He put his father and eighteen brothers to death and began negotiations with Heraclius, but died after a reign of a few months.

Porphyrogennetos claims that after two brothers inherited administration over Serbia ( i. e. White Serbia ) from their father, one of them, with half of the people, escaped to the Byzantine Empire ( i. e. to the Balkans ), which was governed by emperor Heraclius ( 610-641 ).

In the 7th century A. D., seven tribes led by 5 brothers ( Kluk, Lobel, Muhlo, Kosjenic and Hrvat ) and 2 sisters ( Buga and Tuga ) migrated to Dalmatia ( the coastal part of today's Croatia ) as part of the migration of the Croats in the 7th century, being invited to settle on this vastly depopulated area by Roman ( Byzantine ) Emperor Heraclius ( 610 – 641 ) in order to establish a shield against Avars for his state.

Suetonius writes that after the banishment of his mother and brothers, Caligula and his sisters were nothing more than prisoners of Tiberius under the close watch of soldiers.

The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were Roman plebeian nobiles who both served as tribunes in the late 2nd century BC.

Amongst the conspirators were two brothers of Brutus ' wife Vitellia, and Brutus ' two sons, Titus Junius Brutus and Tiberius Junius Brutus.

Only three survived childhood: Sempronia, married to her cousin Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus ; and the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, who would defy the political institutions of Rome, with their attempts at popular reforms.

Drusus and Livilla had three children, a daughter named Julia in 5 AD and twin brothers in 19 AD: of these Germanicus Gemellus died in 23, whereas Tiberius Gemellus survived his infancy.

Nero's siblings included four brothers ( Tiberius and Gaius Julius, who died young ; Drusus Caesar ; and the future Emperor Caligula ) and three sisters ( Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla ).

The brothers were charged with plotting against the Roman Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus, and Julius Caesar Drusus in 16.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Papa was disappointed that none of the brothers had heard the Call.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

As for the night being warm, he would have been comfortable naked on Mount Everest but his water brothers had little tolerance for changes in temperature and pressure ; ;

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

Andy Warhol had two older brothers — Pavol ( Paul ), the oldest, was born in Slovakia ; Ján was born in Pittsburgh.

From the marriage of Julia and Agrippa, Agrippina had four full-blood siblings: a sister Julia the Younger and three brothers: Gaius Caesar, Lucius Caesar and Agrippa Postumus.

She had three elder brothers, Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and the future Emperor Caligula, and two younger sisters, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

Alcmene refused to marry Amphitryon until he had avenged the death of her brothers.

Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.

Together with his father and brothers, Alexios had conspired against Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos ( c. 1183 ), and thus he spent several years in exile in Muslim courts, including that of Saladin.

However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.

The brothers had agreed that whichever of them outlived the other would inherit the personal property that King Æthelwulf had left jointly to his sons in his will.

Alfonso requested support from Braccio da Montone, who was besieging Joan's troops in L ' Aquila, but had to set sail for Spain, where a war had broken out between his brothers and the Kingdom of Castile.

Adalbert had five full brothers: Soběslav ( Slavnik's heir ), Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej, Čáslav and a half-brother Radim ( Gaudentius ) from his father's liaison with another woman.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

Upon the death of the king his father, Pandion II, Aegeus and his three brothers, Pallas, Nisos, and Lykos, took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

Benjamin had two younger brothers, John and Richard, who both went on to become distinguished artists.

`` Your brothers have been found.

The Colonna family ( aside from the three brothers allied with the Pope ) declared that Boniface had been elected illegally following the unprecedented abdication of Pope Celestine V three years previously.

One of Eugene's brothers, Louis Julius, had entered Imperial service the previous year, but he had been immediately killed fighting the Ottoman Turks in 1683.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Each of these brothers would ascend the throne as adopted heirs of Seinei, although it is unclear whether they had been " found " in Seinei's lifetime or only after that.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

Henry was 21 when he, his father and brothers captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco, that had long been a base for Barbary pirates who raided the Portuguese coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the African slave market.

His grandfather, Sebald Kepler, had been Lord Mayor of that town but, by the time Johannes was born, he had two brothers and one sister and the Kepler family fortune was in decline.

" Sixx also noted that the band may break-up in the near future: " The band sat down and had a pow-wow as brothers and friends and guys who've been doing this for over thirty years, and we said, ' When is it time?

* In " Heredity " ( 1941 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov, twin brothers who have been raised separately on Earth and Ganymede must work together to operate a Martian fungus farm.

FBI investigators used the resulting information gained, along with the fake address McVeigh had been using, to begin their search for the Nichols brothers, Terry and James.

That incarnation of the animation studio continued cartoon production until 1967, but has been historically dismissed as having largely failed to maintain the artistic acclaim the Fleischer brothers achieved under their management.

Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians.

The Josty company had been founded in 1793 by two Swiss brothers, Johann and Daniel Josty, who had emigrated to Berlin from Sils in Switzerland and set up a bakery from which the café was a 1796 offshoot.

The terms the three brothers accepted were less generous than those they had been offered earlier in the conflict ( when Richard was offered four castles in Aquitaine and half of the income from the duchy ) and Richard was given control of two castles in Poitou and half the income of Aquitaine ; Henry the Young King was given two castles in Normandy ; and Geoffrey was permitted half of Brittany.

The five prominent Musahiban brothers included Nadir Shah, the eldest, who had been Amānullāh's minister of war.

After entering Ramelle, Ryan is told of his brothers ' deaths, and their mission to bring him home, and that two lives had been lost in the quest to find him.

While dining with Saul, Jonathan pretends that David has been called away to his brothers.

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

The story ends with Alice recalling the speculation of the Tweedle brothers, that everything may have, in fact, been a dream of the Red King and that Alice might herself be no more than a figment of his imagination.