The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Already closely connected to the Komnenoi through Maria's cousin Irene to Isaac Komnenos, the Komnenoi brothers were able to see the empress under the pretense of a friendly family visit.

His wives were: Valide Sultan Ayse Seniyeperver, Valide Sultan Naksh-i-Dil Haseki Sultan ( there have been speculations that she was a cousin of Napoleon's wife Josephine ; see Aimée du Buc de Rivéry ), Hatice Ruh-şah, Hüma Şah, Ayşe, Bin-naz, Dil-pezir, Mehtabe, Misl-i Na-yab, Mu ' teber, Fatma Sheb-Safa, Nevres and Mihriban.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

However, at the time, " race music " and its white cousin, " hillbilly music ", were not considered to be worthy of consideration as art, rather as a low-cost product to be sold and soon forgotten.

Constans managed to extract the prefecture of Illyricum and the diocese of Thrace, provinces that were originally part of what was meant to be ruled by his cousin Dalmatius as per Constantine I ’ s proposed division of the Empire after his death.

Shi ' a Muslims believe that Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of Muhammad, should have replaced Muhammad as Caliph and that Caliphs were to assume authority through appointment by God rather than being chosen by the people.

As with the seven other reigning empresses whose successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal imperial bloodline, she was followed on the throne by a male cousin, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

# On 15 September 1790, to his double first cousin Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies ( 6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807 ), daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ( both were grandchildren of Empress Maria Theresa and shared all of their other grandparents in common ), with whom he had twelve children, of whom only seven reached adulthood.

However, Guy's mother's family were recusant Catholics, and his cousin, Richard Cowling, became a Jesuit priest.

In 1525, he combined with his Lutheran son-in-law, Landgrave Philip of Hesse, and his cousin, the Elector Frederick the Wise, to suppress the revolt of the peasants, who were defeated near Frankenhausen in Thuringia.

Harry's godparents were Prince Andrew ( his paternal uncle ); Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones ( his paternal cousin once removed ); Lady Vestey ; Mrs. William Bartholomew ; Bryan Organ ; and Gerald Ward, a former officer in the Household Calvary.

Arriving in Haran, Jacob saw a well where shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them and met Laban's younger daughter, Rachel, Jacob's first cousin ; she was working as a shepherdess.

Internationally, the Lusignans were useful as vassals of Baldwin and Sibylla's cousin Henry II of England.

Edward Courtenay and Reginald Pole were both mentioned as prospective suitors, but her cousin Charles V suggested she marry his only son, Prince Philip of Spain.

They were identified as Luttif Afif ( Issa ), the leader ( three of Issa's brothers were also reportedly members of Black September, two of them in Israeli jails ), his deputy Yusuf Nazzal ( Tony ), and junior members Afif Ahmed Hamid ( Paolo ), Khalid Jawad ( Salah ), Ahmed Chic Thaa ( Abu Halla ), Mohammed Safady ( Badran ), Adnan Al-Gashey ( Denawi ), and his cousin Jamal Al-Gashey ( Samir ).

The victims ' families were represented by Andre Spitzer's widow Ankie, Moshe Weinberg's mother, and a cousin of Weinberg, Carmel Eliash.

Her sister, Bellatrix Lestrange and cousin Sirius Black were described as being incredibly beautiful before going to Azkaban, as were all members of the Black family.

The hours he spent in the studio of his cousin, Fritz Amann, who was a painter, were decisive in forming young Otto's ambition to be an artist ; he received additional encouragement from his primary school teacher.

They were in fact from a house clearance firm Margaret had employed to clear her late cousin Ursula's country mansion.

Her portrait of The Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier was particularly well-received, as was Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah ( Allibone ) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously.

There are a few words with both masculine and feminine forms, generally words for relatives ( cousin: lehengusu ( m )/ lehengusina ( f )) or words borrowed from Latin (" king ": errege, from the Latin word regem ; " queen ": erregina, from reginam ).

Soon afterwards, Philip of Flanders arrived in Jerusalem on pilgrimage ; he was Baldwin IV's cousin, and the king offered him the regency and command of the army, both of which Philip refused, although he objected to the appointment of Raynald as regent.

Heraclius offered the " keys of the Holy Sepulchre, those of the Tower of David and the banner of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ", but not the crown itself, to both Philip II of France and Henry II of England ; the latter, as a grandson of Fulk, was a first cousin of the royal family of Jerusalem, and had promised to go on crusade after the murder of Thomas Becket.

When Charles landed in Dalmatia in September 1385, Mary's kingdom was already at war with both Sigismund's brother Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and Germany, and the queen mother's cousin, King Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

Ernst August was a second cousin of Sophia's mother Elizabeth Stuart, as they were both great-grandchildren of Christian III of Denmark.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

After the death of Ruprecht in 1410, his succession at first proved difficult, as both Wenceslaus ' cousin Jobst of Moravia and Wenceslaus ' brother Sigismund of Hungary were elected King of Germany.

The duchy of Bavaria was transferred from Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, to Frederick's formidable younger cousin Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, of the House of Guelph, whose father had previously held both duchies.

The court first noted the significant difference between the State Constitution's Common Benefit Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Federal Constitution's 14th amendment, both in intent and provenance: the Common Benefit Clause was an original component of the 1777 Vermont Constitution, preceding its Federal " cousin " by several decades.

His marriage to the French princess Margaret, Philip IV's half-sister and his own first cousin once removed, in 1299 ended the war, but the whole affair had proven both costly and fruitless for the English.

He was a cousin of Francesco Cossiga ( who was a leader of the Italian Christian Democrats and later became a President of the Italian Republic ), and both were relatives of Antonio Segni, another Christian Democrat leader and President of the Republic.

He was a brother of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1720 – 1800 ) and a cousin of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1686 – 1729 ), both Members of Parliament for County Donegal.

The smallmouth prefers cooler water temperatures than its cousin the largemouth bass, and may be found in both still and moving water.

Within his family, Hooke took both a niece and a cousin into his home, teaching them mathematics.

His first wife, Blanche, was also his third cousin, both being great great grandchildren of King Henry III.

The fur-trapping duo of explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers convinced the English Crown, primarily Prince Rupert of Bavaria, a favoured cousin of both Charles I and Charles II, that a colonial enterprise in the north would yield wealth in minerals and fur.

Two other collections, Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux ( c. 1669 ) and Livre de tablature [...] de Mr. Gaultier Sr. de Nève et de Mr. Gaultier son cousin ( c. 1672 ) both begin with basic instructions on lute playing.

After writing his autobiography, Exemplar Humanae Vitae ( 1640 ), in which he wrote about his experience as a victim of intolerance, he set out to end the lives of both his cousin and himself.

We learn that Henry Bolingbroke, Richard's cousin, is having a dispute with Thomas Mowbray, and they both want the king to act as judge.

However, there remain some subjects faithful to Richard, among them Bushy, Bagot, Green and the Duke of Aumerle ( son of the Duke of York ), cousin of both Richard and Bolingbroke.

He married Beatrice of Portugal ( 1504 – 1538 ), daughter of Manuel I of Portugal and both first cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor.