The 10 Most Powerful Families Ever / Now
The various lists and opinions you decide.
Capetian Family
Medici Family
Ptolemy Family
Habsburgs
Zhu Family
Claudia and Julius Families
Khan Family
Nehru-Gandhi family
Plantagenets
Rothschild Family
source: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=187114.0
according to answers.com:
Rothschild
Rockefeller
Windsor
DuPont
Vanderbilt
Krupp
Kellogg
Goldman
Wrigley
Al Saud
Li
Cowles-Hammett
from: http://www.wikigrain.org/?req=Wealthiest+families+in+history and based on information from Forbes and the New York Times, supposedly, as well as other sources.
Wealthiest families of all time.
Family Name Image Year of Highest Earnings Wealth in Inflation Adjusted Billion US$ Family’s Status Origin Company or Source of Wealth Reference
Romanov 1913 1,097.223 Defunct Russian Russian Royal Family
British Royal Family 1090 416.912 Active English British Monarchy
Medici 1450 390.283 Defunct Italian Medici Bank
Rockefeller 1920 373.182 Active American Standard Oil
Rothschild 1828 317.174 Active German N M Rothschild & Sons
Fugger 1548 234.946 Defunct German Handelshaus Fugger
Vanderbilt 1885 234.468 Deduced Dutch New York and Harlem Railroad
Mellon 1933 226.447 Deduced American Gulf Oil
Asaf Jahi 1937 225.918 Deduced Hyderabad Asaf Jahi dynasty
Macedonian 1000 200.000 Defunct Byzantine Monarchy
Ford 1920 190.000 Active American Ford Motor Company
Krupp 1871 182.321 Active German Thyssen & Co.
Du Pont 2008 150.000 Active American/French DuPont
Harkness 1888 149.732 Deduced American Standard Oil
Sachs 1882 148.458 Active American Goldman Sachs
Yusupov 1919 140.000 Defunct Russian Tartarian Royal Family which became Russian
Astor 1848 112.540 Deduced German/American Fur Trade, real estate, and opium.
Walton 2002 102.900 Active American Wal-Mart
Gates 1999 101.000 Active American Microsoft
Ambani 2008 100.800 Active Indian Reliance Industries
Baring 1890 93.694 Deduced British Barings Bank
Baker 1931 81.693 Deduced American First National Bank of New York
Saud 2005 70.500 Active Saudi Arabian Monarchy
Field 1906 68.529 Active American Marshall Field's
Whitney 1933 62.287 Deduced American Inheritance, Saratoga Race Course
Mittal 2008 54.739 Active Indian Arcelor-Mittal
Mars 2008 42.000 Active American Mars, Incorporated
Sawiris 2008 35.337 Active Egyptian Orascom group
Koch 2008 34.000 Active American Koch Industries
Brenninkmeijer 2008 28.806 Active Dutch C&A
Based on this list, families I would watch are as follows – in no particular order are Rothschild, Rockefeller, Windsor, Sachs, Saud and Koch.
The 13 families according to Fritz Springmeier in his BLOODLINES OF THE ILLUMINATI
Astor
Bundy
Collins
DuPont
Freeman
Kennedy
Li (Chinese)
Onassis
Rockefeller
Rothschild
Russell
van Duyn
Merovingian (European Royal Families)