* Prince Bei, elder brother of the Khitan Emperor, leaves for China.

* Abaoji names Prince Bei as heir apparent, a first in the history of the Khitan.

Though his father named his elder brother, Prince Bei, as his heir apparent in 916, upon his death, the Empress Dowager Yingtian favored Deguang because she felt he better embodied the ideals of the steppe.

Prince Bei slipped into China in 930, but as late as 934, he continued sending intelligence reports to his younger brother despite the welcome he received by Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty.

Following Taizong ’ s death in 947, Prince Bei ’ s son ascended the throne as Emperor Shizong despite the opposition of the Empress Dowager Yingtian.

The second was to name his son, Prince Bei, heir apparent, also a first in Khitan society and something that directly contrasted with Khitan notions of rule by merit.

Though Prince Bei was designated heir apparent in 916, the empress dowager Yingtian did not consider him to be worthy and managed to have her second son Deguang succeed to the throne.

Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, Prince of Wales, whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate.

Genshō was an elder sister of Emperor Mommu and daughter of Prince Kusakabe and his wife who later became Empress Gemmei.

His elder brother Prince Kinashi no Karu was the crown prince, but due to an incestuous relationship with his sister, Karu no Ōiratsume, Kinashikaru lost favour with the court.

As recently as Emperor Shōwa's third daughter, the late former Princess Takanomiya ( Kazoku ), and Prince Mikasa's elder daughter, the former Princess Yasuko, married into Takatsukasa and Konoe families, respectively.

Therefore, he stands third in the line of succession to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and to the governorship of the Church of England, preceded by his father and elder brother, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

Traditionally, male-line members of British royalty receive a dukedom a few hours before their marriage, the most recent being his elder brother Prince William, who became Duke of Cambridge.

*** TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ( The Prince of Wales ' elder son and his wife )

When the king's messenger reached Ralambo's elder son Prince Andriantompokondrindra, he was playing fanorona and trying to win a telo noho dimy ( 3 against 5 ) situation, one that is infamously difficult to resolve.

He was third in line to the throne, after his father and elder brother, Prince Albert Victor.

* Prince Charles of Belgium served as Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 to 1950 during the German captivity and then exile to Switzerland of his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium.

Like the House of Battenberg in Europe, Mandela's family has since rehabilitated its dynastic status to some extent: Mandela was still in prison when his daughter Zenani was married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973, elder brother of King Mswati III of Swaziland.

Because of his rank John of Gaunt was one of England's principal military commanders in the 1370s and 1380s, though his enterprises were never rewarded with the kind of dazzling success that had made his elder brother the Black Prince such a charismatic war leader.

In the summer of 1370 John was sent with a small army to Aquitaine to reinforce his ailing elder brother, the Black Prince and his younger brother Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge.

The 2007 discoveries are thought to be those of Prince Alexei and his elder sister Maria.

Sir Richard Pole held a variety of offices in Henry VII's government, the highest being Chamberlain for Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry's elder son.

He posthumously demoted his late elder brother Zhu Biao as Crown Prince Yiwen, demoted two younger brothers of Jianwen Emperor to commoners and kept them under house arrest at Fengyang, presumably till their deaths ; also under house arrest there was Zhu Wengui, the 2-year-old son of Jianwen Emperor, who would only be released as long as 55 years later.

It was his son, Maurice of Nassau ( Prince of Orange after his elder brother died in 1618 ), with the help of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, who solidified the independence of the Dutch republic.

After a long voyage, they first landed at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay on the south shore at a place they named Cape Henry ( for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the elder son of their king ).

The manor of Kennington continues to be owned by the current monarch's elder son ( HRH the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall: see Dukes of Cornwall ).

At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the thrones of seven independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms ; however, after the births of two children to his elder brother, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth in line to the thrones of 16 countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Prince Andrew was then sent to Heatherdown Preparatory School before attending, in September 1973, Gordonstoun, in northern Scotland, as his father and elder brother had done before him.

William's elder brother Frederick, Prince of Wales, proposed dividing the king's dominions.

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

* Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1930: Emperor Showa's second brother, Prince Takamatsu, traveled to Madrid to confer the Great Collar of the Chrysanthemum on King Alfonso.

* Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

His father established a small school near the Abdin Palace where European, Arab and Turkish masters taught Abbas and his brother Prince Mehemet Ali.

The only other male member of the family is the brother of Charles, Prince Jérôme, ( born 1957 ), unmarried.

He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia ; Giovanni Borgia ( Juan ), Duke of Gandia ; and Gioffre Borgia ( Jofré in Catalan ), Prince of Squillace.

In 1847, Prince Albert wrote: " I must now seek in the children an echo of what Ernest brother and I were in the old time, of what we felt and thought ; and their delight in the Christmas-trees is not less than ours used to be ".

Later, when he ascended to the throne in 781, Kammu appointed his young brother, Prince Sawara, whose mother was Takano no Niigasa, as crown prince.

This Imperial Prince was the next youngest brother of Emperor Senka.

** Imperial Princess Ihane-hime or Ihakumo, Ise Virgin ; had to resign her charge being convicted of intrigue with her half brother Imperial Prince Mubaragi

** Imperial Princess Hasetsukabe no Anahobe no Hashihito, born about 560 ; died 621 ; married ( A ) to her half brother Emperor Yomei ; married ( B ) to her nephew and stepson Prince Tame Toyora, son of Emperor Yomei

** Princess Nukate Hime ( Princess Takara or Tamura ), born about 570, married to Prince Oshisako no Hikohito no Oe, her half brother

Moriya, the most influential supporter of Shintoism, conspired with Emperor Yōmei's brother, Prince Anahobe, and after Emperor Yomei's death they made an abortive attempt to seize the throne.

In the end, he was succeeded by his son, Prince Ōtomo, also known as Emperor Kōbun, then by Tenji's brother Prince Ōama, also known as Emperor Temmu.

: Control of the throne was wrested by Emperor Tenchi's brother, Prince Ōama, during the Jinshin War, after which Emperor Kōbun committed seppuku.

Empress Gensho's succession to the throne was intended as a regency until Prince Obito, the son of her deceased younger brother Mommu, was mature enough to ascend the throne.

* Sadaijin, Tachibana no Moroe ( formerly Katsuragi-ō, Prince Katsuragi ) ( half brother of Empress Kōmyō ).

After the death of his father, Seinei won the fight against Prince Hoshikawa, his brother, for the throne and so succeeded his father.

He would have been quite young when Emperor Yūryaku shot the arrow which killed his father during a hunting expedition ; and this caused both Prince Oke and his older brother, Prince Ōka, to flee for their lives.

Along with his younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence when Emperor Seinei died without an heir.