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Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.
Andronicus was himself a son of Theodora Komnene Angelina, the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, by his first wife, Osburh.
Andrew had to make peace with the Prince of Novgorod and he also engaged his youngest son, Andrew with one of his opponent's daughter.
In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.
In 1229, Prince Danylo of Halych expelled Andrew's youngest son from his principality, while Frederick II, Duke of Austria started to attack the western borders of the kingdom in 1230.
In the autumn of 1234, Prince Danylo laid siege to the capital of Andrew's youngest son who died during the siege.
His youngest son, Mahomed Omar Jan, was born in 1889 of an Afghan mother, connected by descent with the Barakzai family.
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.
In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.
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.
* Johann Christian Bach, a classical composer and 11th youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach
The Qur ' an, in the narrative of Joseph, refers to Benjamin as the righteous youngest son of Jacob.
Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.
His youngest son, Philip, stayed with him and fought at his side in the final phase of the battle.
* Prince Philip, the King's youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy, captured
Froissart again gives us a vivid description of the capture of King Jean II and his youngest son in this passage: " ...
John W. Haley, his eldest son, wrote Sound and Glory, a biography of Haley, while his youngest daughter, Gina Haley, is a professional musician based in Texas.
His youngest son Pedro is also a musician.
The genre evolved from folklore tales of a dunce or youngest son going out in the world to seek his fortune.
The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.
Clausewitz was born on June 1, 1780 in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, the fourth and youngest son of a middle-class family.
Constans was the third and youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, his father's second wife.

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Having joined the National Party in 1975, Shipley successfully stood for the Ashburton electorate in the 1987 election, entering parliament at age 35, at the time one of parliament's youngest members.
In 1137, during the whitsun meeting with Duke Soběslav I of Bohemia at Niemcza ( other sources mention Kłodzko ), in which several disputed matters were decided, Władysław stood as godfather in the baptism of the youngest son of Soběslav, the future Duke Wenceslaus II.
He made his debut in a match against Scotland on 2 April 1955 in the British Home Championship aged 18 years and 183 days, making him England's youngest debutant since the Second World War, a record which stood, until Michael Owen made his England debut in 1998.
His youngest daughter, Annunziata Rees-Mogg ( born 25 March 1979 ), stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the 2005 general election in Aberavon, and in Somerton and Frome at the 2010 election.
Horner's youngest brother, Joseph Horner, was also an assistant master at Kingswood School, but in 1834 matriculated as a mature student at Clare College, Cambridge, standing twelfth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1838 ( the same year, John Thompson Exley, the son of W. G. Horner's associate Thomas Exley, stood twenty-third ).
In 1173 he had four legitimate sons, from oldest to youngest: Henry, called the " Young King ", Richard ( later called " the Lionheart "), Geoffrey, and John " Lackland ", all of whom stood to inherit some or all of these possessions.
While it is true that the Benda family did employ a music teacher named Michal Opid, who later stood as Helena ’ s godfather, Opid was not the father of Józefa Benda ’ s two youngest children.
Ricardo Rodriguez, age 20 years 123 days, became the youngest driver to score championship points with his fourth place in Belgium, a record which stood for 38 years before Jenson Button, age 20 years 67 days, broke it at the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix.
He became the youngest ever player to play in a league match for the club when he came off the bench to make a goalscoring debut during a 3 – 1 win over Leyton Orient on 13 November 1965 at the age of 16 years and 236 days old, a record which stood for 41 years until it was broken by Aaron Ramsey in 2007.
When Joey Logano won, he became the youngest winner In Nationwide Series history, at 18 years old, 21 days, shattering Casey Atwood's record ( 18 years, 313 days ) that stood since 1999.
At the time, no one but the youngest of them — Ali, stood up and said, " I will be your helper, O Prophet of God.
Fakhri Senior has always stood up for his youngest son, saying, " When Anas decides to sing traditional Arabic music, nobody around can challenge him.
Otsuji stood for election as an Independent in April 2003, at 28 becoming the youngest person ever elected to the Osaka Assembly.

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" Charles Duke soon descended the ladder and joined Young on the surface, becoming the tenth and youngest human to walk on the Moon at age 36.
Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 1820.
To have held each office at the youngest possible age ( suo anno, " in his year ") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42.
Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.
Domitian was born in Rome on 24 October 51, the youngest son of Titus Flavius Vespasianus — commonly known as Vespasian — and Flavia Domitilla Major.
He never married and on his death in 1984 the titles passed to his fourth and youngest brother, the sixth Marquess.
Sworn into office on the 6th November, he became one of Mexico ´ s youngest elected presidents having just turned 38.
A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed going to college, enlisted in the US Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the Navy at the time.
After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.
Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.
He was the youngest child of Troyal Raymond Brooks, a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen Carroll, a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee.
During a performance on August 19, 2011, Garth Brooks told his audience that once his youngest daughter is in college he will be " firing the tour back up.
* Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, the youngest daughter of Alexander II of Russia, lived on Hayling Island for many years and was buried at St Peter's church in 1959.
Easter Island is one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, and for most of the History of Easter Island it was the most isolated inhabited territory on Earth.
When he took office on March 4, 1845, Polk, at 49, became the youngest man at the time to assume the presidency.
The youngest sister, Krishna Hutheesing, became a noted writer and authored several books on her brother.

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