Royalty

• Hanover

  The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria).

• Lancaster

  The English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose.

• Stuart

  The royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and...

• Habsburg

  A royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown...

• Hohenzollern

  A German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia.

• Plantagenet

  The family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485.

• Romanov

  The Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917.

• Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

  The name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name...

• York

  The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485;...

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• Merovingian

  A Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500...

• Tudor

  An English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth...

• Bourbon

  A European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Si...

• Capetian dynasty

  A Frankish dynasty founded by Hugh Capet that ruled from 987 to 1328.

• Carolingian dynasty

  A Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father that ruled from 751 to 9...

• Liao

  The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.

• Ming

  The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644.

• Ottoman

  The Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution...

• Ptolemy

  An ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by...

• Qin

  The Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial...

• Manchu

  The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries;...

• Seljuk

  Any one of the Turkish dynasties that ruled Asia Minor from the 11th to the 13th centuries;...

• Shang

  The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.

• Sung

  The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosoph...

• Tang

  The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907.

• Umayyad

  The first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus.

• Valois

  French royal house from 1328 to 1589.

• Wei

  Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.

• Windsor

  The British royal family since 1917.

• Yuan

  The imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368.

• Zhou

  The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and...

• Flavian dynasty

  A dynasty of Roman Emperors from 69 to 96 including Vespasian and his sons Titus...

• Han

  Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its...