My family is royal?

Question

we come from french nobility but we live in the US, florida. are we intitled to anyting?

Answer 1

The above answer only refers to titles *in France*.

Nobility is not royalty do no, your family is not royal. Nobility, also, in the United States does not confer any sort of official privilege outside of social circles --- I know this from experience.

An answer below regarding Paul Ilyinsky --- he was not a prince of Russia and therefore could not succeed to the Russian throne. His title was Prince Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (Prince of Romanov-Ilyin), a title as a morganaut. The two possible pretenders *now* are Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia and Prince Nicholas Romanovsky-Cheremetev (who actually actively makes a claim to be a prince of Russia). Before these two there was only one undisputed pretender to the Russian throne, Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich.

Answer 2

If you have a job, sure, you are entitled to your paycheck as long as you keep doing your job.  I just found out there is a massive amount of European royalty in my ancestry, from many countries.  And yet, I struggle every day just to get the bills paid.....My life is my life.  I like knowing about the past of my family, but what they had was theirs and what I work for and earn is mine, that is except the part that Uncle Sam takes for himself first.....This knowledge, about my ancestry, makes me feel proud inside. That's what I have from it.  You can have that too.  Enjoy.  ( Of course, I'd be open to the possiblity I might one day inherit something from all that royalty.......but I'm not going to hold my breath for that!)

Answer 3

probably not contact them to find out...

Answer 4

As a citizen of the United States, you are precluded from holding titles or honors (i.e. a knighthood) from foreign countries. Therefore, your family has no claim to lands or linage to the throne. Sorry.

Answer 5

No.

Answer 6

You may be able to enter Disney world for free.

Answer 7

Titles were abolished by the Revolutions of 1789 and 1848, and restored by decree in 1852 (and never officially abolished since) and now can only be lawfully used and given to their bearers in official acts with a decree by the Minister of Justice. Anyone who has a legitimate claim to a title can ask the Minister of Justice to confirm this claim, the bearer can then legally use the title in legal documents such as birth certificates (about 400 such confirmations were made since 1872). The Association d'entraide de la Noblesse Française ("Association for the mutual assistance of French nobility", or "ANF") exists today; it is open exclusively to French nobles.

Answer 8

nope.  The French nobility was pretty much stripped of everything in 1789.  French Revolution.  Or did you miss school that day?

Answer 9

Not unless the French government says so--which is doubt. I am related to the British and German royal lines but I won't ever get to rule in my own right

Answer 10

No.

My great, great, great, great (etc) grandmother is Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the High Middle Ages and mother to two kings of England (John and Richard 1) but nowadays that doesn't really mean anything because power has changed so many times since then.

Answer 11

Well, you're entitled to be proud of your heritage. :)  France is a Republic so officially it does not recognize royalty and basically doesn't recognize nobility....But, rather oddly for such a republican country, you get formal invitations from some official government sources that do have your title written on them. Woo-hoo!  

Royalty is not the same as nobility.  Royalty is the king's family. Of course there is no reigning royal family of France now. There are at least a couple different factions of monarchistes supporting claims of rival branches but a return to some version of the ancien régime is extremely unlikely!

Nobility is like Duc, Marquis, Comte, Vicomte; in medieval times there were Seigneurs and Chevaliers (knights).   But there are some people from the royal family who also had/have titles like Duc or Comte.  

My father comes from a very old French noble family who like other extant nobility, still keep track of who is the current title holder, but it does not come with the sort of power it did in old times.  Some noble families still have some of their land. But they are sure not all sitting in some chateau. They are in all kinds of positions, and some are actually poor. There is a society in France called ANF,  the Association d'Entraide de la Noblesse Française. They give a lot of aid to impoverished nobles, and they publish a directory of the noble families.  (See link for list of noble families existing now in France.) There's a (private) web site mostly used by younger members. To join you have to be descended  in the male line from nobility and you would have to have very clear proof of that.  It's unlikely your father would actually be the heir to a title, since that is supposed to be just one person of the whole family of the descendents of those counts or dukes or whatever. But anything is possible and it could be he was the heir to a family that was thought to have died out! So technically, if you could prove that he may be able to establish a right to use the title..... but then you still have the problem with U.S. law that I think may not allow a US citizen  to have a foreign title.

Oh well. You may enjoy learning about your genealogy anyway. Join some groups & find people researching the same lines. If you have traced your noble or royal French ancestres back to the 1600s and you are serious about studying them farther back,  you will want to get a hold of Père Anselme de Ste-Marie's "Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la Couronne et de la Maison du roy et des anciens barons du royaume." (transl: "Genealogical and Chronological History of the Royal House of France, Peers, Grand Officers of the Crown and the House of the King and Historic Nobles of the Kingdom") which is available on CD.  See Links for more places to research. (Several are in French; you'll be able to learn much more for yourself if you know French.)

Answer 12

You are entitled to return back to France and get the beheading you deserve. Royalty means nothing in France or anywhere else come to that matter!

Answer 13

Perhaps  you can you your royal titles.

Check it out. re USA regulations. ( that's about it)

Answer 14

everyone is related to someone who is/was important somewhere in history.

maybe if you lived in france, and your relative was very close to you both in blood and in relationship, and was truly very important and esteemed, you would get some perks. but since you don't, no, you don't get special treatment.

Answer 15

You can walk around your chateau--or more likely your condo--muttering, "Let them eat cake"  when stiffing the gardener his Christmas tip.

BTW,  a noble title doesn't necessarily equate with royalty, although descendants of lesser members of most royal families marry into the nobility unless they marry an heir of another royal house.  For example, Queen Elizabeth has given her youngest son, Prince Edward, the title the Earl of Wessex.  His son and daughter's descendants will most probably become part of the aristocracy rather than members of the Royal Family.   Eventually, one of them might even move to Florida.  One of the two possible claimants as heir to the Romanov Dynasty was at one time the mayor of Palm Beach, refusing to even think about accepting the title of Czar when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s.