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He succeeded his father as King of Wessex on Egbert's death in 839, at which time his kingdom stretched from the county of Kent in the east to Devon in the west.
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He succeeded his father Çağrı Bey as governor of Khorasan in 1059.
He inherited the valuable estates in northern Saxony of his father in 1123, and on his mother's death, in 1142, succeeded to one-half of the lands of the house of Billung.
He succeeded his father Mehmed III ( 1595 – 1603 ) in 1603 at age 13.
In 1885, at the age of eight, he succeeded his father as Imam of the Shi ' a Isma ' ili Muslims.
Alaric II ( Gothic: Alareiks II ), also known as Alarik, Alarich, and Alarico in Spanish and Portuguese or Alaricus in Latin ( d. 507 ) succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on December 28, 484.
He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon.
Alexios ' father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.
They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.
On the death of her father in 526, her son succeeded him, but she held the power as regent for her son.
Afonso succeeded his father in 1212.
Afonso V was only six years old when he succeeded his father in 1438.
Alphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena ( 1396 – July 12, 1456 ), Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos.
The leprous child Baldwin IV succeeded his father and brought his mother Agnes of Courtenay ( now married to her fourth husband ) back to court.
He succeeded his father, Tewfik Pasha, as Khedive of Egypt and Sudan on 8 January 1892.
He succeeded his father as Emir of Córdoba in 822 and engaged in nearly continuous warfare against Alfonso II of Asturias, whose southward advance he halted ( 822 – 842 ).
Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.
Nabopolassar was succeeded by Nebuchadnezzar II, who became king after the death of his father in 604 BC.
Áed, Constantine's father, succeeded Constantine's uncle and namesake Constantine I in 876 but was killed in 878.
* Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough ( 1681 – 1733 ), eldest daughter of the 1st Duke, succeeded her father by Act of Parliament ( 1706 )
In 1881 Beatty's grandfather died and his father succeeded to the 18th century mansion, ' Borodale ', outside Enniscorthy, in County Wexford.
Eleanor succeeded her father, becoming Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers, and by extension, the most eligible bride in Europe, at the age of fifteen.
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His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.
In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.
He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.
* 1080 – King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
Anton succeeded his brother Frederick August I as King of Saxony when he died, on 5 May 1827.
Without surviving male issue, Anton was succeeded as King by his nephew, Frederick Augustus II.
Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.
This tactic succeeded, but the Spartan King, Cleomenes I, returned at the request of Isagoras and so the Cleisthenes, the Alcmaeonids and other prominent Athenian families were exiled from Athens.
The Buddha succeeded when the King and all his soldiers failed to eliminate the murderer by force.
When Casimir, the last Piast king of Poland, died in 1370, his nephew King Louis I of Hungary succeeded him to become king of Poland in personal union with Hungary.
After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six.
In 1535 Christian II, the deposed monarch, tried to regain power from King Christian III who just succeeded his father Frederick I.
He was the eldest son of Prince John, ( who succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus II on the Saxon throne as King John in 1854 ) by his wife Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.
On the death of his father King John on 29 October 1873, the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne as King Albert.
Albert died childless and was succeeded by his brother, who became King George.
* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
When the King Frederick Augustus I died ( 1827 ) and Anton succeeded him as King, Frederick Augustus became second in line to the throne, preceded only by his father Maximilian.
On 6 June 1836, King Anton died and Frederick Augustus succeeded him.
Henry I, the fourth son of William I the Conqueror, succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100.
When King Conrad III died without adult heir in 1152, Frederick also succeeded him, taking both German royal and Imperial titles.
King Harsha of Kannauj succeeded in reuniting northern India during his reign in the 7th century, after the collapse of the Gupta dynasty.
He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106.
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