Welf, Guelph, or something else as LNAB for this major house?

Question

Welf would be my first thought. What's yours?

This gets complicated. These Wikipedia articles provide a little bit of background, probably enough to figure out what we want to call them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_House_of_Welf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Welf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Este

The profile in question here is of the probably legendary founder of the Elder House, so Welf-Este isn't a possiblity. Let's figure out what to call this guy, then take up what to call the younger house in a different question?

Answer 1

Roger, 

there's a link to the official family site which has family tree at

http://www.welfen.de/braunschalleLinien.htm

I'm not sure if that answers your question.

Steve

Comments

No, unfortunately--this is a question of nomenclature. I think Welf is pretty clearly the way to go, but even I don't like seeing people named "Welf Welf"; At least "Robert Robertian" and "Charles Carolingian" aren't as obvious. . .