He participated in the First Crusade with his son Enguerrand, where they both won fame as military leaders.

* Enguerrand V, Lord of Coucy ( 1311-1321 ), son of Arnold III of Guînes and Alix Coucy.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

Scott's only son Walter did not live to enjoy the property, having died on his way from India in 1847.

would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

This son died young.

Agrippina ’ s son Drusus died of starvation being imprisoned in Rome and Nero either committed suicide soon after the trial.

In March 37, Tiberius died and Agrippina ’ s remaining son Caligula succeeded as emperor.

Years before she died, Agrippina had visited astrologers to ask about her son ’ s future.

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

On 11 October 1715, Charlotte died, after giving birth to a son, the grand-duke Peter, future tsar Peter II.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

She was married in 515 to Eutharic ( c. 480 – 522 ), an Ostrogoth noble of the old Amal line, who had previously been living in Visigothic Hispania, son of Widerich ( born c. 450 ), grandson of Berismund ( born c. 410 ), and great-grandson of Thorismund ( died after 400 ), King of the Ostrogoths c. 400.

Naples, which was held by Alfonso's brother, Pedro de Aragon, was besieged in 1424 by the Genoese ships and Joan's troops, now led by Francesco Sforza, son of Muzio ( who had died at L ' Aquila ).

* Alphonso, Earl of Chester, first son of Edward I of England, who died at the age of ten.

Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.

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.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

In the autumn of 1234, Prince Danylo laid siege to the capital of Andrew's youngest son who died during the siege.

They had an unnamed son, who died shortly after birth in 1321.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

Huayna Capac's sudden death and followed days later by the Incan heir apparent from a strange disease, described by one smallpox precipitated a bitter power struggle between Huáscar, whose mother was Coya ( meaning Empress ) Mama Rahua Occillo and legetimate heir, and Atahualpa, a son who, borne to a Quitu princess, and reputedly his father's " favorite.

Written following the death of his son, Aaron, from the premature aging disease progeria, the book deals with questions about human suffering, God, omnipotence and theodicy.

A Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) chancellor of China, Wang Dan ( 957 – 1017 ), lost his eldest son to smallpox and sought a means to spare the rest of his family from the disease, so he summoned physicians, wise men, and magicians from all across the empire to convene at the capital in Kaifeng and share ideas on how to cure patients of it.

* 1017 ( Kannin 1, 8th month ): Prince Atsuakira, the eldest son of Emperor Sanjo, had been named Crown Prince, but after he is struck by a skin disease and under intense pressure from Michinaga ; he withdraws from this role and his younger brother, Prince Atsunaga, is named Crown Prince in his place.

According to Virgil in the fourth Georgic, at one time the bees of Aristaeus, son of Apollo, all died of a disease.

However, two others have called, making Ender's trip not entirely in vain: they are Novinha's eldest son Miro, calling for someone to speak the death of Libo, who was killed the same way his father was ; and Novinha's eldest daughter Ela, calling for someone to speak the death of Novinha's husband Marcos Ribeira, who died not six weeks ago from a terminal disease.

Tamar outlived her consort, David Soslan, and died of a " devastating disease " not far from her capital Tbilisi, having previously crowned her son, George-Lasha, coregent.

His son died two weeks later from the same disease.

His father died of Hodgkin's disease in 1952 at the age of 39, just as his son was starting his career.

* Following Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, succeeds his father as King of Macedon, but soon after coming to the throne suffers from a wasting disease and dies.

* Babalu Aye-divinity of disease and illness ( particularly smallpox, leprosy, and now AIDS ), also orisha of healing and the earth, son of Iemanja

During her hospitalization, her son Donto revealed that James had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008, and attributed her previous comments about Beyoncé Knowles to " drug induced dementia ".

Maggie ( Cracknell ) is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and her younger son Arthur lives with and takes care of her.

But Baltazar's story goes far beyond what he has accomplished inside the boxing ring: In 1995, he and his wife had a son who developed a strange blood disease.

He died on 23 October 1910 of his kidney disease in Dusit Palace, and was succeeded by his son Vajiravudh.

His son Michael " Mickey " Salisbury was with him in China and also contracted the disease, but survived it.

He lived for some time at the court of Seleucus I Nicator, where he acquired great reputation by discovering the disease of Antiochus I Soter, the king's eldest son, probably 294 BC.

and a son, Edwin Jones ( born February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970 ) who died of kidney disease.

He died four months later of disease at Patterson, Missouri, five weeks after the birth of his youngest son, William Ashley.

Since 1990, Agutter has brought up her son and her work has been in sound recordings and supporting charities, notably the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, of which she is a patron ( she is also a carrier of the disease ).

His eldest son, Mōri Takamoto, while enroute to attack the Amago clan, died of a sudden disease, though assassination by poison was suspected.

His second wife died of spinal meningitis in 1935 and his son Max died of the same disease while serving in Africa during World War II in 1943.

Lord Stonehaven died of hypertensive cardiac disease at Ury House, Stonehaven, Scotland, in August 1941, aged 67, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Ian.

João Manuel died of what the sources refer to as consumption ( tuberculosis ) on 2 January 1554, however it is worth mentioning that some historians believe his death occurred as a result of diabetes, a disease he inherited from his maternal grandfather Philip I. Eighteen days later, a posthumous son was born from his marriage: the future King Sebastian I of Portugal.

His son died at the age of 28 from lung disease, which was accredited to severe stress from the harsh living conditions during the war.