Cearl, another Mercian king, is mentioned by Bede, and may have been Pybba's successor, but his relationship to Pybba, if any, is unknown.

* Edwin of Northumbria takes refuge in East Anglia ; he marries Cwenburga, daughter of Cearl of Mercia.

Although Penda's reason is unknown, the killing of Eadfrith is often seen as the result of pressure from the Northumbrian king Oswald, to whom Eadfrith would have represented a threat ; it is, however, also possible that Penda may have decided that Eadfrith's lineage made him unsuitable for use as a puppet against Oswald, since he would represent a threat to Penda's own position through his descent from Cearl.

By the 610s he was certainly in Mercia, under the protection of king Cearl, whose daughter Cwenburg he married.

He may have spent time during his exile in the British kingdom of Gwynedd, and it seems clear that he spent time in Mercia, because he married a daughter of king Cearl.

According to Bede, Edwin married Cwenburh ( Quenberga ), daughter of " Cearl, king of the Mercians " while he was in exile, and with her had two sons, Osfrith and Eadfrith.

Historians have noted the marriage as evidence for Cearl's independence from the then-Northumbrian king Æthelfrith, since Edwin was Æthelfrith's rival and Cearl would not have married his daughter to an enemy of his overlord.

The historian D. P. Kirby speculated that perhaps Cearl was enabled to marry his daughter to Edwin due to the protection of the powerful East Anglian king Raedwald, and that Edwin's subsequent exile among the East Angles may have been due to Æthelfrith's power beginning " to impinge on Cearl or his successors among the Mercians ".

That Cearl married his daughter to Edwin could be evidence that he and Penda were rivals, since Penda later fought against and defeated Edwin ( in alliance with Cadwallon of Gwynedd ).

The Historia Britonum credits the later king Penda with first separating the Mercians from the Northumbrians, but if Cearl was able to make this marriage to Æthelfrith's enemy he must not have been subject to him — possibly any subject relationship only developed at a later date.

More evidence could be seen for a dynastic rivalry between Cearl and Penda in Penda's later execution ( according to Bede ) of Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin who was Cearl's grandson through Cwenburh.

* Cearl becomes king of Mercia.

Cearl was an early king of Mercia who ruled during the early part of the 7th century, until about 626.

Whether Cearl reigned until Penda became king is unknown.

It is also unknown what relationship Cearl had to Penda, if any.

Indeed, it is possible that Cearl may have been involved in that conflict, which may have effectively ended his overkingship of Mercia until the rise of Penda.

There he followed courses of his kinsman Robert Boyd and in 1611 became Regent Professor.

He served under the lieutenant-general of his native province of Dauphiné, Bertrand de Simiane, baron de Gordes, but when the Huguenots raised troops in Dauphiné Lesdiguières threw in his lot with them, and under his kinsman Antoine Rambaud de Furmeyer, whom he succeeded in 1570, distinguished himself in the mountain warfare that followed by his bold yet prudent handling of troops.

Chiefly positions are hereditary ; a deceased chief is invariably followed by a kinsman or kinswoman, though not necessarily his own son or daughter.

He is not included in the Mercian royal genealogy ; Henry of Huntingdon in the 12th century placed him as ruling after Pybba, saying that he was not Pybba's son but was his kinsman.

His kinsman Gaius Julius Civilis was paraded in chains in Rome before Nero ; though he was acquitted by Galba, he was retained at Rome, and when he returned to his kin in the year of upheaval in the Roman Empire, 69, he headed a Batavian rebellion.

The family could mortgage the land to ward off poverty ; and the law of Leviticus 25: 25ff required a kinsman to purchase it back into the family.

Wilhelm, Duke of Urach ( 1864 – 1928 ), had the distinction of being under consideration for five thrones at different times: that of King of Wurttemberg in the 1890s, as the senior agnate by primogeniture when it became likely that King William II would die without male descendants, leaving as heir Duke Albrecht of Wurttemberg, a more distantly related, albeit dynastic, royal kinsman ; Prince of Albania in 1913 ; Prince of Monaco as the next heir by proximity of blood following the Hereditary Prince Louis during a succession crisis resolved in July 1918 ; Grand Duke of Alsace-Lorraine in 1917, and his election by the Taryba as King of Lithuania in July 1918.

The throne was soon filled with a kinsman of Bardas, Photios himself ; he was tonsured on December 20, 858, and on the four following days he was successively ordained lector, sub-deacon, deacon and priest.

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For two years she was in his custody, and probably resided at Ingatestone Hall ; then she was removed to Sir John Wentworth's ( a kinsman of Petre's first wife ) at Gosfield Hall, and after seventeen months ' confinement there was taken to Cockfield Hall at Yoxford in Suffolk.

* 1544: The Earl of Ormond went into Clanrickard to assist his kinsman, William Burke, son of Rickard ; but the sons of Rickard Oge suddenly defeated him ; and a good baron of his people, namely, Mac Oda, was slain ; and more than forty of the Earl's troops were slain in the gateway of Athenry on that occasion.

In 1630, he married Mary Fitz ( 1596 – 1671 ), the wealthy widow of Sir Charles Howard ( died 1622 ), and was made a baronet, of Kilkhampton in the County of Cornwall ; his violent temper destroyed the marriage, and he was imprisoned as the result of two lawsuits, one with his wife, and the other with her kinsman, the Earl of Suffolk.

Characteristically, she temporised ; but finding that O ' Neill was in danger of becoming a tool in the hands of Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to Ireland, " recognising " him as " The O ' Neill " and of Tyrone ( meaningless, as she had no authority to do so, and it was already done ); though a reservation was made of the rights of Hugh O ' Neill, who had meantime succeeded his brother Brian as baron of Dungannon, Brian having been murdered in April 1562 by his kinsman Turlough Luineach O ' Neill.

They were immediately reprinted, the latter being dedicated to the lord mayor and the former to the author's kinsman, George Sacheverell, who was high sheriff of Derbyshire that year ; and, as the passions of the whole British population were at this period keenly exercised between the rival factions of Whig and Tory ; Sacheverell's arguments on behalf of the church which supplied the Tories with most of their support made him their idol.

They had several children ; daughter Mary married Richard Pepys, kinsman of the diarist Samuel Pepys.

He also wrote a tragi-comedy, The Queen of Arragon ( 1640 ), published without his consent by his kinsman, the Earl of Pembroke, and revived at the Restoration ; and six essays on events in modern history, Observations upon History ( 1641 ).

The line of Dol Amroth was linked by marriage both to the Stewards of Gondor and to the Kings of Rohan: Imrahil was uncle to Boromir and Faramir ; a kinsman of Théoden ; and the father of Éomer's wife Lothíriel.

* George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford ( 6th Earl of Lindsay ) ( 1758 – 1808 ) ( dormant 1808 ; last male line descendant of 1st Earl of Lindsay, Earldom of Lindsay passed ( according to Lords decision in 1878 ) to a kinsman of 1st Earl of Lindsay and that of Crawford reverted to senior surviving line, as determined 1848 )

Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( Louis Henri Joseph ; 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740 ) was head of the Bourbon-Condé cadet branch of the France's reigning House of Bourbon from 1710 to his death, and served as prime minister to his kinsman Louis XV from 1723 to 1726.

* note # 2 Dirk's Legacy did not specifically mention Scottish descent as a requirement, merely that the candidate be Christian, a kinsman, by blood or marriage, and of wholesome spirit-Jacques deVille is French and yet he was a member of the Inner Circle and was considered a contender ; Paul " Profitable " Choy is pure Chinese but he was inducted by the weak Linbar Struan to the Inner Circle when Choy married one of Linbar's daughters and converted to Christianity

Modern Bredon has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period ( c. 500 – 1066 ), when c. 716 Æthelbald, King of Mercia, gave land to his kinsman Eanwulf to found a monastery.

The banner under which King Eric's troops fought, was preserved by his kinsman the lawspeaker Eskil Magnusson of the Bjelbo family in Skara, who in 1219 gave it as honorary to his visiting Icelandic colleague Snorre Sturlasson.

On the campaign's successful conclusion, William gave his kinsman Roger de Poictou all of the land between the River Mersey and the River Ribble.

King Gibicho, here described as a Frankish king, gave Hagano as a hostage ( of Trojan race, but not, as in the Nibelungenlied, a kinsman of the royal house ) in place of his infant son Guntharius ; the Burgundian king Herirīcus, his daughter Hiltgunt ; and Alphere, his son Waltharius.