For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.

In 1164 Albert joined a league of princes formed against Henry the Lion, and peace being made in 1169, Albert divided his territories among his six sons.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

Over the next thirteen years, she bore Henry eight children: five sons, three of whom would become kings, and three daughters.

Over the next thirteen years, she bore Henry five sons and three daughters: William, Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, John, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joan.

Henry managed to defeat him but was subsequently confronted with more uprisings, renewed excommunication and even the rebellion of his sons.

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his sons King Henry VI and Duke Frederick V, Duke of Swabia | Frederick V of Swabia, Welfenchronik, 1167 / 79, Weingarten Abbey

Matilda bore him three sons, one called Otto, and two daughters, Hedwig and Gerberga and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.

Henry the elder had three sons: Edward, Henry and Daniel.

On the morning of 28 September 1106, exactly 40 years after William had made his way to England, the decisive battle between his two surviving sons, Robert Curthose and Henry Beauclerc, took place in the small village of Tinchebray, in Lower Normandy.

During her marriage, she bore her husband two sons, Otto ( who later succeeded his father as Margrave of Brandenburg ) in 1149, and Henry ( who inherited the Counties of Tangermünde and Gardelegen ) in 1150.

John, the youngest of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was at first not expected to inherit significant lands.

Henry II triumphed over the coalition of his sons, but was generous to them in the peace settlement agreed at Montlouis.

John had a number of illegitimate children by various mistresses, including nine sons – Richard, Oliver, John, Geoffrey, Henry, Osbert Gifford, Eudes, Bartholomew and probably Philip – and three daughters – Joan, Maud and probably Isabel.

When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, Henry and Thomas, after their father's death.

Her mother had many miscarriages ; before Mary's birth, four previous pregnancies had resulted in a stillborn daughter and three short-lived or stillborn sons, including Henry, Duke of Cornwall.

Despite his affection for Mary, Henry was deeply disappointed that his marriage had produced no sons.

Hotspur issued an amnesty in March which applied to all rebels with the exception of Owain and his cousins, Rhys ap Tudur and Gwilym ap Tudur, sons of Tudur ap Gronw ( forefather of King Henry VII of England ).

Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.

After he fell seriously ill in 1170, Henry II put in place his plan to divide his kingdom, although he would retain overall authority of his sons and their territories.

The couple had two sons and a daughter ( Jerry Falwell, Jr., a lawyer ; Jonathan Falwell, a pastor ; Jeannie, a surgeon ).

In the 1910 census, Peter and Elizabeth Weisenmüller as well as John and Eva Ott were living at 1521 Cleveland Ave in the 22nd Ward of Chicago, with sons John, age six, born in Temesvár and Peter Jr., age five, born in Illinois.

Shortly after taking off from Kansas City, where he had stopped to visit his two sons, Bill and Knute Jr., who were in boarding school there at the Pembroke-Country Day School, one of the Fokker Trimotor aircraft's wings separated in flight.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.

They had four sons, John, James, Ring Jr., and David.

They are the second of only two fathers and sons to earn the Medal of Honor, the first being Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and his son Douglas.

They had two sons, Booker T. Washington Jr. and Ernest Davidson Washington, before she died in 1889.

The couple had two sons ; Thor Jr and Bjørn.

They had two sons, Thomas E. Dewey, Jr. and John Martin Dewey.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

He was survived by two sons: Sam Jr. of Hot Springs, and Terry, of Mountain Grove, Virginia, and a brother, Pete, of Pittsburgh, as well as two grandchildren.

After Olmsted's retirement and death, his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., continued the work of their firm, doing business as the Olmsted Brothers.

The couple had two sons: David Jr. and Jamie.

One of his sons, Lawrence Welk Jr., married fellow Lawrence Welk Show performer Tanya Falan ; they later divorced.

In the late 1970s, his two sons, Salvatore and Joe Jr., brought high heat in Northern California after getting involved with Lou Peters, a Cadillac-Oldsmobile dealer, in particularly San Jose, Lodi, and Stockton, California.

Meese was born in Oakland, California, and is the eldest of four sons born to Leone ( née Feldman ) and Edwin Meese, Jr.

The couple's four sons were Mickey Jr. ( 1953 – 2000 ), David ( born 1955 ), Billy ( 1957 – 94 ), whom Mickey named for Billy Martin, his best friend among his Yankee teammates, and Danny ( born 1960 ).

O ' Brien was married to Hazel Ruth Collette in 1925 and they had two sons together, William and Willis, Jr., but the marriage was an unhappy one, which O ' Brien was reportedly forced into and rebelled against with drinking, gambling, and extra-marital affairs.

Jones and second husband David O. Selznick in 1957Jones's first marriage produced two sons, Robert Walker, Jr. ( born April 15, 1940 ; the only one of Jones's children who would not predecease her ), and Michael Walker

In 1645, his sons Constantijn Jr. and Christiaan began their studies in Leiden.

This structure became home to the Wright family, including sons John Jr. and James.

Although Earhart and Putnam had no children, he had two sons by his previous marriage to Dorothy Binney ( 1888 – 1982 ), a chemical heiress whose father's company, Binney & Smith, invented Crayola crayons: the explorer and writer David Binney Putnam ( 1913 – 1992 ) and George Palmer Putnam, Jr. ( born 1921 ).