Museum of the Empire, Eveari, Ananto

[Doc]

Current House Ananto Family Tree


CLICK HERE to open Image in new Tab and zoom in to read

About this Tree
This is the Chart showing the Royal Family, Ananto, in Kalistan. According to current law, all First and Second Cousins without removal are granted Royal Family Status for life. The inclusion into the Royal Family is determined at birth, based on the sitting monarch. Royal Family Members and are entitled to use the Hyphenated Surname Prefix "Ananto" Children of Royal Family Members who are themselves no longer eligible to claim Royalty, however, may opt to use the Hyphenated Surname Suffix "Alvarez" once they are no longer eligible to claim Royal Status.

All descendants of Duke Mark Ananto-Orleans and Duchess Margaret Alvarez Ellison are entitled to use the Hyphenated Surname Prefix "Alvarez" in perpetuity, as they are descended from Emperor Fredrick I Ananto, founder of the Gaduri Dynasty of House Ananto, but are not descended from Empress Carolina I Ananto, founder of the Kundrati Dynasty of House Ananto.

Hyphenating in Surnames
The Kalistani naming system permits hyphenated last names. For most people, this is purely optional. A Person may opt to take both their father's and mother's last name in any order, or one or the other. The first name in a hyphenated name is called the Surname Prefix and the second name is called the Surname Suffix. Nobody is required to have a hyphenated Surname.

Often times, the descendant of a powerful or influential person will take a hyphenated name so they can highlight relationship to the influential individual. In this case, they will take their mother and father's surnames with a hyphen between them, but the more influential or socially, politically, or culturally important parent will always be in the prefix.

In either case, the Full name may be hyphenated, but using both the Prefix and Suffix together or merely the Prefix alone is purely optional. It is common for those whose official name is hyphenated to simply go by their Surname Prefix in all informal situations: ie. John Bennots-Walters may sign documents with his full hyphenated signature, but may be known to his friends and co-workers as just John Bennots. The use of hyphenation is purely optional in Kalistan, and most people who use it do so to either honor both parents or to highlight their relationship to someone famous.

There is one exception which is displayed in the Chart above. The Surname "Ananto" is reserved exclusively for the Royal Family, and the surname "Alvarez" is reserved for the descendants of the IV Dynasty "Gaduri". No person except an current member of the Royal Family may adopt "Ananto" as a Surname Prefix, and no person but a descendant of Duke Mark Ananto-Orleans may adopt "Alvarez" as a Surname Prefix. They may have Ananto or Alvarez as a surname Suffix, if they are descended from either of those two lines. If Ananto or Alvarez is in the Surname Prefix place, the Surname requires a Surname Suffix, or in other words, it may not go unhyphenated.

All Children of the Sitting Monarch have a couple further rules: They must have a Hyphenated First name as well as a Surname, as well as a Middle name. For all others, a hyphenated first name is incredibly rare in Kalistan and Middle names are entirely optional for parents, though many parents do provide middle names. For Children of Sitting Monarchs, during their majority only, they are referred to by their fully hyphernated first and surnames and their middle name. When they reach their majority, the hyphenated first name drops off completely, while reference to the middle name becomes fully optional. Hence Her Highness, Princess of the Empire Nicolette Ananto-Collins was born Nicolette-Carolina Elizabeth Ananto-Collins. The First name suffix dropped off entirely when she hit her Majority, and is only used in very specific circumstances, while the Middle name is rarely used at all. She is merely known by her title and her name Nicolette Ananto-Collins.

One final exception is the sitting Monarch additionally loses his or her Surname Suffix while in the throne, and gain a number between first and last names. No legal documents may refer to Empress Carolina II Ananto as anything other than that, though she may herself refer to herself informally with her hyphenated last name. The loss of the hyphenation in the surname connotes that the Emperor or Empress is "THE Ananto," not merely "AN Ananto." The Surname is therefore not properly a surname at all for the reigning Monarch, but a title unto itself. Her Imperial Majesty Empress Carolina II Ananto is not the child of the family Ananto, but she is more properly thought of as Her Imperial Majesty, the Second Grand Duchess of Ananto (and therefore also Empress) who happens to be named Carolina. Such a personage does not need a last name at all.

MoE