Rupert's granduncle was Emperor Louis IV.

This proclamation was based on his succession rights to territories held by his childless granduncle, the late Charles XII of Sweden who also had been Grand Duke of Finland.

His birth was hailed as " godgiven " and the people of France bought him the Château de Chambord in celebration of his birth. As a result his granduncle, Louis XVIII, added the title Count de Chambord hence Henry, Count of Chambord, the name by which he is usually known.

Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester ( his maternal granduncle ); Princess Alexandra of Kent ( his 1st cousin once removed ); the Earl of Euston ; the Lord Elphinstone ( his 1st cousin once removed ); and Mrs Harold Phillips, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

His father, though a merchant, devoted much of his time to Torah studies ; his grandfather, Mendel Frankfurter, was the founder of the Talmud Torah in Hamburg and unsalaried assistant rabbi of the neighboring congregation of Altona ; and his granduncle, Löb Frankfurter, was the author of several Hebrew works, including Harechasim le-Bik ' ah ( הרכסים לבקעה ), a Torah commentary.

His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry, ( he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi ) and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis ( c. 1782 – 1829 ), a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became one of the first admirals of the Greek navy.

Oliver Coogan notes in his Politics and War in Meath 1913 – 23 that Bruton's granduncle was one of the farmers in south Meath who prevented the traditionally Anglo-Irish ascendency hunt from proceeding in the area during the Irish War of Independence.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

The Princess was baptised in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace, on 9 February 1937, and her godparents were: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ( her paternal uncle and aunt ); the Queen of Norway ( her grandaunt ); Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark ( her maternal grandmother ); Princess Olga of Yugoslavia ( her maternal aunt ); the Princess Beatrice ( her paternal great-grandaunt ); the Earl of Athlone ( her paternal granduncle ); and count Karl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach ( her maternal uncle by marriage ).

At his christening on 4 August 1942 at the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle, his godparents were: King George VI ( his paternal uncle ); the Queen of the Netherlands ( for whom her son-in-law Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands stood proxy ); the King of Norway ( his granduncle ); the President of the United States of America ( for whom the Duke of Kent stood proxy ) ; the Crown Princess of Greece ( who was not present ); the Duke of Gloucester ( his paternal uncle, who was absent ); the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven ( his grandfather King George V's cousin ); and the Lady Patricia Ramsay ( his grandfather King George V's cousin ).

She was baptised near the end of 1906, and her godparents were: the King of Greece ( her paternal grandfather ); the King of the United Kingdom ( her granduncle ); the Princess of Wales ; Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark ( her paternal uncle ); Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia ( her maternal uncle ); and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( her maternal aunt ).

She was christened Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth at Bagshot Park on 1 May 1886 and her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her paternal grandmother ); the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( her paternal granduncle, who was represented by her paternal uncle Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ); the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Oldenburg ( her maternal aunt ); Prince Wilhelm of Prussia ( her cousin, for whom the German Ambassador, Count Hatzfeldt, stood proxy ); Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ( her paternal aunt ); and Prince Albert of Prussia ( her cousin, for whom her maternal uncle the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg stood proxy ).

Several years later, Bingyi's granduncle Emperor Zhao found out that Bingyi was alive, and ordered that the Ministry of Imperial Clan Affairs take over the duty for caring for Bingyi.

He was briefly deposed by his granduncle Sima Lun, who usurped the throne himself, in 301, but later that year was restored to the throne and continued to be the emperor until 307, when he was poisoned, likely by the regent Sima Yue.

In 1703 Yinreng's granduncle Songgotu was found guilty of attempting to murder the Kangxi Emperor, along with a series of corruption charges, and was imprisoned and died shortly afterwards.

Prince of Anhua was Zhengde's great-granduncle, while Prince of Ning was his granduncle.

He was subsequently demoted to be the assistant to Emperor Xianzong's granduncle Li Lian ( 李連 ) the Prince of En, and he was denied further access to the emperor's presence.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.

In many others, the previous patenting of land under the public land laws, or the way in which land was available for purchase, resulted in a scattered pattern of ownership.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.

About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.

In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

The disagreement was over what Dr. Jenkins had said at a previous session and how his remarks appeared in the minutes presented at the following meeting.

On a quarter-to-quarter comparison, the first quarter of 1961 total of 9,273 cars was 21 per cent behind the previous year's 3-month total of 11,744.

Central was rebuffed by the other two railroads in previous attempts to make it a three-way merger.

On this day the wind had switched 180-degrees from the northwest to the southeast, and nearly every shot on the course was different from the previous few days.

He has been on previous Newport programs and was one of the sensations of last year's afternoon concerts.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

This model was able to explain observations of atomic behavior that previous models could not, such as certain structural and spectral patterns of atoms larger than hydrogen.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.

Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

Her sister Hedwig of Andechs married Henry I, duke of Silesia and was canonized as Saint Hedwig in 1267.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.

Groningen was captured, but soon afterwards the duke died at Emden.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

The first native Croatian ruler recognised by the Pope was duke Branimir, whom Pope John VIII referred to as Dux Croatorum (" Duke of Croats ") in 879.

At least one of the two grandees was a retainer of the Ji family, although according to probably both were, but they were unable to refuse the orders while in the presence of the duke, viscounts, and court.

It was already called a civitas in a 1288 document issued by the Piast duke Henry V of Legnica, and officially received town privileges in 1333.

Martel was born in Herstal, the illegitimate son of duke Pepin II and his concubine Alpaida.

In 718, Chilperic responded to Charles ' new ascendancy by making an alliance with Odo the Great ( or Eudes, as he is sometimes known ), the duke of Aquitaine, who had made himself independent during the civil war in 715, but was again defeated, at the Battle of Soissons, by Charles.