The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

In 1795, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, asked:

Hughes was the grandfather of Charles Evans Hughes III and H. Stuart Hughes.

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

In 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon, grandfather of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, died.

Due to a combination of ( 1 ) the traditions of dynastic succession in Aragon, which permitted maternal inheritance with no precedence for female rule ; ( 2 ) the insanity of Charles's mother, Joanna of Castile ; and ( 3 ) the insistence by his remaining grandfather, Maximilian I, that he take up his royal titles, Charles initiated his reign in Castile and Aragon, a union which evolved into Spain, in conjunction with his mother.

Through his maternal grandfather, Prince Harry is descended from King Henry IV of France, King Charles II and King James II and VII.

He was the grandfather of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin.

John Hanson was of English ancestry ; his grandfather, also named John, came to Charles County, Maryland, as an indentured servant around 1661.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

Prophetic observation of Sydney Cove by Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, from his poem " Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay ", ( 1789 ).

Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809.

His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V. Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era.

* December 12 – Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin ( d. 1802 )

Charles was born to King John of Bohemia and Elisabeth of Bohemia in Prague as Wenceslaus ( Václav ), the name of his maternal grandfather Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia.

Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields ( Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore was a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr .).

His maternal grandfather was the accountant, banker, pioneering Volapükist and Civil War veteran Charles Ezra Sprague.

Sophia was the granddaughter of James VI and I through his daughter Elizabeth, who was the sister of Anne's grandfather Charles I. Catholic claimants were excluded from the line of succession.

Two months later, on 21 October 1422, he became King of France upon his grandfather Charles VI's death in agreement with the Treaty of Troyes in 1420.

Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.

* A son named after his father ( but not after his grandfather ) is often referred to as Junior, Chip ( also a diminutive of Charles, but in this case in reference to " a chip off the old block "), Skip, Sonny, Bud, Buddy, or Deuce.

His grandfather, Louis Le Grand Dauphin, had three sons with his wife Marie Anne Victoire of Bavaria: Louis, Duke of Burgundy ; Philippe, Duke of Anjou ( who became King of Spain ); and Charles, Duke of Berry.

Because Charles and his ancestors had been rulers of the Frankish realm earlier ( his grandfather Charles Martel had essentially founded the empire during his lifetime ), the coronation did not actually constitute a new empire.

He stood for Rushcliffe at the 1892 election without success, but won a seat in Lincoln at the 1895 election, which his grandfather Charles Seely had represented until 1885 as a Liberal.

His grandfather Charles Seely ( 1803 – 1887 ), father Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet, younger brother John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, and son Sir Hugh Seely, 3rd Baronet and 1st Baron Sherwood were all Members of Parliament.

His great-grandfather Charles Seely ( 1803 – 1887 ), grandfather Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet, father Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet, and uncle John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone were all Members of Parliament.

His father Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet, brother Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet, nephew and grandfather were all Members of Parliament.

Lord Mount Stuart's eldest son John succeeded his maternal grandfather as seventh Earl of Dumfries in 1803, and his paternal grandfather as second Marquess of Bute in 1814.

* Hensleigh Wedgwood ( 1803 – 1891 ), etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of A Dictionary of English Etymology father of Frances Julia Wedgwood ( 1833 – 1913 ), and grandfather of Bishop J. I. Wedgwood.

* Stevens Thomson Mason ( Virginia ) ( 1760 – 1803 ), a colonel in the American Continental Army and senator from Virginia, grandfather of the above

William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon ( d. 1888 ) installed a heraldic chimneypiece in the Dining Hall in memory of his grandfather Reginald Courtenay ( 1741 – 1803 ), Bishop of Exeter from 1797 to 1803, and of his parents.

Charles P. Yorke came from a very distinguished political family ( his father had been Lord High Chancellor and grandfather had been Lord Chief Justice, Speaker of the House, and Lord High Chancellor ), and had a lengthy political career of his own, serving as Member of Parliament ( 1790 – 1810 ), Secretary of State for War ( 1801 – 1803 ), Home Secretary ( 1803 – 1804 ), and First Lord of the Admiralty ( 1810 – 1812 ).

Born John Stuart, he was styled Lord Mount Stuart from his father's death in 1794, and succeeded his maternal grandfather as 7th Earl of Dumfries in 1803 ( adding the surname Crichton before that of Stuart in 1805 ), before succeeding his paternal grandfather as 2nd Marquess of Bute in 1814.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

* 1613 – Christoph Bach, court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1661 )

Bigger changes came to Cairo under Isma ' il Pasha ( r. 1863 – 1879 ), who continued the modernization processes started by his grandfather.

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

After the affair between David and Katrine became known, David Longfield's father ( Beatty's grandfather ), David Vandeleur Beatty ( 1815 – 1881 ), arranged for his son to be posted to India in the hope that the scandalous relationship might end.

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

His grandfather Franz Böhm ( 1788 – 1846 ) ( the violinist Joseph Böhm's brother ) was the well-known musician and the soloist in the Russian empire in an imperial orchestra.

Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.

* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor.

In 1989, von Trier's mother revealed on her deathbed that the man who he thought was his father was not, and that she had had a tryst with her former employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann ( 1909 – 2000 ), who descended from a long line of Roman Catholic classical musicians ( his grandfather was Emil Hartmann, his great grandfather J. P. E.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

His grandfather, Simon Fraser, emigrated from Nova Scotia in 1853, becoming a successful pastoralist and speculator, as well as a member of the Victorian Parliament, the Federation Conventions of 1897 – 98 and the Australian Senate.

Marcus ' great-grandfather Marcus Annius Verus ( I ) was a senator and ( according to the Historia Augusta ) ex-praetor ; in 73 – 74, his grandfather, Marcus Annius Verus ( II ), was made a patrician.

His grandfather, Marcantonio Pacelli, had been Under-Secretary in the Papal Ministry of Finances and then Secretary of the Interior under Pope Pius IX from 1851 – 70 and helped found the Vatican's newspaper, L ' Osservatore Romano in 1861.