Posted by Jane
on 19/10/2009, 6:15:00, in reply to "Not Margriet but Michiko..."
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: I always had the impression that Dutch Pieter
: van Vollenhoven was the first commoner
: marrying into a reigning royal family
You didn't bother to qualify your question with a specific date. Indeed, if there are no limits to how far back in history you go, there are HUNDREDS of examples. Consider, for instance, the latter wives of King Henry VIII of England ... his ancestress Elizabeth Woodville ...
In Spain, one had that King Ferdinand I of Aragon had common and noble blood, as well as royal, in his ancestry. His first wife, the famed Queen Isabel I of Castile, was of even more questionable background (aside from a number of commoners, some were only mistresses -- not wives -- of kings).
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