He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U. S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

He was born in Dublin, the great-grandson of Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam in the eighteenth century.

Through his father, Alexander was a grandson of Judge Robert Spottiswoode ( 1596 – 1646 ), a great-grandson of Archbishop John Spottiswoode ( 1565 – 1639 ), and a descendant of King Robert II of Scotland through the 2nd Earls of Crawford.

* Alexander Spotswood-the noted Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, who was grandson of Robert Spottiswoode ( 1596 – 1646 ) and great-grandson of Archbishop John Spottiswoode.

His other two sons, who joined Musa bin Nusair and Tariq ibn Ziyad against Roderic, were Don Oppas, Archbishop or Bishop of Seville, maybe a bastard son, and Sisebuto, who later became the Comes of the Christians of Coimbra, as were his son Ataulfo, his grandson Atanarico and his great-grandson Teudo in 770, 801 / 802 and 805.

His family has remained prominent in Sydney society, and his great-grandson William Wentworth IV was a Liberal member of Parliament 1949-77.

It was created in 1930 for the politician Noel Noel-Buxton, who was the second son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, of Belfield, and a great-grandson of the philanthropist Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet, of Belfield, as well as a great-nephew of Charles Buxton, the father of Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton.

Wentworth was born in Sydney, the son of a prominent Sydney barrister of the same name, and the great-grandson of William Charles Wentworth, a leading political and literary figure in colonial New South Wales.

Note the coats of arms both bear on their clothing — Malcolm wears the Lion of Scotland, which historically was not used until the time of his great-grandson William I of Scotland | William the Lion ; Margaret wears the supposed arms of Edward the Confessor, her grand-uncle, although the arms were in fact concocted in the later Middle Ages.

His father, Henry, was Norman-Angevin and great-grandson of William the Conqueror.

* Lionel Robert Wilberforce ( 1861 – 1944 ), British physicist, great-grandson of William Wilberforce and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum

Three notable descendants of Augustus are his grandson, the notorious anthropologist, eugenicist, anti-Semite and detainee in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B George Pitt-Rivers, his great-grandson, the anthropologist and ethnographer, Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, and his great-great-grandson, William Fox-Pitt, the equestrian.

John William Friso was a great-grandson of Frederick Henry and was appointed heir in William III's will.

Their son William Henry Harrison and great-grandson Benjamin Harrison both rose to become the President of the United States.

One of the first U. S. motor roads, the Long Island Motor Parkway ( which opened on October 10, 1908 ) was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Lawrence, a great-grandson of William de Valence was created, or recognized as, Earl of Pembroke, having inherited ( through the female line ) a portion of the estates of the Valence Earls of Pembroke.

During the war North Stonington resident Lieutenant Colonel William Randall, the great-grandson of original settler John Randall, commanded the 30th regiment of Connecticut militia, which was mobilized twice.

Cox was the great-grandson of William M. Evarts, who defended President Andrew Johnson during his impeachment hearing and became Secretary of State in Rutherford B. Hayes ' administration.

The Rucker-Stanton House on West River Road was built in 1848 by the great-grandson of William Macomb.

The confusion is old, probably inspired by William of Malmesbury and embellished by John of Fordun, but there is no firm evidence that the kingdom of Strathclyde was a part of the kingdom of the Scots, rather than a loosely subjected kingdom, before the time of Máel Coluim II of Scotland's great-grandson Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

Red House was also regularly visited by John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the Methodist preachers who were friends of John Taylor, the great-grandson of William Taylor.

William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was an auto-racing enthusiast and created the Vanderbilt Cup, the first major road racing competition, in 1904.

William was the son of King Roger II of Sicily, grandson of Roger I of Sicily and great-grandson of Tancred of Hauteville.

Robert de Keith's great-grandson, William, was raised to the peerage as Earl Marischal by James II in about 1458.

He was also grandson of Richard I of Normandy, great-grandson of William I of Normandy and great-great grandson of Rollo, the Viking who founded Normandy.

He was the great-grandson of U. S. Senator James DeWolf and the great-great-grandson of U. S. Senator William Bradford.

He was a male-line great-grandson of Frederick William III of Prussia.

He is a great-grandson of Lord William Hervey, CB ( 1805-1844 ), a younger son of the 1st Marquess.

* William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick ( c. 1240 – 1298 ), great-grandson of Waleran

He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne ( d. 1585 ), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married.

As such, the prophet of the Remnant Church, President Frederick Niels Larsen, is a direct descendant ( maternal 2nd great-grandson ) of Joseph Smith, Jr.

He is the great-grandson of Redbird Smith, a Cherokee Nation Senator and a traditionalist who founded the Nighthawk Keetoowah Society, a religious, cultural, and political organization dedicated to reviving the Cherokee way of life.

This Church continued to appoint Presidents who were patrilineal descendants of Joseph Smith, Jr. until 1996, when President Wallace B. Smith ( a great-grandson of the Latter Day Saint founder ) designated W. Grant McMurray ( who was not a descendant ) as his successor.

The prophet of the Remnant Church, President Frederick Niels Larsen, is a direct descendant ( maternal 2nd great-grandson ) of Joseph Smith, Jr.

He was the great-grandson of Richard Bache, Jr., who served in the Republic of Texas Navy and was elected as a Representative to the Second Texas Legislature in 1847 and Sophia Burrell Dallas, the daughter of Arabella Maria Smith and Alexander J. Dallas an American statesman who served as the U. S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison.

John Smith was a great-grandson of Chief Judge William " Tangier " Smith.

She was married in 515 to Eutharic ( c. 480 – 522 ), an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line, who had previously been living in Visigothic Hispania, son of Widerich ( born c. 450 ), grandson of Berismund ( born c. 410 ), and great-grandson of Thorismund ( died after 400 ), King of the Ostrogoths c. 400.

* ‘ Ad, great-grandson of Shem, son of Noah

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder, grandson of Alfred the Great, great-grandson of Ethelwulf of Wessex, great-great grandson of Egbert of Wessex and great-great-great grandson of Ealhmund of Kent.

But, 30 years after his death, in 1428, his great-grandson Hikohito ( 彦仁 ), as the adopted son of Emperor Shōkō, became Emperor Go-Hanazono, fulfilling Sukō's dearest wish.

It says he was a son of Ushi no Kimi, a grandson of Ohi no Kimi, a great-grandson of Ohohoto no Kimi ( brother to Emperor Ingyō's consort ), a great-great-grandson of Wakanuke Futamata no Kimi, and a great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Ōjin.

Descended from an ancient patrician gens Fabii, he was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, a grandson of another Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges and a great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, all famous Consuls.

The most well-known Biblical figure bearing the name Zephaniah is the son of Cushi, and great-grandson of Hezekiah, ninth in the literary order of the minor prophets.

In relation to the other members of his dynasty, Otto III was the great-grandson of Henry I, grandson of Otto I, son of Otto II, and a second-cousin to Henry II.

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.

* The Rt Hon The Lady Saltoun ( widow of Capt Alexander Ramsay of Mar, great-grandson of Queen Victoria through her son The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn )

George held a number of titles throughout his life, as successively great-grandson, grandson and son of the monarch.

Æthelweard describes himself as the " grandson's grandson " of King Æthelred I. Eadwig was the son of King Edmund the Magnificent, grandson of King Edward the Elder, great-grandson of King Alfred the Great, and therefore great-great-nephew of King Æthelred I. Eadwig and Ælfgifu were therefore third cousins once removed.

Edgar was the son of Edmund I, grandson of Edward the elder, great-grandson of Alfred the Great, great-great grandson of Ethelwulf of Wessex, great-great-great grandson of Egbert of Wessex and great-great-great-great grandson of Ealhmund of Kent.

Gedeon Burkhard was born in Munich, Germany, the son of German actress Elisabeth von Molo ( then Burkhard ) and Wolfgang Burkhard, a great-grandson of Alexander Moissi, a famous Italo-Austro-Albanian actor of the 20th century.

He was the son of the Old Pretender, Prince James, son of exiled Stuart King, James II & VII and his wife Maria Clementina Sobieska and great-grandson of John III Sobieski, most famous for the victory over the Ottoman Turks in the 1683 Battle of Vienna.

Alexander Bache was born in Philadelphia, the son of Richard Bache, Jr., and Sophia Burrell Dallas, nephew of George M. Dallas, and great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.

He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken ( Vingulmark and Ranrike ), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway.

He was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of David.

Samaritans claim it was penned by Abishua, great-grandson of Aaron (), thirteen years after the entry into the land of Israel under the leadership of Joshua, son of Nun.

Margaret's father was a great-grandson of King Edward III through his third-surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

Romanos Argyros was the son of an unnamed member of the Argyros family and a great-grandson of Emperor Romanos I.

As a result of all these family ties, Valentinian was the son, grandson, great-grandson, cousin, and nephew ( twice over ) of Roman Emperors.

Three Emperors were direct descendants of Drusus, Claudius ( his son ), Caligula ( Germanicus ' son, Drusus ' grandson ), and Nero ( Germanicus ' grandson, Drusus ' great-grandson ).