He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

Albert was born in Ansbach in Franconia as the third son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

He is the leader of the Trojans ' Dardanian allies, as well as a third cousin and principal lieutenant of Hector, son of the Trojan king Priam.

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.

He was the son of Raymond IV of Toulouse by his third wife, Elvira of Castile, was born in the castle of Mont-Pelerin, Tripoli, in today's Lebanon.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Another son is named Mimas, who provides a link to the third Aeolus in a genealogy that seems very contrived.

The father of this third Aeolus is given as Hippotes, son of Mimas, a son of the first Aeolus ( son of Hellen ).

Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had between fourteen and eighteen children.

Some writers ascribe to him a third son, Abimi ( Bacher, Ag.

He was the third son of Mohammad Afzal Khan, and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

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.

He was the fifth but third surviving son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Maria Antonia of Bavaria.

Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son ( but fifth child in order of birth ) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony, and Margarete of Austria, sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.

The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.

He was the third son of Constantine the Great, and second by his second wife Fausta, the daughter of Maximian.

That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.

Journeying with him was Tostig, another son of Earl Godwin, who was now earl of Northumbria.

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

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

* Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington ( b. 1978 ), son and heir of previous

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

On his death, the title passed to his son Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee ( 1927 – 91 ).

According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen ( burial chamber ) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.

As the eldest living son of the sovereign, Charles automatically gained several titles ( including Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay ), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in November 1616.

The Duke's eldest son's eldest son in turn can use the courtesy title Earl of Sunderland.

: Lord Blandford's heir apparent: George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland ( b. 1992 ), his elder son

* 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, second son of Richard, Duke of York ( murdered after battle ) ( b. 1443 )

A bitter rivalry between the Earl of Essex and Robert Cecil, son of Lord Burghley, and their respective adherents, for the most powerful positions in the state marred politics.

Oxford was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding.

He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.

On 14 April 1589 Oxford was among the peers who found Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the eldest son and heir of Oxford's cousin, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, guilty of treason.

On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".

After the death of Oxford's widow, Elizabeth, their son, Henry, the 18th Earl of Oxford, inherited the remainder of his father's estate.

He was succeeded by his only surviving son, the second Earl.

On his death the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage, the third Earl.

The third earl was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Earl, who was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.