He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

He succeeded in imposing an organized government upon the fiercest and most unruly population in Asia ; he availed himself of European inventions for strengthening his armament, while he sternly set his face against all innovations which, like Railways and Telegraphs, might give Europeans a foothold within his country.

Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.

It is often argued that if Hannibal had received proper material reinforcements from Carthage, he might have succeeded with a direct attack upon Rome.

In 207 BC he succeeded in making his way again into Apulia, where he waited to concert measures for a combined march upon Rome with his brother Hasdrubal Barca.

Baldwin was married to the Armenian noblewoman Morphia of Melitene, and had four daughters: Hodierna and Alice, who married into the families of the Count of Tripoli and Prince of Antioch ; Ioveta, who became an influential abbess ; and the eldest, Melisende, who was his heir and succeeded him upon his death in 1131, with her husband Fulk V of Anjou as king-consort.

As the eldest surviving son, Henry succeeded his father as Saxon duke in 912 and upon the death of King Conrad I of Germany was elected King of Germany ( East Francia ) in 919.

One is written to Justus after he had succeeded Mellitus as Archbishop of Canterbury in 624, conferring the pallium upon him and directing him to " ordain bishops as occasion should require.

" After the deaths of some pontiffs, Osporco, a Roman, succeeded to the papacy ; but on account of his unseemly appellation, he took the name of Sergius, and this was the origin of that change of names which the popes adopt upon their election to the pontificate.

Della Rovere then succeeded by dexterous diplomacy in tricking the weakened Cesare Borgia into supporting him by offering him money and continued papal backing for Borgia policies in the Romagna, promises which he disregarded upon election.

He succeeded to the throne upon his father's death in 1627.

Carlo was succeeded upon his death in 1928 by his son King Paolo II.

There does not seem much probability in the conjecture that the monks and other ecclesiastics succeeded in suppressing that portion of the work in which the evil influences of their body were to be more especially touched upon.

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.

Frederick II, Leopold VI's son by Theodora Angelina, succeeded his father as duke upon the elder man's death in 1230.

Once again, the incumbent president was a Whig who had succeeded to the presidency upon the death of his war-hero predecessor.

Roosevelt had succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of William McKinley.

Roosevelt's first term as president ( 1901 – 1905 ) was incomplete, as he succeeded to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley ; it was only his second term ( 1905 – 1909 ) that encompassed four full years.

He died in 1574, succeeded by his eldest surviving son Francesco, whose inability to produce male heirs led to the succession of his younger brother, Ferdinando, upon his death in 1587.

After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until he was succeeded by Anne upon his own death in 1702.

A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father.

In the Welsh Assembly, Llandaff is part of the constituency of Cardiff West, whose current AM since 2011 is Mark Drakeford of Labour, he succeeded Rhodri Morgan upon the latter's retirement.

The concepts themselves arose at a late stage in the development of Freud's thought: the " structural model " ( which succeeded his " economic model " and " topographical model ") was first discussed in his 1920 essay " Beyond the Pleasure Principle " and was formalised and elaborated upon three years later in his " The Ego and the Id ".

Amalric was the second son of Melisende of Jerusalem and Fulk of Jerusalem, and succeeded his older brother Baldwin III.

Bachir Gemayel was succeeded as president by his older brother Amine Gemayel, who served from 1982 to 1988.

Æthelred died in April 1016, and he was succeeded by Edward's older half brother Edmund Ironside, who carried on the fight against Sweyn's son, Cnut.

* Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky ( 1619 – 1642 ), succeeded under special remainder by his older brother Richard

In Belgium, the title of Duke of Brabant ( historically the most prestigious in the Low Countries, and containing the federal capital Brussels ), if still vacant, has been awarded preferentially to the eldest son and heir presumptive of the king, other male dynasts receiving various lower historical titles ( much older than Belgium, and in principle never fallen to the Belgian crown ), such as Count of Flanders ( King Leopold III's so-titled brother held the title when he became the realm's temporary head of state as prince-regent ) and Prince of Liège ( a secularised version of the historical prince-bishopric ; e. g., the present King Albert II until he succeeded his older brother Baudouin I ).

In 1638 at the death of his older brother Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Charles Emmanuel succeeded to the duchy of Savoy at the age of 4.

He was eventually succeeded by his older brother, Colonel Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener.

Following his supposed death ( indicated, but not clearly portrayed, as he " falls " into the sky while clutching the Cavorite ), he was ironically succeeded as " M " by Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother.

During the reign of his older brother Theobald II he held the regency during many of Theobald's numerous absences and was declared heir by his childless brother, whom he succeeded in December 1270.

He had no sons, and his younger son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (" The Rebbe ") succeeded him as Lubavitcher Rebbe, while the older son-in-law, Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary led the Chabad Yeshiva network Tomchei Temimim.

He succeeded his older brother William, the 6th earl, in 1771 while he was only five.

The older brother became ill, died, and was succeeded by the younger brother Zhao Bing at the age of seven.

A devout Catholic, Mary became, in 1673, the second wife of James, Duke of York, who later succeeded his older brother Charles II as King James II.

He succeeded, moreover, in fully justifying his interpretation of those Scriptural passages upon which this ostracism had been founded by the older expounders of the Torah ( Sifra, Meẓora, end, and Shab.

In fact, rights to the Greek succession were passed onto his other older brother Luitpold, who technically succeeded to the Greek throne in 1867.

Such assumptions are often the point with which older theories are succeeded by new ones ( the general theory of relativity works in non-inertial reference frames as well ).

In 1553 Edward died and was succeeded — after the nine-day rule of Lady Jane Grey — by his older sister, the strongly Catholic Queen Mary.

Murad IV had himself succeeded their older brother Osman II in 1622, and had ordered his three other brothers executed.

This conflicting documentation has led to alternative interpretations, some modern historians concluding that he had succeeded his father in preference to his older half-brother Athelstan, while others maintain that Athelstan was the only heir to his father.

Granted lordship over Alamannia in 876 following the division of East Francia, he succeeded to the Italian throne upon the abdication of his older brother Carloman who had been incapacitated by a stroke.

Later that year his older brother Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk was killed at the Battle of Agincourt, and William succeeded as 4th Earl.

When their father Francesco died in 1466 ( the Last Supper was painted next to his burial place in Santa Maria delle Grazie ), he was succeeded by the dissolute Galeazzo Maria, Ludovico's older brother.

During his tenure as president, Kean succeeded in adding new faculty in African, Asian, Russian, and Middle Eastern Studies, significantly increased opportunities for students to study abroad, increased applications from prospective students, nearly tripled the school's endowment, and committed more than $ 60 million to construction of new buildings and renovation of older buildings — principally student residence halls.