The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

The premiere could not be arranged in time, however, so the opera The Marriage of Figaro was substituted on the express orders of the bride's uncle, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II.

In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.

He began forming a close relationship with his maternal uncle, the influential Judge Joseph Jones, who had been educated at the Inns of Court in London and was the executor of his father's estate.

Eighteen years later, his remains, along with those of his brother Joseph, were brought back to the Studios Monastery, were they were interred beside the grave of their uncle Platon.

Medieval interest in genealogy raised claims that Joseph was a relative of Jesus ; specifically, Mary's uncle, or according to some genealogies, Joseph's uncle.

It was thus at Olmütz on 2 December that, by the abdication of his uncle Ferdinand and the renunciation of his father, the mild-mannered Franz Karl, Franz Joseph succeeded as Emperor of Austria.

In February 1896 his father paved the way for the reconciliation of Bulgaria and Russia with the conversion of the infant Prince Boris from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a move that earned Ferdinand the frustration of his wife, the animosity of his Catholic Austrian relatives ( particularly that of his uncle, Francis Joseph of Austria ) and excommunication from the Catholic Church.

1831 ); was then in the United States, where he went to join his uncle Joseph, and in Colombia with Francisco de Paula Santander ( 1832 ).

In 1844, his uncle Joseph died, making him the heir apparent to the Bonaparte claim.

: This page is about the universal historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee ; for his uncle, the economic historian Arnold Toynbee, see Arnold Toynbee.

However, this move earned him the animosity of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

In 1785, as a result of a " fit of illness " in the family the young Turner was sent to stay with his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the River Thames.

Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle ( for whom she was named ), Charlie Oakley ( Joseph Cotten ), her mother's younger brother, is arriving for a visit.

Many descendants of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, also were born or lived in Bordentown, having followed their uncle Joseph there.

Charles became heir presumptive to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1914 after the assassination of his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and acceded to the throne in 1916 after the old emperor's death.

João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael was born, during the reign of his grandfather, Joseph I of Portugal, the second son of the future Queen Maria I and her husband ( who was also her uncle ), the future King Peter III.

Krispy Kreme's founder Vernon Rudolph and his uncle purchased Joseph LeBeouf's donut shop on Broad Street in Paducah, Kentucky along with a secret recipe for yeast-raised doughnuts in 1933 acquired from a Buffalo, New York businessman.

Arnold Toynbee was the uncle, via his brother Harry Valpy Toynbee, of universal historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee ( 1889 – 1975 ); with whom he is often confused.

In 1943, Wright appeared in the acclaimed Universal film Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, playing an innocent young woman who discovers her beloved uncle ( played by Joseph Cotten ) is a serial murderer.

She was his cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Joseph.

One of his neighbors was the eminent scholar Joseph Gedalja Klausner, uncle of Israeli author Amos Oz.

Artois secured a castle for the court in exile in the Electorate of Trier, where their maternal uncle, Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, was the Archbishop-Elector.

Charles meanwhile left Turin and moved to Trier, where his uncle, Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony was the incumbent Archbishop-Elector.

As his father then ruled as Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( from 1457 also as Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ), he was born at the Hohenzollern residence of Ansbach in Franconia, where he spent his childhood years until in 1466 he received the call to Brandenburg as presumed heir by his uncle Elector Frederick II.

Still in desperate need of a male heir, the next year he married the 23-year-old Palatine princess Maria Anna of Neuburg, a daughter of Philip William, Elector of the Palatinate, and sister-in-law of his uncle Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

On 1 April 1795 his father succeeded Ludwig's uncle, Charles II, as duke of Zweibrücken, and on 16 February 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Arch-Steward of the Empire, and Duke of Berg on the extinction of the Sulzbach line with the death of the elector Charles Theodore.

As William the Silent wrote in his marriage proposal to the uncle of his second wife, the Elector August of Saxony, he held Orange as " my own free property ", not as a fief of anyone else, neither the Pope, nor the King of Spain or France.

In January 1742 Stamitz performed at Mannheim as part of the festivities surrounding the marriage of Karl Theodor, who succeeded his uncle Karl Philipp as Elector Palatine less than a year later ; Karl Albert of Bavaria was a guest at the wedding.

She also fought with her uncle, Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg, over the inheritance left after her father, John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, died in 1464.

In 1785 the family moved to Bonn, where Reicha became a member of the Hofkapelle of Max Franz, Elector of Cologne, under the direction of his uncle, playing the violin and the second flute.

In this, he was eagerly supported by two relatives, his uncle the Prince-Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, Lothar Franz von Schönborn ( who confessed to have been possessed by a " Bauwurm ", a building bug ) and his brother Friedrich Carl von Schönborn, reformer of the Imperial Chancery in Vienna.

She married her maternal uncle Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria on the 15 July 1635 in Vienna and was the mother of Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and Maximilian Philip ( 30 Sept 1638 – 20 March 1704 ).

A Calvinist, he was appointed to teach the ten year-old Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, by Frederick's Calvinist uncle Johann Casimir of Simmern, as Frederick's father had died in 1583.

The last Abbot was Cardinal David Beaton, who in 1522 succeeded his uncle James to become Archbishop of St Andrews.

His uncle Golding argued that the Archbishop of Canterbury should halt the proceedings since a proceeding against a ward of the Queen could not be brought without prior licence from the Court of Wards and Liveries.

A minor upon the early death of his father in 1266, Henry IV was placed under the guardianship of his paternal uncle, Archbishop Władysław of Salzburg.

Otto II was later crowned by his uncle Bruno the Great, Archbishop of Cologne, at Aachen Cathedral on May 26, 961.

Richeza's son Casimir was at that time at the court of his maternal uncle Hermann II, Archbishop of Köln.

In May 1602, he was ordained in the Trinity College Chapel as a deacon in the Protestant, established, Church of Ireland ( and possibly priest on the same day ) by his uncle Henry Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

At the time of his father's death, Casimir was in Germany at the court of his uncle Hermann II, Archbishop of Köln.

However, as he was not yet an adult, his uncle Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne, acted as regent.

De Gray was the uncle of Walter de Gray, later Archbishop of York.

In 1516, the secular prince Đurađ V Crnojević abdicated in favor of the Archbishop Vavil, who then formed Montenegro into a theocratic state under the rule of the prince-bishop ( vladika ) of Cetinje, a position transmitted from 1697 by the Petrović-Njegoš family of the Riđani clan, from uncle to nephew as the bishops were not allowed to marry.

His uncle, also named Adam, was Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin.

He was christened on 14 September 1763 at St James's, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Secker — his godparents were his great-uncle the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ( for whom the Earl Gower, Lord Chamberlain, stood proxy ), his uncle the Duke of York ( for whom the Earl of Huntingdon, Groom of the Stole, stood proxy ) and his great-aunt the Princess Amelia.

Radoslav succeeded to the throned and was crowned king by his paternal uncle Sava Nemanjić, Archbishop of Serbs.

He is first mentioned in a charter in 1160, when serving at the court of his maternal uncle, Conrad, Bishop of Passau, later Archbishop of Salzburg.

Reverend Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh ) and his paternal uncle was the Most Reverend Arthur Smyth ( 1707 – 1772 ), Archbishop of Dublin.

Soon after assuming the dukedom, however, possibly in revenge for supporting his brother against him, Robert I assembled an army against his uncle, Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and count of Évreux.

Only a temporary truce allowed his uncle to leave Normandy in exile but with an edict of excommunication placed on all of Normandy, which was only lifted when Archbishop Robert was allowed to return and his countship was restored.

However, Alan appealed to their uncle, Archbishop Robert of Rouen, who then brokered a peace between Duke Robert and his vassal Alan III.

The Prince was baptised in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace on 20 November 1935 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang and his godparents were: King George V and Queen Mary ( his paternal grandparents ); the Prince of Wales ( his paternal uncle ); the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood ( his paternal aunt ); the Duke of Connaught ( his great-granduncle, whose son, Prince Arthur of Connaught, stood proxy ); the Duchess of Argyll ( his great-grandaunt ); and the Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark ( his maternal grandfather ).

Throughout his reign, Drogo was under the shared regency of his uncle the Count of Blois, Theobald I ( who entrusted the administration to Wicohen, Archbishop of Dol, and the Count of Rennes, Juhel Berengar ) and of his stepfather, the Fulk II, Count of Anjou, who married Alan II's widow.

Part of his childhood was spent living in his grandmother's household, and in the home of his uncle, the future Archbishop of Toledo.

Louis VI had Raymond of Martigné, the Archbishop of Reims, excommunicate him, and Louis himself then besieged Lille, but was forced to retire when Henry I of England, William's uncle, transferred his support to Thierry.

Following the death of his elder brother, who had been fighting against the Byzantine Empire, Béla could only ascend to the throne with the assistance of his uncle Emperor Manuel I and Pope Alexander III, because a significant part of the Hungarian aristocracy led by his own mother and the Archbishop of Esztergom preferred his younger brother's succession.

As Moray was passing in a cavalcade in the main street below, Hamilton fatally wounded him with a carbine shot from a window of his uncle Archbishop Hamilton's house.