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He had an elder brother, John ( the father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing Baronets ).
Revolts broke out during the 9-year reign of his son, Rimush ( 2278 – 2270 BC ), who fought hard to retain the empire — and in the fifteen year reign of Rimush's elder brother, Manishtushu ( 2269 – 2255 BC ).
Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.
Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).
Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.
He had a brother William four years his elder and an older sister Elizabeth, who died in childhood.
As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.
* Infante Gonzalo Manuel Maria Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio of Spain ( 1914 – 1934 ), a hemophiliac, like his elder brother Alfonso.
In Robert de Boron's Merlin he is called simply Pendragon and his younger brother is named Uter, which he changes to Uterpendragon after the death of the elder sibling.
Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.
His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington.
Arcadius was born in Hispania, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor.
He twice ran away from home without permission to hear his elder brother play violin concertos in neighboring churches on festival days ( resulting in the loss of his beloved sugar ), and he also recounted being chastised by his father after failing to greet a local priest with proper respect.
* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.
His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is a former defender for Leeds United and manager.
His elder brother, Jack, initially went to work applying to the Police Service before also becoming a professional footballer with Leeds United.
Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).
He had an elder brother William, and a sister Agnes who died in childhood.
*** The Classic of Filial Piety is a very small classical book on how to behave towards a senior, be it one's father, an elder brother, or the ruler.
Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, Prince of Wales, whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate.
His elder brother Matlatzincatzin, who had been cihuacoatl (" president "), resigned upon Cuitláhuac's death.
Thubten Jigme Norbu, the elder brother of the present 14th Dalai Lama, describes these unfortunate events as follows:
As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago ( which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother ) after his most productive year.

elder and king
* An elder brother, Saint Leander of Seville, immediately preceded Saint Isidore as Archbishop of Seville and, while in office, opposed king Liuvigild.
John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.
When John's elder brother Richard became king in September 1189, he had already declared his intention of joining the Third Crusade.
Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).
His memoirs elaborated further, describing as a pivotal moment his disappointment upon meeting Henri, Count of Chambord, whom the elder Coubertin believed to be the rightful king.
He was also an elder brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ; Joan of England ; and John, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him as king.
His elder brother Henry was crowned king of England during his father's lifetime.
While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.
Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.
Widewuto ( also Viduutus, Vidvutus, Witowudi, Waidewut ) was a legendary king of the pagan Prussians who ruled along with his elder brother, the high priest Bruteno in the 6th century AD.
After entrusting England to his second son, the elder William sent the younger William back to England on 7 or 8 September, bearing a letter to Lanfranc ordering the archbishop to aid the new king.
Cisseus, father-in-law to the Trojan elder Antenor, is also given as a Thracian king.
Their elder brother Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary became king of Hungary and Bohemia.
This style was adopted because the normal style for the widow of a king, " Queen Elizabeth ", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II.
) was the king of England from 946 until his death in 955, in succession to his elder brother Edmund I.
Tostig was at odds with his elder brother Harold ( who had been elected king ), having been ousted from his position as Earl of Northumbria and exiled in 1065, and had mounted a series of abortive attacks on England in the spring of 1066.
William supported King John when he became king in 1199, arguing against those who maintained the claims of Arthur of Brittany, the teenage son of John's elder brother Geoffrey Plantagenet.
With the support of king Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona, they drove Alfonso Fróilaz to the eastern marches of Asturias, and divided the kingdom among themselves with Alfonso Ordóñez receiving the crown of León and his elder brother Sancho being acclaimed king in Galicia.
While still Duke, he was involved in the plot for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ( but did not participate ), in which thousands of Huguenots were killed ; his reign as king, like the ones of his elder brothers Francis II and Charles IX, would see France in constant turmoil over religion.
* Aegialeus ( king of Argos ), elder son of Adrastus, a king of Argos

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