Back when the Pope controlled some real territory, many popes would have been born in the Papal States.
I’m sure several were born in the Papal States, though.
I wonder how many of the leaders of Liechtenstein were born in the country. Since after World War II at least , I imagine that any potential heir to the throne would be born in a neighbouring country in a larger or fancier hospital. I just looked up the main hospital in the capital of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, and I see that they have a list of ( as far as I can tell ) all babies born in the hospital: it’s less than one per day.
http://www.landesspital.li/Services/Babyliste/tabid/1153/Default.aspx
James I of England was born in Scotland.
See post 2.
Vatican City citizenship is granted to employees of the Vatican City, their spouses, and their parents and children who live with them.
Here’s an interesting note. In Republics, Presidents are the equivalent of Monarchs as Heads of State. Of Israel’s nine Presidents, only two have been born in what is now Israel.
Charles I was also born in Scotland.
And in Scotland, King Charles II, King James VII, King William II, Queen Mary II, and Queen Anne were all born in foreign countries.
His son William II, his grandson Stephen and his great-grandson Henry II were also born in France.
:smack:
I knew that.
Queen Victoria almost WASN’T born in England, as her parents were living abroad at the time, but they hurried back to England late in her mother’s pregnancy, in order for her to be born on native soil. However, it wouldn’t have mattered, since at the time NONE of George III’s grandchildren were suitable heirs. All of them were bastards and/or children of morganatic marriages. There was a large race to produce an heir amoung her father, Edward, and his brothers.
How about Monarchs who never even set foot in the country they “ruled”?
When Scotland’s King Alexander III died at a youngish age (his horse fell off a cliff in the dark), all three of his children were already dead and the throne passed to his granddaughter Margaret (daughter of Norway’s King, great granddaughter of 4 different Kings) who sailed for Scotland but died en route at the age of seven. (This story has complications. The baby Margaret was bethrothed to England’s future Edward II; Alexander III’s second wife was pregnant upon his death. And, of course the death of the seven-year old Queen led to a succession crisis which was parodied in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.)
According to Wikipedia, she was elected Empress before the death of Peter III. And while it’s certainly true that Catherine and her lover(s) didn’t mourn Peter’s passing, unless you want to move this to GD or the Pit, I hope you retract your unsubstantiated claim that Catherine murdered Peter. 
I imagine there are also women religious who have VC citizenship. It’s not exactly Mount Athos.
The same holds true for Ferdinand I of Aragon, “the Catholic King”. His father, Juan II, had remarried after the death of his first wife, Queen Blanca of Navarre. Ferdinand’s mother spent a lot of the pregnancy at the Royal Palace in Olite (according to legend, it was because she was fond of ice cream, which was available in Olite but not in the Aljafería, the royal palace in Aragon’s capital of Saragossa) but hurried to cross the border when she felt the baby coming. That’s why Sos is now known as “Sos del Rey Católico:” it happened to be the Aragonese village that was closest to Olite, so it’s where Ferdinand was born.
The refusal of Juan to let his son by Blanca inherit the throne of Navarre, subsequent murder of said son, and later invasion by Ferdinand using troops loaned by his wife Isabel I of Castille is the reason why many Navarrese are known to curse Sos heartily on occasion… sometimes I wonder why aren’t there more historic dramas, maybe it’s because the plots would be hard to follow? There’s times when it seems half the royals in Europe were each other’s cousins and hell-bent on cousinicide.
Fredrik I was born in Kassel in Germany.
Adolf Fredrik was born in Gottorp in Germany.
Oscar I was born in Paris.
But in portions of France that were considered under English rule, IIRC.
That’s “His Imperial Highness Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico” sirrah!
/Raises a glass
To the Emperor!
Yes, at that period large parts of what is now France were part of the realm of the King of England. So it’s a bit like the Queen of Canada having been born in England: she is the sovereign of multiple realms and (being human) could only have been born in one of them.
Most co-princes of Andorra have probably never even been to Andorra.
Napoleon himself almost wasn’t born in France. His birthplace, Corsica, was ceded to France by the Republic of Genoa just months before he was born.