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

After the death of Fulk in a hunting accident in 1143, the throne passed jointly to Melisende and Amalric's older brother Baldwin III, who was still only 13 years old.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Baldwin died without heirs in 1118, during a campaign against Egypt, and the kingdom was offered to his brother Eustace III of Boulogne, who had accompanied Baldwin and Godfrey on the crusade.

When Baldwin died childless in 1162, a year after his mother Melisende, the kingdom passed to his brother Amalric, who renewed the alliance negotiated by Baldwin.

At Easter in 1180, Raymond and his cousin Bohemond III of Antioch attempted to force Sibylla to marry Balian's brother Baldwin of Ibelin.

Before Raymond and Bohemond arrived, Agnes and King Baldwin arranged for Sibylla to be married to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother Amalric of Lusignan was already an established figure at court.

Stephen responded by sending Richard's brother Baldwin and the Marcher Lord Robert Fitz Harold of Ewyas into Wales to pacify the region.

Baldwin was the sister of Charlotte Rice, the wife of William Rice's brother Frederick.

Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.

This left Flanders in the grip of a succession crisis ; Baldwin VI's widow was ruling for her two young sons, but her rule was contested by Robert, Baldwin's brother.

* December 25 – Baldwin I becomes King of Jerusalem in replacement of his late brother Godefroy de Bouillon.

Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders ( reigned 1067 – 1070 ) was effectively succeeded by his brother Robert I ( reigned 1071 – 1093 ), rather than his own sons.

Jerusalem's first three rulers, Godfrey of Bouillon ( 1099 – 1100 ), his brother Baldwin I ( 1100 – 1118 ), and their cousin Baldwin II ( 1118 – 1131 ), expanded and secured the kingdom's borders, which encompassed roughly the same territory as modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.

Before Raymond and Bohemond arrived, however, Agnes and King Baldwin arranged for Sibylla to be married to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother Amalric of Lusignan was already an established figure at court.

Baldwin was succeeded by his younger brother, Henry of Flanders, who took the throne on August 20, 1206.

Among the slain crusaders were: Bishop Peter of Bethlehem, Stephen of Perche, brother to Count Geoffry, Renaud of Montmirail, brother of the Count of Nevers, Matthew of Wallincourt, Robert of Ronsoi, John of Friaise, Walter of Neuilli, Ferri of Yerres, John's brother, Eustace of Heumont and John's other brother, Baldwin of Neuville.

When his youngest brother king Baldwin I of Jerusalem died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne.

They found a leader in Sancho's brother Afonso, count of Boulogne, who owed his title to a marriage with Matilda, countess of Boulogne.

Aside from Adhemar and Raymond, other leaders he recruited throughout 1096 included Bohemond of Taranto, a southern Italian ally of the reform popes ; Bohemond's nephew Tancred ; Godfrey of Bouillon, who had previously been an anti-reform ally of the Holy Roman Emperor ; his brother Baldwin of Boulogne ; Hugh I, Count of Vermandois, brother of the excommunicated Philip I of France ; Robert Curthose, brother of William II of England ; and his relatives Stephen II, Count of Blois and Robert II, Count of Flanders.

Tancred and Bohemond, as well as Godfrey, Baldwin, and their older brother Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, are examples of families who crusaded together.

Baldwin was a son of Eustace II of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine ( daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine ), and the younger brother of Eustace III of Boulogne and Godfrey of Bouillon.

In 1246 recalcitrant nobles invited Sancho's brother Afonso, then living in France as Consort Count of Boulogne, to take the throne.

Although Eustace of Boulogne had a better claim as the late Baldwin's brother, he was in France and did not want the title.

Despite their former hostility, Joscelin fully endorsed Baldwin II, over the candidacy of Baldwin I's brother Eustace III of Boulogne.

At the death of their father in 918, Arnulf became Count of Flanders while his brother Adeloft or Adelolf succeeded to the County of Boulogne.

In order to simplify the problem of supplies, the Crusader army had split into two groups ; the weaker led by Bohemond of Taranto, his nephew Tancred, Robert Curthose, Robert of Flanders, and the Byzantine general Taticius in the vanguard, and Godfrey of Bouillon, his brother Baldwin of Boulogne, Raymond IV of Toulouse, Stephen II, and Hugh of Vermandois in the rear.

John Dudley became his father's heir after his eldest brother Henry was killed in 1544 during the siege of Boulogne under King Henry VIII.

A coalition of all of Henry's enemies was set up by Louis VII: King Stephen of England and his son Eustace IV of Boulogne ( married to Louis ' sister ), Henry the Liberal ( promised to Eleanor's daughter ), Robert of Dreux ( Louis VII's brother ) and Geoffrey who no longer had hope of being given Anjou.

Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864.

When his elder brother, Eustace IV of Boulogne, died in 1153, William was passed over in the succession to England.

It was only after the death of his brother that as sole ruler he could successfully undertake and carry out reformation in the Franconian territories, with the assistance of councillors such as Johann von Schwarzenberg and through the new resolutions of the state assembly of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1528 ).

About 776 his brother Arichis had been carried as a prisoner to Francia, and when five years later the Frankish king visited Rome, Paul successfully wrote to him on behalf of the captive.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

After returning home, Jamal sent his brother Ahmad with the Christian battle-expert Harb Jaush to successfully attack the province of Dawaro.

The incident successfully removed any military threat from the bishops, but it may have damaged Stephen's relationship with the senior clergy, and in particular with his brother Henry.

Alvin successfully negotiates the price down, and explains his mission, which he calls ' a hard swallow to pride ', but ' A brother is a brother.

He leads the people to successfully establish a righteous nation, but as Jared and his brother grow old their people desire that they appoint a king to govern in their stead.

* July 24 – Sack of Cuenca ( Third Carlist War ): After Carlist forces successfully defended Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, led 14, 000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca 136 km from Madrid, held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano.

" Steve Huey of Allmusic asserted that despite being born into a family of entertainers, Janet Jackson has managed to emerge a " superstar " in her own right, rivaling not only several female recording artists including Madonna and Whitney Houston, but also her brother, while " successfully her image from a strong, independent young woman to a sexy, mature adult.

He also may have been goaded into films by his brother Lionel and his uncle Sidney, who had both been successfully making movies for a couple of years.

While the general campaigned successfully on the Rhine, the young emperor remained at Vienne, in contrast to his warrior father and his older brother, who had campaigned at his age.

Less successfully, Stanley ’ s brother William unwisely supported the later pretender Perkin Warbeck, and was, at last, executed for treason in 1495.

Edward II of England, as Duke of Aquitaine, owed homage to the King of France ; Edward had successfully avoided paying homage under Charles ' older brother Louis X, and had only paid homage to Philip V under great pressure.

Luigi returns to Gadd with Mario, who has been sealed within a portrait by King Boo, and successfully breaks the seal to save his brother.

The incident successfully removed any military threat from the bishops, but it may have damaged Stephen's relationship with the senior clergy, and in particular with his brother Henry.

Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, the world's first ' internal combustion engine ', which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude, finally receiving a patent on July 20, 1807 from the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, after successfully powering a boat upstream on the river Saône.

The A500 was the little brother of an equally successful A2000 ( aimed at businesses ) and had successfully penetrated the home computer market.

Many nobles in Schleswig and Holstein preferred John ’ s much younger brother Frederick, but John successfully argued for electing both the late king's sons as co-dukes.

The speech reveals Richard's jealousy and ambition, as his brother rules the country successfully.

Spurned by Blake, Alexis finds his estranged brother Ben ( Christopher Cazenove ) and the two successfully plot to strip Blake of his fortune.

Thus, for example, to successfully search for " Halizah " ( the ceremony by which the widow of a brother who has died childless released her brother-in-law from the obligation of marrying her ), one would have to know that they have transliterated this as " Ḥaliẓah ".

He successfully fought off a rebellion by his brother Harald and after reigning for seven years he abdicated " repenting that he had put out his brother's eyes " and went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he died.

At the age of nineteen he made his first speech at the bar, and shortly afterwards successfully defended Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, one of Rome's dependants in the East, who had been deprived of his throne by his brother.