Throughout history, there was a taboo on marriage with relatives. Today it is known that this is fraught with recessive genes, leading to a number of severe diseases, such as hemophilia, as well as which, with high probability, can become dominant genes in the family practicing inbreeding. It would be possible to think that famous and smart people would never have allowed such, but it was not always like that.
1 Herbert Wells.
One of the titans of modern science fiction, Herbert George Wells, who gave the world to the world such as the "Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds", in 1891 was just an ordinary teacher of natural sciences. In 25 years, he was disturbed by health problems and financial problems. This state of affairs was only aggravated when he married 25 years on his 16-year-old cousin Isabel Mary Wells. In 1894, they diverged (according to the information of various sources, by mutual agreement or from the insistence of Herbert), and in the same year Wells married Amy Robbins, one of his former student.
Throughout his marriage, Wells was not just a supporter of the movement for loose love: he practiced her. Among his mistresses were even respected writers of that time, such as Violet Hunt. It delivered Walls a lot of trouble. His colleague Hubert Bland beat the writer for the novel with his daughter Rosamund, and for some time Pembert Reeves pursued Wells, intending to shoot a writer for the same reason. Wells himself did not deny anything, talking about himself: "I am a very immoral person. I hunted the people who love me. " It may not be surprising that someone with such a configuration married a cousin.
2 Claudius
Claudius is considered one of the wisers (or at least more educated) emperors of ancient Rome. At one time, the Roman emperor fully conquered Britain and expanded the borders of the state in North Africa, while being time for writing almost 28 books on History in Greek (especially on the history of Etruscans). No one could even think that the emperor marries a relative, and what ... Considering that he became an emperor only after Caligula was killed, and the fact that numerous senators and soldiers tried to kill him in the first years of the board.
This third marriage of Claudia, with the niece of Agrippina younger (Caliguly's sister) actually put an end to his board. From the very beginning, Agrippina was ambiguously and convinced the emperor to call his son with his successor, despite the fact that Claudia was young enough at that time. Also Agrippina poisoned his uncle / husband's mushrooms when her son (who became the emperor) was 16 years old. The fact that she was regent while Nero did not become quite an adult to take the throne, was a very likely motive. True, Claudia should have expected similar, given that Agrippin was also suspected of poisoning her previous husband's Passina Crispa.
3 Albert Einstein
Basically, this pioneer in the field of physics is remembered due to its work, in particular the "general theory of relativity", which made a revolution in our understanding of matter, time and energy. Surely, everyone saw Einstein's images with unwitted gray hair. But in the first days, when the scientist still worked on his own iconic theories, he did what it would seem vicious even by the standards of other heavily marriages.
In 1903, Einstein married a colleague-professor of Physics Milece Maric. At that time they had an extramarital daughter who was a year earlier as a result of the novel, which began in 1897. Nevertheless, by 1912, Einstein suddenly pissed the feelings to his cousin Elsa, the existence of which he learned shortly before. In 1919, Einstein divorced his first wife, although in 1917 he had already moved to Elsa, who lived with his two daughters from a marriage ending with a divorce. And this is not all the scandals of ingenious physics. In 1918, Einstein was seriously reflecting not to quit Elz to ... Her daughter Ilze, who worked as a secretary.
4 Cleopatra
Family in the entire history of mankind was considered as a romantic character like Cleopatra. Surely, everyone heard about her passionate relations with Julia Caesar and Mark Anthony, which resulted in four children, which threatened the future of the Roman Empire. And even not to mention her relationship with Ptolem XIII (and this relationship obviously no one would want to romanticize).
In 51 BC Cleopatra joined the throne after the death of his father, Ptolemy XII. At that time she was 18 years old, and she married her brother Ptolemy XIII, which was only 10 years old. Such an agreement would not be so unusual at the time: his own father Cleopatra was married to his sister Triphane in accordance with the tradition. The climbing time for the throne of young brothers and sisters was not successful, because at that time Egypt experienced hunger and economic problems. This contributed to the fact that Cleopatra and her husband ultimately unleashed the civil war, and when Julius Caesar intervened on the side of Cleopatra, he killed her younger brother in 47 BC, that put an end to one of the worst marriages in history mankind.
5 Edgar Allan
The gothic author of the horror and the poet, who became a hence of the genre of a "mystical detective" genre, also "noted" on the soil of the bloodstream. Edgar was married to his cousin Virginia when he was 27 years old, and she was only 13 years old. He also lived with her from seven years. The difference in the age between them was so great that Edgar for many years worked as a private tutor of his wife.
There were several attempts to protect this marriage. Some claimed that the couple waited for several years before officially arrange marriage, and also that they got married only because, otherwise, Edgar would not have any legal grounds to leave Virginia "with him" after he found out that She will be sent to a rich relative after the death of her mother. What are the true intentions, the fact that the writer lived with his wife before her death aged 24 years from tuberculosis remains a fact.
6 James Watt
This Scottish inventor-mechanics and geodesyist usually attribute the invention of the steam engine, but it is not quite so. In fact, he took as the basis of the Newken steam car, which was over 50 years old, and improved it. This gave a significant impetus to the industrial revolution. At the same time, few people know about his family life, namely, that in 1764 he married a cousin Margaret Miller.
The fact of how successfully their marriage has developed, in historical documents a little has been preserved. It is known that their marriage lasted nine years (to the death of Margaret), and that she gave birth to six children. Watt was not near Margaret at the time of her death, as he desperately looking for work across Britain. In 1776, he married Ann McGregor, who gave him two more children.
7 Ataalpa
Before the invasion of the conquistadors, cultural attitude towards the bloodsamer marriages in Central and South America was very different. In the empire of Aztecs, it was considered, in fact, a grave crime, although in one of the local fundamental myths, their main god Cetzalcoatl Spyan married his sister. However, in the Empire Incas, the emperor was practically needed to marry a family member. There were two opposite legends, which were supposed to be the source of the Empire Incas: Manco Kapack married his mother or the empire was founded by four sisters married at the four brothers. However, such marriages were correct only for the ruling class. An ordinary person in the event of a heighter could count on the fact that he is injected with eyes or executed.
It so happened that Ataualpa was married to his sister when he was the last emperor of the Empire Inca. He led a civil war with his brother Huascar for five years at the time when Spanish conquistadors were planted on the coast of Peru under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro. Hearing that the Spaniards can free his brother and put it on the throne, Ataalpa ordered the execution of Huascara. It is this execution and the bloodstone marriage Ataalpi Spaniards used as an excuse of the Emperor's execution.
8 Emperor Suinin
The era of the board of the Tang dynasty in the VIII century of our era was one of the golden ages of China and the period when Chinese culture had the most significant impact on Japan. One of the results of this was the changes in the Japanese taboos. While in China, heavily marriages were unacceptable since the beginning of their history, in Japan during the centuries of marriage inside the imperial families were the usual phenomenon.
Among them, the 11th Emperor Suinin, who married his cousin Sakhochime in the first century of our era. It was noteworthy, because it is only one of the few things that are known about him, and because of the almost complete absence of other reliable information about Suinin led to the fact that he was dubbed "legendary." It is quite unusual that it was one of the few preserved facts about the leader of the nation, which rules within 99 years.
9 Charles Darwin
The one who has committed a revolution in the understanding of human biology through its interpretation of the "Theory of Evolution," married his cousin, which is amazingly ironic for some people. However, for the author of the "origin of species", the wedding on his cousin Emme Vedzhwood in 1838 was a spare source, in contrast to all marriages described above.
Four Darwin had 10 children, and Charles perfectly understood that such marriages could cause health problems. Three his children died of infectious diseases in childhood. The most infamous death was the death of Charles Warling in 1858, since Darwin was forced to miss the first public presentation of his "Theory of Evolution" to attend the funeral. Even about those who lived to adult, Darwin said that their health is "unreliable." Darwin went so far that he turned to the British government with a request to conduct a survey of married relatives and the health of their descendants, but his request was rejected.
10 Philip II Spanish
In the XVI century, Spain was at the peak of power during the Board of Philip II. And long before this began to talk about the British Empire, "the sun never sat down" above the Spanish Empire. In addition to Spain, the Netherlands and Southern Italy in Europe, she controlled almost half of South America and more than half of the United States of America, not to mention the Philippines. Empire rule part of the famous Dynasty of the Habsburgs, which was known for its heavily marriage. Nevertheless, Philip II went even further than most monarchs, as he married his relatives four times.
At first, he married Maria Portuguese, cousin (both the Father and Mother), who had deceased three years later, Rouching Prince Carlos, who had health problems that seemed quite familiar Charles Darwin. Then he married Maria Tudor, his cousin and daughter Heinrich VIII. After she died of illness, Philip II sent a proposal to marry Elizabeth I and did not receive an answer (because of what the Scottish uprising was supported against her). Then Philip II married a rosulor sister Elizabeth Valua (this marriage lasted nine years). And finally, the last wife of Philip was his niece Anna Austrian. The last marriage lasted 10 years and, apparently, it was enough for Philip II, because he spent the last eight years of his life alone.