And how many of these were sons??

Gladden's wife and two of his sons, John, 17, and Jim, 13, were inside the house.

Oracles were also given by sons of Apollo.

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

The sons of Bor then constructed Asgard ( to be identified with Troy, Snorri insists in section 9 ) as a home for the Æsir, who were divinities.

The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

In 29, Agrippina and her sons Nero and Drusus, were arrested on the orders of Tiberius.

Agrippina and her sons were put on trial by the Roman Senate.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

His first wife was the widow of his patron Damas by whom he had two sons: Archagathus and Agathocles, whom they were both murdered in 307 BC.

Amalric and Guy were sons of Hugh VIII of Lusignan, who had himself campaigned in the Holy Land in the 1160s.

Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

The sons ' names were Agathyrnus, Astyochus, Androcles, Iocastus, Pheraemon, Xuthus, whereas the daughters are not mentioned at all.

The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.

Fruit still life with shells painted by Balthasar van der Ast. His sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.

Her sons, Mar Ukba and Nehemiah, were considered types of the highest aristocracy.

There was a great deal of freedom of interaction between the groups: for example, Sarah, the granddaughter of the Visigoth king Wittiza, married a Muslim man and bore two sons who were later counted among the ranks of the highest Arab nobility.

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

An unusual feature of the Kentish system was that only sons of kings appeared to be legitimate claimants to the throne, although this did not eliminate all strife over the succession.

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

Oduduwa's sons would be the founders of the different city-states of the Yoruba, and his daughters would become the mothers of the various Yoruba obas, or kings.

If one of the subordinate kings died, he was to be succeeded by his sons.

Because of the aura of holiness attached to his memory, many kings of France were called Louis, especially in the Bourbon dynasty, which directly descended from one of his younger sons.

Internally, the kingdom was divided among Clovis ' sons and later among his grandsons and frequently saw war between the different kings, who quickly allied among themselves and against one another.

Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings.

The kings of the Picts when Bede was writing were Bridei and Nechtan, sons of Der Ilei, who indeed claimed the throne through their mother Der Ilei, daughter of an earlier Pictish king.

Ruling over nearby tributary states often by appointing sons of the Kongo kings to head these states.

In Jewish literature, the leaders of the people, kings and princes were called " sons of God " based on the view of the king as the lieutenant of God.

Two of her sons, one by each husband, and two stepsons, also by each husband, became kings of England, as did her great-nephew, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy.

The title Duke of Schleswig was inherited in 1460 by the hereditary kings of Norway who were also regularly elected kings of Denmark simultaneously, and their sons ( unlike Denmark which was not hereditary ).

Princes can also be sons of provincial kings ( Khan ) and the title referring to them would be the title of Khanzadeh.

In ancient China, the title of prince developed from being the highest title of nobility ( synonymous with duke ) in the Zhou Dynasty, to five grades of princes ( not counting the sons and grandsons of the emperor ) by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty. The Chinese word for prince Wang (, literally, King ) as Chinese believe the emperor Huang Di () is the ruler of all kings.

Two of his sons, Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, followed Harald to become kings of Norway after his death.

Twelve of his sons are named as kings, two of them over the whole country.

Denmark's kings gave appanages in their twin-duchies of Schleswig-Holstein ( now three-fourths of them is part of Germany, but then the Holstein half of it was part of the Holy Roman Empire in personal union with Denmark proper ) to younger sons and / or their male-line descendants, with a specific though not sovereign title of Duke, e. g., Duke of Gottorp, Duke of Sonderburg, Duke of Augustenborg, Duke of Franzhagen, Duke of Beck, Duke of Glucksburg and Duke of Norburg.

Sweden had a history of making the sons of its kings real ruling princes of vast duchies, but this ceased in 1622.

The four sons of Clovis then all fought Sigismund of Burgundy and Godomar, kings of the Burgundians.

His sons had been killed earlier, and his nephew Fréaláf Hildeson began the second line of kings, which lasted until the end of the Third Age.

His onslaught fails, however, and Elendil, his sons, and the Elven kings fight back.

All four sons were kings of Norway.