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 Earl of Bessborough, he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

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.

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.

As a descendant of the first Baron Burghley Lord Salisbury is also in remainder to this peerage, a title held by his kinsman Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter.

Lord Robert Cecil was the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and a descendant of William and Robert Cecil, chief ministers of Elizabeth I.

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.

As a descendant of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the present Marquess of Hertford is in remainder to the Dukedom of Somerset and its subsidiary title the Barony of Seymour.

Each Marquess of Cholmondeley is a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

As a male-line descendant of the first Marquess of Atholl he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles and by special remainder to the Dukedom, which are now held by his kinsman Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl.

As a male-line descendant of the fifth Marquess of Lothian he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a descendant of the first Marquess of Stafford he is also in distant remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles, titles held by his kinsman the Duke of Sutherland.

As a descendant of the first Viscount Chichester he is in remainder to the barony and viscountcy of Chichester and, according to a special patent in the letters patent, the earldom of Donegall, titles held by his kinsman the Marquess of Donegall.

As a descendant of the first Earl of Tyrone he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles, which are now held by his kinsman the Marquess of Waterford.

As a descendant of the first Earl of Bective, he is also in remainder to the earldom of Bective, the viscountcy of Headfort, the barony of Headfort and the baronetcy of Kells, titles held by his kinsman the Marquess of Headfort.

As a descendant of the second Marquess of Downshire he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a male-line descendant of the first Marquess Conyngham, he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a descendant of the sixth Marquess of Lothian Lord Teviot is also in remainder to this Scottish peerage and its subsidiary titles.

As a descendant of the second Earl of Hopetoun he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles the viscountcy of Aithrie and lordship of Hope, which are now held by his kinsman the Marquess of Linlithgow.

As a descendant of the second Marquess of Salisbury he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles, as well as to the barony of Burghley, a title held by his kinsman the Marquess of Exeter.

Lord Rathcavan was also a male-line descendant of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester ( see the Marquess of Donegall ).

With his father's side of his family already well-known to him as the land-owning Armstrong family of Rothbury and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, the series traced his mother's side of the family, beginning with the McCauslands seated in Drenagh, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, through the Rouse-Boughton family, to Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of William the Conqueror via Edward III and the Beauforts, Dukes of Somerset.

In 1975, he also succeeded his distant cousin as 7th Marquess of Donegall, being the descendant of Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore ( who in turn was descended from Sir Arthur Chichester a former Lord Deputy of Ireland ), grandson of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall.