His maternal grandparents were King Levon II of Armenia and Queen Keran of Armenia.

Lancaster's maternal grandparents were immigrants to the U. S. from Belfast and descendants of English immigrants to Ireland.

His maternal grandparents were Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, Augustus ' sister, and therefore the great-great grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar.

Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

His maternal grandparents were Carl Johnson and his wife Suzanna Massey, but little else is known about his ancestors.

He grew up in Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to his parents ' home in London in 1887.

Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from England.

Magdalena's maternal grandparents were Kazimierz IV Jagiellon and his wife queen Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Albert II of Germany.

His grandparents were less fortunate: his paternal grandparents were taken by the Nazis to Łódź, and were never heard from again ; his maternal grandfather died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Paavo's maternal grandparents were Jaakko Antero Ingman / Iisalo ( a distant relative of Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ) and his wife Siiri Törnroos.

She grew up on a farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester.

Due to his illness the family moved back to Norwich, New York to the farm of Ruth ’ s maternal grandparents, the Shattucks.

Her maternal grandparents were of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry ; of particular importance to her as a child was her grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.

Their maternal grandparents were Jean de Saint-Vincent ( Boëil-Bezing, c. 1690 – Boëil-Bezing, 21 May 1762 ) and wife ( m. Assat, 30 May 1719 ) Marie d ' Abbadie de Sireix ( Sireix, 25 March 1694 – Boëil-Bezing, 16 October 1752 ), daughter of Doumengé Habas d ' Arrens and wife Marie d ' Abbadie, Lay Abbess of Sireix.

They lived with his maternal grandparents at 2129 Ida Place ( now Ward Place ), NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D. C. His father, James Edward Ellington, was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina on April 15, 1879 and moved to Washington, D. C. in 1886 with his parents.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

Ford's maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus ( at that time a part of the Russian Empire ).

Hunt's paternal grandmother was from a German Jewish family, while Hunt's other grandparents were of English descent ( her maternal grandfather had been born in England ).

His maternal grandparents were Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos ( 1347 – 1354 ) and Irene Asanina.

Both of his paternal grandparents were English, and his maternal grandmother, Ada Jones from Pontypridd, had English parents.

Her maternal grandparents were Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland.

His paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry is Dutch and Irish.

The following year Gamal went to Alexandria to live with his maternal grandparents, where he received a secondary education certificate from a private school.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Emperors Caracalla and Publius Septimius Geta, were his mother's maternal cousins.

Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Cecilia " Leilie " Beaux and her sister Etta were subsequently raised by their maternal grandmother and aunts, primarily in Philadelphia.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

Barks once stated that his paternal ancestors were Dutch and his maternal ancestors were Scottish.

However, his relatives were not major court officials ; documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Lain, confirmed only five documents of Ferdinand I's, his maternal grandfather, Rodrigo Alvarez, certified only two of Sancho II's, and El Cid's own father confirmed only one.

Because consorts of crown princes, younger sons, and emperors were generally Fujiwara women, the male heads of the Fujiwara house were often the father-in-law, brother-in-law, uncle, or maternal grandfather of the emperor.

In ancient China, first cousins with the same surnames ( i. e., those born to the father's brothers ) were not permitted to marry, while those with different surnames ( i. e., maternal cousins and paternal cousins born to the father's sisters ) were.

At the same time as the generation of the gynogenetic and androgenetic embryos discussed above, mouse embryos were also being generated that contained only small regions that were derived from either a paternal or maternal source.

He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively.

Voight's paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were immigrants from Germany.

Although the events were clearly a dynastic struggle, " the division was not between native barons and newcomers from the West, but between the king's maternal and paternal kin.

Like Louis XIV, Leopold was a first cousin of the King of Spain and a nephew of Philip IV in the maternal line, his mother having been a younger sister of Philip IV ( Maria Anna of Spain ); moreover, Philip IV had stipulated the succession should pass to the Austrian Habsburg line in his will.

* May 9 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.

Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg then known as Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, died in London.

Charles was a minor, so a regency was undertaken by his uncles, Louis, Duke of Anjou, John, Duke of Berry, Philip himself, and Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, Charles VI's maternal uncle.

Charles Emmanuel was the oldest surviving brother of Princess Maria Adelaide of Savoy-the mother of Louis XV of France ; he was also the brother of Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen of Spain as wife of his maternal second cousin Philip V of Spain.

Louis XIII's paternal grandparents were Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme and Jeanne d ' Albret, Queen of Navarre ; his maternal grandparents were Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and Eleonora de ' Medici, his maternal aunt, was his godmother.

Nonetheless, the marriage produced three children: Marie Louise d ' Orléans, future queen of Spain, who left France in 1679 when Philippe was just five ; Philippe Charles ( 1664 – 1666 ), Duke of Valois ; and Anne Marie d ' Orléans, born at Saint-Cloud in 1669, later queen consort of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( they became the maternal grandparents of Philippe's future protégé Louis XV ).

His maternal grandfather, James Jarché, was a famous Fleet Street photographer notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot ( 1909 ) and the Siege of Sidney Street.

Rainier's maternal grandfather, Prince Louis II, had been a general in the French army during World War I.

Lionel Richie's maternal grandmother, Adelaide Mary Brown ( January 19, 1893 – November 30, 1996 ), was John Louis Brown's only known child.

However, not wishing to repeat the difficulties of three decades previous, Philip, a few months before his marriage, renounced his princely titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten, which was that of his uncle and mentor, the Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, and itself was adopted by the Viscount's father ( Philip's maternal grandfather ), Prince Louis of Battenberg, in 1917.

In an episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it was discovered that Martha Stewart's maternal line has its roots in the Lipka Tatar people of Poland.

The album was filled with lullabies and other songs of maternal love and inspiration, the two most popular being covers of Louis Armstrong's " What a Wonderful World " and John Lennon's " Beautiful Boy ".

Louis later moved in with relatives at 518 Conti Street ; his maternal grandmother Buslé and his nurse Sally had both been born in Saint-Domingue ( known later as Haiti ).

Her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her paternal grandmother ); the German Empress ( for whom Alice's paternal aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy ); William III, King of the Netherlands ( for whom the Dutch Ambassador Count de Bylandt stood proxy ); Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( her namesake's widower, whose brother-in-law the Duke of Edinburgh represented him ); the Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont ( her maternal grandmother ); the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle ); the German Crown Princess ( her paternal aunt, whose sister-in-law the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg ( her cousin, for whom his cousin the Duke of Teck stood proxy ); the Hereditary Princess of Bentheim and Steinfurt ( her maternal aunt, for whom her paternal aunt Princess Christian stood proxy ); and the Duchess of Cambridge ( an aunt of the Queen, whose daughter the Duchess of Teck represented her ).

Her maternal grandparents were Joseph Ignace Somis ( c. 1710 – Marseille, 29 April 1750 ), son of Jean Louis Somis and his wife Françoise Bouchard, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 May 1736 ) Catherine Rose Soucheiron ( Marseille, 11 January 1696 – Marseille, 18 February 1776 ), daughter of François Soucheiron and his wife Anne Cautier.

The twice-widowed Duke Charles considered himself unable to give his daughters proper rearing and education, so he sent Frederica and her elder sisters Charlotte, Therese and Louise to their maternal grandmother, Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg, Dowager Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, called Princess George ( in allusion to her late husband, the second son of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ).

Her maternal grandparents were Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis XIV in 1715, his father ( the old king's nephew ) was selected to be the regent of the country for the five year old new king, Louis XV.