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.

As a descendant of the third Duke of Rutland he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

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 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.

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, ' the Kingmaker ', was also a descendant.

The present Earl is a direct descendant of this Cromwellian creation and Restoration recreation.

Protesting his loyalty, he aimed to be recognised as Henry VI's heir apparent ( Henry was childless after seven years of marriage ), while also trying to destroy the Earl of Somerset, who Henry may have preferred to succeed him over York, as a Beaufort descendant.

Although the king for the early part of his career, Henry VI, was head of the House of Lancaster, Stanley ’ s marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury ( a descendant of Edward III ) and sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (‘ Warwick the Kingmaker ’) in the late 1450s constituted a powerful alliance with the House of York.

The county was named for Sir George Carteret, one of the 17th century English Lords Proprietor, or for his descendant and heir John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended at Tewkesbury in 1471, Richard III's alleged murder of the Princes in the Tower, coupled with his invalidation by Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate British adult male descendant of Edward III, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.

The earldom was inherited by his distant relative Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet, of Bickerstaffe, a descendant of a younger brother of the second Earl, who became the 11th Earl of Derby ( see below for earlier history of the Baronetcy ).

A descendant of the 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Rockingham was brought up at the family home of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

She is also a distant cousin of her late aunt Diana, Princess of Wales, whose father was John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer for Eugenie's mother Sarah, Duchess of York is a direct descendant of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, daughter of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, ( via Georgiana's illegitimate daughter Eliza Courtney ).

Wilson was the eldest son of the Suffolk landowner Capt Arthur Maitland Wilson, and his wife, Harriet Kingscote, a descendant of the 1st Earl Howe.

As a descendant of the fourth Earl of Caledon Lord Alexander of Tunis is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

Later in 1328, his descendant, James Butler, was created Earl of Ormond by Edward III.

His descendant John Stewart, was created 1st Earl of Lennox in 1488.

His descendant, the 9th Baron Drumlanrig, was created the 1st Earl of Queensberry in 1633.

In the 20th century the title Earl of Oxford and Asquith was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for the former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, whose descendant still bears that title.

Sidney's father was Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, a direct descendant of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and the great-nephew of Sir Philip Sidney.

Edmund's elder sister Anne Mortimer married their cousin Richard, Earl of Cambridge, another descendant of Edward III, through a younger son, Edmund of Langley.

His mother was Louisa ( d. 1736 ), daughter of John Carteret, 1st Earl Granville, and a descendant, of the family of Granville who held the earldom of Bath from 1661 to 1711.

It was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, legitimized son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the Roses.

Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar, a descendant of the Earls of Northumbria was recognized in the end of 13th century to use the name March as his earldom in Scotland, otherwise known as Dunbar, Lothian, and Northumbrian border.