Guangdong girl Li Ran and her husband
Hello everyone, Lantai wishes everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival first.
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantai will tell you some gossip.
Lantai accidentally saw a report saying that through her own efforts, a working girl from Guangdong not only got the opportunity to study in Europe, but also married the Belgian prince and became the first Chinese princess of the European royal family.
Lantai instinctively felt that it was wrong when he saw these reports, because as far as I know, there is currently no Chinese princess in the European royal family. If this lady named Li Ran really married a Belgian prince, even if it was a prince without inheritance, foreign media would not not report it extensively.
so Lantai spent some time looking up a lot of information and finally figured out what was going on.
Ms. Li Ran did marry a prominent nobleman in Belgium. This nobleman did have the title of "Prince", but he was indeed not the "prince" as understood by the Chinese.
It can be said that Ms. Li Ran married a man from a high-level Belgian aristocratic family, but it cannot be said that she married a prince.
Next, Lantai will introduce the relationship here to you:
Li Ran's husband is named Charles Joseph Malcolm de Ligne. He does have the title of "Prince" (usually translated as "Prince" in China), but he is not a member of the Belgian royal family and has no right to inherit the throne of Belgium.
Charles Joseph Malcolm Line was born from the Leni family of Belgian high-ranking nobles.
Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire
because of his achievements, Line was named hereditary royal title by Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, which is the origin of the title of "Prince" of the Line family. From then on, Line can call himself Prince Line or Prince Line .
However, in fact, the title of "Prince" does not belong to the official Baron of the Duke and Bozi of the Holy Roman Empire, but is just a honorable title that symbolizes status. Rudolf II did not give Line territory, and Line did not vote for electing emperors.
At that time, the Holy Roman Empire was a very loose empire, which can be understood as looser than the Tang Dynasty , which had many vassal states after the Anshi Rebellion ; and the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire were not hereditary, but were voted by the separatist princes who had the "electoral votes" in the Holy Roman Empire.
is a bit similar to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He was voted by the Jiedushi of the vassal states.
, and Line is the "honor of the Jiedushi". He only has the title of Jiedushi, but he has no territory, no salary, and no right to vote.
In order to win votes, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was a bit like Hong Xiuquan of , giving people the title of "Prince" everywhere; although it was not a mess, it was not an amazing title.
Li Ran's husband's family
. Specifically in Belgium, in Belgium, the class of Prince is not a member of the Belgian royal family. Its aristocratic status is second only to the Belgian royal family, and its aristocratic status is higher than that of the Duke, Marquis, Bozinan and other nobles. Its members are called "Prince" or "Princess", which are generally translated as "prince" and "princess" in China.
What does this mean?
means that these six families supported the Belgian royal family today or assisted the Belgian royal family in the Holy Roman Empire. Therefore, their relationship with the Belgian royal family is a partner, so their status is higher than that of nobles such as Duke, Marquis, Bozinan, who were canonized by the Belgian king.
Compared with Chinese history, it is like . During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, although Liu Yu established . Southern Song , he respected the descendants of Cao Wei very much, and continued to sign Cao Cao as Chenliu Wang , and allowed this Chenliu Wang to retain some of the emperor's ceremonial guards and treatment, and allowed the Cao family, the Chenliu Wang, to not be a minister.
By the way, Cao's family was always favored in , Southern Dynasties, , during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Of course, every time a hero wanted to usurp the throne, it was also the first chief of the Cao family to "persuade him to advance".
In Belgium, there are 6 families like Ligne. The Ligne family has been passed down for fourteen generations.
The Prince Charles married to by Li Ran is not the direct descendant of the Lyne family, but a side branch.
Li Ran's husband is a descendant of the second son of the eighth generation Prince Line. Although he still belongs to the Leni family and is a princely class in Belgium, he cannot inherit the title of Prince Line; to put it bluntly, he has no right to inherit the family.
Queen Caterina in the TV series, she is a princesse
so, Li Ran is naturally not a princess. Her official title is princesse de Ligne de La Trémoïlle. According to Belgian law, it can be translated as a Belgian princess.
Li Ran and her husband, to put it bluntly, they did not have a formal title, but the couple enjoyed the treatment of "prince" and "princess". After meeting the princes and princesses of the Belgian royal family, they could get along with these royal members on an equal status.
Of course, although Li Ran's husband does not belong to the direct line of the Lyne family, according to his mother's family, he has the right to claim Kingdom of Jerusalem , Kingdom of Cyprus, Kingdom of Armenia and Kingdom of Naples .
Note that it is just a claim right, not the right to inherit the throne, because he is the second son.
The so-called claim right can be understood as "equity". In other words, Li Ran's husband owns certain "shares" in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Cyprus, the Kingdom of Armenia and the Kingdom of Naples. However, these countries have long been completely lost, and even if they have claim rights, it is meaningless.
Wen Yali Princess, the only Asian princess
By the way, let’s talk about another gossip. Li Ran’s mother-in-law came from the French noble family. If you are unfamiliar with this family, remember one thing:
When Joan of Arc led his army to fight for the Dharma King, Ratremuwaye, the representative figure of the Lord and Sect around the Dharma King, was the patriarch of the Ratremuwaye family.
To sum up, Li Ran is really not a princess. So far, there is no Chinese princess in the European royal family; the only Asian princess, the Wen Yali of the royal family of Denmark is only 1/8 of Chinese descent, but she does not have Chinese nationality, so it is very difficult to be considered a Chinese. Although she attended high school in Hong Kong, she speaks very badly whether it is Mandarin or Cantonese.
Lantai emphasized again: At present, there is no Chinese princess in the European royal family.
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