Cherokee Royals

	It may seem ironic but the Muskrats trace back to Scottish royalty through the Cherokee branch of the family. Click the link to the genealogical chart showing seventeen generations that span six centuries back to James V, King of Scotland.

	James V of Scotland is also related to many of the royal families of England, France, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg, Bohemia, and Denmark, including (among others) Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry IV, Richard I, Robert the Bruce, Macbeth, Duncan I, Louis IX, and even the Holy Roman Emperor. The royal lines go back as far as King Alpin who ruled Scotland in 733 A.D.

	The connecting point in this line is Ludovic Grant, a Scots trader who married a full-blood Cherokee woman, Elizabeth Coody (Tassel). Ludovic Grant was a clan chief in Scotland who was deported from the British Isles for having taken part in the Jacobite Rebellion, an unsuccessful attempt to restore the Stewart family to the British throne. Both of Ludovic's maternal grandparents were great-grandchildren of King James V of Scotland. (The background on this page is one of the many tartans of the Stuart family.

Cherokee Royals?