Royal house Facts for Kids

Charles I of England and his son, the future James II

A royal house or royal dynasty is a family title, or family name of sorts. It is used by royalty. It usually means the members of a family in old and young people, who are loosely related. Unlike most western people, a great number of the world's royal families do not have family names, and those that have them do not use them often. They are referred to instead by their titles, often related to an area ruled or once ruled by that family. Royal Houses still exist today.

Deposed or extinct sovereign Houses

The majority of these nations are now republics or part of republics. The Princely Houses of Germany often have given their own names to the states they ruled.

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The Qing dynasty was the final imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636 and collapsed in 1912.
Karikala, the Tamil King of Early Cholas, who built the ancient Kallanai Dam.
Zhao Kuangyin (Emperor Taizu of Song) was the founder of the Song Dynasty in China.
Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu Emperor) was the founder of the Ming Dynasty in China.
Sukaphaa was the first King of the Ahom Dynasty in Assam, India.
Babur, from the Timurid Dynasty, was the first ruler of the Mughal Empire in India.
Suleiman the Magnificent, from the House of Osman, was the longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from 1520 until 1566.
Muhammad Ali Pasha, founder of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, ruled Egypt and Sudan from 1805 to 1848.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, from the Pahlavi Dynasty, was the last Shah of Iran, before the Iranian Revolution.
Peter I, from the House of Romanov, was the first Russian monarch to rule as Emperor.
Constantine XI Palaiologos, from the Palaiologos Dynasty, was the final monarch of the Byzantine Empire.
Pedro II, from the House of Braganza, ruled Brazil from 1831 to 1889.
Kalākaua, founder of the House of Kalākaua, was the penultimate sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
Asahito (Emperor Higashiyama), from the House of Yamato, was the 113th Japanese Emperor.
Emperor Meiji, from the House of Yamato, was the 122nd Japanese Emperor.
Christian I, from the House of Oldenburg, served as King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Aisin Gioro Xuanye (Kangxi Emperor), of the Qing Dynasty, was the longest reigning Emperor of China.
Mohammad Shah Qajar, from the Qajar Dynasty, was King of Persia.
Yi Seong-gye (Taejo of Joseon) ruled Korea from 1392 to 1398, as the first King of the Joseon Dynasty.
Nikola I, from the Petrović-Njegoš Dynasty, ruled Montenegro from 1860 to 1918.
Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lân (Emperor Thành Thái), from the Nguyễn Dynasty, was Emperor of Vietnam from 1889 to 1907.
Ahmad al-Mansur, from the Saadi Dynasty, was the Sultan of Morocco from 1578 to 1603.
Louis XIV, from the House of Bourbon, reigned as King of France from 1643 to 1715.
Napoleon I, from the House of Bonaparte, ruled over France and Italy.
Thibaw Min was the last monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty in Myanmar.
Henry VIII, from the House of Tudor, reigned as King of England and Ireland from 1509 to 1547.
Edward VI, from the House of Tudor, reigned as King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553.
Elizabeth I, from the House of Tudor, reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603.
Ranavalona I, from the Hova Dynasty, was Queen Regnant of Madagascar from 1828 to 1861.
Shō Tai, from the Second Shō Dynasty, was the final sovereign ruler of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Zaman Shah Durrani, from the Durrani Dynasty, ruled Afghanistan from 1793 to 1800.
Wanyan Aguda (Emperor Taizu of Jin) was the progenitor of the Jin Dynasty in China.
Trần Thuyên (Emperor Trần Anh Tông), from the Trần Dynasty, ruled Vietnam from 1293 to 1314.
Otto I, from the House of Wittelsbach, was King of Greece from 1832 to 1862.
Tamar from the Bagrationi Dynasty, was Queen Regnant of Georgia.
Khayishan (Külüg Khan and Emperor Wuzong of Yuan) was the seventh Khagan of the Mongol Empire and the third Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty in China.
Milan I from the Obrenović Dynasty, ruled Serbia from 1868 to 1889.
Agustín I was the first and only Mexican Emperor from the House of Iturbide.
Sigismund III from the House of Vasa, was monarch of Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and Finland.
Leopold I, from the House of Habsburg, was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia.
Wang Jeon (King Gongmin) ruled Korea from 1351 to 1374 as King of Goryeo.
Frederick the Great, from the House of Hohenzollern, was the King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Wilhelm I, from the House of Hohenzollern, was the first German Emperor.
Victor Emmanuel II, from the House of Savoy, was the first King of Italy.
Gediminas, King of Lithuania, started the Gediminids Dynasty in 1315.

Royal house facts for kids

Deposed or extinct sovereign Houses

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