Holst's great-grandfather, Matthias von Holst, was of Nordic origin, and came to England in 1802 from Riga, Latvia.

Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmother's father was German jurist Rudolf von Jhering.

Stenbock's great-grandfather was Baron Friedrich von Stuart ( 1761 – 1842 ) from Courland.

In the War of the Austrian Succession he took command of an army division sent to invade Austria in 1741, and on 19 November 1741, surprised Prague during the night, and seized it before the garrison was aware of the presence of an enemy, a coup de main which made him famous throughout Europe ; he thus repeated the exploit of 1648 of his maternal great-grandfather, Hans Christoff von Königsmarck.

He was the great-grandfather of Otto Struve and the father of Otto Wilhelm von Struve.

Yorck was the great-grandfather of the late-nineteenth-century philosopher Paul Yorck von Wartenburg and the great-great-great-grandfather of Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, a member of the German resistance during the Nazi regime.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

Depending on the interpretation of Esther 2: 5 – 6, Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish was carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 BCE.

Washington's ancestors were from Sulgrave, England ; his great-grandfather, John Washington, had immigrated to Virginia in 1657.

His paternal great-grandfather Andrew Monroe emigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century.

Grigorije Božović ( 1880-1945 ) claimed that the family were Srbljaci ( natives ) in Vasojevići territory, and Montenegrin historian Miomir Dašić claimed that Karađorđe's family originated from the Gurešići from Podgorica, while folklorist Dragutin Vuković thought Tripko Knežević " Guriš " was Karađorđe's great-grandfather.

Mitchell's maternal great-grandfather, Philip Fitzgerald, emigrated from Ireland, and eventually settled on a slaveholding plantation near Jonesboro, Georgia, where he had one son and seven daughters with his wife, Elenor.

The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

In Ireland, kings were expected to come from among those who had a great-grandfather who had been king.

They were also from the Mohammedzai and Barakzai family trees, and whose great-grandfather was an older brother of Dost Mohammad.

Suleiman soon made preparations for the conquest of Belgrade from the Kingdom of Hungary — something his great-grandfather Mehmed II had failed to achieve.

For example, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy — a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s — was known to work on the " General Theory of Everything ".

His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801.

Durkheim was born in Épinal in Lorraine, coming from a long line of devout French Jews ; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been rabbis.

For example, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy, a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s, was known to work on the " General Theory of Everything ".

It was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty, whose name derives from Umayya ibn Abd Shams, the great-grandfather of the first Umayyad caliph.

Descendants of this marriage included Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and eventually Cardinal ; Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, grandmother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III ; John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the great-grandfather of King Henry VII ; and Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, from whom are descended, beginning in 1437, all subsequent sovereigns of Scotland, and successively, from 1603 on, the sovereigns of England, of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the United Kingdom to the present day.

In the passage, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar ( in 597 BC ).

The three brothers and four sisters traced their roots to their great-grandfather who had immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the 1840s.

His father had earned the reputation of a brave soldier, and his great-grandfather had received a reward from the state for five horses killed under him in battle.

The name of Louis was bestowed because it was typical of a Prince of France ; Stanislas after his great-grandfather King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland ; and Xavier for Saint Francis Xavier, whom his mother's family held as one of their patron saints.

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

Her paternal great-grandfather, Bogić Camić Jovović, was a flag-bearer of the Vasojevići clan and an officer in the guard of King Nicholas I of Montenegro ; his wife's name was Milica, after whom Milla was named.

His godparents were Queen Victoria ( his paternal grandmother ), King Christian IX of Denmark ( his maternal grandfather, represented by his brother Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ), King Leopold I of Belgium ( his great great-uncle ), the Dowager Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( his maternal great-grandmother, for whom the Duchess of Cambridge stood proxy ), the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( his great-aunt by marriage, for whom the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz stood proxy ), the Landgrave of Hesse ( his maternal great-grandfather, for whom Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, stood proxy ), the Crown Princess of Prussia ( his paternal aunt, for whom The Princess Helena, her sister, stood proxy ) and The Prince Alfred ( his paternal uncle ).

The family name of the Hasmonean dynasty originates with the ancestor of the house, Ἀσαμωναῖος Asamoneus or Asmoneus ( see Josephus Flavius ), who is said to have been the great-grandfather of Mattathias, but about whom nothing more is known.

Muhammad, was a member of this clan ; his great-grandfather was Hashim, for whom the clan is named.

Payne was the maternal grandfather of Frances P. Bolton and great-grandfather of Oliver Payne Bolton, both of whom later served in the United States House of Representatives.

While his great-grandfather Prince Edmund was cowardly and slow-witted, Lord Blackadder, while still cowardly, is demonstrably more intelligent, more so in fact than most of the people around him, whom he usually regards with withering disdain.

Along the way he encounters several characters: Dana, a modern-day waitress whom he accidentally brings back to the year 1580 and loses ; the present-day fortune teller, who tells Eike the hour of his death ; Eckart Brum, the curator of a private art museum who lost his wife in a shooting ; Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, an alchemist living in 1580 with two children, Hugo and Margarette ; and Alfred Brum, the great-grandfather of Eckart.

His great-grandfather Francis Napier, 6th Lord Napier had five sons, of whom the youngest, Mark, a major-general in the army, was the grandfather of the biographer.

It is known that Mihnea had taken a preference to his younger son Mircea III Dracul, whom he named after his great-grandfather Mircea cel Bătrân.

He married firstly, on 21 August 1961, Maria Helena Marques ( born 26 July 1939 ), whom he divorced, and had issue, and married secondly Maria Teresa de Carvalho de Albuquerque Schmidt, born in Cascais, Estoril, on 1 June 1952, whose great-grandfather was German, and had issue:

They later had a son — the Fields ' first grandchild — whom they named Guy, after his great-grandfather.

His great-grandfather was Spanish Nobleman Diego Chamorro de Sotomayor y Murga de Villavicencio, born in Seville, who married no less than five times: to his great-grandmother Gregoria Lacayo de Briones y Pomar, Inés de Villa-Nueva y ..., Juana Fajardo y ..., Gertrudis de Pasos y ... and Rafaela Occonor y Salafranca, by whom he had a daughter Josefa Chamorro Occonor ( 1784-1843 ).

in reference to Dexter Stratton, Charlie and Liam's great-grandfather, of whom the band was named after ), saying because of his addiction he would never have a family so it should go to Charlie.

In 1704, after one year in Constantinople, Gannibal was ransomed and brought to the Russian capital by the deputy of the Russian ambassador Sava Vladislavich Raguzinsky, on orders of his superiors ( one of whom was Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, great-grandfather of the celebrated writer Leo Tolstoy ).