Cenwalh's repudiation of Penda's sister therefore followed fairly closely upon Penda's killing of Oswald of Northumbria at Maserfeld in 642, Oswald being the godfather of Cynegils, and husband of Cenwalh's sister Cyneburh, and thus the protector of Cynegils's line in Wessex.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Birinus baptised Cynegils's son Cwichelm ( d. 636 ) and grandson Cuthred ( d. 661 ), to whom he stood as godfather.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

Dürer's godfather was Anton Koberger, who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year of Dürer's birth.

Nicknamed the " godfather " by the tabloid press, he was renowned for his tough, uncompromising style and was feared by both crew and cast alike.

As a result of those connections, Linebarger's godfather was Sun Yat-sen, considered the father of Chinese nationalism.

the Extra-Terrestrial when she was a child and was her godfather, gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read, " Cover yourself up ".

According to this story, Rodrigo's godfather, Pedro El Grande, was a monk at a Carthusian monastery.

El Cid picked a horse that his godfather thought was a weak, poor choice, causing the monk to exclaim " Babieca!

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was age 17.

The first son was reportedly named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.

Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history ( at least in terms of surviving oeuvre ) and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time — he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally.

Heinrich was named after his godfather, Prince Heinrich of Bavaria of the royal family of Bavaria, who was tutored by Gebhard Himmler.

MTV News claimed: " With his trademark rose-colored shades, black leather jacket, shoulder-length hair, ripped jeans and alternately snarling and crooning vocals, Joey was the iconic godfather of punk.

Simcoe's godfather was British admiral Samuel Graves.

Beatles manager Brian Epstein was his godfather.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

He was also the godfather of Pope Benedict IX, who was foisted on the papacy by his powerful family, the Theophylacti, counts of Tusculum, at the age of twenty.

Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.

Rudolph paid frequent visits to the court of his godfather, the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II, and his loyalty to Frederick and his son, King Conrad IV of Germany, was richly rewarded by grants of land.

He was named after his grandfather Jakub, his godfather King Louis XIV ( Ludwik ) and the exiled Queen Henrietta ( Henryk ) Maria of England, his godmother.

As a term of surrender, King Alfred demanded that Guthrum be baptised a Christian ; King Alfred served as his godfather.

The Chronicle reports the baptism of Amlaíb, with King Edmund becoming his godfather.

King Otto of Bavaria is not to be confused with King Otto of Greece, who was his uncle and godfather.

His uncle King Otto I of Greece served as his godfather.

He was baptized at Whitehall Palace with the Royal Family in attendance, and was named after his godfather, King Philip II of Spain.

In 2004, Reza Pahlavi was named as the " unofficial godfather " of Princess Louise of Belgium the eighth granddaughter of King Albert II of Belgium.

Frank himself was also baptized, with the King of Poland as his godfather.

Zwentibold was named after his godfather, King Svatopluk I of Great Moravia ( Zwentibold being a Frankish transcription of Svatopluk ).

In 1602, apparently with the agreement of Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías, Constable of Castile, his uncle and political godfather and one of the most powerful and outstanding personalities of the reign of King Philip III of Spain, Osuna escaped from his confinement in the castle of Cuéllar, a place / prison used for the last two centuries to control " illustrious " Crown guests accompanied by a servant, arriving in Brussels in October of that year.

The King had been asked to stand as godfather, but he refused, upset by his brother's marriage to Maria Walpole, a commoner.

In the 630s, Bishop Birinus established himself at Dorchester, and both Cynegils and Cwichelm are said to have been baptised with King Oswald of Northumbria as their godfather.

George Augustus Rochfort, Robert's second son, who had been named after King George III ( his godfather by proxy ) became the Second Earl of Belvedere in 1774 and despite the family holding vast estates in Westmeath chose to reside in Dublin ; probably not surprising given the unhappy associations of his other holdings.

He was baptised on 6 May 1981, in Madrid ; his godfather is King Constantine II of Greece.

Alphonso was born at Bayonne, in Gascony, and named after his maternal uncle, King Alfonso X of Castile, who was his godfather.

King Alfonso XIII of Spain was his godfather at a christening in the royal palace.

" Cynegils was also baptised at this time, by Bishop Birinus, with Oswald of Bernicia was his godfather.

He also helped the scholar earn credentials by overseeing his conversion from Judaism to the Romanian Orthodox Church, and serving as his godfather.

Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym " Felix C. Forrest ", which he used in addition to " Cordwainer Smith ": his godfather Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger that he adopt the Chinese name " Lin Bai-lo " (), which may be roughly translated as " Forest of Incandescent Bliss ".

However, even these may fail to bring you success, without the blessing of a godfather or a godmother.

The godfather of Huon may safely be identified with Seguin, who was count of Bordeaux under Louis the Pious in 839, and died fighting against the Normans six years later.

Any marble larger than the majority may be termed a boulder, masher, popper, shooter, taw, bumbo, crock, bumboozer, bowler, tonk, tronk, godfather, tom bowler, giant or Biggie.

Talbot is ambivalent about presenting the account, which he considers may not show him in the best light, to his godfather, though he does not consider that he has a choice and eventually has the journal sealed so he cannot tamper with it.