* 1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

On his deathbed Charles II had bequeathed the entire Spanish inheritance to Louis XIV's grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou.

After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family ( Hausmacht ): Louis IV of Wittelsbach ( king 1314, emperor 1328 – 47 ) relied on his lands in Bavaria ; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.

Both the Legitimists ( embodied in the person of Henri, Count of Chambord, grandson of Charles X ) and the Orleanist royalists rejected republicanism, which they saw as an extension of modernity and atheism, breaking with France's traditions.

During his life Henri, comte de Chambord, as the grandson of Charles X, had refused to abandon the fleur-de-lys and the white flag.

Governor Charles Drayton, grandson of South Carolina Governor William Bull.

In The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, Charles Edward Banks suggested that John was the son of George and Jane Alden and grandson of Richard and Avys Alden of Southampton.

* Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte ( 1839 – 1899 ), grandson of Napoleon I's brother Lucien

In 1507 he was appointed tutor to Emperor Maximilian I's ( 1493 – 1519 ) seven year old grandson, Charles, who was later to become Emperor Charles V ( 1519 – 56 ).

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* March – With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I.

By marrying his son Philip the Handsome to the future Queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian established the Habsburg dynasty in Spain and allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making him the first de jure King of Spain.

The Fuggers, who dominated the copper and silver mining business in Tyrol, provided a credit of almost 1 million gulden for the purpose of bribing the prince-electors to choose Maximilian's grandson Charles V as the new Emperor.

At first, this policy seemed successful, and Maximilian managed to secure the votes from Mainz, Cologne, Brandenburg and Bohemia for his grandson Charles V. The death of Maximilian in 1519 seemed to put the succession at risk, but in a few months the election of Charles V was secured.

Maximilian died in Wels, Upper Austria, and was succeeded as Emperor by his grandson Charles V, his son Philip the Handsome having died in 1506.

In the 9th century, Charlemagne's grandson, Charles the Bald, named the Count of Urgell as overlord of Andorra.

On 22 July 1474 he drew up a will by which he divided the succession between his grandson René II of Lorraine and his nephew Charles II, count of Maine.

Mary and Maximilian ’ s grandson Charles became king of Spain as Charles I in 1516 and Holy Roman emperor as Charles V in 1519.

The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed Isabella I of Castile, would eventually lead to the formal creation of Spain as a single entity in 1516 when their grandson Charles V assumed both thrones.

Charles ' grandson Henri, comte de Chambord, the last Bourbon claimant of the French crown, was proclaimed by some Henry V, but the French monarchy was never restored.

However King Charles II of Spain, dying without issue, willed the throne to his grand-nephew the Duke of Anjou, younger grandson of his eldest sister Marie-Thérèse, daughter of King Philip IV of Spain who had married Louis XIV of France.

When Andronicus was dethroned ( 1328 ) by his grandson Andronicus III Palaeologus, Gregoras shared his downfall and retired into private life.

Eventually Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, Folkestone's grandson, made an exchange in 1805 with the University of Nunton Farm for the Tinkersole estate at Wing, Buckinghamshire, backed by a private Act of Parliament.

A posthumous work entitled Contemplatio Philosophica was printed for private circulation in 1793 by Taylor's grandson, Sir William Young, 2nd Bart., ( d 10 January 1815 ) prefaced by a life of the author, and with an appendix containing letters addressed to him by Bolingbroke, Bossuet, and others.

The Cottonian Library was the richest private collection of manuscripts ever amassed ; of secular libraries it outranked the Royal Library, the collections of the Inns of Court and the College of Arms ; Cotton's house near the Palace of Westminster became the meeting-place of the Society of Antiquaries and of all the eminent scholars of England ; the Library was eventually donated to the nation by Cotton's grandson and now resides at the British Library.

In the next year, 1291, he quarrelled with the Earl of Hereford, Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, grandson of his onetime guardian, about the Lordship of Brecknock, where de Bohun accused de Clare of building a castle on his land culminated in a private war between them.

Sir William McKay, who edited Erskine May's private journal, has suggested that May was possibly an unacknowledged son or grandson of Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine.

is a serialized Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous ( fictional ) private detective Kosuke Kindaichi.

The two sons, grandson, and grandson-in-law of President Jacob Gould Schurman were members, as was his private secretary.

Hanson, the grandson of John Hanson, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and attended local private schools.

In his funeral, Gandhiji's grandson comes and sees Saket's private room which is full of historical photos.

He was a lawyer, a graduate in 1544 of the University of Bologna, which was pre-eminent in jurisprudence, and became secretary to Cardinal Nicolò Ardinghelli before entering the service of Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, brother of the Duke of Parma and grandson of Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 1549 ), one of the great patrons of the time.

Those present were Lady Gladstone of Hawarden ( Gladstone's daughter-in-law ), Sir George Leveson-Gower ( Gladstone's secretary ), William Wickham ( Gladstone's eldest grandson ), and Canon Edward Lyttleton.

*** Henry Venn ( Church Missionary Society ) the younger, ( 1796-1873 ), secretary of the Church Missionary Society, grandson of Henry Venn

The second son, Thomas Townshend ( 1701 – 1780 ), was member of parliament for the University of Cambridge from 1727 to 1774 ; his only son, Thomas Townshend ( 1733 – 1800 ), who was created Baron Sydney in 1783 and Viscount Sydney in 1789, was a secretary of state and Leader of the House of Commons from July 1782 to April 1783, and from December 1783 to June 1789 again a secretary of state, Sydney in New South Wales being named after him ; his grandson, John Robert Townshend ( 1805 – 1890 ), the 3rd viscount, was created Earl Sydney in 1874, the titles becoming extinct at his death.

Nicholas Russell, the 6th Earl Russell ( and grandson of the philosopher and 3rd Earl, Bertrand Russell ) is a strong supporter of the Co-operative Party and secretary of its Waltham Forest branch ; he is vocal in his call for the abolition of the House of Lords.

His grandson, also named Henry Venn ( 10 February 1796-13 January 1873 ), was honorary secretary of that society from 1841 to 1873.

Facing off against Democratic political scion Paul Hobby, the son of a former lieutenant governor and grandson of a former governor and lieutenant governor and a cabinet secretary, Strayhorn won by some 20, 000 votes out of roughly 3. 6 million votes cast.

After studying law in his native town, and attaining the rank of captain in the Tirolese Landwehr, the young man, who had the advantage of being the grandson of Joseph von Hormayr ( 1705 – 1778 ), chancellor of Tirol, obtained a post in the foreign office at Vienna ( 1801 ), from which he rose in 1803 to be court secretary and, being a near friend of the Archduke Johann of Austria, director of the secret archives of the state and court for thirteen months.

( d 1683 ) was the grandson of Sir William Gee of Bishop Burton ( d. 1611 ), secretary to James I ( r. 1603-25 ).

François Roger de Gaignières ( December 30, 1642, Entrains-sur-Nohain – 1715, Paris ), French genealogist, antiquary and collector, was the grandson of a merchant at Lyon and the son of Aimé de Gaignières, secretary to the Count of Harcourt, a member of the Elbeuf branch of the House of Guise.