After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

Agesilaus was the son of Archidamus II and his second wife, Eupoleia, brother to Cynisca ( the first woman in ancient history to achieve an Olympic victory ), and younger half-brother of Agis II.

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

However, he was not, according to several sources, Dinis ' favourite son ; his half-brother, the illegitimate Afonso Sanches, enjoyed full royal favour.

In the Will and Testament ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's half-brother, Muhammad ` Alí, was mentioned by name as being subordinate to ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

In the 1920 Census, he is recorded as having returned to the Freestone County area, and he was living with his half-brother Kit Banks on a farm between Wortham and Streetman.

He succeeded upon the ineligibility of his older half-brother, Anthony Haden-Guest, who was born prior to the marriage of his parents.

The eldest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta after the death of his half-brother Crispus, Constantine II was born in Arles in February, 316, and raised as a Christian.

He was half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja ( 1460 – 88 ) and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers.

His half-brother Jim was a successful guitarist who worked with the Les Paul Trio in New York.

It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

Rather, evidence points to James the brother or half-brother of Jesus, to whom the resurrected Jesus evidently had made a special appearance, and who was prominent among the disciples.

In the spring of 1063, Rodrigo fought in the Battle of Graus, where Ferdinand's half-brother, Ramiro I of Aragon, was laying siege to the Moorish town of Cinca which was in Zaragozan lands.

Æthelred was only about 10 ( no more than 13 ) when his half-brother Edward was murdered.

After his father became emperor, Kammu's half-brother, Prince Osabe was appointed to the rank of crown prince.

He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Athelstan.

Empress Suiko was a consort to her half-brother, Emperor Bidatsu, but after Bidatsu's first wife died she became his official consort and was given the title Ōkisaki ( official consort of the emperor ).

He was the younger half-brother of Imperial Prince Koretaka ( 惟喬親王 ) ( lived 844 – 897 )

On 20 June 840, he died, in the presence of many bishops and clerics and in the arms of his half-brother Drogo, though Charles and Judith were absent in Poitiers.

After his brother Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay ( 841 ) and sealed their alliance with the Oaths of Strasbourg ( 842 ), Lothair became willing to negotiate instead of continuing the warfare.

He died in 1759 in the midst of that conflict and was succeeded by his half-brother Charles III.

His involvement in the first civil war of his father's reign was limited, but in the second, his elder brothers, Lothair, then King of Italy, and Pepin, King of Aquitaine, induced him to invade Alamannia — which their father had given to their half-brother Charles — by promising to give him the land in the new partition they would make.

When the elder Louis died in 840, and Lothair claimed the whole Empire, Louis allied with the half-brother, Charles the Bald, and defeated Lothair and their nephew Pepin II of Aquitaine, son of Pepin, at the Battle of Fontenay in June 841.

In 875, after the death of the Emperor Louis II ( son of his half-brother Lothair ), Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII, traveled to Italy, receiving the royal crown at Pavia and the imperial insignia in Rome on 29 December.

In March, John of Dunois made an irresistible offer to Philip III of Burgundy, offering to turn Orleans over to him, to hold as a neutral territory on behalf of his captive half-brother Charles, Duke of Orléans.

* Charles Auguste Louis Joseph ( 21 October 1811-10 March 1865 ), created Duc de Morny by his half-brother, Napoleon III, in 1862.

# Charles III ( 1486 – 1553 ) who succeeded his half-brother as Duke of Savoy

He was succeeded by his young half-brother Charles III in 1504.

Continued talks were required, particularly since Charles was unwilling to marry his only child and potential heiress to Clarence, and these talks were undertaken by Anthony, Grand Bastard of Burgundy, Charles ' half-brother.

Charles next sent the mercenary companies ( under the leadership of du Guesclin ) to fight in a civil war in Castile between King Peter the Cruel and his illegitimate half-brother Henry.

As a child, Charles was prevented from succeeding to the throne at the time of the death in 884 of his half-brother Carloman.

The ranch was built and owned by the half-brother of President William Howard Taft, Charles Phelps Taft.

His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and his half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley ; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley ; and his paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and proponent of evolution.

Charles ' half-brother, Infante Philip Peter, died on 29 December 1719, putting Charles third in line to the throne after Louis and Ferdinand.

In 1759, Ferdinand was succeeded by his half-brother Charles III, who was no lover of music.

His younger half-brother, the soldier, politician and diplomat Charles Stewart ( later Vane ) succeeded him as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.

A funeral monument was not erected until 1850 by his half-brother and successor, Charles Stewart Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.

On several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers Pippin I of Aquitaine and Louis the German in revolt against their father to protest against attempts to make their half-brother Charles the Bald a co-heir to the Frankish domains.

Negotiations with his brother Louis the German and his half-brother Charles, both of whom resisted this claim, were followed by an alliance of the younger brothers against Lothair.

He was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager, and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin ( 1926 – 2009 ), who was named after him.