Alexios ' father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.

The young Alexios IV was strangled in prison, while his father Isaac died shortly afterwards, his death variously attributed to fright, sorrow, or foul play.

Isaac D ' Israeli, father of Benjamin Disraeli

Jacob Barks ' son Isaac was the father of the David Barks noted above.

Bulwer-Lytton admired Benjamin ’ s father, Isaac D ' Israeli, himself a noted author.

Isaac's wife Rebekah is barren, but Isaac prays to God and she gives birth to the twins Esau, father of the Edomites, and Jacob.

When she was 21, her brother Isaac married and took over the family home, so Evans and her father moved to Foleshill near Coventry.

Isaac Watts has been called " the father of English hymnody ," but Erik Routley sees him more as " the liberator of English hymnody ," because his hymns, and hymns like them, moved worshipers beyond singing only Old Testament psalms, inspiring congregations and revitalizing worship.

Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

* Isaac of York – the father of Rebecca ; a Jewish merchant and money-lender

Isaac (;, Yiçḥaq, " he will laugh ";, ;, ; ; or ) as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah, and was the father of Jacob and Esau.

At the age of 75, Isaac moved to Beer-lahai-roi after his father died.

Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.

So, Isaac unearthed them and began to dig for more wells all the way to Beersheba, where he made a pact with Abimelech, just like in the day of his father.

After 20 years working for Laban, Jacob returned home, and reconciled with his twin brother Esau, then he and Esau buried their father when Isaac died at the age of 180.

In the New Testament, there are references to Isaac having been " offered up " by his father, and to his blessing his sons.

Isaac embraces his father Abraham after the Binding of Isaac, early 1900s Bible illustration

Islam considers Isaac as a prophet of Islam, and describes him as the father of the Israelites and a righteous servant of God.

Isaac, along with Ishmael, is highly important for Muslims for continuing to preach the message of monotheism after his father Abraham.

Isaac is mentioned fifteen times by name in the Qur ' an, often with his father and his son, Jacob.

His concert career began at the young age of nine when his father toured both Isaac and his sister, Clementina, throughout northern Spain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's father Isaac was not in the city at this time, but Jean-Jacques's grandfather supported Fatio and was penalized for it.

Rousseau's father, Isaac Rousseau, was a watchmaker who, notwithstanding his artisan status, was well educated and a lover of music.

As Jacob kissed his father, Isaac smelled the clothes which belonged to Esau and finally accepted that the person in front of him was Esau.

* The scene with Bruce Wayne reaches Wayne Manor barely alive and sits before his father ’ s bust, requesting guidance in his war on crime.

Moving with his father, by 15 he was working in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Hobby House Restaurant owned by the Clauss family.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

Lineker's father was a greengrocer in Leicester and he grew up with his family in the city, playing football with his brother Wayne.

* 1938 – Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky

Her romantic attachment to Kenneth Wayne is opposed by her adopted father John Carteret, who bears the painful memory of his thwarted love for her aunt, Moonyean Clare.

His father Wayne made his living in the nearby steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio which Patchen would reference in his poems " The Orange Bears " and " May I Ask You A Question, Mr. Youngstown Sheet & Tube?

In his absence his father Benjamin Carter traded a horse and a cow for a large tract of land in what was then Wayne County, about eight miles southeast of where the town of Van Buren would eventually be established.

In the final issue of Battle for the Cowl, Bruce Wayne's son, Damian Wayne becomes the new Robin after rescuing Tim from death, working first with Grayson ( who substituted as Batman ), and then his returned father.

According to native St. Louisan and St. Louis streetcar hobbyist Wayne Brasler, whose father was a streetcar motorman and took him for rides frequently, the track down Florissant was single because the road was too narrow for two tracks ; but the line otherwise was double track.

The 1975 television movie Ellery Queen ( a. k. a. " Too Many Suspects " — a loose adaptation of The Fourth Side of the Triangle ) led to the 1975 – 1976 Ellery Queen television series starring Jim Hutton in the title role ( with David Wayne as his widowed father ).

DNA testing confirmed that he is the father of at least two of these children ; the first was born to Maryland resident Monique Wayne in 2004, the second was born to a different woman in late 2008.

DMX and Wayne fought over her claim that he was the father of her son for years, during which she has sued him repeatedly for defamation of character, and for child support.

The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel ( and earlier owned by Nelson's father ) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful Presidential run of Samuel Tilden.

His father, Wayne, was a farmer, and his mother, Nell, was a beautician ; they were 19 and 17 at the time of his birth, respectively.

Her mother, Edna Lolita ( née Lybyer ), became a deputy sheriff, and her father, Wayne Edwin Vincent, was an engineer.

By age 22, he was focused with driving ambition, much to the credit of his friend Wayne Budd's father, an ex-Marine turned policeman in Springfield who took him under his wing and encouraged him to go to school.

West also voiced Tom Wayne, Bruce Wayne's father, in an episode of the cartoon series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

Hired by the socialite's father, he proves that a photo of Bruce Wayne apparently implicating him in the crime depicts an impostor and briefly works with Batman to investigate the crime.

Kilpatrick's father, Bernard Kilpatrick, served as Chief of Staff to former Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara and currently operates a consulting firm called Maestro Associates of Detroit.

In his first episode, " Laura's First Date ", Steve's father is mentioned in the line: " Did I mention my dad knows Wayne Newton?

The Harris family relocated often, as Eric's father, Wayne Harris, was a U. S. Air Force transport pilot.

* Michael Wayne Hunter: sentenced to death after the murders of his father and stepmother in 1981.