Dmitri's grandfather Ivan had been a prominent lawyer in Tsarist Russia who had displayed respect for social awareness and humanitarian principles ( including advocating the abolition of capital punishment ) that would later influence his grandson.

He was also the grandfather of Hollywood screenwriter and producer Ivan Moffat and the great-great-grandfather of actress Georgina Moffat.

Prior to that, rulers of Muscovy were crowned as Grand Princes, although Ivan III the Great, his grandfather, styled himself " tsar " in his correspondence.

Like his brother, Ivan II was not as successful as his father or grandfather with regards to territorial expansion.

The latter was crowned as successor by his grandfather on 15 February 1491, but later Ivan reverted his decision in favor of Sophia's elder son Vasily, who was ultimately crowned co-regent with his father ( 14 April 1502 ).

Bana's paternal grandfather, Mate Banadinović, moved to Argentina after the Second World War, and Bana's paternal grandmother emigrated to Germany and then to Australia in the 1950s with her son, Ivan ( Bana's father ).

Paul Klebnikov was born in New York to a family of Russian émigrés with a long military and political tradition ; his great grandfather was an admiral in the White Russian fleet who was assassinated by Bolsheviks, and his great-great-great-grandfather Ivan Pouschine participated in the Decembrist revolt in 1825.

Her grandfather was the famous politician, the Croatian ban and poet Ivan Mažuranić, while her grandmother Aleksandra Mažuranić was the sister of well-known writer and one of keypersons of Croatian national revival movement, Dimitrija Demeter.

His maternal grandfather was Ivan Sharpe, the England international footballer and Olympic gold medallist who later became a celebrated sports writer.

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

Heinz was the grandfather of H. J. Heinz II, great-grandfather of U. S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania in the United States and great-great grandfather of Henry John Heinz IV, Andre Thierstein Heinz and Christopher Drake Heinz.

In relation to the other members of his dynasty, Henry I was the father of Otto I, grandfather of Otto II, great-grandfather of Otto III, and great-grandfather of Henry II.

In 1376 Olav inherited the crown of Denmark from his maternal grandfather as King Oluf III, with his mother as guardian.

Their son, the future Baldwin III, was named co-heir by his grandfather.

* 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Pope Leo IX ( in office 1049 to 1054 ) also had family ties to the dynasty, since his grandfather Hugo III was the brother of Adelheid, the grandmother of Henry III.

* May 9 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.

His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.

* September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Through the election of Gregory V, Otto III exercised greater control over the Church than his grandfather Otto I had decades earlier.

Like his grandfather before him, Otto III strongly aspired to be the successor of Charlemagne.

Since the time of Edward I, popular myth suggested that the French planned to extinguish the English language, and as his grandfather had done, Edward III made the most of this scare.

Through her maternal grandfather, she was the great-great granddaughter of King Edward III of England through Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.

He was named after his maternal grandfather, Maximilian Jevgenevich de Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and bore a resemblance to his cousin, Napoleon III, emperor of the French.

In fact, George III, from the moment of his accession, never set foot in the palace ; he associated the state apartments with a humiliating scene when his grandfather had once struck him following an innocent remark.

Mulroney is the grandfather of Lewis H. Lapham III, and twins Pierce Lapham and Elizabeth Theodora Lapham, and Miranda Brooke Lapham from daughter, Caroline, and twins Brian Gerald Alexander and John Benedict Dimitri by son Ben.

His grandfather accepted the invitation and granted Charles a smaller amount of money and sent him to Hungary to enforce his claim against King Andrew III.

In 1661, a grandfather by now, Huygens was sent to France by the circle of tutors of William III, to recover possession of the county of Orange.

Kantakouzenos became a close friend to Andronikos III and was one of his principal supporters in Andronikos ' struggle against his grandfather, Andronikos II Palaiologos.

John William Friso, the senior agnatic descendant of William the Silent's brother and a cognatic descendant of Frederick Henry, grandfather of William III, claimed the succession as stadtholder in all provinces held by William III.

Through his paternal grandfather, he is also a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.

His great grandfather Joseph Forsyth Johnson ( 1840 – 1906 ) was a landscape architect who worked in Russia, Ireland and the United States.

This was not only the name of his maternal grandfather, Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov of Russia, but also the name of the " King who would reconquer Constantinople ", the future " Constantine XII, legitimate successor to the Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos ", according to popular legend.

At the time of his birth, his paternal grandfather ( Alexander II of Russia ) was still the reigning Emperor of All the Russias.

His paternal grandfather, Emperor Alexander II of Russia, was assassinated on 1 March 1881, and as a result Michael's parents became Emperor and Empress of All the Russias before his third birthday.

Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, reported witnessing what he called " a fiery ball " while in the company of his grandfather, Tsar Alexander II: " Once my parents were away ," recounted the Tsar, " and I was at the all-night vigil with my grandfather in the small church in Alexandria.

Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Orthodox Jewish parents His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Russia, who came from a long line of rabbis and moved to Pittsburgh at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

She was baptised near the end of 1906, and her godparents were: the King of Greece ( her paternal grandfather ); the King of the United Kingdom ( her granduncle ); the Princess of Wales ; Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark ( her paternal uncle ); Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia ( her maternal uncle ); and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( her maternal aunt ).

Her maternal grandfather was Jewish ( the son of immigrants from Russia and Germany ) and her maternal grandmother, who was Anglican, was English-born.

Anschutz's grandfather, Karl Anschütz ( born November 10, 1859, in the largely German region of Samara ), emigrated from Russia and started the Farmers State Bank in Russell, Kansas.

Köppen's grandfather belonged to the cohort of German physicians that were invited to Russia by empress Catherine II to improve sanitation in the provinces, and later became a personal physician to the tsar.

Levitt was born into a Jewish family who were originally poor immigrants from Russia and Austria, his immigrant grandfather was a rabbi from eastern Europe.

He studied fauna of European Russia and of Siberia ; published one of the first works on fauna of Kazakhstan based on the collections of the famous traveller S. Karelin ( great grandfather of the poet Alexander Blok ).

His grandfather, Julius Isserlis who was a Russian Jew, was one of 12 musicians allowed to leave Russia in the 1920s to promote Russian culture, but he never returned.

His parents, both natives of London ( England ), were Jewish, and were descended from immigrants from Russia and Poland ; the family's original surname, " Rudnitzky ", was changed by his grandfather to " Rudd ".

He was baptised in the Lower Bow Room of Buckingham Palace 27 November 1874 by Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury and his godparents were the Queen of the United Kingdom, the Emperor of Russia ( Alfred's maternal grandfather Alexander II, whose son Tsesarevich Alexander stood proxy for him ), the German Emperor ( for whom Alfred's paternal uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn stood proxy ), the German Crown Princess ( Alfred's paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein stood proxy ), the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( his paternal grand-uncle, for whom Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein stood proxy ), and the Prince of Wales ( his paternal uncle ).

Olmert's grandfather J. J. Olmert settled in Harbin after fleeing post-World War I Russia.

Nicholas, named after his paternal grandfather the emperor, was born as the eldest son to Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaevich of Russia ( 1831 – 1891 ) and Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg ( 1838 – 1900 ).

His maternal grandfather was a son of Duke George of Oldenburg and Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of Paul I of Russia and Maria Fedorovna of Württemberg.

His parents were Jewish immigrants from South Africa ( his maternal grandfather was from Russia and his maternal grandmother, who was Sephardic, was from Egypt ).

His paternal grandfather, Rabbi Paul Chertoff ( emigrated with his parents from czarist Russia, present day Belarus ) was a noted Talmud scholar.

It was a gift of his maternal grandfather, who had a concession to make vinegar in large parts of Tsarist Russia.