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Habsburg Family DNA Project

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  • Étiennette de Longwy, countess consort of Bourgogne (c.1030 - aft.1088)
    . 1025-d 10/19/1088. Parentage uncertain, with no solid evidence (though many theories). Please see notes. Do not assign parents. Married to Guillaume I Count Palatin of Burgundy (Bourgogne).= = Étienn...
  • Adalbert II Longwy, Comte de Haute-Lorraine (c.1000 - 1048)
    (UPPER) NOBILITY.htm:Son of Gerhard/Gerard (d 1045) and Gisela:ADALBERT [Albert] (-killed in battle near Thuin 11 Nov 1048). The Notitiæ Fundationis Monasterii Bosonis-Villæ names (in order) "Adalbertu...
  • Gerhard von Bouzonville, graf von Metz (c.985 - 1045)
    Summary:Parents:*Father: Adalbert von Metz (d. 1037, bur. at the Abbaye Sainte-Croix de Bouzonville), Graf von Metz (1020s - 1037)*Mother: Judith, granddaughter of Wigerich III, Comte d'Ardenne, and si...
  • Alessandro Allori, "il Bronzino"
    Johanna Erzherzogin von Österreich (1547 - 1578)
    Joanna Erzherzogin von Österreich F, #112037, b. 24 January 1547, d. 10 April 1578 Joanna Erzherzogin von Österreich was born on 24 January 1547 at Prague, Czech Republic.2,1 She was the daught...
  • Albrecht II, King of Holy Roman Empire (1397 - 1439)
    Albert II of Germany ALBERT II OF GERMANY Albert the Magnanimous KG, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (10 August 1397 – 27 October 1439) was king of the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the Ho...

A group working at Family Tree DNA believes it has discovered the DNA signature of the Habsburg dynasty.

Project Administrator Harry Hoppes found that one of his Hoppes ancestors was enumerated in the Swiss property censuses of 1290 and 1292 under the surname Habesburc, the same spelling King Rudolf von Habesburc (later Habsburg) had engraved on his 1291 sarcophagus lid.

Subsequent research showed over a dozen other surnames that are close "genetic cousins" to the Hoppes family, namely: Fitze, Grass, Himmelsberger, Kreis, May, Mesmer, Neff, Penczer, Schiess, Schlatter, Schuepbach, Sittner, Tanner, and Waldburger (and related spellings). Many of these families have possible connections with 13th century knightly families throughout Switzerland and southwestern Germany.

Results appear to be supported by genetic tests on a family that claims descent from Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (1858-1889). Historians have speculated that the Lorraine and Habsburg dynasties share a common paternal descent.

Results appear to be contradicted by genetic tests on a living member of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty who belongs to haplogroup G2a. These results are confidential. No further information is available. Results are also contradicted by tests on a family that believes they descend from Emperor Franz Josef. They belong to haplogroup J2. These results are also confidential.

The Hoppes and related families (and by extension perhaps the medieval Habsburgs) belong to haplogroup R-L2/S139 (currently designated R1b1a2a1a1b3c). The following five genetic markers are characteristic of the individuals of interest: DYS 390=25; DYS 392=12; DYS 389-2=28; DYS YCAb=19; and DYS 456=17.

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