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.

His prominence as a stage actor began in 1986, when he was cast opposite Jack Lemmon, Peter Gallagher and Bethel Leslie as Jamie, the eldest Tyrone son in Jonathan Miller's lauded production of Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night.

In April 1783 he married Anna Maria Shipley, the eldest daughter of Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Landaff and Bishop of St Asaph.

He was trained for college by his father and elder sisters, all of whom received an excellent education and one of whom, Esther, the eldest, wrote a semi-humorous tract on the immateriality of the soul, often mistakenly attributed to Jonathan.

Lord Moyne died in 1992 at Biddesden, his home in Hampshire, and was succeeded by his eldest son Jonathan.

The title of Radnor later descended to his son, Charles ( 1660 – 1723 ), who was mentioned by Jonathan Swift in his Journal to Stella, and it became extinct on the death of the fourth earl, John Robartes ( 1686 – 1757 ), eldest son of Francis Robartes

Mystical Paths follows Nicholas Darrow, son of Jonathan, as he narrowly avoids going off the rails prior to his ordination while investigating the mysterious disappearance of Christian Aysgarth, eldest son of Dean Aysgarth.

His brothers were William, the eldest, an inventor ; Richard, a soldier who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo ; and Jonathan, a preacher tormented by madness who set fire to York Minster in 1829, for which he stood trial.

Jonathan, the third eldest brother, ( 1782 – 1838 ) achieved notoriety by setting fire to York Minster in February 1829.

In 1704-The will of Peregrine White ( which is owned by and displayed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth ), dated July 14, 1704 and proved August 14 of the same year states: Peregrine White of Marshfield ….. Being aged and under many Weaknesses and Bodily Infirmities devised to his wife Sarah everything not otherwise disposed of by the will to his eldest son Daniel … personal items and land .. as well as various personal items and land to daughters Sarah and Mercy and sons Jonathan and Peregrine.

Jonathan, the eldest son of Saul, has also been fighting the Philistines.

On 19 December 1734 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Forward, and by her had issue, including an eldest son, George, born 1735.

Queensberry has an eldest but illegitimate son, Ambrose Jonathan Carey ( b. 1961 ), head of a British security and intelligence firm, whose half-sister Caroline Carey ( b. 1959 ), an English art student, married the late Salem bin Laden, prior head of the global Bin Laden family corporation.

He was born on January 24, 1820, on the family farm near Lima, New York, a son and the eldest child of Lavinia Brockway, the daughter of Clark Brockway and Sally Wade and Jarvis Raymond, the son of Jonathan P. Raymond and Hannah Jarvis.

Al-Arian's eldest daughter, Laila Al-Arian, is a producer for Al Jazeera English in Washington, DC, and a freelance journalist and contributor to the Huffington Post and The Nation.

He was the eldest son of the former communist author and journalist, Claud Cockburn, by his third wife, Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot ( who also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight ).

His eldest son, Thompson Cooper ( 1837-1904 ), was a journalist and Dictionary of National Biography contributor.

He was a prominent author, journalist and sports official and served as President of the International Olympic Committee from between 1972 and 1980. the titles are held by his eldest son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1999.

Letizia is the eldest daughter of Jesús José Ortiz Álvarez ( born in Oviedo on 24 December 1949 ), a journalist, and first wife María de la Paloma Rocasolano Rodríguez, ( born in Madrid on 15 April 1952 ) a registered nurse and also a hospital union representative.

Auberon Alexander Waugh (; 17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001 ) was an English journalist, and eldest son of Evelyn Waugh.

Sinclair's eldest son, Gord Sinclair ( 1928-2002 ), was also a successful and respected radio journalist in Montreal, as well as the majority owner of CFOX ( AM ).

Born in London, he was the eldest of the eleven children of John Forbes-Robertson, a theatre critic and journalist from Aberdeen, and his wife Frances.

Marion Mahony Griffin was born in 1871 Chicago, the second child and eldest daughter of the five surviving children of Jeremiah Mahony, a journalist from Cork, Ireland, and Clara Hamilton, a schoolteacher.

Born on Christmas day 1943, Wilson Fittipaldi Jr is the eldest son of prominent motorsports journalist and radio commentator Wilson Sr and his wife Juzy, who had both raced production cars shortly after the Second World War.

Jean-Jacques Schreiber ( his birth name ) was born in Paris, the eldest son of Emile Servan-Schreiber, journalist, who founded the financial newspaper Les Échos, and Denise Brésard.

His eldest half-sister Siti Rohana ( nicknamed the Minangkabau Kartini ) was an advocate for women's education and a journalist with the first feminist newspaper of Sumatra.

Born in Rome as the eldest daughter of celebrated Italian political commentator and journalist Paolo Guzzanti ( former senator of Forza Italia, incumbent deputy and deputy secretary for Italian liberal party ), she graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts of Rome.