* 1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert, brother-in-law of Sir Walter Raleigh, claims Newfoundland as England's first overseas colony.

Humphrey de Bohun was ransomed by Edward II, his brother-in-law, on the pleading of his wife Elizabeth.

After his marriage Israel ben Eliezer did not remain long with his brother-in-law, who was ashamed of him ( for he kept up the pretense of being an ignorant fellow ); and he went to a village in the Carpathians between Brody and Kassowa.

In October 1716, Townshend's colleague, James Stanhope afterwards 1st Earl Stanhope, accompanied the king on his visit to Hanover, and while there he was seduced from his allegiance to his fellow ministers by Sunderland, George being led to believe that Townshend and his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Walpole, were caballing with the Prince of Wales, their intention being that the prince should supplant his father on the throne.

Charles III was still living and claiming the kingdom at the time, but Rudolph's brother-in-law, the Carolingian Count Herbert II of Vermandois, who was married to Emma's sister, tricked Charles, a fellow Carolingian, into meeting him and took him prisoner.

His brother-in-law and fellow Constructivist promoter was the writer Jacques G. Costin, known as a survivor of 1940s antisemitism.

After that he had a spell playing for Huddersfield in England alongside fellow Queenslander and future brother-in-law Greg Vievers.

At the same time, Dundee-based publishers D. C. Thomson & Co., to whom he had been introduced by his brother-in-law, fellow cartoonist Ken Holroyd, invited him to contribute to The Beano.

However as the trial began in July 1990, Peter Lane, his brother-in-law and fellow smuggler, wrote to Marks to inform him that he was going to testify against Marks in court in order to get a more lenient sentence himself.

He thus became the brother-in-law of fellow wrestlers Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Ross Hart, Keith Hart, and Davey Boy Smith, and later the uncle of wrestlers Teddy Hart and Harry Smith.

The act of St Wolstan's, introduced in September 1536 as a special commission of dissolution, assured Aylmer and his fellow chief justice and brother-in-law Thomas Luttrell an annual rent of £ 4 during the life of Sir Richard Weston, the last prior, while Alen was granted the monastery estates.

That night, a patrol group accosts Jeanne ’ s brother-in-law, Kaz, and his fellow workers and accuses them of sabotage.

Alexander is the brother-in-law of fellow former Penrith, NSW and Australian team mate player, Mark Geyer, and of former Penrith, Western Reds and Newcastle Second Rower, Peter Shiels, both of whom married his sisters.

He is the brother-in-law of fellow Romanian international Gheorghe Hagi.

Abul-Fath Khan Javanshir, was one of the sons of the Ibrahim-Khalil Javanshir, that through his sister brother-in-law of Fath-Alī Shah Qajar. In the First Russo-Persian War Abul-Fath Khan supported the Iranians and fought on the side of the crown prince Abbas Mirza. After Karabakh was ceded to Russia ; and even before it, Abul-Fath Khan withdrew from Karabakh along with his fellow tribesmen, and Abbās Mirza made him governor of Dezmār.

He was the brother-in-law of fellow Confederate general Frank C. Armstrong.

Calhoun was also the brother-in-law of fellow Clan member Myles Moylan.

His exact birthplace has not been precisely identified but was probably Yew Tree Cottage ( built in the early 16th century ) as in 1820 – the year before his retirement and move to Tilford – the house was surrendered by a William Beldham to a John Wells ( the significance being that Beldham's brother-in-law was fellow cricketer " Honest " John Wells ): additionally, there is a strong local tradition that this was his birthplace.

* Use of ' machan ' when speaking between fellow Sri Lankans ( mostly among men ), equivalent to mate, original meaning " brother-in-law " in Tamil.

He had his father-in-law Marcus Junius Silanus and his brother-in-law Marcus Lepidus executed as well.

Anatoli was the son-in-law ( and possibly also the brother-in-law ) of Samuel ibn Tibbon, the well known translator of Maimonides.

Neither partner was faithful: beginning in 1503, Lucrezia enjoyed a long relationship with her brother-in-law, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet Pietro Bembo.

Naseem's disaffection only increased when the parliament began investigating financial irregularities under Nasir as well as the murder of inmates and torture in Villingili Prison in the early 1970s, which implicated his brother-in-law, the erstwhile strongman Abdul Hannan Haleem who was Nasir's Minister for Public Safety.

One well known Terre Haute legend is the story of Stiffy Green, a stone bulldog that allegedly at one time guarded the mausoleum of florist John G. Heinl, the brother-in-law of Eugene V. Debs and the father of esteemed journalist Robert Debs Heinl, which is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery.

It was in Park Hill that Chief John Ross made his home in 1839, as well as his brother-in-law George Murrell, whose home still stands.

The area was initially settled in the late 1790s upon the arrival of brothers Joseph and Andrew Barnett, as well as their brother-in-law Samuel Scott, who together established the first settlement at the confluence of the Sandy Lick and Mill Creeks in the area now known as Port Barnett.

As well as defeating these direct attacks Coke also travelled to Cardiff to answer a challenge by Francis Dacre, brother-in-law to Philip Howard – he proved that Dacre's evidence was false and had the case dismissed.

Following the release of their 1969 Grammy Award winning hit, " It's Your Thing " and subsequent other hits on their own label, the family eventually grew to include younger brothers Ernie and Marvin Isley as well as brother-in-law Chris Jasper.

He narrowly escaped assassination in the February 26 Incident of 1936, largely because rebel troops killed his brother-in-law by mistake, as well as his personal secretary, Colonel Denzō Matsuo.

Although he had developed symptoms on February 15, he felt well enough to travel, shop, and sight-see with his brother-in-law.

The various political leaderships raised among Integralistm dispersed into various ideological positions during subsequent political struggles, including many of the former members of the partcipants in the 1964 military coup that was to overthrow President João Goulart, as well as Goulart's Foreign Minister Santiago Dantas, the Catholic bishop D. Hélder Câmara, and the Brazilian populist leader ( and Goulart's brother-in-law ) Leonel Brizola.

Murat married Caroline Bonaparte in a civil ceremony on 20 January 1800 at Mortefontaine and religiously on 4 January 1802 in Paris, thus becoming a son-in-law of Letizia Ramolino as well as brother-in-law to Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon I of France, Lucien Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte and Jérôme Bonaparte.

* A letter of Hadrian written from Egypt to his brother-in-law Servianus is quoted at length ( and was accepted as genuine by many authorities well into the 20th century ).

Margaret subsequently failed as well to influence her nephew Edward I of England to avoid a marriage project for one of his daughters that would promote the interests in her native Provence of her brother-in-law, Charles of Anjou, who had married her youngest sister Beatrice.

He was a Capo and later the acting underboss of the DiMeo Crime Family, as well as Tony Soprano's brother-in-law.

The other was Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the late king's brother-in-law and the brother of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Their contest for power would determine the course of Hungary's history, and that of Transylvania as well.

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's brother was the well known Jewish author, Aharon Ruveny, and his brother-in-law was the Israeli archaeologist, Prof. Benjamin Mazar.

During 1554 Jane Dudley, John's mother, and his brother-in-law, Henry Sidney, were busy befriending the Spanish nobles around the new king consort, Prince Philip of Spain, as well in England as in Spain.

Adam, bitter over the loss of his wife Isis and brother-in-law Osiris during the events of 52 as well as his failure to resurrect the former, gives Mary his powers instead of killing her.

It was reported to King George and Queen Mary by his Tory brother-in-law, the Duke of Westminster, who hoped to ruin the Liberal Party through Beauchamp, as well as Beauchamp personally due a private dislike he had taken.

By mid-season, in order to raise more money, Phyllis had opened the mansion to boarders, attracting a " nutty " collection of tenants as well, a group that included Paul Lynde as her hopeless brother, John Astin as her brother-in-law, and Marty Ingels as a handyman.

Although his foreign minister, Ottokar Czernin, was interested in negotiating only a general peace that would include Germany as well, Charles himself, in negotiations with the French with his brother-in-law, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, an officer in the Belgian army, as an intermediary, went much further in suggesting his willingness to make a separate peace.

The actions taken against Pătrăşcanu and others signaled the start of a wave of arrests and prison sentences, including that of his wife, as well as those of Harry Brauner, Lena Constante, Petre Pandrea ( who was Pătrăşcanu's brother-in-law ), Herant Torosian, Mocsony Stârcea, Calmanovici, Victoria Sârbu ( who had been Ştefan Foriş ' lover ), and Alexandru Ştefănescu.