Editing Morganatic marriage (section)

== Examples ==
Royal men who married morganatically:
* [[Genghis Khan]] followed the contemporary tradition by taking several morganatic wives in addition to his principal wife, whose [[ultimogeniture|property passed to their youngest son]], also following tradition.
* [[Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria]] and actress [[Henriette Mendel]]. She was created Baroness von Wallersee, and their daughter, [[Marie Louise, Countess Larisch von Moennich]], was a confidante of her aunt Empress [[Elisabeth of Bavaria|Elisabeth ("Sissi") of Austria]].
* Archduke [[Ferdinand II of Austria]], ruler of the [[Tyrol (state)|Tirol]], first married [[Philippine Welser]], a [[bourgeois]]e of a wealthy family in 1557. Their children were given the title Margrave von Burgau, the issue of Ferdinand's second (and equal) marriage being of archducal rank and preferred for purposes of inheritance.
* [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]] in 1869 married morganatically his principal mistress [[Rosa Vercellana|Rosa Teresa Vercellana Guerrieri]]. Popularly known in [[Piedmontese]] as "Bela Rosin" (Little Rosa the Beautiful), she was born a commoner but made Countess di Mirafiori e Fontanafredda in 1858.
* [[Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine]] in 1851 married morganatically [[Julia, Princess of Battenberg|Countess Julia von Hauke]]. Instead of being part of the [[House of Hesse-Darmstadt]] to which their father belonged, their [[Patrilineality|patrilinear descendants]] were created [[Battenberg family|Princes of Battenberg]], whose branch living in the [[United Kingdom]] later became [[Mountbatten family|House of Mountbatten]].
* Late in his life, the widowed ex-king [[Ferdinand II of Portugal|Fernando II of Portugal]] married the opera singer [[Elise, Countess of Edla|Elise Hensler]], who was created Countess von Edla.
* In 1917, the grandson of [[Ferdinand II of Portugal|Fernando II of Portugal]], [[Afonso, Duke of Porto]], the last [[Prince Royal of Portugal]], married the twice-divorced American socialite [[Nevada Stoody Hayes]].
* In 1929, [[Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón]], a [[Spain|Spanish]] prince, married Julia Méndez y Morales, thereby losing all claims to the Spanish throne.
* A list of [[morganatic branches of the Russian Imperial Family]]
* The 1900 marriage of [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]], whose subsequent assassination triggered World War I, to [[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg|Countess Sophie Chotek von Wognin]] was morganatic at the insistence of the Austrian Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph I]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Max|last1=Hastings|author-link1=Max Hastings|title=Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu2-BrJnZjUC|year=2013|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|isbn=978-0-00-751975-0|page=xxvii}}</ref>
* Danish astronomer and nobleman [[Tycho Brahe]] married Kirsten Jørgensdatter morganatically in 1572. He was allowed to do so because he was close friends with [[Frederick II of Denmark|King Frederick II]]. The king was sympathetic, as he was unable to marry his love due to class differences.{{sfn|Thoren|Christianson|1990|p=45}}

Royal women who married morganatically:
* [[Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma]] (by birth an [[archduchess]] of the Imperial [[House of Habsburg]], and by her first marriage a French empress) married morganatically twice after the death of her husband, [[Emperor of the French#Napoleon I|the emperor]] Napoleon I. Her second husband was [[Adam Albert von Neipperg|Count Adam Albert von Neipperg]]. After his death, she married [[Count]] [[Charles-René de Bombelles]], her chamberlain, in 1834.
* Queen [[Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]], regent of Spain after her husband's ([[Ferdinand VII]]) death while their daughter, [[Isabella II of Spain|Isabella II]], was a minor. She married [[Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez, 1st Duke of Riánsares]], who was one of her guards in a secret marriage.
* Princess [[Stéphanie of Belgium]], the widow of [[Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria]], married [[:File:Lónyay_Elemér.jpg|Count Elemér Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya et Vásáros-Namény]] after the death of her first husband. In 1917, Emperor [[Charles I of Austria]] conferred upon [[:File:Lonyay_Stamm-Wappen.jpg|Lónyay]] a [[Dynasty#Dynasts|non-dynastic]] title of Prince (''[[Fürst]]'').