By this I mean that the children/descendants of a morganatic marriage manage to climb their way back to marrying into the highest levels of the royal hierarchy.
I'm unaware that any other fruit of a morganatic marriage managed to do this to the extent that the Battenbergs were able to do this.
I'm not talking about families like the Medici or Thurn und Taxis or Eggenburg who "married up". Also disqualified are matches like Edward IV, Henry VIII or James II or the Mazarinettes since either morganatic marriages didn't exist under English law or that aside from Laura Martinozzi none of the Mazarinettes managed to equal this.
It's also impossible to say that this was simply due to Queen Victoria's "court Battenbergism", since other "domesticated" royals, like the Gleichens or the Tecks (for instance) never matched the Battenberg heights. The only other equivalents I can think of would be the Oldenburgski's in Russia (Beauharnais/Romanovsky are disqualified because that's marrying up, not down; Mecklenburgski is more in the Teck category of not living up to the potential).
So, the question is: are there any other plausible candidates for Battenberg-type equivalents? The Tecks managed to get close, with Queen Mary's nephew being proposed for Queen Juliana before his untimely demise. But ultimately, both they and the Gleichens fell short of the mark.
I'm unaware that any other fruit of a morganatic marriage managed to do this to the extent that the Battenbergs were able to do this.
I'm not talking about families like the Medici or Thurn und Taxis or Eggenburg who "married up". Also disqualified are matches like Edward IV, Henry VIII or James II or the Mazarinettes since either morganatic marriages didn't exist under English law or that aside from Laura Martinozzi none of the Mazarinettes managed to equal this.
It's also impossible to say that this was simply due to Queen Victoria's "court Battenbergism", since other "domesticated" royals, like the Gleichens or the Tecks (for instance) never matched the Battenberg heights. The only other equivalents I can think of would be the Oldenburgski's in Russia (Beauharnais/Romanovsky are disqualified because that's marrying up, not down; Mecklenburgski is more in the Teck category of not living up to the potential).
So, the question is: are there any other plausible candidates for Battenberg-type equivalents? The Tecks managed to get close, with Queen Mary's nephew being proposed for Queen Juliana before his untimely demise. But ultimately, both they and the Gleichens fell short of the mark.