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.

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.

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.

Kathleen Kenyon was the eldest daughter of Sir Frederic Kenyon, a biblical scholar and later director of the British Museum.

** Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, British royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII ( b. 1867 )

According to Caroline's mother, who was British, all German princesses learned English in the hope that they would be chosen to marry George, Prince of Wales, George III's eldest son and heir apparent and Caroline's first cousin.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1 February 1707 – 20 March 1751 ) was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria.

After the British leave, Benjamin gives his next two eldest sons muskets and they ambush the British unit escorting a shackled Gabriel.

At age 5, her mother died and her father married her mother's first cousin Charlotte, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of British King George III.

Paxman is the eldest of four children and has two brothers, one of whom, Giles, is the British Ambassador to Spain ( having previously been ambassador to Mexico ), and a sister, Jenny, a producer at BBC Radio.

The prince is a direct descendant of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British King George II.

Prince Andrew was the first child born to a reigning British or Commonwealth realms monarch since Queen Victoria's youngest child, Princess Beatrice, was born in 1857 ( incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter Beatrice ).

In the 12th century Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomerie's eldest son was forced to forfeit all his British lands and titles after he rebelled against Henry I.

In June 1775, soon after the Battle of Lexington, local troops were raised to fight the British in the American Revolution under the command of Benjamin Chambers's eldest son Captain James Chambers, as part of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.

The crowns of Hanover and Great Britain, which had been in personal union since 1714, were separated in 1837 upon the death of King William IV: his niece Victoria inherited the British crown under male-preference primogeniture but, because of semi-Salic law, was ineligible to that of Hanover, which passed to William's eldest surviving brother, Ernest I.

William, the eldest, became Chancellor of the Exchequer ; John was a Major-General in the British Army ; Daines was a lawyer, antiquarian and naturalist ; Samuel was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; and Shute became Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the Healy brothers supported the Allied and British war effort, two had a son enlist in one of the Irish divisions, Timothy's eldest son, Joe, fought with distinction at Gallipoli.

Ashdown is the eldest of seven children, and was born in New Delhi in British India, to a family of soldiers and colonial administrators who spent their lives in India.

* Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie ( 1837-1919 ), a British writer, the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray

Because of the economic difficulties he was having, like his eldest brother John, he joined the British Army.

Princess Royal is a style customarily ( but not automatically ) awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter.

He then took a house in Pentonville, where his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, was born in 1806. He had three big novel on the British history on ruling India. In which he told ancient period of India as Hindu and medieval period as Muslim and modern as British period.

He was the eldest son of John Henry ( d. 1766 ), a merchant whose father, Alexander Henry ( d. 1744 ), had emigrated to British North America from the West of England to seek his fortune.

His father was the reigning British monarch, George III, the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany ( Frederick Augustus ; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827 ) was the second eldest child, and second son, of King George III, a member of the House of Hanover and the British Royal Family.