List of coupled cousins

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See also: Cousin couple

This is a list of prominent individuals who have been romantically or maritally coupled with a cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle.

Contents 1 Notable individuals 2 Royalty 2.1 Europe 2.2 Outside Europe 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Notable individuals

• John Adams and his third cousin, Abigail Smith^[1]
• François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, and his niece, Marie Louise Mignot Denis ^[2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach and his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach ^[3]
• Josiah Bartlett, second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Mary Bartlett^{[citation needed]}
• Wernher von Braun and his first cousin, Maria Luise von Quistorp
• Charles Bulfinch and his first cousin, Hannah Apthorp ^[4]
• John C. Calhoun, seventh Vice President of the United States, and his first cousin once removed, Floride Calhoun^[5]
• Jeanne Calment, the oldest person whose age was verified by official documents, and her second cousin, Fernand Calment ^[6]
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his second cousin, Mary Darnall ^[7]
• Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood.^[8] In addition, their grandparents, Sarah Wedgewood and Josiah Wedgwood, were also cousins.^[9]
• Porfirio Diaz Mori, president of Mexico (1876–80, 1884–1911), and his niece Delfina Ortega Diaz^{[citation needed]}
• Alfred I. du Pont, great-grandson of DuPont founder and his cousin-by-marriage, Bessie Gardner, as well as his second cousin, Alicia Bradford Maddox^[10]
• Albert Einstein and his first cousin (through his mother) as well as second cousin (through his father), Elsa Löwenthal née Einstein^[11]
• William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin once removed, Abigail Cary^[12]
• William Crowninshield Endicott, former US Secretary of War, and his first cousin, Ellen Peabody^[13]
• Vivian Fuchs, British explorer, and his cousin Joyce Connell
• Carlo Gambino, a mob boss, and his first cousin, Catherine Castellano^[14]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American author, and her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman^[15]
• Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, and his second cousin once removed, Regina Peruggi^[16]
• Edvard Grieg, famous Norwegian composer, and his first cousin, Nina Hagerup^[17]
• Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, and his first cousin, Hayrünnisa Özyurt^[18]
• Benjamin Harrison V, American revolutionary leader, and his second cousin, Elizabeth Bassett^[19]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., the poet, and his second cousin, Amelia Lee Jackson^[20]
• Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his second cousin, Sarah Scott^[21]
• Jesse James and his first cousin, Zerelda "Zee" Mimms ^[22]
• Thomas Jefferson and his third cousin, Martha Wayles^{[citation needed]}
• Nobusuke Kishi, former Japanese statesman, and his first cousin, Yoshiko Kishi^[23]
• Jerry Lee Lewis, rock and roll musician, and his first cousin once removed, Myra Gale Brown^[24]
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell, a former president of Harvard University, and his distant cousin, Anna Parker Lowell^[25]
• John A. Macdonald, first prime minister of Canada, and his first cousin, Isabella Clark^[26]
• Thomas Malthus, British academic, and his first cousin once removed, Harriet Eckersall^[27]
• Francis Marion, American revolutionary leader also called the "Swamp Fox," and his first cousin, Mary Esther Videau^[28]
• Abraham Maslow, father of humanistic psychology, and his first cousin, Bertha Goodman^[29]
• Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, and his first cousin once removed, Agnes Priscilla Randolph Barton^{[citation needed]}
• Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the Morse code, and his first cousin once removed, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold, his second wife^[30]
• Edgar Allan Poe and his cousin, Virginia Clemm^[31]
• Bolesław Prus, Polish novelist, and his cousin, Oktawia Trembińska.^[32]
• Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, and his cousin, Natalia Satina^[33]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, former US president, and his fifth cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt^[34]
• Eisaku Sato, former prime minister of Japan, and his cousin, Hiroko Sato^[35]
• Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist, and his niece, Maria Babska.^[36]
• Igor Stravinsky, composer, and his cousin, Katerina Nossenko^[37]
• Toyotomi Hideyori, a 16th-century Japanese strategist, and his first cousin, Senhime. ^[38]
• Martin Van Buren, former president of the US, and his first cousin once removed, Hannah Hoes^[39]
• Gideon Welles and his first cousin, Mary Jane Hale^{[citation needed]}
• H. G. Wells, author, and his first cousin, Isabel Mary Wells (first wife)^[40]
• William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Catherine Moffatt^[41]

[edit] Royalty

The royal couples listed here are but a minute fraction of all the cousins of varying degrees who have married between royal or noble houses.

[edit] Europe

• Prince Alexander of Teck and his second cousin once removed, Princess Alice of Albany
• Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse and her second cousin, Nicholas II of Russia
• Alfonso XII of Spain and his first cousin, Mercedes of Orléans (first wife)
• Amedeo I of Spain and his niece, Maria Letizia Bonaparte (second wife)
• Prince Arthur of Connaught and his first cousin once removed, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife
• Benedita, Dowager Princess of Brazil, and her nephew, José, Prince of Brazil
• Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, and his niece, Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal, and later his niece, Maria Teresa of Portugal
• Catherine the Great and her second cousin, Peter III of Russia
• Charles II of Parma and his second cousin, Maria Teresa of Savoy
• Charles III of Parma and his second cousin, Louise Marie Thérèse of France
• Charles I of Spain and his first cousin, Isabella of Portugal
• Charles IV of Spain and his first cousin, Maria Luisa of Parma
• Charles VII of France and his second cousin, Marie of Anjou
• Charles X of France and his double-second cousin, once removed, Marie Thérèse of Savoy
• Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and Catherine Michelle of Spain, who was his first cousin, once removed, as well as his second cousin
• Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy and his double second cousin, once removed, Marie Clotilde of France
• Charles Felix of Sardinia and his first cousin, once removed, Maria Christina of Bourbon-Naples
• Emperor Claudius and his third wife and cousin, Messalina
• Constantine II of Greece and his third cousin, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• Edward, the Black Prince and his cousin, Joan of Kent
• Queen Elizabeth II and her second cousin, once removed (through Christian IX of Denmark), as well as third cousin (through Queen Victoria), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, and his half-first cousin, once removed, Margaret of France
• Ernest Augustus I of Hanover and his first cousin, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria and his second cousin, Maria Anna of Sardinia
• Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and his niece, Anne Juliana Gonzaga
• Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second cousin, Maria Christina of Savoy (first wife)
• Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second cousin, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (second wife)
• Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his double first cousin, Princess Luisa of the Two Sicilies
• Ferdinand VII of Spain and his first cousin, Maria Antonietta of Naples (first wife)
• Ferdinand VII of Spain and his niece Maria Isabel of Portugal, and later his niece Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
• Francis I of France and his second cousin, Queen Claude of France
• Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his double first cousin, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria (first wife)
• Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first cousin, Maria Isabella of Spain (second wife)
• Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and his double first cousin, Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily (second wife)
• Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and his first cousin, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (third wife)
• Francis IV, Duke of Modena and his niece, Maria Beatrice of Savoy (titular queen of England and Scotland according to the Jacobite succession)
• Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and his first cousin, Empress Sissi
• Frederick VI of Denmark and his first cousin, Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
• Frederick William I of Prussia and his first cousin, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
• Frederick William II of Prussia and his double first cousin, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• King George I of Great Britain and his first cousin, Sophia Dorothea of Celle
• King George IV of the United Kingdom and his first cousin, Caroline of Brunswick
• King Haakon VII of Norway and his first cousin, Princess Maud of Wales
• Henry II of England and his half third cousin, Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Henry IV of France and his second cousin, Marguerite of Valois (first wife)
• Henry VI of England and his third cousin, Margaret of Anjou
• Henry VII of England and his third cousin, Elizabeth of York
• Princess Irene of Hesse and the Rhine and her first cousin, Henry of Prussia
• Isabella I of Castile and her second cousin, Ferdinand of Aragon
• Isabella II of Spain and her double first cousin, Francis of Spain
• James IV of Scotland and his third cousin, Margaret Tudor
• Joan of Spain and her double first cousin, John, Crown Prince of Portugal
• Juan Carlos I of Spain and his third cousin, Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark
• Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Margaret Theresa of Spain (first wife), who was both his niece and his first cousin
• Leopold II of Tuscany and his second cousin, Maria Anna of Saxony (first wife)
• Leopold II of Tuscany and his first cousin, Marie Antoinette of the Two Sicilies (second wife)
• Louis XIV of France and his double first cousin, Maria Theresa of Spain
• Louis XVI of France and his second cousin, once removed, Marie Antoinette
• Louis XVIII of France and his double second cousin, once removed, Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy
• Mary I of England and her first cousin, once removed, Philip II of Spain
• Princess Mary of Teck (later Queen Mary) and her second cousin, once removed, King George V
• Mary, Queen of Scots and her half-first cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
• Maximilian I of Mexico and his second cousin, Charlotte of Belgium
• Michael I of Romania and his second cousin, once removed, Princess Anne of Parma
• Napoleon Louis Bonaparte and his first cousin, Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte
• King Olav V of Norway and his first cousin, Princess Märtha of Sweden
• Peter III of Portugal and his niece, Maria I of Portugal
• Philip II of Spain and his double first cousin, Maria Manuela, Princess of Asturias (first wife)
• Philip II of Spain and his niece, Anna of Austria (fourth wife)
• Philip IV of Spain and his niece, Mariana of Austria (second wife)
• Philip V of Spain and his double second cousin, Maria Luisa of Savoy (first wife)
• Philippe, comte de Paris and his first cousin, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans
• Umberto I of Italy and his first cousin, Margherita of Savoy
• Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and his first cousin, Maria Adelaide of Austria
• Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and her first cousin, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and later her first cousin, Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia
• Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and her first cousin, once removed, Prince Louis of Battenberg
• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her first cousin, Prince Albert
• Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh and his first cousin, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
• Kaiser Wilhelm II and his half second cousin, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
• King William I of the Netherlands and his first cousin, Wilhelmine of Prussia
• King William III of the Netherlands and his first cousin, Sophie of Württemberg
• King William III of England and his first cousin, Queen Mary II

[edit] Outside Europe

• King Kamehameha the Great of Hawaiʻi and his niece Queen Keopuolani
• Alexander Liholiho King Kamehameha IV of Hawaiʻi and his second cousin, Queen Emma Kaleleonalani Naʻea
• Zaitian, the Guangxu Emperor and his first cousin, Dowager Empress Longyu

[edit] See also

• Marriage
• Cousin couple

[edit] References