Michaël Eytzinger (

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

Michael von Aitzing, Aitzinger, Eyzinger, or Eitzing) (born ca. 1530 in Obereitzing - died 1598 in

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), was an

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, and

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, who wrote and published several works, including a renowned volume that states the principles of a

genealogical numbering system Several genealogical numbering systems have been widely adopted for presenting family trees and pedigree charts in text format. Among the most popular numbering systems are: Ahnentafel (Sosa-Stradonitz Method), and the Register, NGSQ, Henry, d'Abov ...

, called an

Ahnentafel An ''ahnentafel'' (German for "ancestor table"; ) or ''ahnenreihe'' ("ancestor series"; ) is a genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent. The subject (or proband) of the ahnentafel is li ...

, that is still in use today. Eytzinger first published the

in 1590 in his ''Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium'' (

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),''Thesaurus Principum hac aetate in Europa viventium''
1590 (Google Books)(No Preview) in which he described and illustrated his new functional theory of numeration of ancestors by providing genealogies of thirty-four sovereign houses of Europe. Eytzinger’s method was used by Jerónimo de Sosa, in his work ''Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca'' in 1676, and was popularized by

Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz (1 May 1863, in Ghent – 5 May 1933, in Berlin), was a German lawyer, heraldist and genealogist who popularized a genealogical numbering system of ancestors. Stephan was the son of the prominent chemist Friedr ...

in his ''Ahnentafel-atlas'' in 1898. He also wrote and published several histories, including ''Novus de Leone Belgico'' in 1583 that included the first cartographic representation of the

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Leo Belgicus The Leo Belgicus (Latin for ''wikt:Belgic, Belgic Lion'') was used in both heraldry and map design to symbolize the former Low Countries (current day Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and a small part of northern France) with the shape of a lion. W ...

. The lion motif was inspired by the heraldic figures that appear in the coats of arms of several Dutch constituencies, as well as in the arms of William of Orange. The map was published during the period when the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

was fighting the

Eighty Years' War The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt ( nl, Nederlandse Opstand) ( c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Refo ...

for independence from Spain.

Major works

*''Novus de Leone Belgico eiusque topographica atque historica descriptione liber.'', 1583 *''Relatio historica'' Köln, 1584 *''Rerum vaticiniis accommodata historia: das ist eine Hystorische Beschreibung...'', Köln, 1584 *''Bipartita septem temporum historia: das ist historische Beschreybung sieben underscheidlicher Zeiten.'' Köln, 1586 *''Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium: quo progenitores eorum...'', Köln, 1590

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The Sosa–Stradonitz System or Ahnentafel Numbering System

1530s births 1598 deaths Barons of Austria 16th-century Austrian historians Genealogists {{Austria-historian-stub

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