Descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Descended from an ancient patrician gens Fabii, he was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, a grandson of another Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges and a great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, all famous Consuls.

Descended from Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035 under the title of William II.

Descended from Theuderic, a line of kings ruled Austrasia until 555, when it was united with the other Frankish kingdoms of Chlothar I, who inherited all the Frankish realms by 558.

Descended from no more than nine individuals, 1987 beaver populations on the upper and lower Truckee River had reached a density of 0. 72 colonies ( 3. 5 beavers ) per kilometer.

Descended from an earlier English king, Æthelnoth became a monk prior to becoming archbishop.

Descended from a drunken ne ' er-do-well and a madwoman, Zola effectively predestines the Macquarts to lives of toil and misery.

Descended from a noble family of Provence, he was born at Fox-Amphoux, in today's Var département.

Descended from an old Breton aristocratic family, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition and in an age when a significant part of the intelligentsia was turning against the Church, authored the Génie du christianisme in defence of the Catholic faith.

Descended from ancient peoples known to the Chinese as the Yue and the Ai Lao, the Tai tribes began migrating into South-East Asia by the beginning of the 1st millennium, but large-scale migrations took place between the 7th and 13th centuries AD, especially from what is now Sipsongbanna, Yunnan Province and Guangxi.

Descended via the former Leicester Polytechnic from the old Leicester College of Technology.

Descended from early New England settlers ( including Anne Hutchinson ), his parents were both from well-to-do merchant families.

Descended from a long-established Northumbrian family seated at Howick Hall, Grey was the second but eldest surviving son of General Sir Charles Grey KB ( 1729 – 1807 ) and his wife, Elizabeth ( 1743 / 4 – 1822 ), daughter of George Grey of Southwick, co. Durham.

Descended from a noble and rich family, he was born at the chateau of Le Cayla in Andillac, Tarn.

Descended from dog-fighting ancestors, it is muscular and loyal.

Descended from a Genoese nobleman expelled from Genoa by his rivals in 1271, members of the different branches of the Grimaldis took power in Monaco, Antibes and Nice, and built castles at Grimaud, Cagnes-sur-Mer and Antibes.

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Descended from Nukutawhiti and Rāhiri, he was born in the north of New Zealand into the Ngāti Hine hapu, one of the subtribes of Ngāpuhi.

Descended from a Worcestershire family, some of whom had sat in Parliament, he was born to William Colles and Mary Anne Bates of Woodbroak, Co. Wexford.

Descended from an old family of the Electorate of the Palatinate, he was born at Heidelberg, the son of Hans Meinard von Schönberg ( 1582 – 1616 ) and Anne, daughter of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley.

Descended from the Luxembourg Airlines Company, founded in 1948, Luxair was set up in 1961 to meet the growing demand for air links between Luxembourg and other European cities.

Descended from the Aztec version of the Mesoamerican ballgame, the game is one of the oldest continuously-played sports in the world, and is also notable for the fact that it is the oldest known game utilizing a rubber ball.

Descended from Yuan An, who served during the reign of Emperor Zhang, Yuan Shao's exact parentage was the source of controversy and the major cause of dispute between him and Yuan Shu.

" Descended from an old family, who possessed a small estate in the southern district of Argyllshire, his father, after various changes of fortune, had obtained a company in the 42nd Regiment, with which he served during several campaigns in Flanders.

Descended from the Kingsbury family who settled in Massachusetts in 1615.

Descended was from long line of influential Quakers, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he was a descendant of John Smith, who started one of the first insurance companies in Philadelphia and was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Hospital.

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Descended from families prominent since the colonial history of New England, Stokes was a railway president and a society figure who had given up his mansion at 299 Madison Avenue to be closer to the work he found most satisfying, that of social projects.

Descended from Welsh saints and princes, he gained great respect helping the plague sufferers in London, but was found guilty of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered on 10 December 1610.

In A. D. 1811 / 2354 B. E., Chao (" Lord ") Racha Wong Singh ( — Descended from Lions ) more often transliterated Sing, led a number of people to landing on the River Chi, to found a town on a bluff by a deserted temple ground.

Descended from the O ' Dowds of Kilglass, Thomas's grandfather, Patrick left Easkey for Scotland and his father, also Thomas, was born in Glasgow, but the family returned to Ireland and he was brought up in Easkey.

Descended from Scottish gentry, one of his ancestors was the piano maker to King George 3 and another rowed the boat to Napoleon's surrender.

Tenor St Clair was replaced by Ferrari, known as " The Voice ", and for whom Chester wrote the signature song " When Love Descended like an Angel ".

Descended from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the seventh-century AD Muslim conquest, its development was influenced by the indigenous Coptic of pre-Islamic Egypt, and later by other languages such as Turkish / Ottoman Turkish, Italian, French and English.

Descended from a family of equestrian rank, Pomponius was born and raised in Rome, the son of Titus Pomponius and wife Caecilia Metella.

Descended from a family of German scholars, the greater part of his life was spent in Egypt where he received his Talmudic education from David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and Israel de Curial.

Descended from an aristocratic British family dating back to the seventeenth century, Baldwin was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Michael Baldwin and Theodora Walcott.

Descended from a family of Breton sailors, he was born in 1843 in Saint-Servan, Roulais place, now part of Saint-Malo on the Breton coast, and was orphaned at a young age, in 1849, after the death of his father Jacques Duchesne.

Descended from the tricorne, the black-coloured bicorne originally had a rather broad brim, with the front and the rear halves turned up and pinned together ( in English the shorter front brim was called " the cock "— hence " cocked hat "— and the longer rear brim was termed " the fan "), forming a semi-circular fan shape ; there was usually a cockade in the national colours at the front.

Descended from a Serer family through his mother from the line of Matar Sène, Ousmane Sembène was particularly drawn to Serer religious festivals especially the Tuur festival.

Descended from a prominent Bossier Parish family, Mrs. Kennon was a sister of the Minden physician Charles Sherburne Sentell ( 1904 – 1972 ).