When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

The last Abbot was Cardinal David Beaton, who in 1522 succeeded his uncle James to become Archbishop of St Andrews.

In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

A son of Cináed mac Ailpín (" Kenneth MacAlpin "), he succeeded his uncle Domnall mac Ailpín as Pictish king following the latter's death on 13 April 862.

Áed, Constantine's father, succeeded Constantine's uncle and namesake Constantine I in 876 but was killed in 878.

In 1815 he succeeded his uncle as second Baron of Halkin according to a special remainder and assumed the additional surname of Duff ( see Duff-Gordon baronets for further history of this branch of the family ).

Yōzei was succeeded by his father's uncle, Emperor Kōkō ; and in the reign of Kōkō's son, Emperor Uda, the madness re-visited the tormented former emperor:

As soon as Henry succeeded his father in 1201, he had to struggle with his Piast relatives, at first with his uncle Duke Mieszko IV Tanglefoot who immediately seized the Upper Silesian Duchy of Opole.

Brought to power by a palace conspiracy in 1623, he succeeded his uncle Mustafa I ( 1617 – 18, 1622 – 23 ).

Alexander IV succeeded Innocent IV as guardian of Conradin, the last of the Hohenstaufens, promising him protection ; but in less than a fortnight he conspired against him and bitterly opposed Conradin's uncle Manfred.

However, he does not appear to have joined the order of St. Francis, but rather remained a member of the secular clergy until his elevation to bishop of Carpentras, France, in 1471 ; very shortly after his uncle succeeded to the papal chair.

George V died when Margaret was five, and her uncle succeeded as King Edward VIII.

When Frederick Barbarossa succeeded his uncle in 1152, there seemed to be excellent prospects for ending the feud, since he was a Welf on his mother's side.

His reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III.

Frelinghuysen was graduated from Rutgers College in 1836, and studied law in Newark with his uncle, to whose practice he succeeded in 1839, after he was admitted to the bar.

He succeeded his unpopular uncle Huneric, and for that reason alone, enjoyed a rather successful reign.

It was thus at Olmütz on 2 December that, by the abdication of his uncle Ferdinand and the renunciation of his father, the mild-mannered Franz Karl, Franz Joseph succeeded as Emperor of Austria.

He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, though Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, his first cousin twice removed, and maternal great uncle, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723.

Following the death of his uncle, Leopold II, Albert succeeded to the Belgian throne in December 1909, since Albert's own father had already died in 1905.

An uncle of the uncrowned King Louis XVII, and younger brother to reigning Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him.

Amadeus was born at Le Bourget-du-Lac, and succeeded his childless paternal uncle Philip I, Count of Savoy as Count of Savoy in 1285.

He succeeded his uncle, Dakodonou, and ruled from 1645 to 1685.

He was succeeded by his uncle, Philip the Tall.

Pentheus was succeeded by his uncle Polydorus.

Eteocles was succeeded by his uncle, Creon.

He was also an elder brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ; Joan of England ; and John, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him as king.

On the death of Hugh of Maine, Geoffrey Martel occupied Maine in a move contested by William and King Henry ; eventually they succeeded in driving Geoffrey from the county, and in the process, William was able to secure the Bellême family strongholds at Alençon and Domfort for himself.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

Geoffrey Greytunic succeeded in making the count of Nantes his vassal, and in obtaining from the duke of Aquitaine the concession in fief of the district of Loudun.

At the same time, continuing in this quarter also the work of his father ( who in 1025 took prisoner Herbert Wakedog and only set him free on condition of his doing him homage ), Geoffrey succeeded in reducing the countship of Maine to complete dependence on himself.

His eldest son, Geoffrey V the Handsome or " Plantagenet ", succeeded him as count of Anjou ( 1129 – 7 September 1151 ).

Geoffrey succeeded in beating them one after another, razed the keep of Thouars and occupied Mirebeau.

But then his brother Geoffrey, who had received as appanage the three fortresses of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau, tried to seize upon Anjou, on the pretext that, by the will of their father, Geoffrey the Handsome, all the paternal inheritance ought to descend to him, if Henry succeeded in obtaining possession of the maternal inheritance.

On hearing of this, Henry, although he had sworn to observe this will, had himself released from his oath by the pope, and hurriedly marched against his brother, from whom in the beginning of 1156 he succeeded in taking Chinon and Mirebeau ; and in July he forced Geoffrey to give up even his three fortresses in return for an annual pension.

* September 7 – Geoffrey of Anjou dies, and is succeeded by his son Henry, aged 18.

By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynasty to which Geoffrey gave his nickname.

Like the Historia Brittonum, Geoffrey adds that Vortigern was succeeded briefly by his son Vortimer, only to take the throne again when Vortimer is killed.

Honored for his actions at Civitate, Guiscard succeeded Humphrey as count of Apulia in 1057, over his elder half-brother Geoffrey.

Geoffrey and the Lancelot-Grail Cycle have Mordred being succeeded by his two sons.

He was initially succeeded by his elderly aunt, Beatrice de Say, née Mandeville, who passed her claim to her surviving son, Geoffrey de Say.

He was succeeded by Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, who ruled until his own death in 1219.

Geoffrey I was succeeded by his son Geoffrey II, who ruled until his death in 1245.

Confusingly, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ), uses the name Samuil Penessil for a legendary pre-Roman king of Britain, preceded by Redechius and succeeded by Pir.

* Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey ( 1880 – 1971 ) ( succeeded as Baron Trevethin in 1959 )

When Geoffrey succeeded to Brittany he had several problems ; Blois was encroaching on his territory, Vikings were threatening his shores and Anjou was offering protection.

After John succeeded Richard in 1199, he decided to restore Geoffrey to the archiepiscopal estates, but continued to receive the income until the archbishop returned from Rome.