Genealogy of Queen Letizia of Spain

[Blog Real]

Here is a study on the genealogy of the Queen Letizia.
Letizia Ortiz tiene "sangre azul" que se remonta a un rey de la Reconquista - 20minutos.es

Does anyone have more information on the genealogy of Queen Letizia?

 

[carlota]

Here is a study on the genealogy of the Queen Letizia.
Letizia Ortiz tiene "sangre azul" que se remonta a un rey de la Reconquista - 20minutos.es

Does anyone have more information on the genealogy of Queen Letizia?

it always makes me laugh that for all 'married into royalty' princesses, they always have some sort of noble or royal connection.... of course, if we all go back enough in our genealogies we will all reach at some point a link to someone who was noble born, royal, a prominent military person or a celebrity of some sort....

 

[NotHRH]

it always makes me laugh that for all 'married into royalty' princesses, they always have some sort of noble or royal connection.... of course, if we all go back enough in our genealogies we will all reach at some point a link to someone who was noble born, royal, a prominent military person or a celebrity of some sort....

Exactly - it's silly to try impress the public with basically a "fattened resume." Just because someone was a public official doesn't necessarily equate to a VIP. Also even the fact that a "married into royalty" princess descends from a royal 800 years ago doesn't make them "royal." The fact that anybody's 42 great-grandfather was a king just isn't...well...impressive. I am more impressed by a person's presentation of themself. For instance, in the SRF, Queen Silvia has always had a fantastic attitude toward people, while Chris O'Neill flips-off the paps every other day. Silvia had, and still has, realistic expectations of her position and has always been gracious toward others in public, while Chris is the polar opposite - he can be an such an @$$.

 

[Ish]

I don't think that's what's happening at all.

People are interested in genealogy. Maybe not everyone, but a lot of people. People are even more interested when said genealogy connects themselves to someone who is a historical figure, and even more so when connecting famous people to historical figures. I mean, really, there's a franchise of TV shows dedicated to showing the genealogy of various celebrities.

I highly doubt most of the genealogists who look into the ancestry of the commoners people who have married into royal families start out with the intention of finding their royal ancestors. More likely, what they're doing is researching the family in general, not specifically looking for any royal connections. If you're able to go back far enough though you're going to hit nobility and/or royalty at some point.

 

[NotHRH]

I don't think that's what's happening at all.

People are interested in genealogy. Maybe not everyone, but a lot of people. People are even more interested when said genealogy connects themselves to someone who is a historical figure, and even more so when connecting famous people to historical figures. I mean, really, there's a franchise of TV shows dedicated to showing the genealogy of various celebrities.

I highly doubt most of the genealogists who look into the ancestry of the commoners people who have married into royal families start out with the intention of finding their royal ancestors. More likely, what they're doing is researching the family in general, not specifically looking for any royal connections. If you're able to go back far enough though you're going to hit nobility and/or royalty at some point.[/QUOTE

I do because it is almost becomes a selling point by palace PR when a major royal is newly engaged. The 3rd sentence in your 1st paragraph is exactly my point. I enjoy genealogy but I think people sometimes make more out of a connection than they should, that's all. If Maxima and Silvia are descended from Inca emporors from the 1200's, it's an interesting fact and nothing else. Just as you stated in your last sentence, "if you're able to go back far enough, you're going to hit nobility and / or royalty at some point."

 

[Duc_et_Pair]

Let us face it. Don Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, Prince of Asturias, Prince of Gerona and of Viana, Duke of Montblanch, Count of Cervera and Lord of Balaguer was watching the news, felt in love with the newsreader and thought that this woman, who was married to someone else, a public figure, from a republican family and thought that this frêle lady was an excellent future Queen of one of the grandest monarchies in the world. So be it. Digging in Miss Ortiz' family tree does not make her retro-actively more suitable.

 

[Winnie]

Let us face it. Don Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, Prince of Asturias, Prince of Gerona and of Viana, Duke of Montblanch, Count of Cervera and Lord of Balaguer was watching the news, felt in love with the newsreader and thought that this woman, who was married to someone else, a public figure, from a republican family and thought that this frêle lady was an excellent future Queen of one of the grandest monarchies in the world. So be it. Digging in Miss Ortiz' family tree does not make her retro-actively more suitable.

The only part that matters is, "He fell in love". What ever came before in either of their lives, means nothing to this love marriage. Nor should it to anyone but themselves.

 

[Blog Real]

The history of the Rocasolano hides big surprises for those who thought that the origin of the family of Queen Letizia was rather modest. Never further from the truth. The magazine Hello! She discovered the authentic lineage of the Queen Letizia.

The Rocasolano were first interested in not revealing his previous Fortune and lineage. In fact, when it was announced the formal commitment of the couple, they commissioned remove network a web that had with the coat of arms of the family and the family tree with the ancestors of the last 500 years. Lineage, on the other hand, which is worth mentioning, as well as economic prosperity, linking some of the relatives of the Queen Letizia with the field of science. In fact, in Madrid's Serrano Street is the Institute of physical chemistry Rocasolano, a Centre for research in chemistry, mainly experimental orientation, which owes its name to Gregorio Antonio Rocasolano, President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Zaragoza, from 1922 until 1932, and author of physical chemical studies on the living matter.

Millionaires and French ancestors
Los Rocasolano come from France, of the ancient Auvergne (his coat of arms can still be found in a petit-Chateauproximo Lyon), where exercised as Lords of their lands, until a part of the family decided to settle in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century. Miguel Rocasolano left behind centuries of history, bought land and began to build houses in the area of Chamartín (to the North of the capital).

La verdadera historia de los Rocasolano, la familia de do?a Letizia Ortiz

 

[Blog Real]

The Ancestry of Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano:
Ancestry of Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano

Ancestors of Letizia, Queen of Spain:

 

[Blog Real]

Queen Letizia is of Filipino and French ancestry. His maternal grandmother's mother, Enriqueta, was Asturian, but her father was Filipino. They were married in 1950 in the church of San Miguel Chamartín de la Rosa. In turn, the Rocasolans come from the ancient Auvergne, a historical and cultural region of France. His coat of arms can still be found in a petit-Chateau (small castle) near the city of Lyon. Next to this historic city, they exercised themselves as lords of their lands, until part of the family decided to settle in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century.

Her maternal grandmother found happiness in a second marriage, as she was the widow of a man from Gijón who died of tuberculosis when she was very young, barely twenty years old.

https://www.hola.com/realeza/casa_espanola/20220908336822/reina-letizia-bisabuelo-filipino-origenes/

https://www.libertaddigital.com/chic/corazon/2022-09-15/letizia-cumpleanos-6930890/

In this photo: Letizia's maternal grandparents, Francisco and Enriqueta, with their children Otilia, Francisco and Paloma.
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Photos of Letizia with her paternal grandparents, Maria del Carmen "Menchu" and José Luis Ortiz.
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Photos of Letizia with her maternal grandparents, Enriqueta and Francisco Rocasolano.
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[Blog Real]

Several media outlets in Spain, especially the Telecinco channel, are giving the prominence to an news that is already a few years old, who says that Queen Letizia descends from King Fernando II of León.
The closest origin would be José Luis, the paternal grandfather of Doña Letizia. As explained in the programme, José Luis's grandfather was born in Portugal and later settled in Servilla. He was José Luis de Torres-Pardo. Later they moved to Córdoba and the Torres-Pardos married the noblewoman Agustina de Castro Serrano, who is the link to this story.
The relationship, according to the same source, would come from the branch of Infante Sancho, son of Fernando II, linked to the paternal side of Queen Letizia.
The fact that the genealogist carried out this work on Letizia Ortiz comes from afar and from his friendship with the queen's grandmother, Menchu Álvarez del Valle, now deceased.
The researcher sent the documentation to Queen Letizia to present his conclusions of the study and she replied in a letter: "It is an impressive research work, which I loved."

La reina Letizia tiene sangre de Fernando II de León

La reina Letizia nunca ha sido plebeya. El árbol genealógico de la esposa del rey Felipe VI realizado por el genealogista Javier Cordero rev

www.diariodeleon.es

Exclusiva | 'Fiesta' descubre que la Reina Letizia tiene sangre real: "Esto cambia la historia de España"

'Fiesta' lleva un año detrás de esta investigación de la que se harán eco muchos medios de comunicación a nivel internacional. El programa se encont

www.telecinco.es

Un genealogista asegura que Doña Letizia desciende del Rey Fernando II de León

El programa Fiesta, de Telecinco, ha presentado la investigación realizada por el ferrolano Javier Cordero Aparicio

www.eldebate.com

https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com/casas-reales/2024-09-08/fiesta-reina-letizia-informacion-casa-real_3957640/

Letizia's grandmother had this family tree framed in her home. Here are some photos:

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[Toledo]

Can you imagine the reaction on Queen Sofia and Queen Letizia's nemesis, Penafiel, when he finds out?

Penafiel has made a lot of for years in Spain trashing both queens and referring about Letizia as the "granddaughter of a taxi driver", and that king Juan Carlos should have made his son marry a real foreign princess and not a Spanish woman.

Guess what, to quote from the movie My Fair Lady's party scene, Letizia's ancestry blood is bluer than the Danube. And she's not just royal, via king Ferdinand, but imperial too via his parents Emperor Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and his first wife Empress Berenguela.

La reina Letizia tiene sangre de Fernando II de León

La reina Letizia nunca ha sido plebeya. El árbol genealógico de la esposa del rey Felipe VI realizado por el genealogista Javier Cordero rev

www.diariodeleon.es

"...Queen Letizia has never been a commoner. The family tree of the wife of King Felipe VI made by genealogist Javier Cordero reveals that Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano would have the same blue blood as King Ferdinand II of León. The fact has been announced on the Mediaset program Fiesta by Alejandro Entrambasaguas, a journalist who collaborates with the Telecinco weekend program, in addition to working in media such as El Debate. The news has been raised as the result of a year of research, with unpublished documents.​

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The closest origin would be José Luis, Doña Letizia's paternal grandfather. As explained in the program, José Luis' grandfather would have been born in Portugal and later settled in Servilla. It was José Luis de Torres-Pardo. Later they moved to Córdoba and the Torres-Pardo married the noblewoman Agustina de Castro Serrano, who connects this story. Generations later, the infante Sancho, son of Ferdinand II of León, died in Cañamero (Cáceres). That would be the end of Queen Letizia's family thread, concluded Entrambasaguas, which safeguards more than 10,000 documents for this investigation, he said."​

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Bonus link: Ferdinand II of León. ?, 1137 – King of León from 1157 until his death. ​

Fernando II de León | Real Academia de la Historia ​

He is one of the sons and heirs of Emperor Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and his first wife Empress Berenguela, who in turn was the daughter of Count Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Dulce of Provence​

 

[Somebody]

Having a royal as an ancestor 900 years ago doesn't make her a royal and I am not sure how having one of thousands of ancestors being royal would make her 'blue blooded' (figuratively speaking).

 

[SirGyamfi1]

Can you imagine the reaction on Queen Sofia and Queen Letizia's nemesis, Penafiel, when he finds out?

Penafiel has made a lot of for years in Spain trashing both queens and referring about Letizia as the "granddaughter of a taxi driver", and that king Juan Carlos should have made his son marry a real foreign princess and not a Spanish woman.

Guess what, to quote from the movie My Fair Lady's party scene, Letizia's ancestry blood is bluer than the Danube. And she's not just royal, via king Ferdinand, but imperial too via his parents Emperor Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and his first wife Empress Berenguela.

La reina Letizia tiene sangre de Fernando II de León

La reina Letizia nunca ha sido plebeya. El árbol genealógico de la esposa del rey Felipe VI realizado por el genealogista Javier Cordero rev

www.diariodeleon.es

"...Queen Letizia has never been a commoner. The family tree of the wife of King Felipe VI made by genealogist Javier Cordero reveals that Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano would have the same blue blood as King Ferdinand II of León. The fact has been announced on the Mediaset program Fiesta by Alejandro Entrambasaguas, a journalist who collaborates with the Telecinco weekend program, in addition to working in media such as El Debate. The news has been raised as the result of a year of research, with unpublished documents.​

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The closest origin would be José Luis, Doña Letizia's paternal grandfather. As explained in the program, José Luis' grandfather would have been born in Portugal and later settled in Servilla. It was José Luis de Torres-Pardo. Later they moved to Córdoba and the Torres-Pardo married the noblewoman Agustina de Castro Serrano, who connects this story. Generations later, the infante Sancho, son of Ferdinand II of León, died in Cañamero (Cáceres). That would be the end of Queen Letizia's family thread, concluded Entrambasaguas, which safeguards more than 10,000 documents for this investigation, he said."​

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Bonus link: Ferdinand II of León. ?, 1137 – King of León from 1157 until his death. ​

Fernando II de León | Real Academia de la Historia ​

He is one of the sons and heirs of Emperor Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and his first wife Empress Berenguela, who in turn was the daughter of Count Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Dulce of Provence​

I’m sure there are many Spaniards that share this ancestry as well.

 

[Toledo]

Having a royal as an ancestor 900 years ago doesn't make her a royal and I am not sure how having one of thousands of ancestors being royal would make her 'blue blooded' (figuratively speaking).

I see the news, and the TV show that was commenting about it, as Letizia having the last laugh over the despicable Penafiel who has mocked her humble origins for two decades now.

She is no more royal than millions of Spaniards that descend from royals and nobles gone hundreds of years ago. But she is the only Spaniard within gazillions of descendants from the king of Leon that went full circle and brought back the family branch into today's royal house. The comments I read about Penafiel's reaction when confronted where he didn't have any trash to throw at her and this exposed him as an arrogant snob that still traces a line between classes even to this day in Spain.

Her ancestry could be irrelevant since she is one of many that can claim a direct line to famous ancestors, but it really makes people like Penafiel tone the attacks down.