How do you know if you're "blue-blooded"?

Question

ive got a Spanish-Chinese ancestry... does that count? my grandpa's a pure Spanish while my grandma's a Chinese. my relatives say that they've lived in a palace before..... does that count? How am i suppose to know if im blue-blooded?

Answer 1

It does not matter who your ancesters where,it is what you are now.Stop dreaming of castles in the air and forget about "BLUE-BLOODED"as their is no such thing.

Answer 2

Trace your family tree.

Answer 3

draw some blood....:o)

trace your lineage..... hard to do.... i've tried but got as far as 4 generations....

Answer 4

The term blue-blood refers to noble families and were born with titles and styles or in line to inherit a future title passed down from their parents/grandparents. Usually modern-day aristrocrat could trace their family lineage to a wealthy and noble family or royal connections. For example, English aristorcrat members will have designated peerage titles like:

Lord/Lady

Barons/Baronesses

Viscount/Viscountess

Earl/Countess

Marquess/Marchioness

Duke/Duchess

Blue blood is an English expression recorded since 1834 for noble birth or descent; it is a translation of the Spanish phrase sangre azul, which described the Spanish royal family and other high nobility who claimed to be 'pure', free of Moorish or Jewish blood, being of Visigothic descent.

Answer 5

2 things.

Do you have a name? an old name? an aristocratic one?

Does your family have tradition, breeding, education?

You need both to be a blue blood of the best sort, but you can qualify with either, though making big of one's name while dragging it in the mud is really not the way to show your blue bloodedness.

Answer 6

Sounds like your definition is on the right track but like someone said here, you would have to check your genealogy which might be extremely difficult.  Just living in a castle might not make someone a person of nobility. (they might be renting, working there etc.!) but I would trust your relative as a beginning.  One thing you might try is to track the origin of your family name.  That might give you a clue to work back with.  Check the Internet for a family tree with the same surname.  You would be surprised how many people have done part of the work...you might even see yourself as a branch.

Answer 7

I guess you're a blueblood if you have royal or noble ancestry.  I found out that I'm directly descended from Henry II of England through genealogical research. Who knows? You might find out that you're also related to royalty if you research your family's history.

Answer 8

If your great grandparent, grandparent or parent has a title of nobility or royalty then you could probably pass as having "blue blood."  I really agree with the poster above who says there is no such thing as royal or noble blood.  We all have the ancestry so we can't all lay claim to it.

Answer 9

We don't have blue blood, the blue veins are the veins that carry oxygen throughout the body.

Answer 10

cut yourself open and look!

Answer 11

If you were, you would know. Plain and simple. You can be descended from Royalty or nobility or what have you, but unless you are the first line... meaning the first son of the first son of the first son, then you are not.

Answer 12

Well it is said that everyone in Europe is somehow descended from Charlemagne so if you count it that far back it makes us all royalty!  But those who are picky about it  would say it has to be closer like a grandparent  or perhaps they might stretch it to great grandparent,  who has a title,

I hope you don't in any way think it makes someone superior if they are of the nobility. But it can be kind of fun to learn about one's family history, and the nice thing about the nobility is one can often trace them very far back, and it is interesting to learn of one's relatives in the middle ages.  

Start by talking to your older relatives who are mentioning this palace and getting as much memories as you can from them - - it is interesting anyway, you could make videos of their memories that your kids and grandkids may love to see someday. Ask them about family history- -names of their own grandparents, where people lived, and any stories passed down from the past...

Also ask if anyone else in the family before has ever done research on family history. Noble families often take a great interest in their family history going back a long way.

Find out who lived in the palace, how they were related, do they know the last name and if they had a title? Find out just where this palace was or as close as you can find out.  Did they actually own it or did they just live there and defend it, as an ally of the noble who owned it as one of many palaces or castles. (that would likely make them lesser nobility or perhaps a knight).     If it genuinely was a palace and you find out the name and place,  you can probably find online information about it - - like it was the Duques of ____  who owned it . (Duque = Duke in Spanish) If it was in China, I don't know about Chinese palaces besides the imperial, but I would think that info might be somewhere online too.

Also you want to look at family documents, obituaries etc. that can give you a lot of information to help you trace it.

I would recommend you join some geneaology groups and get advice from them.