* 1153-The Treaty of Wallingford ( Treaty of Winchester, Treaty of Westminster ), effectively ends the civil war caused by a dispute between Empress Matilda and her cousin King Stephen of England over the English crown, in which Stephen recognises Matilda's son Henry of Anjou as his heir.

* October 25 – King Stephen of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by Henry Plantagenet, the son of his cousin Matilda.

Upon the death of her father in 1135, Matilda was usurped to the throne by her rival and cousin Stephen of Blois, who moved quickly and became crowned King of England whilst Matilda was in Normandy, pregnant with her third child.

For this reason, she is normally excluded from lists of English monarchs, and her rival ( and cousin ) Stephen of Blois is listed as monarch for the period 1135 – 1154.

Her cousin Stephen of Blois was, like her, a grandchild of William ( the Conqueror ) of Normandy ; but her paternal line meant she was senior to Stephen in the line of succession.

King Stephen increased the number of earls to reward those loyal to him in his war with his cousin Empress Matilda.

His paternal grandmother, Mary, a daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary, declared her claim to Hungary following the death of her brother, King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, but the majority of the country accepted the rule of her distant cousin, King Andrew III.

The border districts submitted to her, but England chose her cousin Stephen of Blois for its king, and Normandy soon followed suit.

When she was 11, her cousin Stephen became prince of Transylvania, and he planned to unite Europe against the Turks.

He told his girlfriend that a cousin showed him a copy of his birth certificate after calling him a " bastard ", but he told biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth that he found the certificate himself.

Hill convinced John S. Kennedy ( a New York City banker ), Norman Kittson ( Hill's friend and a wealthy fur trader ), Donald Smith ( an executive with the Hudson's Bay Company ), George Stephen ( Smith's cousin and president of the Bank of Montreal ), and others to invest $ 5. 5 million in purchasing the railroad.

Until the king was declared adult in 1171 the government was controlled first by the chancellor Stephen du Perche, cousin of Margaret ( 1166 – 1168 ), and then by Walter Ophamil, archbishop of Palermo, and Matthew of Ajello, the vice-chancellor.

He was born in Poland, where his father had sought refuge after his father ( Ladislaus ' grandfather ) made an unsuccessful attempt against his cousin, Saint Stephen I, the first king of Hungary.

When he died, Matilda, also known as the Empress Maud, was in Normandy and her cousin Stephen of Blois managed to get back to London before she did, and claimed the throne-with the support of many barons who were unprepared for the novel idea of a woman ruler.

In the meantime, Uroš III's cousin Stephen Vladislav II mobilized local support from Rudnik, Stephen Dragutin's former appanage.

His initiation in history was on the death of Henry I in 1135, when Maud expected to succeed to the throne of England, but her cousin, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, breaking an oath he had previously made to defend her rights.

* Vlad Dracula, cousin of Stephen the Great

Samuel Parris ' distant cousin, Stephen Sewall, in Salem.

When Géza was born, his parents were living in the court of his mother's brother, King Casimir I of Poland, because Béla had been obliged to leave Hungary after his father made an unsuccessful attempt against his cousin, King Stephen, the first King of Hungary.

Rothrude of Rouen had sent word of her plea to Stephen du Perche, another cousin.

However, the elderly king's cousin, Vazul, who was suspected to be following pagan customs, took part in a conspiracy aimed at the murder of King Stephen.

During this time, he became closely associated with N. Osinskii and Vladimir Smirnov, and also met his future first wife, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Lukina, his cousin and the sister of Nikolai Lukin, who was also a member of the party.

The club was the place where local drug dealer Eazy-E and Jerry Heller would come to the conclusion of founding Ruthless Records and where Dr. Dre and DJ Yella met the group CIA which included future N. W. A member and Ice Cube, Dr. Dre's cousin Sir Jinx and K-Dee.

His father, Robert Campbell, R. N., was a first cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( 1801 – 1829 ), maternal cousin of Brainerd ; born Middle Haddam, Connecticut ; buried in Hampden-Sydney College Church cemetery, Virginia ; obelisk in Union Hill Cemetery, Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and Princeton Cemetery of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey ; Lawrenceville School ( N. J ), Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist ; primary founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall ( 1825 – 1930, now called Princeton Evangelical Fellowship ); one of some 20, 000 Americans listed in Appletons ' Cyclopedia of American Biography ( 6 vol., 1887 – 89 ).

Vail's cousin was Theodore N. Vail, who became the first president of American Telephone & Telegraph.

He is the older cousin of David N ' Gog, who plays for Bolton Wanderers F. C.

His younger brother, Ryan is a champion in the K & N Pro Series East division, while his cousin Curtis raced for JR Motorsports.

His first cousin Lewis N. Tappan also emigrated to Kansas in 1857 and was Secretary of the Senate under the Topeka Constitution.

This move was part of a business arrangement involving his cousin Lewis N. Tappan and the then relatively unknown Henry Villard who had both preceded him to the goldfields by a year.

Your cousin Finley saw to that.

He even hunted elephant, although the Asian elephant is not quite as ferocious as his African cousin.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

He refused his consent to the election of Quiney as bailiff in 1592, but gave it at the request of the recorder, his cousin Sir Fulke Greville.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

`` My cousin works at the Labor Bureau.

`` Oh he's a second cousin or something.

Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

She always let it be known that there was wine in the pot roast or that the chicken had been marinated in brandy, and that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate of theirs.

For two years his friend and cousin, Boisbriant, remained as acting governor and could do little to stem the Anglican advance.

The next week, cousin Red wandered in as casually, but curt and untidy.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

Admitted to the bar in 1836, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and began to practice law under John T. Stuart, Mary Todd's cousin.

Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

Cob, a close cousin to adobe, contains proportioned amounts of soil, clay, water, manure, and straw.

* Annia Galeria Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger ( between 125 – 130 – 175 ), a future Roman Empress, married her maternal cousin, future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 146.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.

In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

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.

His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.

He is the leader of the Trojans ' Dardanian allies, as well as a third cousin and principal lieutenant of Hector, son of the Trojan king Priam.