# 2001 Birendra of Nepal by his son Crown Prince Dipendra in the massacre of the Nepalese royal family ; Dipendra proceeded to commit suicide without having been crowned king.

He was accompanied by his son Mahendra and the eldest grandson Birendra, among others.

King Birendra was born at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu as the eldest son of the then Crown Prince Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and his wife Crown Princess Indra Rajya Laxmi.

Queen Aishwarya was shot dead along with her husband, King Birendra ; her son, Prince Nirajan ; her daughter, Princess Shruti ; and seven other royal family members.

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

Jehoiakim died while the Babylonians were marching towards Jerusalem and Jehoiakim's eight-year-old son Jehoiachin assumed the throne.

Heraclius, son to the exarch of Africa, set sail for the city and assumed the purple.

Chiang was succeeded as President by Vice President Yen Chia-kan and as Kuomintang party leader by his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who retired Chiang Kai-shek's title of Director-General and instead assumed the position of Chairman.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

After Telemann's eldest son Andreas died in 1755, he assumed the responsibility of raising Andreas ' son Georg Michael Telemann, who eventually became a composer.

His son, Constantine I, was at his side at that moment and assumed his duties in Britannia.

After much rivalry, Muhammad Ture's last son Askiya Daoud ( 1529 – 1582 ) assumed the throne.

The second bull was kept secret for many years, and Giovanni was assumed to be Cesare's son.

After Pepin's long rule, his son Charles Martel assumed power, fighting against nobles and his own stepmother.

His son, Kim Jong-il, who had already assumed key positions in the government, succeeded as General-Secretary of the Korean Workers ' Party.

It was assumed by many that Somoza had ordered his assassination ( evidence implicated Somoza's son and other members of the National Guard ).

In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres ( Greek: ) or Proci, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage.

Throughout history, emperors have assumed titles that amount to being " a son of god ", " a son of a god " or " son of Heaven ".

When Shah Jahan became ill in 1658, Dara Shikoh ( Mumtaz Mahal's eldest son ) assumed the role of regent in his father's stead, which swiftly incurred the animosity of his brothers.

Alternatively, Nephthys intentionally assumed the form of Isis in order to trick Osiris into fathering her son.

Penda was succeeded first by his son Peada ( who converted to Christianity at Repton in 653 ), and who was set up by Oswiu as an under king, but in the spring of 656 he was murdered and Oswiu assumed direct control of the whole of Mercia.

When Frederick I retired in 1437, he compensated his incapable eldest son John with the Principality of Bayreuth while Frederick II assumed the government of Brandenburg.

His son Paul ( born 1567 ), of whose life little is known, assumed control of the presses.

Her surviving son, Edward the Confessor, had assumed the throne on Harthacnut's death, restoring the Saxon royal line of the House of Wessex.

As eldest living son, at age 11, Jacob quickly assumed adult responsibilities ( shared with Wilhelm ) for the next two years, adhering to the advice of their grandfather who continually exhorted them to be industrious.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

We do know that he was not expected to succeed to the throne after his brother king Agis II, largely due to the fact that he was crippled from birth, and since the latter had a son, named Leotychidas.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

Wacho's death in about 540 brought his son Walthari to the throne, but as the latter was still a minor the kingdom was governed in his stead by Alboin's father, Audoin, of the Gausian clan.

Alexander Balas (), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150 – 146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne.

Demetrius Soter's son Demetrius II profited by the opportunity to regain the throne.

Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.

This led to his excommunication by the holy see and possibly precipitated his death, and his son Dom Dinis's premature rise to the throne at only 18 years old.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Amyntas died at an advanced age, leaving his throne to his eldest son.

When his brother and his infant son died, Andrew ascended the throne and started to grant royal domains to his partisans.

By November 1183, Andronikos associated his younger legitimate son John Komnenos on the throne.

# Abijah ( king ) of the Kingdom of Judah, also known as Abijam ( אבים ' aḄiYaM " My Father is Yam "), who was son of Rehoboam and succeeded him on the throne of Judah.

* 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.

Antigonus's son Demetrius I Poliorcetes survived the battle, and managed to seize control of Macedon itself a few years later, but eventually lost his throne, dying as a prisoner of Seleucus I.

Painda Khan's son fled to Iran and pledged the substantial support of his Barakzai followers to a rival claimant to the throne, Zaman's older brother, Mahmud Shah.

Although his son Inel Qaghan succeeded him, the legal claimant of the throne was his cousin Ashǐnà mòjílián.

During his reign, Bayezid II consolidated the Ottoman Empire and thwarted a Safavid rebellion soon before abdicating his throne to his son, Selim I.

In 1137, Aragon and the County of Barcelona merged in dynastic union by the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV and Petronilla of Aragon, their titles finally borne by only one person when their son Alfonso II of Aragon ascended to the throne in 1162.