Bildt's brother Nils, was born in 1952.

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

Bildt's father Daniel Bildt ( 1920 – 2010 ) was a former major in the reserves of the now defunct Halland Regiment ( Hallands regemente ) and a former bureau director in the now defunct Civil Defense Board's Education Bureau.

Following Bildt's appointment as EU's special envoy to Yugoslavia, Tom Warrick from the Coalition for International Justice described Bildt as " dangerously misinformed about his own job description " and largely ignorant about the region.

The then US president George W. Bush was advised before a meeting to " play on Bildt's desire to operate at a high level " and to pretend to be impressed by his previous international assignments.

In 1991 the Social Democrats were defeated by a four-party coalition led by Bildt's Moderates.

Arguably, the subsequent budget cut-backs agreement with the Social Democrats, and after 1994, continued spending cuts by the Social Democratic government, did more to reform the Swedish economy and the Swedish model, than Bildt's governments programme as such.

The Social Democrats returned to power in September 1994, although Bildt's Moderate Party scored a slight gain.

On 20 October 2006, Ulf Holm, a Member of Parliament for the Green Party, reported the Foreign Minister to the Riksdag Constitutional Committee in order to determine whether Bildt's private economic affairs might represent a conflict of interest.

During Bildt's time as Foreign Minister the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened up a channel on YouTube which has been active since early 2008.

A year after Linnaeus ' birth, his grandfather Samuel Brodersonius died, and his father Nils became the rector of Stenbrohult.

He was the father of Nils Torvalds and grandfather of Linus Torvalds.

His grandfather, Nils Samuel von Koch ( 1801 – 1881 ), was the Attorney-General of Sweden.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.

This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

His full nomenclature shows that his grandfather or other ancestor was probably given Roman citizenship by the emperor Antoninus Pius, while proconsul of Asia.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.

According to Livy the war was commenced by the Latins who anticipated Ancus would follow the pious pursuit of peace adopted by his grandfather, Numa Pompilius.

He was named after his legal grandfather.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

As soon as Canova's hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his grandfather Pasino.

The name was suggested by a local pioneer, Ezekiel Campbell, to honor his grandfather Ezekiel Polk who was a colonel in the Revolutionary War and an early settler in western Tennessee.

His maternal grandfather, Richard Coke Marshall, was a colonel for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and great grandson of the first supreme court justice, John Marshall.

His great-grandfather was a colonel in the French army, his grandfather was a board member for several companies, and his father Xavier de Villepin, now retired, was a diplomat and a member of the Senate.

His grandfather, also named Joshua Chamberlain, was a colonel in the local militia during the War of 1812 and was court-martialed ( but exonerated ) for his part in the humiliating Battle of Hampden, which led to the sacking of Bangor and Brewer by British forces.

Terre ' Blanche's grandfather fought as a so-called " Cape Rebel " for the Boer cause in the Second Boer War, and his father was a lieutenant colonel in the South African Defence Force.

In his memoir Vivir para contarla ( Living to Tell the Tale, 2002 ), García Márquez explained that the novel was inspired by his grandfather, who was also a colonel and who never received the pension he was promised.

* Stevens Thomson Mason ( Virginia ) ( 1760 – 1803 ), a colonel in the American Continental Army and senator from Virginia, grandfather of the above

* George S. Patton, Sr. ( 1833-1864 ), Confederate colonel and grandfather of George S. Patton

Alfred's maternal grandfather was a colonel in the United States Army.