Catherine Parr, Henry's widow, soon married Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and the brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.

Edward V and his 10-year old brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London and their uncle made himself king as Richard III.

His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

He was named for an uncle, the Arctic explorer Sir Edward Sabine.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

Although Henry had specified a group of men to act as regents during Edward's minority, Edward Seymour, Edward's uncle, quickly seized complete control, and created himself Duke of Somerset on 15 February 1547.

* June 25 – Before his coronation, King Edward V of England is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who becomes King as Richard III of England.

Tyndale's uncle, Edward, was receiver to the lands of Lord Berkeley.

Her life changed dramatically in 1936, when her paternal uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the divorced American Wallis Simpson.

George V died when Margaret was five, and her uncle succeeded as King Edward VIII.

Edward was related to nearly every other European monarch and came to be known as the " uncle of Europe ".

The other one was the York branch, initiated by his uncle Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York ( see section " Seniority in line from Edward III " below ).

Ælfwynn was conducted as a captive into Wessex three weeks before Christmas 919, by her uncle Edward, who was engaged in successful warfare against the Danes ; and we do not hear anything more concerning her in history.

Edward was still relying upon his French relatives – Isabella's uncle, Louis d ' Évreux, for example had been sent from Paris to assist him – but Hugh Despenser the elder now formed part of the inner circle, marking the beginning of the Despensers ' increased prominence at Edward's court.

Following Edward's sudden death, possibly from pneumonia, in April 1483, Elizabeth briefly became Queen Mother as her son, Edward became king, with his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester acting as Lord Protector.

** Charles Januarius Edward Acton, his uncle, Cardinal of Santa Maria della Pace

de Valence was half-brother to Henry III and Edward I's uncle.

Her grandfather was killed fighting against her uncle, Edward IV of England, at the Battle of Barnet.

When she was ten, Edward IV died ; her uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, declared that Edward's marriage was invalid, his children illegitimate, and that Margaret and her brother Edward were debarred from the throne by their father's attainder.

However his paternal uncle Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, who was killed at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, was childless and Richard was his closest male relative.

Mary Boole claimed profound influence ( via her uncle George Everest ) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and Charles Babbage:

Veteran actor Harry Morgan played Inspector Queen, but in this film he was described as Ellery's uncle ( perhaps to account for the fact that Morgan was only eight years Lawford's senior, or for Lawford's English accent ).

Polly intervened with Harry's uncle, J. P. Morgan, Jr., who agreed to provide a position for Harry in Paris at Morgan, Harjes et Cie. Harry already spoke and read fluent French and moved to Paris in May.

He was an uncle of geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and a maternal grandson of John Wesley Hunt, an early founder of Lexington, Kentucky, and one of the first millionaires west of the Allegheny Mountains.

In 1846 Morgan enlisted with his brother Calvin and uncle Alexander in the U. S. Army as a cavalry private during the Mexican-American War.

Daniel Morgan's great-great-grandfather was also the uncle of the famous Welsh privateer and pirate, Henry Morgan.

Harry continued his work at Morgan, Harjes & Co., his uncle J. P. Morgan's family bank in Paris.

After bedding and outsmarting a bounty hunter trying to arrest her, female pirate Morgan Adams ( Geena Davis ) hunts down her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown ( Frank Langella ), who has captured her father, Black Harry ( Harris Yulin ), who has one of three pieces of a map to a huge stash of gold on a remote island called Cutthroat Island.

He is the uncle of LPGA's golfer Morgan Pressel, who is the daughter of his sister Kathy and the youngest winner of an LPGA major.

He is an uncle of Peter Morgan, a popular presenter on BBC Radio Stoke.

In 1954, she landed the role of Cathy on the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life, co-starring Frances Bavier as her mother, Amy Morgan, and James Dunn as her uncle, Earl Morgan.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.

Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Claudius was Agrippina's paternal uncle and third husband.

Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.

Regardless, for Agrippina ’ s seduction, it was a help that she had the niece ’ s privilege of kissing and caressing her paternal uncle.

In Roman society, an uncle ( Claudius ) marrying his niece ( Agrippina ) was considered incestuous, and obviously immoral.

Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 50 was adopted by his great maternal uncle and stepfather.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

The situation became unstable and, in the following year, being led by what he afterwards discovered to be false representations, Afonso declared Peter a rebel and defeated his army in the Battle of Alfarrobeira, in which his uncle ( and father-in-law ) was killed.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.