After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

Hasan Ali Shah was succeeded as Imam by his eldest son Aqa Ali Shah, who became Aga Khan II.

" Alaric's heirs were his eldest son, the illegitimate Gesalec, and his younger son, the legitimate Amalaric who was still a child.

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Sancho I of Portugal by his wife, Dulce, Infanta of Aragon.

Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Eleanor of Aragon.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

Amyntas died at an advanced age, leaving his throne to his eldest son.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes.

Kolbe was born in Elliehausen, near Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover ( Germany ) as the eldest son of a Protestant pastor.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius.

In 1834 his eldest son, Mohammed Mirza, succeeded Fath Ali Shah as the next king.

In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.

: In 1634, the eldest son of the raja of Jodhpur ran amok at the court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the emperor, but killing five of his officials.

Bal Thackeray lost his wife Meena to a heart attack in September 1995, and his eldest son Bindumadhav (" Binda ") to a road accident on 20 April 1996.

He was the second child and eldest son of Isaac D ' Israeli, a literary critic and historian, and Maria Basevi.

Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, ( – ) known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the eldest daughter of Gaston d ' Orléans, and his first wife Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier.

* Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston d ' Orléans, Count of Eu ( 28 April 1842 – 28 August 1922 ), who married Isabella, eldest daughter and heiress of Dom Pedro II of Brazil ;

He had previously been encouraged to court his older cousin the Duchess of Montpensier, eldest daughter of Gaston and his first wife Marie de Bourbon.

His eldest son, Gaston II, made peace with the house of Armagnac and took part in various wars both in France and Spain, dying at Seville in 1343, when he was succeeded by his young son, Gaston III.

This rumor was enhanced by another rumor that the French court was planning to marry Ferdinand to Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, the ( eldest ) daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the French king's brother.

* Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1627 – 1693 ), the eldest daughter of Gaston de France.

After 1662, Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, who was originally called Mademoiselle as the eldest daughter of Gaston duc d ' Orléans, became known as la Grande Mademoiselle at court, in order to distinguish her from her younger cousin, Marie Louise d ' Orléans, now also called Mademoiselle, as the daughter of Anne's first cousin, the new Monsieur.

Gaston IV of Foix was the eldest of their two sons.

* Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston d ' Orléans, Count of Eu ( 28 April 1842 – 28 August 1922 ), who married Isabella, eldest daughter and heiress of Dom Pedro II of Brazil ;

In 936 King Henry I of Germany died and his eldest son, Eadgyth's husband, was crowned at Aachen as King Otto I.

Tiberius, the eldest son of Augustus ' wife Livia by her first husband, was a Claudian by birth.

Baldwin was married to the Armenian noblewoman Morphia of Melitene, and had four daughters: Hodierna and Alice, who married into the families of the Count of Tripoli and Prince of Antioch ; Ioveta, who became an influential abbess ; and the eldest, Melisende, who was his heir and succeeded him upon his death in 1131, with her husband Fulk V of Anjou as king-consort.

However, two others have called, making Ender's trip not entirely in vain: they are Novinha's eldest son Miro, calling for someone to speak the death of Libo, who was killed the same way his father was ; and Novinha's eldest daughter Ela, calling for someone to speak the death of Novinha's husband Marcos Ribeira, who died not six weeks ago from a terminal disease.

Next, another brother-in-law took him on: John Salt, his eldest sister's husband.

Victoria's eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, becomes German Empress when her husband succeeds as Frederick III, German Emperor.

Along the road, Grampa dies and is buried in the camp ; Granma dies close to the California state line, both Noah ( the eldest Joad son ) and Connie ( the husband of the pregnant Joad daughter, Rose of Sharon ) split from the family ; the remaining members, led by Ma, realize they have no choice but to go on, as there is nothing remaining for them in Oklahoma.

Four of his sisters were considerably older than he ; the eldest, Lucilla, held the rank of Augusta as the widow of her first husband, Lucius Verus.

Over the next few years, she and her husband fought a constant battle against their eldest son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, who had been left behind in Germany when they came to England.

Caroline's eldest daughter Anne married William IV of Orange in 1734, and moved with her husband to the Netherlands.

The Marshal's career entered a new phase in 1170 when he was appointed to the household of Henry the Young King, eldest surviving son of Eleanor and her second husband Henry II of England, crowned that year as associate king to his father.

His eldest daughter Martha and her husband John Fontaine also lived with them on the plantation.

Clytemnestra had held a grudge against her husband Agamemnon for murdering their eldest daughter, Iphigenia, as sacrifice to Artemis or Athena ( disputed ).

In 1784, she and her daughter Nabby joined her husband and her eldest son, John Quincy, at her husband's diplomatic post in Paris.

Maud, devastated and heartbroken by the loss of her husband and two eldest children, was still determined to make a life for herself and her family in America, and in February 1913, Maud and her four remaining children sailed to New York aboard the White Star Line's Oceanic and settled in North Wales permanently.

He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, and was the brother of Marie Antoinette.

( It is possible this Hoel derives from Geoffrey's confused statement that Igraine's eldest daughter had by her first husband Howel which was misunderstood to refer instead to a supposed first husband of Igraine named Howel / Hoel.

Princess Augusta's eldest son succeeded as George III of the United Kingdom in 1760, as her husband, Frederick, Prince of Wales, had died nine years earlier.

Her husband, Malcolm III, and their eldest son, Edward, were killed in a fight against the English at the Battle of Alnwick on 13 November 1093.

Already ill, Margaret died on 16 November 1093, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son.

During the Glorious Revolution, James was deposed and the throne was occupied by Anne's eldest daughter Mary and her husband.

Charlotte decides to make a visit to her eldest daughter, Eva ( Liv Ullmann ) at her remote house, where she lives with her husband, Viktor ( Halvar Björk ).

Thomas Grey, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, and 1st Marquess of Dorset, KG ( c. 1455 – 20 September 1501 ), was an English nobleman, courtier and the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and her first husband John Grey of Groby.