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.

His maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.

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.

Originally under the guardianship of his maternal grandfather Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, he displaced Imperial Prince Koretaka ( 惟喬親王 ) as Crown Prince.

Through his maternal grandfather, Prince Harry is descended from King Henry IV of France, King Charles II and King James II and VII.

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

Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy ); Princess Ingrid of Sweden ( her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy ); the Princess Victoria ( her paternal great-aunt ); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower ( her maternal aunt ); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon ( her maternal uncle ).

However her mother, Madeleine de la Tour d ' Auvergne, the Countess of Boulogne, was from one of the most prominent and ancient French noble families ; this prestigious maternal heritage was of benefit to her future marriage to a Royal Prince of France.

He was christened Albert Edward ( after his father, and maternal grandfather Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn ) at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 25 January 1842.

Ernst Brinkmann of Münster University and Belgian genetics professor Jean-Jacques Cassiman of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, conducted mitochondrial DNA tests in 2000 using samples from Marie-Antoinette, her sisters Maria Johanna Gabriela and Maria Josepha, their mother, Maria Theresa, and two living direct descendants in strict maternal line of Maria Theresa, Queen Anne of Romania and her brother, Prince André de Bourbon Parme.

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

Originally known as Prince Carl of Denmark ( namesake of his maternal grandfather the King of Norway etc.

Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester ( his maternal granduncle ); Princess Alexandra of Kent ( his 1st cousin once removed ); the Earl of Euston ; the Lord Elphinstone ( his 1st cousin once removed ); and Mrs Harold Phillips, and he was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh all titles previously held by both his maternal great-grandfather and grandfather.

Even without DNA testing, it is possible to determine which ancestor's X chromosome was inherited by certain royalty because the gene causing hemophilia is found on the X chromosome ( for example, hemophilic Prince Waldemar inherited an X chromosome of his maternal grandmother, Princess Alice, and not that of his maternal grandfather ).

Wilhelm I, German Emperor ( her maternal great-granduncle, who was represented by the German Ambassador Count Münster ); the German Crown Princess ( her paternal aunt, who was represented by her own sister Princess Christian ); Prince and Princess Friedrich Karl of Prussia ( her maternal grandparents, for whom her paternal uncle the Duke of Edinburgh and aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy ) and the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle ).

Her maternal grandfather was Prince Paul of Württemberg, a son of King Frederick I of Württemberg and his ill-fated consort Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( 1764 – 88 ).

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