Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 50 was adopted by his great maternal uncle and stepfather.

After his father's death in 1664, Purcell was placed under the guardianship of his uncle who showed him great affection and kindness.

* 37 – Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.

In 1731, the fifteen-year-old Don Carlos became Charles I Duke of Parma and Piacenza, at the death of his childless great uncle Antonio Farnese.

With his uncle as Pope, he obtained great influence, and he held no fewer than eight bishoprics, including Lausanne from 1472, and Coutances from 1476, along with the archbishopric of Avignon.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

Their losses were so great that they attempted to sell everything in an auction, even their most personal belongings, which were saved at the last minute when Susan's uncle, Joshua Read, stepped up and bid for them in order to restore them to the family.

William's great great uncle was the great Danish king Cnut the Great.

Vercingetorix, a young nobleman of the Arvernian city of Gergovia, roused his dependents to join the revolt, but he and his followers were expelled by the nobles of the city, including Vercingetorix's uncle Gobanitio, because they thought opposing Caesar was too great a risk.

He lived with his great uncle, Colonel William Fraser, for a while as a child.

His great uncle, Waller T. Patton, died of wounds received in Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.

His great uncle William T. Glassell was a Confederate States Navy officer.

Fromm's grandfather and two great grandfathers on his father's side were rabbis, and a great uncle on his mother's side was a noted Talmudic scholar.

However, his biographer John Grigg argued that Lloyd George's childhood was nowhere near as poverty-stricken as he liked to suggest, and that a great deal of his self-confidence came from having been brought up by an uncle who enjoyed a position of influence and prestige in his small community.

Simon owed a great sum of money to Thomas II of Savoy, uncle of Queen Eleanor, and named King Henry as security for his repayment.

On 22 May 1149 he was knighted by King David I of Scotland, his great uncle, at Carlisle.

President Obama mentioned during his visit that he had heard stories as a child from his great uncle, whom was part of the U. S. 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp of Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps.

Photius's great uncle was the previous Patriarch of Constantinople, Tarasius.

He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, though Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, his first cousin twice removed, and maternal great uncle, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723.

James was then sent to Monzón, where he was entrusted to the care of William of Montreuil, the head of the Knights Templar in Spain and Provence ; the regency meanwhile fell to his great uncle Sancho, Count of Roussillon, and his son, the king's cousin, Nuño.

The late amateur physicist Michael Talbot wrote, " To my great surprise -- and slight annoyance -- I found that Seth eloquently and lucidly articulated a view of reality that I had arrived at only after great effort and an extensive study of both paranormal phenomena and quantum physics.

Associated with King were William Bright, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and a great scholar ; Edward Stuart Talbot, Warden of Keble College and subsequently Bishop of Winchester ; Edwin James Palmer, Professor of Latin, Archdeacon of Oxford and later Bishop of Bombay ; Edward Woolcoombe, a Fellow of Balliol with a great interest in and support for the missionary movement ; and John Wordsworth, Chaplain of Brasenose College.

Although Talbot is generally remembered as a great soldier, some have raised doubts as to his generalship.

These were the paternal arms of Gwenllian, the daughter and heiress of Rhys Mechyll ( d. 1244 ) Prince of the Welsh House of Dinefwr, grandson of Rhys ap Gruffydd, and wife of Gilbert Talbot ( d. 1274 ), grandfather of Baron Talbot | Gilbert Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot ( d. 1345 / 6 ) assumed by Talbot as arms of alliance of a great heiress, superseding his own former paternal arms of Bendy of 10 pieces argent and gules

He was the great grandson of Walter Dickinson who emigrated from England to Virginia in 1654 and, having joined the Society of Friends, came with several co-religionists to Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in 1659.

" It was great ", Talbot would say of the coming together and the chemistry it evoked.

The success of the rising was so great that the royal leaders, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, opened negotiations with the insurgents at Scawsby Leys near Doncaster, where Aske had assembled between thirty and forty thousand men.

The replacement for the Simca 1100, the C2 project, became the ( Simca ) Talbot Horizon that won European Car of the Year 1978, and was a great success in the United States, where it sold as the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon from 1978 to 1990.

A report dating from 1574 detailed a tour by George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, then lord of the manor of Sheffield, of the boundaries of the manor, in which they visited ' a great heape of stones called Ringinglawe ' that was used as one of the boundary markers.

In early 1665 the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War placed great pressure on Pepys.

With his colleagues being either engaged elsewhere or incompetent, Pepys had to conduct a great deal of business himself.

Samuel Pepys said of the marriage: "[...] that the Duke of York ’ s marriage with her hath undone the kingdom, by making the Chancellor so great above reach, who otherwise would have been but an ordinary man, to have been dealt with by other people [...]" In fact, after Anne's death, everyone at court struggled to find a new wife for James, but this new wife was not, under any circumstances, to be of humble birth.

Edition ornée de LXXII portraits, Graves d ' apres les tableaux originaux., A Londres, ( she is described by Pepys as " a great beauty indeed.

On September 20, 1693, Millington wrote to Pepys that he had been to look for Newton some time before, but that " he was out of town, and since ," he says, " I have not seen him, till upon the 28th I met him at Huntingdon, where, upon his own accord, and before I had time to ask him any question, he told me that he had written to you a very odd letter, at which he was much concerned ; added, that it was in a distemper that much seized his head, and that kept him awake for above five nights together, which upon occasion he desired I would represent to you, and beg your pardon, he being very much ashamed he should be so rude to a person for whom he hath so great an honour.

But still, Samuel Pepys notes in his diary on 19 July 1667: " The Dutch fleete are in great squadrons everywhere still about Harwich, and were lately at Portsmouth ; and the last letters say at Plymouth, and now gone to Dartmouth to destroy our Streights ' fleete lately got in thither ; but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or no, but it was pretty news come the other day so fast, of the Dutch fleets being in so many places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, By God, says he, I think the Devil shits Dutchmen.

Amongst the well-known residents of this house were Sir William Yorke, baronet ; the Venetian ambassador ; the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell ( a great great nephew of the diarist Samuel Pepys ); and the General Commander in Chief of the Army, Viscount Hill, who left in 1836 ( and who gave his name to the modern road bridge north of Westbourne Grove called Lord Hill's Bridge ).

His next book was a three-volume biography of Samuel Pepys, completed in 1938 and regarded as " one of the great historical biographies in the language " by John Kenyon.

The great diarist Samuel Pepys recorded that she was the greatest beauty he ever saw.

On January 29, 1661, the diarist Samuel Pepys went to the Duke ’ s playhouse, where “ after great patience and little expectation, from so poor beginning, I saw three acts of ‘ The Mayd in ye Mill ’ acted to my great content .” It was Nokes who was playing the title female role of the Mayd.

Each of those tickets was of great value to its rightful recipient.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.

It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.

Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.

Peters insisted that this impression was a great misunderstanding, and evidently, from the quarrel, obtained an unfavorable impression of Morgan's judgment.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.