I think I'll start with the document which started all this, the 1587 "Genealogia Ranzoviana".

For some remarks, see general

In this ''Genealogia'', of course, I start with its author, Henrik . This is without doubt the book with an illustration by the most famous artist. 

I reproduced it on my opening page. 

Presently (spring 2003) there is an exhibition about this artist, Hendrick Goltzius, in the Netherlands.

In Augsburg I saw that those black and white printings were sometimes handcoloured, so I followed this practice. 

It could be spiced with some of the members on their worst, even when I have no pictures of them. There are some records about them in the Kiel Chronicles which describe life in Kiel during these times.

The finest picture, I think, is Balthasar , the bishop in Lübeck.

Those are thought to be cut by Frans Hogenberg, the author, together with Georg Braun, of "Civitates orbis terrarum, an atlas, published in six volumes between 1572 and 1617 of city views from Europe and elsewhere, to which Henrik contributed with Schleswig-Holstein and Scandinavian cities and, an exception, a country map of Denmark, highlighting the exploits of his father there.

Then I might introduce Marechal de France, Josias and the other figure in church history besides Balthasar, vis Erik

DAÅ mentions his hand-written memories, in Dutch. I found them, and they contain his death-date! And they are written in German.

After that those who figured, more or less, in Dutch history, and then those in modern German history.

In German history, there are three.

It started with   Brockdorff-Rantzau , the German foreign minister at the Versailles treaty after WW I, thereafter ambassador in Moscow.

Then there is Josias Clement, a diplomat in Rumania during WW II .

Finally Detlev , the post-WW II German representative with the UN, and later UN representative in Cyprus.

In between, I could put in some of the other famous forefathers or other connections, such as Tycho Brahe.