He also allowed Hürrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of her life, breaking another tradition — that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.

This is often understood to mean that children are protected by guardian angels, and appears to be corroborated by Hebrews 1: 14 when speaking of angels, " Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

The sultan's heirs were often sent to rule the province as governors to gain experience.

In a marketing effort, the founders sent agents selling certificates, which for $ 100 entitled " the subscriber, his heirs and assigns, to the privilege of sending one student to the Geneva Academy ( or to Geneva College ) for 20 years, commencing from the date hereof or any time he choose.

The Duke of Angoulême, one of the heirs to the Bourbon dynasty, is sent to assume control of the civil leadership.

Ridgewood Ranch was sold by his heirs, with some of the horses sent to his son Lindsay's Binglin Stable in Moorpark, California.

Banda had no known heirs, but had a vast fortune at stake that is run by his family.

According to S. Boyd Eaton, " we are the heirs of inherited characteristics accrued over millions of years ; the vast majority of our biochemistry and physiology are tuned to life conditions that existed before the advent of agriculture some 10, 000 years ago.

The state bought the vast tract from Wharton's heirs in the 1950s.

Joseph Mark of Albuquerque bought two hundred and fifty thousand reis, a vast terrain of virgin forests owned by Maria Genoveva Santos, Joao Martins and his heirs and Domingos dos Santos Leite Prado.

Paolo is one of the heirs of the vast Barilla pasta empire.

The British Library's Stefan Zweig Collection was donated to the library by his heirs in May 1986.

From the Court party's point-of-view this was anti-royalist in nature and the king's ministers began to fear the uses being made of Cotton's library to support parliamentarian arguments: it was confiscated in 1630 and returned only after his death to his heirs.

Before the advent of the Presidential library system, Presidents or their heirs often dispersed Presidential papers at the end of the administration.

A further collection of Sanskrit manuscripts was purchased from his heirs by the India Office library after his death.

She did, however, insist that Henry sleep with Catherine in order to produce heirs to the throne.

According to the letters patent of 21 June 1553, Catherine was to be second in the line of succession behind her sister and her heirs male.

Catherine acquired the best collections offered for sale by the heirs of prominent collectors.

Modern readers may think it likely that a teenaged couple sharing a bed and legally married to each other would also engage in sexual intercourse, particularly since Catherine and Arthur understood the production of heirs as a pressing and essential duty.

Catherine suffered three miscarriages and as a result, she did not produce any heirs.

" Catherine rebuked him, but the exchange fueled the family's fears that the Tsar planned to make Catherine his Empress and supplant his legitimate heirs with his second family.

In 1762, upon succeeding to the imperial throne, Peter III accorded his only son Paul Petrovich ( by the future Catherine the Great ) the novel title of tsesarevich, he being the first of eleven Romanov heirs who would bear it.

On the death in 1663 of his great-grandson, the fifth Baron, the title fell into abeyance between the late Baron's surviving sister Joyce, and the heirs of his deceased sisters Mary, Lady Symeon, and Catherine, Baroness Abergavenny.

On 18 August of the same year he was created Baron Nelson, of the Nile and of Hillborough in the County of Norfolk, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his father and the heirs male of his body, and failing them to the heirs male of the body severally and successively of his sisters Mrs Susannah Bolton and Mrs Catherine Matcham.

The same year he was granted a second earldom of Clanricarde in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder, failing male issue of his own, to his daughters Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh, wife of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, and Lady Emily de Burgh, and the heirs male of their bodies according to priority of birth.

In 1387 she had lost her own heir Olav IV of Norway, the new heirs now being Eric of Pomerania, and his sister Catherine who was married with a prince of the Palatinate and Bavaria.

This marriage brought Catherine into a significant branch of the extended royal family, as the King's will made his sister Mary's descendants the next heirs to the throne after his own children.

They gave it to Catherine Brown Sutton who was William Sutton's wife and daughter of Bunch Sonego Source Nov 7th 1845 gift of Two Hundred Acres to Catherine Sutton and her heirs ( RG 10 Volume 2877, File 177, 181 )

On returning, they found that a Surrender had taken place and their gift of land had been included and divided up into lots for sale at a public auction, taking away the land that had been gifted to Catherine and her lawful heirs, her children.

The Imperial Public Library was established in 1795 by Catherine the Great, whose private collections included the domestic libraries of Voltaire and Diderot, which she had purchased from their heirs.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

Under the charter forming the Hudson's Bay Company, the company was required to give two elk skins and two black beaver pelts to the English King, then Charles II, or his heirs, whenever the monarch visits an area that was formerly Rupert's Land.

After the death of Conrad II, often referred to as Kurt II who left no male heirs, Frederick III was granted the burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1192 as Burgrave Frederick I of Nuremberg-Zollern.

Jacobitism (, ) refers to the political movement in Great Britain and Ireland to restore the Stuart King James II of England and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.

On 7 July 1032, in Merseburg a meeting took place between Conrad II and the surviving heirs of the Piast dynasty.

Many heirs of Emperor Moctezuma II were acknowledged by the Spanish crown, who granted them titles including Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo.

He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric.

Charles of Salerno, the Angevin pretender, who was still held captive by the Sicilians, finally grew tired of his long captivity and signed a contract on 27 February 1287 in which he renounced his claims to the kingdom of Sicily in favour of James II of Aragon and his heirs.

James II was a Catholic, while the state institutions had broken from the Catholic Church — this was an issue for the Exclusion Bill supporting Whigs, the political heirs to the nonconformist Roundheads and Covenanters.

He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the 4th-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric.

* Henry II of England & Humbert III, Count of Savoy agree to wed their respective heirs, John of England & Alicia.

* March 25 – Iberian Union: King Philip II of Spain becomes King of Portugal under the name Philip I, following the death without heirs of King Henry of Portugal, in a personal union of the crowns, thus maintaining Portuguese independence ( in Europe and throughout the Portuguese Empire ).

During a later division of territory among the heirs of Duke Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, in 1294, the elder branch of the Wittelsbachs came into possession of both the Rhenish Palatinate and the territories in the Bavarian " Nordgau " ( Bavaria north of the Danube river ) with the centre around the town of Amberg.

Also, in a prelude to the Act of Settlement to come twelve years later, the Bill of Rights barred Roman Catholics from the throne of England as " it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince "; thus William III and Mary II were named as the successors of James VII and II and that the throne would pass from them first to Mary's heirs, then to her sister, Princess Anne of Denmark and her heirs and, further, to any heirs of William by a later marriage.

* January – Henry II of England & Louis VII of France sign a peace treaty which includes the betrothal of their respective heirs, twelve year-old Richard I of England & nine year-old Alys, Countess of the Vexin.

However, Baldwin II also thought that he would have to marry Melisende to a powerful ally, one who would protect and safeguard Melisende's inheritance as Queen and her future heirs.