Cumhall abducted Muirne after her father refused him her hand, so Tadg appealed to the High King, Conn of the Hundred Battles, who outlawed him.

Attempts to link him with the nursery character Old King Cole and Fionn's father Cumhall have been rejected by contemporary learned commentators

* Cumhall: Fionn's father, the former leader

Cumhall ( earlier Cumall, pronounced roughly " Coo-al " or " Cool ") son of Trénmór (" strong-great ") is a figure in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, a leader of the fianna and the father of Fionn mac Cumhaill.

As a warrior he had served honorably alongside his father Babur during the Battle of Khanwa while he was just seventeen years old.

Galahad, illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine, the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic, is destined to achieve the Grail, his spiritual purity making him a greater warrior than even his illustrious father.

Xena gave her first son, Solan to a group of centaurs after the death of his father, Borias, who was killed in combat against a warrior in Xena's employ.

Since he lost most of his battles, his eldest son, Vladimir Monomakh, a grand and famous warrior, did most of the fighting for his father.

While the general campaigned successfully on the Rhine, the young emperor remained at Vienne, in contrast to his warrior father and his older brother, who had campaigned at his age.

Tydeus was Athena ’ s favourite warrior at the time, and when he was dying she wanted to offer him a magic elixir ( which she had obtained from her father ) that would make him immortal.

He was the father of the Greek warrior Diomedes, who is frequently known by the patronymic Tydides.

, " strength of Ida ") was a Cretan warrior, father of Orsilochus, Cleisithyra, Leucus and Iphiclus, son of Deucalion and Cleopatra, grandson of Minos and king of Crete.

According to the legend, she stayed with the Macedonian king for 13 days and nights in the hope that the great warrior would father a daughter by her.

" Livy's version has him uttering this prayer: " Tiberinus, holy father, I pray thee to receive into thy propitious stream these arms and this thy warrior ," which is not inconsistent with Roman beliefs in the genius of a place.

Cú Chulainn and Emer fall in love, but her father Forgall forbids the union until Cú Chulainn has completed his warrior training.

The male had to show the woman ’ s father his skills as a hunter or warrior.

Tecumseh resolved to become a warrior like his father and to be " a fire spreading over the hill and valley, consuming the race of dark souls.

Although the Judeo-Christian God is typically described in masculine terms — such as father, king, warrior — many theologians argue that this is not meant to indicate the gender of God.

Jim is sent to infiltrate and investigate, and discovers the mysterious gray Men behind Cliaand's success, encounters a world of feisty warrior women, and becomes father of twins ( James and Bolivar ).

She's a Viking warrior like her father, her weapons of choice are a spear and shield.

* Conn of the Hundred Battles-Red Branch warrior and father of Cullen who tries to avenge his son's death but is also killed by Slaine.

" The younger son ( Tsunayoshi ) apparently distinguished himself by his precociousness and liveliness at an early age, and the father, the third shogun, Iemitsu, became fearful that he might usurp the position of his duller elder brothers thus he ordered that the boy ( Tsunayoshi ) not to be brought up as a warrior, as was becoming for his station, but be trained as a scholar ,"

His two sons, Robert and Hugh, divided his property between them ; Robert joined the church, while Hugh took on his father ’ s mantle of warrior politician.

Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan displayed considerable skill as a warrior and before he reached his teens began accompanying his father into battle.

Parashurama then destroyed the kshatriya (" warrior ") race 21 times and his father is resurrected by divine grace.

He was born while his father was on a tour of the neighbouring state of Assam, spreading God's word. There is a famous saying that a ruler was destined to be born in a land where, intelligent and strong he would lead the Sikhs as a brave warrior and so it was that he was born by the side of the Holy Ganges ( present day Patna Sahib ) where he learned Persian and Sanskrit when he was a child and was also trained to become a warrior.

A rebellious young man, Shaka was estranged from his father, who was a Zulu chief named Senzangakhona, and became a warrior with the Mthethwa people.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Danish tradition has preserved record of two governors of Schleswig, father and son, in their service, Frowinus ( Freawine ) and Wigo ( Wig ), from whom the royal family of Wessex claimed descent.

The young emperor was raised by the regent, Bayram Khān, an Iranian statesman whose father and grandfather had joined Babur's service.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

It was on this trip that Doke's father contracted enteric fever and died soon afterwards ( Gandhi attended the memorial service and addressed the congregation ).

Harry then accompanied either both parents or his father on subsequent tours, though he only began solo official engagements after his military training and active service.

Pelias ' daughters saw this and wanted the same service for their father.

Senior members of the Royal Family may also be appointed — Prince Philip is a member, the most senior at present in terms of service, and is the only present member not to be appointed by the current monarch, having been appointed to the council by her father.

Steiner's father, Johann ( es ) Steiner ( 23 June 1829, Geras or Trabenreith, Irnfritz-Messern and lived Geras Abbey, Waldviertel – 1910, Horn ), left a position as a gamekeeper in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie ( 8 May 1834, Horn, Waldviertel – 1918, Horn ), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.

Solomon's father Mintus was a freedman, who had been a slave in the early part of his life in service to the Northup family.

His father, Hyder Ali, was a military officer in service to the Kingdom of Mysore ; he rapidly rose in power, and became the de facto ruler of Mysore in 1761.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

Let the Government labour to its utmost, let the Legislature labour days and nights in your service ; but, after the very best has been attained and achieved, the question whether the English father is to be the father of a happy family and the centre of a united home is a question which must depend mainly upon himself.

The crews had to be rewarded for their service and to pay them, he levied a geld of more than 21, 000 pounds, a huge sum of money which made him unpopular, although it was only a quarter of the amount his father had raised in similar circumstances in 1017-1018.

Caravaggio, a Canadian who served in Britain's foreign intelligence service since the late 1930s, was a friend of Hana's father, who died in the war.

His father worked in the public service, while his mother was a teacher.

Her father later owned and operated a service station in the black section of Birmingham.

He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal.

Though his father wished him to continue in either the military or the civil service, Bakunin abandoned both in 1835, and made his way to Moscow, hoping to study philosophy.

Through the influence of his father, Miguel de Zurita, physician to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, he entered the public service as magistrate at Barbastro, and in 1537 was appointed assistant-secretary of the Inquisition.

Three years later, his father having been discharged from service because of a navy reorganisation, they sailed together on their merchantman to Guinea, when they were attacked by seven ships of the English pirate Peter Easton.

Susan McHugh, who teaches theories of animals, literature, and culture at the University of New England, wrote in her 2004 book Dog that, " remaining loyal to his unlikely saviours, the boy Bart and his father Homer, this greyhound has prompted satires of contemporary dog culture, from Barbara Woodhouse's authoritarian training methods " Bart's Dog Gets an F " to Lassie's flawless service to the status quo " The Canine Mutiny ".

The first recorded military service of Thomas Francis is as a commander in the Piedmontese army under his father against France during the War of the Mantuan Succession in 1630.