I forgot to mention the Catholic Kohary branch of this German ducal house. I guess the author simply isn't into the German dynasties ...
But the reality of the matter is that they, too, provided rich sources of dynastic spouses for Catholic royals, in the days when Ebenbürtigkeit was strictly enforced -- meaning, of course, pre-World War I.
It's simply not true that Latin-language speaking Catholic royals married their own kind: the kingdom of Portugal had numerous sovereigns and non-reigning members intermarrying with German Catholic dynasties. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Kohary), Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Saxony, and Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg are good examples coming to mind.
... and even the franco-german Beauharnais, princes of Leuchtenberg, with August, the ephemerous Q.Maria II's 1st husband and her step-mother Amelia, D.Pedro's 2nd wife
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