However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

Since Sancho died unmarried and childless, all of his power passed to his brother Alfonso.

Albert died childless and was succeeded by his brother, who became King George.

The Hebrew Bible forbids a man from marrying his brother's widow with the exception that, if his brother died childless, the man is instead required to marry his brother's widow so as to " raise up seed to him " ( taken from Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 6 ).

Jacob Abendana died childless in London in 1695 and was buried in the Portuguese cemetery at Mile End.

When Baldwin died childless in 1162, a year after his mother Melisende, the kingdom passed to his brother Amalric, who renewed the alliance negotiated by Baldwin.

If he died childless, Lothair would inherit his kingdom.

It was, however, agreed that if one of the sisters died childless, the other one would succeed and the kingdoms would be reunited.

Henry died childless and had nominated his nephew Frederick Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia, to succeed him as King of the Romans and Holy Roman Emperor.

In July 1127, William II, Duke of Apulia, died childless, and almost immediately his cousin King Roger II of Sicily sailed to the mainland to occupy the duchies of Apulia and Calabria.

Henry IV's friendship was of essential importance to the Papacy two years later, when Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, died childless ( 27 October 1597 ), and the Pope resolved to attach the stronghold of the Este family to the states of the Church.

Anastasius died childless in Constantinople on 9 July 518 ( some sources say 8 or 10 July

Tensions escalated further in 1609, with the War of the Jülich succession, which began when John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, the ruler of the strategically important United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, died childless.

Also, without an heir, the Tudor dynasty would end ; the risk of civil war between rival claimants was a possibility if Elizabeth died childless.

Elizabeth died childless at Richmond Palace on 24 March 1603.

The childless dukes Louis and Otto had already promised Charles IV the succession in Brandenburg in 1364 as revenge for a conflict with their brother Stephen II over the Bavarian succession after the death of their nephew Meinhard, the son of Louis V. Louis the Roman died in Berlin in 1365.

Simon and Stephen had another brother called Walter, a knight who died childless.

His faithful wife Claudine had died childless in 1588, a few days before he went to the Bern Disputation.

He finally resigned his claim to the Scottish throne in January 1356 and died childless in 1364.

Her daughter returned to Austria in a prisoner exchange, married and died childless in 1851.

He was the son of the Emperor Romanos II and Theophano, and the younger brother of the eminent Basil II, who died childless and thus left the rule of the Byzantine Empire in his hands.

Charles II of Spain had died childless in 1700, and the succession was disputed by two claimants: the Habsburg Archduke Charles of Austria and the Bourbon Philip, Duke of Anjou.

The Lord Chancellor believes Iolanthe to have died childless, and she is bound not to " undeceive " him, under penalty of death.

In 1637 he died childless, and as a result Białystok came under the management of his widow.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

In 458 BC, he returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela where he died in 456 or 455 BC.

Abd al-Rahman died in his adopted city of Córdoba, and was supposedly buried under the site of the Mezquita.

She died within a short time of the marriage ceremony and created the opportunity for Dom Pedro to escape with his true love and live in the city of Coimbra.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

Cleo Trumbo died of natural causes at the age of 93 on October 9, 2009, in the Bay Area city of Los Altos.

Sixteen people died before policemen and UN mission MONUC took control of the city.

He died at the age of fifty-one in Paris in 1883, and was buried in the Cimetière de Passy in the city.

When Munch died, his remaining works were bequeathed to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum at Tøyen ( it opened in 1963 ).

His education there ended when plague struck the city about 1483, and his mother, who had moved there to provide a home for her sons, died of the infection.

The Allied soldiers who died driving the Germans from Tuscany are buried in cemeteries outside the city ( Americans about nine kilometres south of the city, British and Commonwealth soldiers a few kilometres east of the centre on the right bank of the Arno ).

His stepmother died during the epidemic and his father, as Minister of Supply in the city was closely associated with the government efforts.

About 8, 600 died in the largest German epidemic of the late 19th century, and the last major cholera epidemic in a major city of the Western world.

Sostratus was said to have died young and to have been buried by Heracles outside the city.

At the Catechetical School of Alexandria, Jerome listened to the catechist Didymus the Blind expounding the prophet Hosea and telling his reminiscences of Anthony the Great, who had died 30 years before ; he spent some time in Nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that " city of the Lord ," but detecting even there " concealed serpents ," i. e., the influence of Origen of Alexandria.

5, 000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45, 000 more died outside the city.

Babur wished to be buried in Kabul whenever he died, a city he had always loved, but at first he was buried in Agra, Hindustan ( now India ).

Statue of the Nurse-a statue in memory of women who fought for the Polish state during the Second World War and in battle for Kołobrzeg, the woman is based on Ewelina Nowak who died in 1945 in the city while trying to save a wounded soldier

Zamenhof died in Warsaw on April 14, 1917, and is buried in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in that city.

They refused, and Honorius asked Roger II of Sicily to punish the city in May 1130, but Honorius died before action was taken.

After suffering an exhausting imprisonment and many alleged public indignities, he was ultimately banished to Chersonesos Taurica ( a city in present-day southern Ukraine in the Crimea region ), where he arrived on 15 May 655 and died on 16 September of that year.

Finally, on a charge of conspiring to kill Christophorus and many other nobles, with the intent of handing over the city to the Lombards, the priest Waldipert, who was the prime mover in the elevation of the Antipope Philip, was arrested, blinded, and soon died of his wounds.

Otto III led two unsuccessful expeditions to regain control of the city, and died on a third expedition in 1002.