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As his father-in-law was dead, George became jure uxoris Earl of Warwick, but did not inherit the entire Warwick estate as his younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, married the widowed younger sister of his wife, Anne Neville, for which George resented his brother.
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Lincoln's father-in-law was based in Lexington, Kentucky ; he and others of the Todd family were either slave owners or slave traders.
Ptolemy Philometor, who was Alexander's father-in-law, went over to his side, and Alexander was defeated in the battle of Antioch ( 145 BC ) in Syria, sometimes known as the battle of the Oenoparus.
The most the Grand Duke of Lithuania could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha ( 1500 ).
Later Alexios V was blinded and deserted by his father-in-law, who fled from the crusaders into Thessaly.
The situation became unstable and, in the following year, being led by what he afterwards discovered to be false representations, Afonso declared Peter a rebel and defeated his army in the Battle of Alfarrobeira, in which his uncle ( and father-in-law ) was killed.
Abu Bakr ( Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa ) (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE ) also known as Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq ( Arabic: أبو بكر الصديق ) was a senior companion ( Sahabi ) and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
When the Emperor Henry I died on 11 July 1216, Andrew was planning to acquire the imperial throne, but the barons of the Latin Empire proclaimed his father-in-law, Peter of Courtenay their emperor.
His father-in-law had died while he was away, and he went directly to Toulouse to take possession.
Consequently she was third cousin of her father-in-law, Henry VII of England, and fourth cousin of her mother-in-law Elizabeth of York.
Sunni Muslims believe and confirm that Muhammad's father-in-law Abu Bakr was chosen by the community and that this was the proper procedure.
One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.
This came through the influence of Mahmud Tarzi, who was both Amanullah Khan's father-in-law and Foreign Minister.
" His father-in-law provided the money he needed for the trip, and David headed for Rome with his wife and three of his students, one of whom, Jean-Germain Drouais ( 1763 – 1788 ), was the Prix de Rome winner of that year.
The reality behind such marriages was an alliance between an imperial prince and a Fujiwara lord, his father-in-law or grandfather, the latter with his resources supporting the prince to the throne and most often controlling the government.
In a letter to Burghley three years later Oxford offered to attend his father-in-law at his house " as well as a lame man might "; it is possible his lameness was a result of injuries from that encounter.
His reign was supported by his principal general, Flavius Stilicho, who was successively Honorius's guardian ( during his childhood ) and his father-in-law ( after the emperor became an adult ).
He convinced the emperor that his Arian father-in-law was conspiring with the barbarians to overthrow Honorius.
With Stilicho ’ s fall, Olympius moved against all of his former father-in-law ’ s allies, killing and torturing key individuals and ordering the confiscation of the property of anyone who had borne any office while Stilicho was in command.
William Fairfax, Lawrence's father-in-law and cousin of Virginia's largest landowner, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, was also a formative influence.
Rousas John Rushdoony, one of the founders of Christian Reconstructionism, was North's father-in-law, and North is a Christian Reconstructionist.
A key force behind these reforms was Mahmud Tarzi, Amanullah Khan's Foreign Minister and father-in-law — and an ardent supporter of the education of women.
Scientific investigation he insists upon as an absolute necessity for the true comprehension of religion, despite the fact that his contemporaries regarded all the hours which he was accustomed to spend with his father-in-law, Samuel ibn Tibbon, in mathematical and philosophic study as mere waste of time.
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" And it is told of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's first disciple, father-in-law, and successor, that, when the prophet was dead, he went into the latter's tent, uncovered his face, and kissed him.
Horace Walpole wrote to Lady Ossory: " Your dryads must go into black gloves, Madam, their father-in-law, Lady Nature ’ s second husband, is dead !".
Therefore, he was apparently dead by the time of the will of his father-in-law, which was written in 1588, which eliminates the time of the Battle of Ivry as a possibility for his death.
Misty discovers that the islanders, including her father-in-law ( previously thought to be dead ) are involved in a conspiracy which repeats every four generations.
Howard turns up naked on his in-laws ' doorstep, and proceeds to urinate on the Christmas goose after the power goes out, leading to a series of events which culminate in him falsely claiming to his wife and mother-in-law that his father-in-law is dead.
However, when Hrói returned to Sweden he found his father-in-law Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker dead, but his son Þorgnýr had succeeded him as lawspeaker, and this Þorgnýr was the wisest of men.
leftOn October 17, 1999 the Arboretum was the site of a suicide or murder when Lissa Jackson Roche, the managing editor of Hillsdale College Press, was found dead of a gunshot wound after claiming that she and her father-in-law, the college's president, had been involved in a nineteen-year extramarital affair.
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" On June 26, 1860, Flora gave birth to a son, Philip St. George Cooke Stuart, but his father changed the name to James Ewell Brown Stuart, Jr. (" Jimmie "), in late 1861 out of disgust with his father-in-law.
Laura Bush with husband Governor George W. ( right ) and father-in-law George H. W. ( left ) at the dedication of the George Bush Presidential Library, 1997
Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828.
The rebels intended to dethrone George in favor of the king's fraternal nephew, Demna, who was considered by many to be a legitimate royal heir of his murdered father, David V. Demna's cause was little but a pretext for the nobles, led by the pretender's father-in-law, the amirspasalar (" constable ") Ivane Orbeli, to weaken the crown.
George had a child, Georgey, who was left under the care of Lieutenant Maldon, George's father-in-law.
# Mary of Teck ( 9 November 1901 – 6 May 1910 ) — Married George, Duke of York, on 6 July 1893 and became Duchess of York ; became Duchess of Cornwall on the accession of her father-in-law as Edward VII of the United Kingdom on 22 January 1901 ; became Princess of Wales on 9 November 1901 ; became queen consort upon accession of husband George V on 6 May 1910.
The newly elevated king's alliance with France technically made him the enemy of his father-in-law, George III.
In 1469, her nephew, the Earl of Warwick, father-in-law of her sons George and Richard, rebelled against Edward IV.
In 1924, Bush became vice-president of A. Harriman & Co. His father-in-law, George Herbert Walker also worked with the company, as did E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley, Bush's Yale classmates and fellow Bonesmen.
When his father-in-law died in 1788, George succeeded him as 2nd Earl Nugent.
At the coronation of his father-in-law, King Edward VII, in August 1902, and again at the coronation of George V in June 1911, the Duke of Fife acted as Lord High Constable.
Philip's father-in-law George, Duke of Saxony, the bishop of Würzburg, Konrad II von Thungen, and the archbishop of Mainz, Albert III of Brandenburg, were active in agitating against the growth of the Reformation.
However, the new elevated king's alliance with France technically made him the enemy of his father-in-law, George III.
He has recently appeared as George Clooney's father-in-law in Alexander Payne's The Descendants.
However, she did not follow etiquette at the court, which resulted in arguments with her father-in-law, King George of Saxony.
He continued to work as a journalist, mainly on the Co-operative movement's Sunday paper Reynolds ' News, and during the 1950s and 1960s published several historical works and a biography of his father-in-law, The Life of George Lansbury.
After Donne's elopement and clandestine marriage in 1601, he had the task of taking a letter for him to the new father-in-law, Sir George More.
He was the father-in-law of George A.
This structure was part of the estate of the deceased Robert S. Thomas, George Caleb Bingham's father-in-law.
Meanwhile, Amelia's prospective father-in-law, Mr. Osborne ( Jim Broadbent ), is trying to arrange a new marriage for his son George.
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