In 2007 an " Allegiance Council " was created, comprising Abdul Aziz's surviving sons plus a grandson of each his deceased sons, to determine which member of the royal family will be the heir apparent ( the Crown Prince ) after Prince Salman, who is the current Crown Prince, either dies or accedes to the throne.

Tristan Bernard's grandson Christian Bernard is the current Imperator of the Rosicrucian organization AMORC.

His grandson Louis Bonaparte ( Brussels, 1914 – 1997 ) was a pretender of Bonaparte dynasty, and Louis's son, prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor ( born 1950 ), is the current head of the family.

At the time the new Dauphin was grandson of current King Philip VI of France and son to his Heir Apparent, the later John II of France.

The current holder of the title Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen is Maximilian, Margrave of Baden ( b. 1933 ), a grandson of the last chancellor of the German Empire, Prince Max von Baden, who seems to have revived the Zähringen title after it apparently had not been in official usage since the death of Berthold V. Another branch were the Dukes of Teck, descendants of Duke Conrad's son Adalbert, whose line became extinct in 1439.

The new Donkey Kong introduced in " Donkey Kong Country " was initially characterized as the grandson of the original Donkey Kong, who appears in the game as an elderly ape named Cranky Kong, however Donkey Kong 64 states that the current Donkey Kong was actually meant to be Cranky Kong's son, with one source implying that he is a grown-up version of Donkey Kong Jr.

However, in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Donkey Kong Country Returns, the current Donkey Kong is referred to as Cranky's grandson.

The current ruling house of Bernadotte similarly claims a Vasa mantle: Charles XIV was an adopted son of Charles XIII ; his son Oscar I married a Vasa descendant Josephine of Leuchtenberg ; their grandson Gustav V married Victoria of Baden who was a great-grandchild of Gustav IV Adolf of the house Holstein-Gottorp.

Sam, Lord Vestey, born 19 March 1941, is the great grandson of the 1st Lord Vestey, and the current head of the family and Chairman of the Group.

The present heir is Prince Ernst August of Hanover ( born 26 February 1954 ), great grandson of the 3rd Duke and current head of the House of Hanover.

The business remains family owned with Nigel Payne, grandson of the founder, one of the current Directors.

* Tokugawa Tsunenari ( 1940 – ), grandson of Matsudaira Tsuneo ; current head of the main Tokugawa family.

The 10th and current Baron Talbot de Malahide is the son of Reginald John Arthur Arundell ( who in 1945 assumed by Royal license the surname and arms of Arundell in lieu of his patronymic ), eldest son of Reginald Aloysius Talbot ( grandson of the aforementioned Admiral the Hon.

Niass's grandson and current Imam of Medina Baye, Shaykh Hassan Cisse, has thousands of American disciples and has founded a large educational and developmental organization, the African American Islamic Institute, in Medina Baye with branches in other parts of the world.

Today there exist two branches of the Order: the Spanish and the Austrian Fleece ; the current sovereigns are respectively Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, and Karl von Habsburg, grandson of Emperor Charles I of Austria.

Through his maternal line, Clyde is the grandson of Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington and the nephew of the current Duke of Wellington, Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington.

The peerages created for him died out with his grandson the 9th Duke in 1777, though the current Baron Mowbray descends from the 9th Duke.

Nevertheless, Otto von Habsburg, the eldest grandson of Franz Ferdinand's younger brother, was universally regarded as the current head of the house.

His grandson is ex-footballer Boudewijn de Geer, and his great-grandson is current footballer Mike de Geer.

For example, the daughters of the current Duke of Gloucester, a male line grandson of George V, are styled The Lady Davina Lewis and The Lady Rose Gilman.

There has been some debate concerning the identity of this Scarisbrick family member, with the current consensus being that it is of James Scarisbrick, who died in 1495, the son of Henry and grandson of Sir Henry de Scarisbrick, above.

Colonel Robert Dormer-Cottrell, the grandson of the house's builder, inherited Rousham in 1719 and began the huge transformation of the gardens to its current appearance.

In 2010 Mill Creek produced a rosé wine for the first time in years, although Jeremy Kreck ( Charles ' grandson and current winemaker ) chose not to use the Blush name.

: For the current California politician ( Joseph Alioto's grandson ), see Joe Alioto Veronese.

Rivals John Comyn and Robert the Bruce, grandson of the claimant, were appointed as joint guardians in his place.

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.

Robert the Bruce, the grandson of the claimant to the crown in 1291, had sided with the English in the winter of 1301 – 02.

As such he is recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists who adhere to the succession of Louis-Philippe (" Orléanists "), as well as by the " Unionist " faction that rejects Louis-Philippe's title but recognizes his grandson Philippe, Count of Paris ( 1838 – 1894 ) as the heir of the rival claimant Henry, Count of Chambord, the last direct agnatic descendant of King Louis XV.

the title is held by the grandson of the successful claimant, the twenty-first Baron, who succeeded his elder brother in 1997.

Philip II of Spain, a maternal grandson of Manuel I of Portugal, and nearest male claimant ( being an uncle of Sebastian I ), invaded with an army of 15 000 men, defeating the troops of Anthony, Prior of Crato at the Battle of Alcântara and was crowned Philip I of Portugal by the Cortes of Tomar in 1581.

Alfonso, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Cádiz, Grandee of Spain ( Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Víctor María de Borbón y Dampierre, French citizen as Alphonse de Bourbon ) ( 20 April 1936 – 30 January 1989 ) was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and a Legitimist claimant to the defunct throne of France.

Prince Yi Ku ( 29 December 1931 16 July 2005 ) was a claimant to the throne of Korea, contested twenty-ninth head of the Korean Imperial family, and the grandson of Gojong of the Korean Joseon Dynasty.

* Ariq Böke, grandson of Genghis Khan and claimant to the Mongol Empire

In 1260, however, the Great Khan claimant Ariq Böke appointed Chagatai Khan's grandson Alghu, and by the following year Alghu had control over much of the Khanate.

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

This came as no surprise, since Abdallah had already demonstrated his affection for his grandson in many ways, namely by allowing him to live in his own tower ( something he did not allow for any of his sons ), and allowing him to sit on the throne on some festive occasions.

As the great grandson of the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon, and as a Duke in Prussia who was fluent in Polish, Albert Frederick was seriously considered for a time as a possible candidate for the Polish throne.

Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder, grandson of Alfred the Great, great-grandson of Ethelwulf of Wessex, great-great grandson of Egbert of Wessex and great-great-great grandson of Ealhmund of Kent.

He was succeeded first by one of his brothers, Emperor Yōmei, then by another, Emperor Sushun, and then Empress Suiko, his sister and wife, before his grandson, Emperor Jomei, eventually took the throne.

Almost one hundred years after Tenji's death, the throne passed to his grandson Emperor Kōnin.

According to the Kojiki ( 712 ) and Nihon Shoki ( 720 ), Buretsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of Emperor Ōjin, Keitai, came and ascended the throne.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

There was a time when Akbar thought of putting his eldest grandson Khusrau Mirza on the throne instead of Salim.

In 1903, the Serbian Parliament requested that Prince Peter — grandson of Đorđe Petrović ( Karađorđe ) — come to the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia, following the murder of King Aleksander Obrenović and his wife, Draga Mašin, by the Black Hand.

Ranbir Singh's grandson Hari Singh, who had ascended the throne of Kashmir in 1925, was the reigning monarch in 1947 at the conclusion of British rule of the subcontinent and the subsequent partition of the British Indian Empire into the newly independent Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.

Meanwhile another contender for the throne had emerged – Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside and a grandson of Æthelred II, returned to England in 1057, and although he died shortly after his return, he brought with him his family, which included two daughters, Margaret and Christina, and a son, Edgar the Ætheling.

* October 25 – George II of Great Britain dies ; his grandson George III ascends to the throne.

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 Hongwu Emperor specified his grandson Zhu Yunwen as his successor, and he assumed the throne as the Jianwen Emperor ( 1398 – 1402 ) after Hongwu's death in 1398.

Philip II of Spain was on his mother's side the grandson of King Manuel I, and on that basis claimed the Portuguese throne.

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.

At issue was the right of Philip, the grandson of King Louis XIV of France, to succeed to the Spanish throne under the terms of King Charles II of Spain's will.

The Duke of York was the heir-general of Edward III, and the heir presumptive ( due to agnatic descent ) of Henry's grandson Henry VI ( since Henry IV's other sons did not have male heirs, and the legitimated Beauforts were excluded from the throne ).

Darius was son of Hystaspes and grandson of Arsames, both men belonging to the Achaemenid tribe, and being alive when Darius ascended the throne.

When Heraclius ' grandson Constans II took the throne, he saw the controversy as threatening the stability of the Empire and attempted to silence discussion, by outlawing speaking either in favour or against the doctrine.

Since Louis XV's son, Louis, the dauphin, had died nine years earlier, the throne passed to his grandson, the conventional and unimaginative Louis XVI.