What 16 Generation of Inbreeding Will Give You

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The Spanish Habsburgs were one of the most powerful ruling families.
And it was especially common for royals to marry each other in medieval Europe.
Nine of the Habsburgs' eleven marriages were to people in their own family.
Because of this, birth defects were passed down from one generation to the next. During a time span of 184 years, half of all Habsburg children died before they turned ten.
This inbreeding also led to a strange facial trait called the Habsburg jaw, which meant that people in the family had a very large jawline and a very large tongue.
King Charles The Second of Spain was sick enough that he had trouble eating and talking, and he drooled a lot.
Charles couldn't walk until he was eight, and he was the last of his dynasty because he couldn't have a child.
In order to keep their bloodline pure, the Hamburgs kept mating with each other. This led to the birth of a man so ugly that his own wife was afraid of him.