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.

Around 788 Abd ar-Rahman I died, and was succeeded by Hisham I.

* Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( 724 – 743 ) is succeeded by al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik ( 743 – 744 ).

* Umayyad caliph Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik ( 720 – 724 ) is succeeded by Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( 724 – 743 ).

He was succeeded by his brother Hisham.

Hisham was succeeded by his nephew al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik ( Walid II ).

Al-Walid succeeded to the throne on the death of Hisham on 6 February 743.

He was succeeded by his son, Hisham II al-Mu ' ayad, who was 11 years old at the time and was a nominal ruler under the Hajib ( Grand Vizier ) al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir.

Hisham II succeeded his father Al-Hakam II as Caliph of Cordoba in 976 at the age of 10, with his mother Subh and the first minister Jafar al-Mushafi acting as regents.

Turki ibn Said succeeded in defeating the forces of Imam Azzam, who was killed in battle outside Matrah in January 1871.

Caliph Al-Walid I died in 715 and was succeeded by his brother Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.

Within a few years, however, Jamal was assassinated by either disloyal friends or cousins around 1432 or 1433, and was succeeded by his brother Badlay ibn Sa ' ad ad-Din.

He was succeeded by his son Muhammad ibn Badlay who sent envoys to the Sultan of Mamluk Egypt to gather support and arms in the continuing war against the Christian empire.

Ahmed Gurey's widow married his nephew Nur ibn Mujahid, in return for his promise to avenge Ahmed's death, who succeeded Ahmed Gurey, and continued hostilities against his northern adversaries until he killed the Ethiopian Emperor in his second invasion of Ethiopia.

He is succeeded by Hasan ibn Ali but abdicated the Caliph to Muawiyah I.

* Umayyad Caliphate: Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan dies and is succeeded by his son al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik.

* Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I is succeeded by Yazid I ibn Muawiyah.

* The Umayyad caliph Yazid I ( 680 – 683 ) is succeeded by Muawiya II ibn Yazid ( 683 – 684 ).

* The Umayyad caliph Marwan I ( 684 – 685 ) is succeeded by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( 685 – 705 ).

* Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I is succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.

* Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz is succeeded by Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik.

Al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi succeeded Yahya the Barmakid as Harun's chief minister.

He was succeeded not by his son, Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma ' mun, but by his half-brother, al-Mu ' tasim.

He briefly succeeded his father Ali ibn Abi Talib as the righteous Caliph following the latter's death, before retiring to Madinah and entering into an agreement with the first Umayyad ruler, Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, who assumed the Caliphate.

The four Imams who had succeeded Imam Ismail – Muhammd ibn Ismail, Wafi Ahmad, Taqi Muhammad, and Radi Abdullah – while maintaining anonymity, were engaged in the creation of a remarkable network of mission centers equipped with a very well-developed and organized religious philosophy which came to be known as dawa.

Muhammad bin Qasim had begun preparations for further expansions when Hajjaj died, as did Caliph Al-Walid I, who was succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, who then took revenge against all who had been close to Hajjaj.