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.

His maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, was the head of Ealing Studios.

Richard was baptised in the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 20 October 1944 by Lord Lang of Lambeth and his godparents were the Queen ( his paternal aunt and wife of George VI ), Princess Marie Louise ( his cousin ), the Countess of Athlone ( his cousin, for whom her daughter, the Lady May Abel Smith stood proxy ), the Duke of Buccleuch ( his maternal uncle ), the Marquess of Cambridge ( his cousin ), the Lady Sybil Phipps ( his maternal aunt ), and General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander ( for whom his wife, the Lady Margaret Alexander, stood proxy ).

He was born at Clerkenwell, London, 19 October 1610, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Sir John Poyntz.

Her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica ( 1933 – 1935 ); she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

She was born at Ightham Mote, which was owned by her maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, until his death in 1951.

Woodall's maternal grandfather was Sir John Duncanson, controller of the British steel industry in the last two years of the war, who went on to become managing director of the British Iron and Steel Federation ( BISF ) in August 1945 and then managing director of Lithgows in 1949.

Sir Christopher Hatton's early education is said to have been supervised by his maternal uncle, William Saunders ( d. 1582x4 ), but otherwise nothing is known of his life until he entered St. Mary's Hall, Oxford as a gentleman commoner at 15 or 16 years of age.

He was born on 22 July 1621, at the home of his maternal grandfather Sir Anthony Ashley in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset.

His maternal grandparents were Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet and Catherine Cornewall, daughter of Velters Cornewall.

His maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald Maclean, was a nephew of Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean, who received the Victoria Cross.

In 1791, Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet, inherited the manor of Great Barr from his maternal uncle Thomas Hoo and was able to return to live in the house on the expiry of the lease.

Lord Dudley married firstly in 1891 Rachel Anne Gurney, born in 1868, daughter of Charles Henry Gurney ( born 5 November 1833 ) and Alice Prinsep, sister of Laura Gurney, wife of Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet Troubridge, and maternal granddaughters of Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep ( 1793 – 1878 ) and wife ( m. 1835 ) Sara Monckton Pattle ( Calcutta, 1816-Brighton, 1887 ).

His maternal grandfather was Admiral Sir Walter Stirling and his uncle was Admiral Sir Charles Stirling.

Her godparents were: Sir Felix Brunner, 3rd Baronet ( her maternal uncle ); Major Sir Digby Lawson, 2nd Baronet ; Mrs Arthur Colegate ( her paternal aunt ); and Mrs Ronald Fife.

Cameron's maternal grandfather was Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet, an Army officer and the High Sheriff of Berkshire, and Cameron's maternal great-grandfather was Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, CBE, Conservative MP for Newbury 1918 – 1922.

Lucy Walter, a Welsh noblewoman, was the daughter of Richard or William Walter, of Roch Castle and of Haverfordwest and wife Elizabeth Protheroe, daughter of John Protheroe, of Hawkesbrook and wife Elinor Vaughan, maternal granddaughter of Walter Vaughan, of Grove and wife Mary or Katherine ferch Gruffud FitzUryan, in turn daughter of Griffith ap Rice FitzUryan ( d. 1592 ) and wife Eleanor Jones, daughter of Sir Thomas Jones, and paternal granddaughter of Rhys FitzUryan and wife Lady Katherine Howard ( c. 1518-12 April 1554, interred 11 May 1554 ), daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Agnes Tilney.

The second Earl assumed the additional surname of Pleydell after succeeding to the estates of his maternal grandfather, Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell, 1st Baronet ( see Pleydell Baronets ).