In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant of Gaunt's third marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were born out of wedlock and only legitimised after the death of Constance and the marriage of John to Katherine.

Modern scholars question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Jimmu's descendant, Emperor Sujin, is the first that, many agree, may have existed, in third or fourth century.

King Henry's sixth wife, Catherine Parr was also a descendant through Joan and Ralph's son, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury making the couple third cousins.

Leonidas I ( or ; Doric and Modern Greek:, ; Ionic Greek: Λεωνίδης, Leōnidēs ; " son of the lion "; died 480 BC ) was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, third son of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery.

Beauregard was the third child of Jacques Toutant-Beauregard, of French and Welsh lineage, and Hélène Judith de Reggio Toutant-Beauregard, a descendant of an Italian noble family that had migrated to France.

Barbour was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he was raised as the youngest of three sons of Grace LeFlore ( née Johnson ) and Jeptha Fowlkes Barbour, Jr. Barbour is a descendant of Walter Leake, who was Mississippi's third governor as well as a U. S. senator.

Another descendant Sextus Appuleius was consul in 29 BC, and his son Sextus Appuleius ( consul in 14 BC ) married ( as her third husband ) Claudia Marcella Major, a niece of Augustus, in or after 2 BC ( when her second husband Iullus Antonius died ).

Born in Kensington in 1714, he was a descendant of an old Devon family of high standing, the third son of Sir John Pratt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the reign of George I. Charles's mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Rev.

Born in Oxford and a descendant of the family which founded London gin distillers J & W Nicholson & Co, Lady Nicholson is the third of four daughters of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt and his wife, Lady Katharine ( the fifth daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford ).

Dr. Graham was a third generation American of Irish descent and her mother Jane Beers was a tenth generation descendant of Puritan Miles Standish.

On his death the dukedom became extinct while he was succeeded in the earldom by his distant relative, the eighteenth Earl, a descendant in the tenth-generation of The Hon Sir Henry Fynes-Clinton, third son of the second Earl.

The Wicked Master was sentenced to death for his crime, and the eighth Earl conveyed his title to a cousin, also called David Lindsay, a descendant of the third Earl of Crawford, and excluded from the succession all of the Wicked Master's descendants.

The second daughter, Anne, married Sir Drew Drury ; the third daughter married Francis Coppinger, whose descendant has changed his name to de Burgh ; the fourth daughter Katherine married Thomas Knyvett, who was also ( by modern law ) Baron Berners.

As a descendant of the third Earl of Bute he is also in remainder to the earldom of Bute and its subsidiary titles, now held by his kinsman John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute.

He was a descendant of Hugh Philipps, third son of the first Baronet.

As a male-line descendant of both the third Baron Southampton and the second Duke of Grafton, he is also in remainder to these peerages.

As a descendant of the third Earl of Bessborough Lord de Mauley is also in remainder to the earldom of Bessborough and its subsidiary titles.

As a male-line descendant of the third Marquess of Exeter he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles the earldom of Exeter and barony of Burghley.

As a descendant of the third Baronet of Belfield, he is also in remainder to this title.

As a descendant of the third Earl of Bessborough, he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a descendant of the third Marquess of Downshire Lord Trevor is in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles as well as to the barony of Sandys.

On the right, A < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > only surviving descendant, C, receives one third of the estate.

Pier was the direct descendant of the Frisian chieftain Haring Harinxma ( 1323 – 1404 ), a Schieringer and potestate of Westergo, and the third cousin of Jancko Douwama.

James Potter is a descendant of Ignotus Peverell, the third of the three original owners of the Deathly Hallows, and thus so is Harry, a realisation he makes during the course of the final book.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

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.

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

* Leopoldo O ' Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan, Spanish general and statesman, a descendant of Calvagh O ' Donnell, chieftain of Tyrconnell.

Charles Theodore, who would thus have become Duke of Luxembourg, was genealogically a junior descendant of both Anna and Elisabeth, but main heir of neither.

Rollo's descendant William, Duke of Normandy, became king of England in 1066 in the Norman Conquest culminating at the Battle of Hastings, while retaining the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants.

Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia, a descendant of Alexander II of Russia, claimed the title Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias in 1924 and his descendant retains such claims.

Godwinson was subsequently defeated within a month by another Viking descendant, William, Duke of Normandy ( Normandy had been conquered by Vikings ( Normans ) in 911 ).

Because of this, as well as the general strain on the finances of the Spanish throne as a result of the Thirty Years War, on 1 December 1640, the Duke of Braganza, one of the great native noblemen and a descendant of King Manuel I, was proclaimed king as John IV, and a war of independence against Spain was launched.

Rudolph I's last agnatic descendant was Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( 1717 – 1780 ), by Albert I of Germany's fourth son Albert II, Duke of Austria.

Grand Duke William IV, however, chose to confirm the law of succession stipulated in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna to allow a female descendant in the male line to become successor to the throne ( his own daughter Marie-Adélaïde ) instead.

Controversy accompanied the marriage of his son Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich to Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Mukhransky, a descendant of the Royal House of Georgia.

Through his mother Zita of Bourbon-Parma ( a great-granddaughter of Maria Teresa of Savoy, Duchess of Lucca and Parma, who was a daughter of Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, who in turn was a daughter of Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este and Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duchess and Duke of Breisgau and Modena ), Robert was a descendant of Ercole III d ' Este, and the blood of last Este dukes thus joined again with the name Austria-Este.

Peter was the direct descendant and the heir-general of the Mafalda, daughter of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, the Norman conqueror, and his official wife Sigelgaita, daughter of a Lombard prince, Guaimar IV of Salerno.

As a descendant of Edward III, through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Buckingham may have hoped to accede to the throne himself in due course.

The heart of the Duke of Orléans is now at the Chapelle Royale de Dreux, the necropolis of all the members of the Orléans family, built in 1816 by his descendant Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, wife of Philippe Égalité.

****** William, Duke of Brunswick ( 1806 – 1884 ), his son, last descendant of the House of Brunswick-Bevern

René II, Duke of Lorraine, Rene's grandson and only surviving male descendant, was gained over to the party of Louis XI, who suspected the king of Sicily of complicity with his enemies, the Duke of Brittany and the Constable Saint-Pol.

* Buckingham's paternal grandfather was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was the grandson and senior descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.

In January 1938, Kung, a 75th-generation descendant of Confucius, greeted his relative, Duke Kung Te-cheng, who was also a descendant of Confucius, after Kung Te-cheng had fled to Hankou after the Japanese invasion of Shandong.

Married Luis María Gonzaga de Casanova-Cárdenas y Barón, Duke of Santangelo, Marquess of Elche, Count of Lodosa and Grandee of Spain, who is a descendant of Infanta Luisa Teresa of Spain, Duchess of Sessa and sister of Francis, King-Consort of Spain.