List of coupled cousins
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This is a list of prominent individuals who have been romantically or maritally coupled with a cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle.
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] [citation needed]
- 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]
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.
Europe
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- 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
Outside Europe
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- 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
See also
References
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