" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

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.

At the time she was living with her eldest daughter Mitzi.

John spent some time as a member of the household of his eldest living brother Henry the Young King, where he probably received instruction in hunting and military skills.

An army under the command of Imagawa Sessai laid siege to the castle where Oda Nobuhiro, Nobuhide's eldest son and the new head of the Oda, was living.

He went from being the second surviving son of Cnut, to being the eldest living, with Harthacnut still absent and unable to press his claim to the throne.

As eldest living son, at age 11, Jacob quickly assumed adult responsibilities ( shared with Wilhelm ) for the next two years, adhering to the advice of their grandfather who continually exhorted them to be industrious.

Interestingly, William Camden writing in 1607 states in his book Britannia that originally the title " Prince of Wales " was not conferred automatically upon the eldest living son of the King of England because Edward II ( who had been the first English Prince of Wales ) neglected to invest his eldest son, the future Edward III, with that title.

Nevertheless, according to conventional wisdom since 1301 the Prince of Wales has usually been the eldest living son of the King or Queen Regnant of England ( subsequently of Great Britain, 1707, and of the United Kingdom, 1801 ).

The title is not automatic ; it merges into the Crown when a prince accedes to the throne, or lapses on his death leaving the sovereign free to re-grant it should another candidate qualify, such as an heir-apparent other than the eldest living son, such as that deceased eldest son's eldest son ( for example, George III ).

The heir apparent is only Duke of Cornwall if he is the sovereign's eldest living son ; hence the future George III, grandson of George II, did not receive this title.

" They further state, " the grandchildren of the sons of any such Sovereign in the direct male line ( save only the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales ) shall have the style and title enjoyed by the children of Dukes.

Aaron, the eldest living Cometopulus, was tempted by an alliance with the Byzantines and the opportunity to seize power in Bulgaria for himself.

Upon Gunthamund's death, he was one of only two living grandsons of Genseric, and inherited the throne in accordance with a law enacted by his grandfather, which bestowed the kingship on the eldest male member of a deceased king's family.

Stheno ( Greek: Σθεννώ, English translation: " forceful "), in Greek mythology, was the eldest of the Gorgons, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and " hair " made of living venomous snakes.

Euryale ( Greek: Εὐρυάλη, English translation: " far-roaming "), in Greek mythology, was the second eldest one of the Gorgons, three vicious sisters with brass hands, sharp fangs, and hair of living, venomous snakes.

All Dukes of Cornwall who have been the eldest living son of the sovereign are generally considered to have held the same creation of the duchy.

Courtesy peerages are only used by the peer's eldest living son, and the eldest son's eldest living son, and so forth.

After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

Hasan Ali Shah was succeeded as Imam by his eldest son Aqa Ali Shah, who became Aga Khan II.

" Alaric's heirs were his eldest son, the illegitimate Gesalec, and his younger son, the legitimate Amalaric who was still a child.

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Sancho I of Portugal by his wife, Dulce, Infanta of Aragon.

Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Eleanor of Aragon.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

Amyntas died at an advanced age, leaving his throne to his eldest son.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes.

Kolbe was born in Elliehausen, near Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover ( Germany ) as the eldest son of a Protestant pastor.

He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius.

In 1834 his eldest son, Mohammed Mirza, succeeded Fath Ali Shah as the next king.

In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.

: In 1634, the eldest son of the raja of Jodhpur ran amok at the court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the emperor, but killing five of his officials.

Bal Thackeray lost his wife Meena to a heart attack in September 1995, and his eldest son Bindumadhav (" Binda ") to a road accident on 20 April 1996.

He was the second child and eldest son of Isaac D ' Israeli, a literary critic and historian, and Maria Basevi.

As the eldest son of the British sovereign, he was automatically Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay at birth.

John de la Pole was Duke of Suffolk and John Howard was Duke of Norfolk ( 2nd creation ), while the duchy of Cornwall was reserved as a title and source of income for the eldest son of the sovereign, and the duchy of Lancaster was now held by the monarch.

Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange () ( 14 November 1567, Dillenburg – 23 April 1625 ) was sovereign Prince of Orange from 1618, on the death of his eldest half brother, Philip William, Prince of Orange, ( 1554 – 1618 ).

With barely a shot fired, William had secured the throne, reigning as joint sovereign with his wife Mary, James II's eldest daughter.

This summary, titled Summary of the Doctrines of Zoroaster and Plato, affirms the existence of a pantheon of gods, with Zeus as supreme sovereign, containing within himself all being in an undivided state ; his eldest child, motherless, is Poseidon, who created the heavens and rules all below, ordaining order in the universe.

However the position was not reserved for the highest birth rank ( if there is one, Shwe Kodaw-gyi Awratha, i. e. eldest son of the sovereign, by his chief Queen ), nor did it carry a plausible promise of succession, which was usually only settled in an ultimate power struggle.

Marlborough House was primarily used by members of the Royal Family, especially dowager queens and eldest sons of the sovereign.

In 1841, the Queen created Victoria Princess Royal, giving her an honorary title sometimes conferred on the eldest daughter of the sovereign.

An appanage was a concession of a fief by the sovereign to his younger sons, while the eldest son became king on the death of his father.

Sambhaji Bhosle ( 14 May 1657 – 11 March 1689 ) was the eldest son and successor of Chhatrapati ( sovereign ) Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire and his first wife Saibai.

In Letters Patent dated 20 November 1917, George V undertook further restructuring of the royal styles and titles by restricting the titles of Prince or Princess and the style of Royal Highness to the children of the sovereign, the children of the sovereign's sons, and the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

This excluded Alastair, who was only a great-grandson of a sovereign ( and was not the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales ).

Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the sovereign ; having sexual intercourse with the sovereign's consort, with the sovereign's eldest unmarried daughter, or with the wife of the heir to the throne ; levying war against the sovereign and adhering to the sovereign's enemies, giving them aid or comfort ; and attempting to undermine the lawfully established line of succession.

** compassing the death of the sovereign, or of the sovereign's wife or eldest son and heir

Padmanabha Menon writes: " The eldest of the male members reigned as sovereign Kolathiri.

The future of the dynasty itself painted a similar picture: Cosimo's eldest son, Ferdinando, was an alcoholic and epileptic, while his younger son, Gian Gastone, according to historian Paul Strathern, was simply not appropriate material for the role of sovereign to the collapsing grand duchy.

An exception was the Prince of Wales, a title conferred on the eldest son of the sovereign since the reign of Edward I of England.