Octavian's prestige and, more importantly, the loyalty of his legions, had been initially boosted by Julius Caesar's legacy of 44 BC, by which the then nineteen-year-old Octavian had been officially adopted as the only son of the great Roman general and also established as the sole legitimate heir of his enormous wealth.

Caesar's adopted heir, later known as Augustus, rose to sole power, and the era of the Roman Empire began.

As the eldest son of Bertha Krupp, Alfried was destined by family tradition to become the sole heir of the Krupp concern.

Maecenas died in 8 BC, leaving the emperor sole heir to his wealth.

After the Sino – Soviet split, communist parties of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China each claimed to be the sole intellectual heir to Marxism – Leninism.

The idea of the two halves, the East and the West, re-emerged and eventually resulted in the permanent de facto division into two separate Roman empires after the death of Theodosius I ( though it is important to remember that the Empire was never formally divided, Emperors of East and West legally ruling as one imperial college until the fall of Rome's western empire left Byzantium, the " second Rome ", sole direct heir ).

Sir Pitt and Rawdon both dote on her, although Rawdon is her favourite nephew and sole heir until he marries Becky.

On 22 June 1399, Jadwiga gave birth to a daughter, baptised Elizabeth Bonifacia ; but within a month the mother and daughter died, leaving Władysław sole ruler of the Kingdom of Poland and without an heir nor much legitimacy to rule the kingdom.

In her will, Johanna Schopenhauer made Adele her sole heir.

George's prospects were now better than ever as the sole heir to his father's electorate and his uncle's duchy.

However, her brother's death in the White Ship disaster in 1120 resulted in Matilda being her father's sole heir.

Seven years later ( 1213 ) the death of his younger surviving brother Konrad the Curly during a hunt left Henry as the sole heir of Lower Silesia.

Henry I the Bearded quickly began his efforts to designate his sole surviving son as the universal heir of his patrimony, and from 1222, the young prince appears to have signed documents along with his father.

Margaret's mother was pregnant at the time of Somerset's death, but her sibling did not survive and Margaret remained sole heir.

It is commonly agreed that Carloman and Charlemagne disliked each other, although the reasons behind this are unclear: some historians suggest that each brother considered himself rightfully to be the sole heir of their father – Charlemagne as the elder child, Carloman as the legitimate child ( Charlemagne is sometimes claimed to have been born a bastard in 742, a claim not always accepted ).

Meanwhile, most of the city's office and retail space remained in the hands of Edward Bremer, son of William Bremer and the sole remaining heir to his wealth.

KaKue died in December 1886 leaving no will and his wife Tu Tue Tue was sole heir.

After the death of Tar-de-blu the estate was settled in 1909 leaving Chief Jacob the son of Tar-de-blu as sole heir.

When Katie died childless in 1896 her husband Alpheus Loughrey was sole heir.

From 1539, the heir to the throne was John, Prince of Portugal, who married Joan of Spain, daughter of Charles V. The sole son of John III to survive childhood, Prince John was sickly and died young ( of juvenile diabetes ), eighteen days before his wife gave birth to Prince Sebastian on 20 January 1554.

Robert III again exhibited his new resolve when in December 1404 he created a new regality in the Stewartry for his sole remaining son and heir James now earl of Carrick — an act designed to prevent these lands falling into Albany's hands.

When Yakub arrived, he was strangled to death, leaving Bayezid as the sole heir to the Ottoman throne.

In 1696, Captain Robert Byerley married his cousin, Mary Wharton ( sole heir to the estate of Goldsborough, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire ), England and moved to live with his wife at her family home of Goldsborough Hall.

Lane-the daughter of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was noted for writing the Little House series of books-designated MacBride as as a " political disciple ", as well as her executor and sole heir.

She is sole heir to her late mother, who inherited about half the fortune of Aristotle Onassis.

Once he had established himself as sole ruler of the Roman state in 30 BC, Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son Augustus inaugurated a strategy of advancing the empire's southeastern European border to the line of the Danube from the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and Macedonia.

He was born to an aristocratic family of the Kingdom of Navarre, the youngest son of Juan de Jaso, privy counsellor to King John III of Navarre ( Jean d ' Albret ), and Doña Maria de Azpilcueta y Aznárez, sole heiress of two noble Navarrese families.

His sole reign is dated by Albright as 715 – 687 BC, and by Thiele as 716 – 687 BC ( the last ten years being a co-regency with his son Manasseh ).

After Richard's death on 6 April 1199 there were two potential claimants to the Angevin throne: John, whose claim rested on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur of Brittany, who held a claim as the son of Geoffrey, John's elder brother.

In 775, Leo ( son of Tzitzak ) was crowned as the sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

As the only surviving adult son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833 – 34, during which he was deposed.

On his father's death in 814, he inherited the entire Frankish kingdom and all its possessions ( with the sole exception of Italy, which remained within Louis's empire, but under the direct rule of Bernard, Pepin's son ).

Through his daughter by Cleopatra, Antony would become ancestor to the royal family of Mauretania, another Roman client kingdom, while through his sole surviving son Iullus, he would be ancestor to several famous Roman statesmen.

His other son, Yakub Bey, who was in charge of the other wing, was called to the Sultan's command center tent by Bayezid, but when Yakub Bey arrived he was strangled, leaving Bayezid as the sole claimant to the throne.

After the death in 392 of Valentinian II, whom Theodosius had supported against a variety of usurpations, Theodosius ruled as sole Emperor, appointing his younger son Honorius Augustus as his co-ruler for the West ( Milan, on 23 January 393 ) and by defeating the usurper Eugenius on 6 September 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus ( Vipava river, modern Slovenia ) he restored peace.

Later, he upheld Elias, lord of La Flèche, against William Rufus, king of England, and on the recognition of Elias as count of Maine in 1100, obtained for Fulk V the Young, his son by Bertrade de Montfort, the hand of Eremburge, Elias's daughter and sole heiress.

A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy.

The latter died in 169, having failed to recover from an operation, which left Commodus as Marcus Aurelius ' sole surviving son.

* King Hermeric dies after a two-year illness, he is succeeded by his son Rechila who becomes sole ruler over the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia.

Born in 1923, Burnham was the sole son in a family that had three children.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria was succeeded by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which his sole surviving son, Kyril, was executed.

William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. R. Thiele, following H. J. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740 / 739 BC and dying in 732 / 731 BC.

Constans II, the son of Constantine III, became sole emperor.

Sargon II became co-regent with Shalmaneser V in 722 BC, and became the sole ruler of the kingdom of Babylonia in 722 BC after the death of Shalmaneser V. It is not clear whether he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or a usurper unrelated to the royal family.