House of Lopin

Rollo (Hrólfr) the Viking

Famous Viking, first ruler of Normandy

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Leonhardt Schneider

Famous Hutterite Anabaptist from Kaufbeuren Martyr

1490 – 1546

Johann Zieger

Eldest of the Heiligenkreuz Zieger brothers; his 1851 marriage opened the whole line

1824 –

Robert DE VERE

One of the twenty-five guarantors of Magna Carta.

1164 – 1221

Johann Zieger

Lutheran cottager of Heiligenkreuz — earliest proven father of the Zieger paternal (R-M167) line

1797 – 1833

Elisabeth Peter

Wife and mother of the Heiligenkreuz Ziegers; her maiden name, long uncertain, proven 'Peter'

1802 – 1850