Does Queen Elizabeth have any Black, Jewish, or Muslim Ancestors? 

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I loved the “nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition” comment. Thank you for another excellent, interesting video.

Love this format. Even without CKIII specifically... the idea of comparing real life to a video game is such a great educational tool.

The throne of Spain wasn’t united during the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella. They ruled their territories separate. Spain didn’t unite until the reign of their grandson Charles I in 1516.

I found your channel as a suggestion next to a CK3 video by One Proud Bavarian. It was a wonderful find, and I'm thrilled that you were able to do a sponsored video with Paradox. Your charts and videos have greatly improved my understanding of the history and my enjoyment of the game, and seeing CK3 assets throughout the video was highly amusing and extremely entertaining.

My grandfather used to joke "Don't shake your family tree too much, you may not know what will fall out..." This is great. Two things I took to heart. We all have these wonderful stories, just that records have not been kept. I am not much of a religious man, but I do hope there is a heaven because I would like to know my whole story. I also enjoyed the comment during midivil times race seemed to be based more on culture that skin color. That is a lesson we could use here in the United States right now.

Btw, the term "moor" was also given to Iberian Muslims, who were the majority of the Muslims in medieval Iberia, so if the only thing known about Madragana is that she was a moor, that doesn't say almost anything.

One of Queen Elizabeth II’s ancestors Patrick de Chadworth was a descendant of Layla ibm Malik who was born in Mecca Saudi Arabia.

Regarding Moors, from North Africa, some may be dark skinned while others have light skin. Think of the people from Morocco, as an example, when "Moor" comes to mind. Anyway, the point is that there is a big difference between a Moor and a "Black" African (e.g., Nubians).

the Queen Charlotte theory is crazy, genetically it doesnt make sense, but also there are over a dozen portraits of her throughout her life and she doesnt look the slightest bit mixed in any of them. For comparison the Dumas and Puschkin families are great reference to see how mixed people were depicted in european art.

This is a very interesting video, but I’m a bit skeptical about Mór Afonso. In Portugal, we use “Mouro” as a synonym for Muslim like the expression “Saracen”. Yes, it tends to refer to North Africa (Mauritania) but that’s because it was important to distinguish Arab Muslims from non-Arab Muslims in Al-Andalus. And since most non-Arab Muslims were Amazigh/Berbers their name of Mouros became widely used. But using Berbers to claim subsaharan ascendency seems like a stretch. Also, Mór Afonso could simply be a Mozarab, which were “native” Iberians who lived under Muslim occupation, so were sometimes called “Mouros” like their overlords.

Martim Afonso de Sousa, a colonial governor of Brazil and whose descendents make up a wide branch of the Sousa family in Brazil, traces back it's family tree to Martim Chichorro too.

As you know, the whole thing with Queen Charlotte is not because of her ancestor Madragana, but simply because of her pug nose "frizzy" hair in paintings and what modern people perceive as her "African looks" That's it. That's how this whole thing started.

If one goes back 10 generations, there is less than 0.1% of that person's ancestor's dna.. So they don't have that dna after 8-10 generations of that ancestor, unless they keep on marrying within their small ancestral community..

First of all: nice clip! It once again shows us that most of these noble bloodlines are intertwined to a significant degree. Secondly I would like to add a few other similar ancestral claims, one also has its origins on the Iberian peninsula. In his standard work on Iberian ancestry named "Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal" the famous Portuguese genealogist Manuel José da Costa Felgueiras Gaio states that the origin of the House of Maia partially lays within the dynasty of the Umayyads. The founding father of the Da Maia-dynasty is Lovesendo Ramirez, according to Felgueiras Gaio he was married to Zaira bint Zaydan, the daughter of Zaydan (or Zedao) ibn Zayd and a woman named Areguna Fromaríquez. This Zaydan is then mentioned as the grandson of Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, the Emir of Córdoba. Lovesendo Ramirez himself was a supposed bastard son of King Ramiro II of Léon from the old Asturias-Léon dynasty by a woman named Ortega; the latter being either a daughter of a Moorish person named Sa'd abu Sa'dun ibn Ishaq or by an Iberian named Rodrigo Romães (though I don't think Felgueiras Gaio has mentioned those). An even more exotic claim is made about the first House of Bragança (not the later royal house but the one ruling the lordship), the founder of that house is decribed to have been a Britonic knight that married an Armenian pilgrim princess from the house of Arçruni (with roots into the old Turkic world and the Roman Empire); about the forementioned Asturias-Léon dynasty a similar claim is made (through the Armenian Mamikonian family). Mind you: there is an exilarchic ancestral trail that leads through the Caucasus as well, by means of the House of Mihrani and the Mihranid royal dynasty of Khartli in present day Georgia. A third similar claim is made about a branch of the Byzantine Skleros-clan; one of their scions was a magister named Romanos Skleros (latinized to Romanus Sclerus), a son of the Byzantine throne pretender Bardas Skleros; Romanos is thought to have married the daughter of the Hamdanid ruler Fadl Allah Abu Taghlib ibn al-Hassan (an Emir of Mosul), with supposed Abassid rooting.

Hey i think you made a mistake,Sancho the son of emperor Alphonso didn't have any kids so that's wrong,rather it is a daughter sancha who is the one who has children.

Really cool to think about how, Royals are just so privileged they could track this stuff back 100s of years. Its cool that we all share common links, and also cool that we developed such wildly different cultures to shape those links.

I just recently read that the name “Andalus” comes from the tribe “Vandal”.

here we go again next 100 years if netflix still exist “I don't care what they tell you in school, Queen Elizabeth was Black.”

I love how North African means sub Saharan African now. It’s truly revisionist history

I know it's quite popular to say that the Andalusia Muslim states were tolerant. Recent historiography has begun to challenge this. For example, there were repeated pogroms against the Jewish population. Beyond this, they were only tolerant in comparison to the massively intolerant Kingdom of Spain.

I believe that your using the word "black" to describe a distant ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II is misleading. Moors at that time were NOT the same as "black sub-saharan" peoples, which are what are currently called Africans.

Moor has always meant the same in the Iberian Peninsula, people that came from Mauretania aka Northwestern Africa, mostly Morocco. Them or their ancestors. They were, obviously, majority Muslim. But I've met enough Moroccans to testify that they are not black. Not everyone on the continent of Africa is black. Does this means Madragana was black? Probably no, she was probably Berber. Does this also mean she doesn't have black ancestors? No, she probably does, but probably not Madragana.

Claiming North Africans of the middle ages were black or that ancient Egyptians were what we consider black, as some fringe groups do today, is deeply offensive to modern North Africans. Contemporary art portrays them as largely similar to modern Morrocans with some even said to be blond as a small minority of Moroccans are today. As someone who is usually so thorough with your research I was disappointed to hear you claim that the leaders of Al-Andulas might not be the ancestors of modern Morrocans. Such claims trying to rewrite the ethnic backgrounds of historic peoples is very problematic as you are aware. Big fan of the channel and I hope my comment didn't sound harsh, I just wanted to give my viewpoint on this.

Iain Moncreiffe wrote a book called HRH just about 40 years ago which was published just before Princess Dianna gave birth to Prince William that discussed William's genealogy extensively. Included in the book was a connection between the Windsor's and Vlad Dracula but more to the point of this video, it described a connection to Mohamed. I no longer have a copy and it is hard to find but he seems to have been a genealogist of some note and wrote a number of books on the topic. I do not recall the exact line that he traced or the sources he cited but I think if one were to obtain a copy it would be an interesting book to read on the topic. As a distant cousin of the Windsor's I enjoy seeing videos describing their ancestry.

Let me say how silly it is to assume Madragana was black. It shouldn’t have been done here. Because for one, the name Mor in Mor Afonso was short for Maior and was a common female Portuguese name meaning “bigger” and did not denote being moorish. But putting that aside, all Muslims in Iberia were called moors, no matter if they were Arab, Berber, black or Iberian convert or descended from them. That includes the non-black Muslims in the chart in the video such as Zaida, Abu Nasir and Al-Mu’tamid, not just Madragana. Also, a great many historians believe she was mozárabe (christian of European Iberian descent living in muslim areas of Iberia). But going back to the moorish thing, if we look at illustrations of moors in Iberia from the time of the moorish rule in Iberia such as in Afonso X’s “Book of Games” from the 1200’s, which was created during the time period of Madragana, we can see large crowds of moors in the illustrations and the vast majority of moors are not black with only a tiny minority being black. Just to clear up the moorish thing. I have a video on my channel about the Moors featuring those historic collections. So based on likelyhood, it’s likely that Madragana was not black. Some historians also claim she was part Jewish too so then there is that too. It’s then unlikely that Queen Charlotte and thus Queen Elizabeth and the modern British royal family descend from a black ancestor. There is just no evidence of it to make such a claim. And such claims on her appearance because of a single painting that was misjudged is just completely ridiculous (all other paintings of her look completely European and there was never any mention of a strange appearance as such during her lifetime). And for certain film or television appearances for her to be of a full, half or partial Sub-Saharan African type is just utter madness because Madragana (who was mostly likely not at all black) was 15 generations before Queen Charlotte and at that rate she wouldn’t have any significant ancestry from Madragana (likely she had none at all or less than a tenth of a percent) to create such as an alleged phenotype. People who make these claims often have agendas. So there you go.

Matt, thank you for another excellent video! When it comes down to it we all belong to the same family regardless of our creeds, race, religion, or ethnicity. And, yes, as others have commented, using CKIII in your videos is genius.

You failed to take into account the timeline of the birth of Zaida's children. When she met Alfonso VI in Toledo around 1080, she was pregnant with his daughter to her Hashemite Muslim husband who died defending Córdoba from the Almoravids. She gave birth to Isabel. Later, she also gave birth to Sancho, whom Alfonso made the heir to the throne. Sancho died young in the Battle of Uclés. Notice the date of that battle and the date of births of Elvira and Sancha. The Sancha mentioned here is the ancestress of María de Padilla. She and Elvira were daughters of Isabel who was born in 1080. 1103 if I'm not mistaken, was Elvira's date of birth. The battle of Uclés occured sometime in 1107 or 1108, Sancho dying at age 18.

Moors could never black, at least in thsi case. We have to think why this term was given to her and in the people of gave it: in Portugal, a Moor is, as well said in the video, a muslim from northwest africa, which isn't naturally a place with people that we today call "black". If she was black like the concept we use nowadays, she would have to be form sub-saharan africa, in a case where old portuguese would probably use the greek term "ethiopian", rather than "moor"

"Muslim" is a religion, not an ethnicity. It would be like asking if you have any Baptist ancestors.

So, it means that I'm related somehow to Queen Elisabeth as well. Lots of these caracters are present in my Family Tree, according to The Family Search site. Whatever, how knows?

You're pronouncing "Al-Andalus" as if it were spelled "Al-Andulas," which is somewhat distracting. It's pronounced quite phonetically, roughly "ahl ahn-dah-LOOS." "Chichorro" does not have a 'k' sound in it. chee-CHOH-ro, even if you don't roll the 'r.'

Muslim is not an ethnicity, not a race. Islam is a religion. You can be black, white, Asian, latin, mixed, whatever and being muslim. None of my ancestors are from Arab/moors. I am 100% South East Asian, but I am muslim

I think the best future videos will be the dynastic histories of ducal houses (wittelsbach, savoy etc)

Interesting idea and great video. Maybe a future video on the recorded Genghisid descent in European royals could also be interesting.

I think Jewish history since 1st Century AD is relatively unknown, a video on that would be interesting, I think! Great work!

I love that you answer questions that I didn't know I wanted to ask.

So basically, if you go some time back in time, everyone is ancestor of everybody.

I believe that there's another way that Elizabeth descends from Peter of Castile and Maria de Padilla: through their daughter Constance, who was the grandmother of John II of Castle. John was the great-grandfather of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and I believe that George III of England was the 6th great-grandson of Ferdinand.

Moors (in Berber: ⵉⵎⵓⵔⵉⵢⵏ - Imuriyen)[ref. necessary] refers to the medieval Muslim and Arab-Berber inhabitants of Iberia, Sicily, Malta and the Maghreb and originally during antiquity the Berber populations of North Africa, especially the Maghreb. The Moors were not clearly distinguished from the Numidians until the Romans became aware of the existence of Berber kingdoms in the far west. Maures (en berbère : ⵉⵎⵓⵔⵉⵢⵏ - Imuriyen)[réf. nécessaire] désigne les habitants musulmans et arabo-berbères médiévaux d'Ibérie, de Sicile, de Malte et du Maghreb et à l'origine durant l'Antiquité les populations berbères d'Afrique du Nord, tout particulièrement du Maghreb. Les Maures ne furent clairement distingués des Numides que lorsque les Romains eurent connaissance de l'existence de royaumes berbères à l'extrême-ouest.

The irony being of Jewish descent yet expelling the Jews from Spain and the Inquisition which tortured and killed Jews who refused to convert to Catholicism

Yes. The Hashemite King of Jordan. Many of the Royal families of Europe are related to him. Yiri Louda and Michael Maclagan. "Lines of Succession, History of the Royal Familes of Europe". It is a great illustrated book with the genealogical trees from the birth of Heraldry.

A couple of incorrect sentences here, Jews did not live so peacefully under Muslim rule, they were subjected to a humiliating second class dhimmi and it never stopped any pogroms happening. It was violent. The idea of Jews wearing a yellow identifier came from Muslim rule. And it is estimated that 1 in 10 people in Spain and perhaps Portugal are directly descended from Jews as a result of the ones who stayed and were forcibly converted to Catholicism

Madragana was not a Moor but rather a descendant of Mozarabs, the Christians of Al-Andalus. Her father was the Qadi in Faro at the time it was the last part of the Kingdom of the Algarve to be taken from Muslim hands. Afonso III of Portugal ended the Reconquista in Portugal by taking Faro in 1249. It is not sensible to maintain that the man who completed the Reconquista in Portugal for Iberian Christians then immediately took a Moorish Muslim as his lover! Note that she was christened as a Roman Catholic only once some time had passed after she became the mistress of Afonso III: "She was christened in time, receiving her new name as Maior Afonso, or Mor Afonso, Mor being short for Maior, a common female name in medieval Portuguese." So, when Afonso III took her as his mistress, she was still following the religion she and her father had practiced her whole life before Afonso III took their home city of Faro. This is why scholars understand that her christening when she was the mistress of Afonso III was "most probably because she had been previously christened according to the Mozarabic Rite, the re-christening being done in the Roman Rite." "Aloandro Ben Bekar or Ben Bakr (also known as Aldroando Gil), was the Mozarab (Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination) Governor of Faro, in Portugal. He was the son of Bakr Ben Yahia and grandson of Yahia Ben Bakr, who is believed to be a descendant (possibly a grandson) of high royal official of Jewish aristocratic descent Yahia Ben Yahi III."

Interesting insights and discussions👍 Forsure there are. People are connecting to each other via extensive family

You should do a family tree on the Fairbanks house succession. And the long recorded history of the Medecalf/Metcalf/Metcalfe family

Moor in Spanish (Moro) usually almost always meant north African and middle eastern Arabs. In England and Germany on the other hand in medieval times African = black so Moor= black

Only just started this video and I’m super excited to see Matt finally check out Crusader Kings!

To me as a Hispanic it came as a surprise that in the anglosphere people think moore = black, it simply not the case. Moore or "Morisco" as we know it, where basically what one would see as an hindu, a roma or an saudi. They where arabs from multiple cultures that had darker completion. They could have black in their ancestry but it is an already mixed "ethnicity" just as the three examples I gave. So I would not say they are black, as a sub saharan african more like hindu or saudi people.

In my previous comment I forgot to add something. The ancestral claims that I pointed out in that comment are about connections from the medieval era, but there is one that is relatively recent and quite suprising in my humble opinion. It doesn't directly relate to Queen Elizabeth II of Great-Britain or the 'medieval ancestral nobility complex' but it does in fact has to do with the British royal family, to be precise: the family of late Prince Philip Mounbatten, Duke of Edinburgh & Deity of Tanna Island. A cousin, in the second degree or so, of Prince Philip was Marquess David Mountbatten of Milford Haven (he lived from 1919 to 1970). Marquess David's mother was Countess Nadejda Mihailovna of Torby, descending from the Romanov dynasty; that is quite interesting in itself but that's not what this comment is about: Countess Nadejda was the grandchild of a Russian woman with the name Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, indeed the daughter of the famous Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin. In his turn Pushkin was the descendant of a Russian major-general who was named Abram Petrovich Hannibal. 'Russian' as a qualification basically refers to the fact that Hannibal was an officer in the Russian Imperial army but it is a well known fact that he was African, described to have originated from Eritrea but later research has shown that Abram Hannibal was probably from the area around Lake Chad in Central Africa. My guess is that Abram was shipped from Eritrea by the Ottomans prior to his arrival in Russia, it is known that he was more-or-less enslaved by the army of Sultan Ahmed III. The point in the aforementioned is that there is indeed a fully proven and fairly recent ancestral link between the British royal family, be it in a wider sense, and Africa.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

You have inspired me to extend my own genealogy to include the Exilarchs. Thanks! 😅

En el contexto Hispano "moro" siempre ha hecho más referencia a los musulmanes (marroquíes, principalmente), que a personas negras. Ejemplo de ello es la expulsión de los moros por parte de los reyes católicos al final de la reconquista, así que me parece muy dudosa la segunda opción, aunque no para descartarla.

But can you really say there is a Muslim ancestor when Zaida had converted to Christianity before having her son, who was himself raised Catholic? Since Islam isn't a race, but a religion, if your parents weren't of a specific religion and they didn't require you to practice that religion, then how can you claim having anything to do with that religion?

Zaida never converted to christianity and never married alfonso Vl.

7:25 Muslim is a religion, not an ethnicity. This ancestor was Christian as you have pointed out. Good video.

But saying “oh, we all are descendants” isn’t true. Chinese people aren’t, Africans aren’t, etc. Europeans and Latin Americans /Americans are basically the only ones, unless the person is mixed somewhere else

Thanks for another thoughtful presentation. I really enjoy this channel. Keep up the fantastic work. 💞

Everyone is related to each other in some way, the average relation is 50th cousin. Of course, people in the same geographic region are more related to each other than others, but everyone in the UK has a Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian ancestor, in some way. And of course, everyone on the planet is Black African or has a Black African ancestor, even if it was thousands of years ago.

That is a slanted view of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal were invaded by the Muslims, it was not an open-door policy, just like Northern Africa was invaded by the Muslims, which were Christian. St. Augustine and the Desert fathers plus 3 popes came from Northern Africa.

Why is it "Black, Jewish, or Muslim?", and not "Black, Jewish or Arab?"

Can you do a video on “Black Hebrew Israelites” it’s basically a cult like British-Israelism but for black Americans. I’ve done a little digging on them ( mostly just wiki and a few articles) but their version of history is quite interesting

I absolutely adore CK3 (and my main file is actually currently kings of Aragon/Valencia), so I am very excited for the Fate of Iberia!

Honestly, that was the fastest impulse purchase I've ever made. I've been fascinated by Al-Andalus for over a year now - a game on the topic sounds like a dream. Incredibly video, once again.

Anyone here after the news last Thursday?

north african is caucasiod/ arab cluster and is not sub-saharan

moors were never black. else there wouldn't have been a distinction between moors and west african from the empire of mali for example. but in fact there were plenty of distinctions between moors and malians in the records of the empire of mali.

I have traced one branch of my ancestry back to about 1650. They all lived within a few blocks of the same city, had a different/temporary trade in every record and moved a lot from dwelling to dwelling. On one of the records, the adress states "the front of 12VI, which, after visiting the house, I realise meant half of the top section of the attic. And records stop, presumably because prior to that time, the local church was not too concerned with poor souls. Not enough to write their names down in precious log books. It is both a treasure to have these records of historical people, but also a blunt reminder that I am happy to live in the present time.

One important correction. To the definitions of Sephardi and Ashkenazi. It's not that the former traces their roots to Spain/Western Europe and the latter to Germany/Eastern European. All genetic/ethnic Jews trace their roots to Israel (proven by multiple genetic studies, and almost all known Jewish groups are more related to eachother than their are to their host populations). The terms Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, etc. refer to various streams of religious traditions, Sephardi referring to the general group of traditions developed in North Africa/Spain/Western Europe, Ashkenazi referring to the traditions developed in Germany/Eastern Europe, both with sub-groups (such as Yeki, Lithuanian, Chasidish, etc.), Mizrahi (closely related to Sephardi, often grouped with it) refers mostly to Jewish families that were lucky to have never left Israel, and sometimes to those who formerly lived in the Arab world (sub-groups include Yemenite and Iraqi/Bagdadi Jews). Things like Ashkenazi not eating legumes (in Hebrew known as Kitnyot) on Passover so they eat potatoes, or Sephardi not eating fish and dairy together (or at least some) while Ashkenazi will. Slight difference is composition or order of prayers and the tunes they are sung too, but each so similar that one would know they are praying with other Jews if an Ashkenazi Jew suddenly found themselves in a Sephardi community or vice versa. Interestingly, the Yemenite (or in Hebrew Temanim) Jews are likely the only group to properly preserve long lost pronunciation of the different sounds of the letter ג (Gimmel/Jimmel instead of just Gimmel) and ת (tav/thav instead of just tav or tav/sav). These are some of the differences, beyond geography and types of admixture (however limited) leading to Ashkenazim looking white, Sephardim and Mizrahim looking middle-eastern. This all goes beyond the fact that despite being an ethno-religion and generally a distinct ethbic/genetic group, there are Jewish groups such as Ethiopian and Igbo (recently recognized, but long claimed) Jews who are 100% Jewish and part of Am Yisrael (nation of Israel, not to be confused with the get-political state) based on religious law.

Not sure how Paloma would have been named Paloma Ben Yahia. Ben is son. She would more likely be Paloma Bat (daughter) Yahia.

You made Andalus sound like scandalous and I can't unhear it.

The Queen Mother's family was Bowes-Lyon, connected to the famous Jewish Lyons family of whom the mother of TV chef Nigella Lawson was a member. More recent Royal Jewish connections: Princess Diana's mother was Jewish: her maiden name was Frances Roche. Also Kate Middleton's mother's maiden name was Carole Goldsmith. Kate's grandmother (on her father's side) was also quite possibly Jewish, her maiden name was Valerie Glassborow. Camilla, wife of King Charles III has Jewish family connections, Her maiden name was Camilla Shand.

Very interesting video. Uhm, the Moors (more anciently known as Mauri, Mauretani etc.) were NOT Black. They are and were Amazighs, i.e. Berbers, a people who have existed in North Africa since antiquity and continue to do so to this very day, although they might have been "Arabized." In the context of Al Andalus however, Moor simply meant Muslim. If you read the lyrics of the song/poem Las Morillas de Jaen (The Three Moorish Girls of Jaen) in the last verse the girls say when replying to a Christian knight who asked who they were, "We are three christian girls who were once Moors.)

It Was Rumored That King Ferdinand II Of Aragon Husband Of Isabella I Of Castile Had Jewish Ancestry,His Grandfather Or Grandmother Was A Jew Who Converted To Christianity. So Ferdinand Did Have Jewish Ancestors,But Further Down His Family Line. Interesting,I Will Look Up Paloma Ben Yahia.

Love watching these kind of videos. My family isn't that interesting, the furthest I could go was the 1700s, and the people there were illiterate peasants.

Iberia during it's conquest and reconquista period, as a peninsula was diverse, but that's like saying the United States was diverse during it's slavery period, today it implies cultural contribution in the everyday life between everyone including the most common folk. In reality Iberia was a brutal war zone and a constant struggle between Christians and Muslims with isolated populations in a mountainous and rocky terrain, with laws segregating people, and populations being ruled over by someone from a different background (often the muslims ruled over and imposed islamic laws on completely christian populations for example)

Let me correct you. The only place that the Jews felt safe was in Muslim Spain and there wasn't really a Christian owned spain. Because even Christians who lived in Spain under Muslim rule. Felt safer under muslim rule than tjs christians of northern europe. That is when all faiths lived in harmony.

7:20 "We can say with confidence that Queen Elizabeth has at least one Muslim ancestor" But you have just (5:30) explained that Zaida converted to Christianity when she came to the court of Alfonso VI, which clearly preceded the birth of her son Sancho. So on this basis Queen Elizabeth had an ancestor who had been Muslim, but not one who _was_ Muslim when she bore the child who links her by direct line of descent with Queen Elizabeth. So I'm not sure that counts.

Nooo!!!! Queen Elizabeth is a person who has all the Genes and will never die

Another possibility: The European royalty intermarried with the Romanovs of Russia, and the Romanovs may have ancestors who intermarried with the Tatars of Golden Horde, who were Muslims. And from the Arpad dynasty of medieval Hungary one could also trace the ancestry to the Jewish Khazars but this is much more obscure.

At that time the kings married with princesses of all origins. It is apparently slavery that has created this tyranny of blood purity which is quite frightening in the USA.

WAIT, she's not only a immortal but she has "The Pass"

Spain did have true black skinned Sub-Saharan Black Moors late in the Muslim occupation. They were from the Mali area when the great Mali Empire fell to Islam. Muslims in Iberia were losing land to the northern Christian kingdoms. The Mali converts were very enthusiastic and a threat to the new Arab rulers, so the were sold off to the Muslim rulers of Iberia to push back the Christians that they did. Those were the true Black Moors of Iberia.

Muslim is a follower of Islam. It's not an ethnicity/race.

Many British aristocrats descend from Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Russian general-in-chief and military engineer who was kidnapped from Africa and traded to Peter the Great. One of Gannibal’s direct descendants is George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

The use of CK3 is such a good idea and would love more videos with this concept

CK3 + Useful Charts? Nice combination and a very "adequate" sponsor.

As much as many "folks" would love to claim " Moorish ancestry, Moorish actually refers to North African Berbers and other Arab dominated ( look up Pan-Arabism) ethnicity that typically does not include Sub-Saharan "Black".

the medieval monarchs of Spain and the Islamic royal houses were very close and totally intermeshed. Maybe, who knows!

Can you please make a video about the kings of Georgia Armenia and Balkan Countries?

You went over one main point quickly. If you find a record before 1400 it is very likely that that person is connected to royalty. Most people without records had nothing to record. Those people who did own something most probably had a connection. My ancestor lines that do not dead-end mostly go back to royalty as probably most other people's charts.

Regarding Madragana, wiki says the term moor can Also refer to Morazab, which is a modern term for Christianized Iberian Jews. So she could cover 2 of the 3. OTOH, although not a direct ancestor of Elizabeth, I've read sources that hint that an ancestor of Charles II through Marie de Medici had black blood. It's something you might be able to check out. BC Charles II through one of his mistresses is an ancestor of the late Princess Diana and therefore Princes William and Harry.

I dont know about that, but i well know that she is partially German.

None that want to claim her .

Isn't 'Ben' equivalant to 'son of'? In that case, it should be Paloma bat Gedaliah. Actually, Paloma is a Christianized name, her Jewish name was Yonati. Also: Gedaliah was not the son of Yosef but of Shlomo Ha-Zaken. Otherwise, the ages don't add up (Hiyya was supposedy born in 1085).

He should do other videos exploring the same questions to see if King Charles the Third and Queen Elizabeth the Second have other lineages with Jewish , Black and Muslim heritages besides the ones mentioned in the first video!

Shalom ! Brother , im watching you for prolonged timing.

I know this is only a bit of fun, but it's worth pointing out that a geneological line is very unlikely to be accurate going back 28 generations (the gap between Abu Nasir in the 11 century and Elizabeth II would be around 28 generations, I can't be bothered to work it out precisely). Let's say for the sake of argument that 14 of those generations are via the male line (although if you think about the way royal families work with male primogeniture, it's likely to be much closer to 28). It would be a very big assumption to consider that all 14 of those connections record accurately the DNA FATHER of the child, rather than some random man the mother happened to be having an affair with. Most of the time the real biological father will be recorded accurately, but every few generations there will have been a case of adultery which won't be recorded in official documents (and usually won't even be known by the father himself) and will be lost to history.

I love CK3! This is one of the best targeted and best exectued sponsored videos I have ever seen on RU-vid. I definitely wouldn't mind if you worked with them again in the future. The maps and the portraits add a lot to the story! Well done!

The tribe of Isreal is not lost , they were scattered throughout the earth.