Christian Settipani proved through contemporary documents that Arnulf of Metz and his ancestors were Frankish in the male line, since they were ruled by the Frankish Law.

Eighteenth century Ireland was a sectarian state, ruled by a small Anglican minority, over both a majority Catholic population ( most of whose ancestors had been dispossessed of land and political power in the 17th century Plantations of Ireland ), as well to the exclusion of Presbyterian and dissenting Christians from high political office.

Cetis was a small region in Cilicia that was previously ruled by her Cappadocian royal ancestors and Antiochus IV.

Nguyễn Phúc Ánh ruled the united country of Vietnam from his ancestors ’ capital of Huế.

Ibrahim was following in the spirit of his ancestors, the Qutub Shahi kings, a great family of builders who had ruled the kingdom of Golkonda from 1512.

Giovanni Francesco Abela was born in Valletta to Marco Abela and Benarda Vella whose great great grandfather was Barone di Pietra Lunga and whose ancestors ruled Malta on more than one occasion and were part of the royal family of Spain.

Some suspect that they were rulers of a non-Yamato court which in the 5th century ruled most of what is currently Japan, and who were eventually ruined by the ancestors of current imperial dynasty.

The generals, after much discussion, decided to borrow troops from an offshoot of the Turkish Tujue tribe, the Huihe, or Huige, also known as the Uyghur Khaganate ( ancestors of the modern-day Uyghurs, but then located in Mongolia ), who were ruled by Bayanchur Khan until his death in the summer of 759.

The direct ancestors of the Mughal emperors, at one point or another, directly ruled all areas from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan, and from the Middle East to Russian Plains.

The ruler of Koil was Bargujar Raja Rao Bahadur Singh whose ancestors ruled it from A. D 1184 after the marriage of the Raja of Koil, Ajit Singh's daughter to Raja Pratap Singh Bargujar.

Tokugawa was a scion of the Tokugawa clan, and his ancestors were military leaders ( Shogun in Japanese ) which ruled Japan from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Over the human beings, my ancestors Bumin Kagan and Istemi Kagan ruled.

He followed the laws of his ancestors and ruled justly.

This saga first says that Alrek and his son Víkar ruled Hördaland but Hjörleif's ancestors were kings of Rogaland.

After Manuel I's reign the Komnenos dynasty fell into conspiracies and plots like many of their ancestors ( and the various contenders within the family sought power and often succeeded in overthrowing the preceding kinsman ); Alexios II, the first Komnenos to ascend as a minor, ruled for three years and his conqueror and successor Andronikos I ruled for two, overthrown by the Angelos family under Isaac II who was dethroned and blinded by his own brother Alexios III.

According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the ancestors of the Gaels were living in the Iberian peninsula, ruled by two of the sons of Míl, Éber Donn and Érimón.

Such actions have led to charges of racial injustice and controversies such as that of the Cherokee Nation's 2007 vote to exclude those Cherokee Freedmen with no ancestors on the Cherokee-by-blood Dawes rolls, although the Cherokee Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that they were legitimate members of the tribe in 2005.

" The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad.

The new King now found himself ruling a very different state to that ruled by his ancestors.

Ibrahim was following in the spirit of his ancestors, the Qutub Shahi kings, a great family of builders who had ruled the kingdom of Golkonda from 1512.

Puebloan tradition holds that the ancestors had achieved great spiritual power and control over natural forces, and used their power in ways that caused nature to change, and caused changes that were never meant to occur.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The ancestors of the Micronesians settled there over 4, 000 years ago.

They also brought over the Man-Apes, earlier hominid ancestors of " Homo sapiens.

The mixing of the population over the centuries means that most families can trace ancestors on both sides of the linguistic divide.

After spending over a year eliminating simpler explanations, it was indicated that the plants " cached " versions of their ancestors ' genes going back at least four generations, and used these records as templates to correct the HOTHEAD mutation and other single nucleotide polymorphisms.

Some introns appear to have significant biological function, possibly through ribozyme functionality that may regulate tRNA and rRNA activity as well as protein-coding gene expression, evident in hosts that have become dependent on such introns over long periods of time ; for example, the trnL-intron is found in all green plants and appears to have been vertically inherited for several billions of years, including more than a billion years within chloroplasts and an additional 2 – 3 billion years prior in the cyanobacterial ancestors of chloroplasts.

Further, humans and their ancestors ( such as Homo erectus ) have been using stone tools and weapons for well over a million years.

It can be construed as meaning the woman's father and then husband had control over her, and it means that lines of male descent ( patrilineality ) are seen as primary — that a child has no inherited name tying him or her to female ancestors ( matrilineality ).

Morgan claimed the relatively hairless skin of humans was due to comparable adaptations in aquatic mammals and land-dwelling mammals that have aquatic ancestors as well as those that currently spend much of their time in wet conditions, and what body hair humans do have follows the flow of water over the body.

The modern history of cargo cults seems to have begun before historical records in the countries of Melanesia, where an indigenous tradition of exchange of goods and objects of wealth was tied to a belief that the ancestors and deities had an influence over these things and would return at some time laden with these objects for the members of the tribes.

The area was inhabited by indigenous peoples, ancestors of Native Americans, for 12, 000 years, over which time they developed varying cultures.

Others, of high note, become honored ancestors, watching over their descendants.

His Heroic efforts was the impetus to push this bill through, which was supported by many indigenous tribes, stemmed from the removal of Tongva ancestors at Playa Vista, Santa Monica, California, where over 800 bodies and counting were removed from their burial site.

Many of these rules and procedures originated in the early years of the Republic, and were upheld over the centuries under the principle of mos maiorum (" customs of the ancestors ").

His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25, 000 acre ( 101 km < sup > 2 </ sup > or 39 miles < sup > 2 </ sup >) ranch in Cotulla.

Membership is limited to descendants of ancestors who " rendered loyal service for Texas " prior to February 19, 1846, the date the Republic ceased to exist and Texas handed over authority to the United States.

The ancestors of Australian Aborigines and New Guineans also went across the Lombok Strait to Sahul by boat over 50, 000 years ago.

It was still included among the subsidiary titles of several German ( semi -) sovereign princes ; and the king of Prussia, whose ancestors were burgraves of Nuremberg for over 200 years, maintained the additional style of Burggraf von Nürnberg.

While his two ancestors were given the title of Maharaja ( king ), Chandragupta I is described in his inscriptions as Maharajadhiraj ( king of kings ) signifying a rise in the family fortunes. He gained control over many territories by conquests and favourable marriage alliances.

Their ancestors had come from all over the German-speaking world, invited by Catherine the Great in 1762 and 1763 to settle and introduce more advanced German agriculture methods to rural Russia.

This is partially based on a cultural misunderstanding ; over wine he says his wife is " with the ancestors " and acts in a way Peggy's friend Nancy agrees is " flirting ".

He took the title of the latter from a speech by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes: " Our ancestors did not fight for the right of a few Lords of the Press to have almost exclusive control of and censorship over the dissemination of news and ideas.