A family tree of the English Royal Family

A stylised family tree of the English Royal Family, beginning with Geoffrey Plantagenet and his queen, the Empress Matilda and continuing with their son Henry II. Engraved in 1613 the tree originally ended with James I & VI and his queen Anne of Denmark, with their portraits top left. Here obvious re-engraving shows the plate has been updated for Charles I's succession in 1625. In the background of the tree is a view of Nonsuch Palace, as drawn by Joris Hofnagel for Braun & Hogenberg. Commissioned by Henry VIII as a hunting lodge, it was still unfinished when he died in 1547. In 1670 Charles II gave it to his mistress Barbara Villiers, who demolished it to sell the building materials to pay her gambling debts. Published in Antonio Albizzi's 'Principum Christianorum Stemmata'.