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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4294594, member: 111237&quot;]Leopold had the jaw problem but he was not the worst case by far.&nbsp; Charles II&nbsp; of Spain the Bewitched was a worst case. He was the son of Philip IV of Spain and Mariana of Austria who were uncle and niece making Charles their great-nephew and first cousin respectively, as well as their son. They were themselves products of inbreeding down the line. The results of this in the person of Charles was as bad as one might imagine.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as Lei mentioned, even after the Habsburg Lorraine union they did it again and one of the worst cases was Ferdinand I who was wracked with&nbsp; debilitating seizures and mental problems. His mother and father were double first cousins, that is they were cousins through both parents. He had as many as twenty seizures per day and was</p><p>a hydrocephalic among many other problems.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went through a phase where I was obsessed with that family <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Ferdinando_I_d%27Austria.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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