Born at Medina del Campo, he was the son of Ferdinand I of Aragon ( known as Ferdinand of Antequera ) and Eleanor of Alburquerque.

Alfonso, by formally submitting his reign to the Papacy, obtained the consent of Pope Eugene IV that the Kingdom of Naples would go to his immature son Ferdinand.

His son, Ferdinand I of Castile also took the title in 1039.

Francis was a devoted family man, and a main point in the political testament he left for his son and heir Ferdinand was, " Preserve unity in the family and regard it as one of the highest goods.

The latter would end up going to a more junior branch of the Habsburgs in the person of Charles's brother Ferdinand, while the senior branch continued rule in Spain and in the Burgundian inheritance in the person of Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.

After Ferdinand died in 1564, his son Maximilian II became Emperor, and like his father, accepted the existence of Protestantism and the need for occasional compromise with it.

Both Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick were too dangerous to keep around even in captivity, and Henry had to execute them in 1499 before Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain would allow their daughter Catherine to come to England and marry his son Arthur.

Abel was born in Köthen, the son of Christian Ferdinand Abel, the principal viola da gamba and cello player in the court orchestra.

During his 20-month imprisonment, Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry Porsche, decided to build his own car, because he could not find an existing one that he wanted to buy.

The team to lay out the body shell design was led by Ferry Porsche's eldest son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( F.

The 356 was created by Ferdinand " Ferry " Porsche ( son of Dr. Ing.

Galicia was conquered soon after ( it was conquered by Sancho's son Ferdinand around 1038 ).

Henry VII married his son Arthur to Catherine of Aragon, cementing an alliance with the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, and the two spent their honeymoon at Ludlow Castle, the traditional seat of the Prince of Wales.

* May 22 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies is succeeded by his 23-year-old son Francis II of the Two Sicilies.

* January 4, 1825 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.

* March 26 – Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.

* January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.

Charles resigns the thrones of Naples and Sicily to his third son, Ferdinand IV.

In 1556, Charles V abdicated in favour of his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand I. Charles's Italian possessions, including Milan, passed to Philip II and the Spanish line of Habsburgs, while Ferdinand's Austrian line of Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

* September 22 – Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds as King of Bohemia.

* November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.

Charles ' son Ferdinand, though disliked by the population, took refuge in Palermo after the French Revolution in 1798.

Emperor Maximilian I and his family ; with his son Philip the Fair, his wife Mary of Burgundy, his grandsons Ferdinand I and Charles V, and Louis II of Hungary ( husband of his granddaughter Mary of Austria ).

There they arranged for Maximilian's granddaughter Mary to marry Louis, the son of Ladislaus, and for Anne ( the sister of Louis ) to marry Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand ( both grandchildren being the children of Philip the Handsome, Maximilian's son, and Joanna of Castile ).

John Ritter ( actor and son of Tex Ritter )

Shepherd went to Los Angeles and read with John Ritter, and with Robert Mitchum's son as well as Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms.

Ignoring instructions to steer parents to goods that Macy's sells, Kris directs one shopper ( Thelma Ritter ) to another store for a fire engine for her son that Macy's does not have.

Over 130 years later, Her Majesty Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, appointed W. T. Block Jr. ( his son ) as " Knight of the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau " in a ceremony held at the Tex Ritter Park in Nederland, Texas.

Karl Wilhelm von Feuerbach ( 30 May 1800 – 12 March 1834 ) was a German geometer and the son of legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and the brother of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach.

He was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach.

Karl von Frisch was the son of the surgeon and urologist Anton Ritter von Frisch ( 1849-1917 ) and his wife Marie, née Exner.

* UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through Israeli intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein, Saddam's son, is the key player in hiding Iraq's illegal weapons.

Ritter was born in Burbank, California, the son of actress Dorothy Fay ( née Southworth ) and singing cowboy / matinee-star Tex Ritter, who was of German descent.

Feuerbach was born at Speyer, the son of the well-known archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach and the grandson of the legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

Woodward Maurice Ritter ( January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974 ), better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting ( son John and grandson Jason ).

Ritter was born in Murvaul, Texas, the son of Martha Elizabeth ( née Matthews ) and German American James Everett Ritter.

The couple had two sons, Thomas Ritter and television actor John Ritter, whose son Jason was born in 1980.

Jason Morgan Ritter ( born February 17, 1980 ) is an American actor, son of actor John Ritter and actress Nancy Morgan.

Ritter was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Nancy Morgan and ( the late ) John Ritter, and the grandson of musician / actor, Tex Ritter, and Dorothy Fay.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

* In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years.

Hayek was born in Vienna ( then the capital of Austria-Hungary ), and was the son of August von Hayek, a doctor in the municipal health service.

The couple were also foster parents to a boy named Gerhard von Ahe, son of an SS officer who had died before the war.

The eldest son of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, Joachim received an excellent education under the supervision of Dietrich von Bülow, Bishop of Lebus and Chancellor of Frankfurt University.

In 1943, by a special order from Hitler, the company reverted to a sole-proprietorship, with Gustav and Bertha's eldest son Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ( 1907 – 67 ) as proprietor.

A physically imposing, deliberative, and reticent man, Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his rapid transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding " van der " and his mother's surname " Rohe ", using the Dutch " van der ", rather than the German form " von " which was legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage.

Claire discovers, after falling in love with the enigmatic fugitive, that he is the son of a scientist ( played by Max von Sydow ), and has absconded with the prototype of a secret research project.

* Georg Leopold von Reisswitz and his son Georg Heinrich Rudolf von Reisswitz-inventors of Kriegsspiel.

Jobst ( or Jost or Jodokus ) of Moravia, Jobst von Mähren ( or Jošt Moravský ; ; 1351 – 18 January 1411 ) from the House of Luxembourg was the eldest son of Margrave John Henry of Moravia, the younger brother of Emperor Charles IV.

Wenceslaus was born in the Imperial city of Nuremberg, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV by his third wife Anna von Schweidnitz, a scion of the Silesian Piasts, and baptized at St. Sebaldus Church.

Though in 1813 she at last permitted him to live with her, the arrangement soon failed: a year later Johanna asked her son to leave the house following a heated argument between the two of them over Johanna's friendship with her lodger, a younger man named Georg von Gerstenbergk.

Weismann was born a son of high school teacher Johann ( Jean ) Konrad Weismann ( 1804 – 1880 ), a graduate of ancient languages and theology, and his wife Elise ( 1803 – 1850 ), née Lübbren, the daughter of the county councillor and mayor von Stade, on January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1517, father and son began a project in Lucerne ( Luzern ), painting internal and external murals for the merchant Jakob von Hertenstein.

Her father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde.

From his first marriage he had two children: a son and a daughter, both unknown ; the son apparently died young and the daughter married Philipp Christian von Kleinberg, but both spouses died in 1743.

The Great Elector was a patron of scientific scholarship ; he had employed von Guericke's son, Hans Otto, as his Resident in Hamburg and in 1666 had named Otto himself to the Brandenburg Rat.

The son of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden by his second, wife Luise Karoline, Baroness Geyer von Geyersberg, who was born into a noble but not reigning family, he only became a Prince in 1817 ( aged 27 ), as part of a new law of succession.

In 1896 the Princely House of Schwarzburg, with the Sondershausen branch numbering two elderly childless princes and Rudolstadt just one childless prince, recognised Prince Sizzo von Leutenberg, morganatic son of Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, as a Prince of Schwarzburg and heir to the two principalities.

In 1928 Georg, Count von Carlow, morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg and commoner Natalia Vanljarskaya, became duke of Mecklenburg and heir to his uncle Duke Charles Michael.

In the former Royal Family of Saxony Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen adopted and designated as his heir his nephew Alexander de Afif, thus bypassing his agnatic cousin ’ s morganatic son, Ruediger von Sachsen, and his three sons.

** Arnold ( since 1888 ) von Siemens ( 1853, Berlin-1918 ), son of Werner von Siemens