I'm also the moderator of the r/UsefulCharts group and creator of the r/MonarchyChartsXL group, both on Reddit. Since 2020 I have been drawing family trees mainly covering the early, high and late Middle Ages, the Renaissance up to modern times. In 2023 I started to adapt them for publication on Wikipedia. Please note that I do not sell charts. I make all my charts available for free download in a variety of formats.
WappenWiki deals with heraldry, here you will find standardized coat of arms of countries in medieval Europe, Anatolia, the Holy Land & the New World, from about 1100 and onwards. I use this website as my only source for heraldry.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. I use this website as my only source for names, dates and royalty-free images.
LibreOffice Draw is a free and open source vector graphics editor. It is one of the applications included in the LibreOffice office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. LibreOffice Draw can be used to create complicated figures using shape tools, straight and curved tools, polygon tools, among other features. I use this program to design all my charts.
All data in this chart is 100% from Wikipedia pages. Most, if not all, information (dates, names, descendants) comes from data provided by the English pages of that encyclopedia. I take no responsibility for the accuracy or relevance of the information here, as I have only visually converted it into a chart. Finally, I always use the names of the various people as they appear on the English pages of Wikipedia. I am therefore not responsible for the anglicization (or not) of the names used here.
Colorized character box with an image (from Wikipedia) of the character represent someone from one of the main lines of the chart. It has the name of the person with dates of birth and death in it. Right under the box: titles and reignal dates of that person.
A transparent character box with black text usually (but not necessarily) represents a woman, but always a person who is not directly involved in the chart except through marriage. Names and dates of birth and death are inside the box, but the titles has no reignal dates. A line connecting the two boxes by their sides represents their marriage. The date, if known, is shown on top of it.
The number of irrelevant children (in a dynastic sense) that were born of this union.
A transparent character box with colorized text represents a child of someone who is directly involved in the chart. The person is there because he/she's usually married to royalty from another chart. It may also represent someone who is important for one reason or another, and who is descended from one of the people represented in this chart. Names and dates of birth and death are inside the box, but the titles has no reignal dates.
A transparent character box surrounded by a solid black line (with black text) indicates a monarch (king, emperor, a monarch) from another chart. The person is present here because of his/her relationship to someone in this chart. This box follows the same rules as the secondary black character box. Their is a second variant, the colorized one, where the person is from one of the main lines of this chart.
A line of dots represents a direct line of continuity without showing all its various representatives. Most of the time it means a direct line from fathers to sons, but not always. It often represents a connection between different members of the chart through direct links but on a secondary level of importance for this chart.
The use of color in the charts is important and helps us to follow the houses, the families and/or the different lineages more easily. All the people who have the same color are part of the same group. Colors have no meaning in themselves but the color black is always used to represent people who are not directly involved in this chart.
At the top of some boxes you'll see an icon with a logo. This logo points to a QR code that will take you to another chart, the one that belongs to the person in question.
Family tree of the ruling Houses of the Italian peninsula from 1300BCE up to present times.
Chart, Family Tree of the Monarchs of Spain.
CHART, FAMILY TREE OF THE CAPETIAN DYNASTY: THE HOUSE OF VALOIS.
CHART, FAMILY TREE OF THE CAPETIAN DYNASTY: THE HOUSE OF CAPET DIRECT.
CHART, FAMILY TREE OF THE CAPETIAN DYNASTY: THE CAPETIAN HOUSE OF BOURBON.
CHART, FAMILY TREE OF THE CAPETIAN DYNASTY: THE CAPETIAN HOUSE OF DREUX.
