The estates of Hungary elected Vladislaus III of Poland as King Vladislaus I in succession to Albert II ; but the infant Ladislaus's mother had the Holy Crown of Hungary stolen from its guardians at Visegrád and brought to Wiener Neustadt by a lady of the court, Helene Kottannerin.

Otto of Bavaria ( 1305 – 1307 ), Ladislaus's successor, used this symbol as well – for the same reasons as Ladislaus.

During Ladislaus's minority, Bohemia was ruled by a regency composed of moderate reform nobles who were Utraquists.

The new Pope Boniface IX recognises Ladislaus's claim to the throne.

Ulrich of Celje, a Slovenian magnate and heir to Bosnia, the cousin of Ladislaus's mother, prevailed against Eyczing and became the new guardian of the child, effectively ruling in his stead.

Nicholas and Charlotte were third cousins, as they were both great-great-grandchildren of Frederick William I of Prussia. Emperor Alexander II, born 17 April 1818, successor of father Nicholas I, assassinated 13 March 1881, married 1841, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

The baronetcy next passed to Frederick Evelyn's cousins, Sir John Evelyn, 4th Bt ( 1757 – 1833 ) and Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt ( 1769 – 1848 ).

Two of his first cousins, Charles XII of Sweden and Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp ( the three men were the grandsons of Frederick III of Denmark ), had waged war upon his father jointly.

His paternal first cousins included Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Ferdinand I of Romania.

Helena and Christian were actually 3rd cousins in descent from Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales.

He was the son of Prince Frederick of Württemberg ( 1808 – 1870 ) and his wife Princess Catherine Frederica of Württemberg ( 1821 – 1898 ), daughter of King William I of Württemberg ( 1781 – 1864 ); his parents were first cousins.

That is, Lord Frederick and Prince Philip are first cousins, twice removed.

James Voelkel suggests that the characters were named after Frederick Rosenkrantz and Knud Gyldenstierne ( cousins of Tycho Brahe ), who had visited England in 1592.

On Frederick Ulrich's death, his complex of territories passed to a line of distant cousins ruling in Lüneburg.

Among the other claimants were Charles, Duke of Orléans, nephew of Filippo Maria through his mother Valentina Visconti, Filippo's cousins Albert and Sigismund of the House of Habsburg, great-grandsons of Bernabò Visconti, and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, who declared that the Duchy reverted back to the Holy Roman Empire on the extinction of male heirs.

Her godparents were her elder sister and two cousins: Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Princess Louisa Ulrika of Prussia ( for whom Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, stood proxy ), and Frederick, Prince Royal of Prussia, later Frederick the Great ( for whom Henry de Nassau d ' Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham, stood proxy ).

However, in descent from Frederick William III of Prussia, the couple were second cousins.

Abd-ar-Rahman V was proclaimed caliph in December 1023 at Córdoba, and murdered in January 1024 by a mob of unemployed workmen, headed by one of his own cousins.

Much to the consternation of their Spanish ruling cousins, the Habsburg emperors who followed Charles V ( especially Ferdinand I and Maximilian II, but also Rudolf II, and his successor Matthias ) were content for the princes of the Empire to choose their own religious policies.

With his first cousins, Philip, Count of Flanders, and Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, Flanders and Namur, he was one of the key patrons of the sport.

Her mother, Margaret of Connaught, and the then-Prince of Wales ' father, King George V, were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

At the time of his birth, Prince Edward was 7th in the line of succession to his grandfather King George V, behind his 3 uncles, his cousins Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and his father.

In July 1917, when George V changed the name of the British Royal House from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to House of Windsor, he also ordered his numerous cousins and in-laws, who were British subjects, to discontinue the use of their German titles, styles, and surnames.

Present at the ceremony were her widowed mother and brothers, as well as her cousins, the Prince and Princess of Wales ( later King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom ).

Two of Baldwin's other first cousins were the Count Amadeus III of Savoy and the Margrave William V of Montferrat ; both were sons of one of his maternal aunts, Gisela of Burgundy, who had married firstly with Humbert II of Savoy ( father of Amadeus III ) and secondly with Renier I of Montferrat ( father of William V ).

In 2005 Romeo along with his brother Valentino Miller who was known as Young V at that time and their three cousins C-Los, Lil ' D & Willie J formed the group Rich Boyz & released their debut album Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us.

( Other members of the House of Glücksburg include Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as well as Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, King Harald V of Norway, Queen Sofía of Spain and former King Constantine II of Greece -— each of whom is also descended from Queen Victoria ; one of her many cousins is King Juan Carlos I of Spain, also a great-great-grandson of Victoria.

His father is Gambino capo Richard V. Gotti and cousins are capo John A.

Prince Albert laid the first stone in 1853 ; the hospital was for 40 years home to two of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's cousins Katherine Bowes-Lyon and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, both of whom had learning difficulties.

First described in 1888 by George Albert Boulenger, U. phantasticus is the smallest in body of the Uroplatus geckos, though there is an ongoing debate as to whether one of its cousins, U. ebenaui, is smaller because of its shorter tail.

Ernst was founder of the Ernestine line of Saxon princes, ancestor of George I of Great Britain, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as well as his wife and cousin Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and their cousins Leopold II of Belgium and Empress Charlotte of Mexico.

Her elder brother was King Ferdinand II of Portugal and first cousins included British Queen Victoria, her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as well as Belgian King Leopold II and his sister, Empress Carlota of Mexico.

Although both Leo VI and Nikephoros Phokas claim that the substance used in the cheirosiphōnes was the same as in the static devices used on ships, they were manifestly different from their larger cousins.

With the deaths of Somerset and his younger brother, the House of Beaufort, who were distant cousins of Henry VI and had a remote claim to succeed him, had been almost exterminated.

Emperor Charles VI favored the family, who, besides being his cousins, had served the house of Austria with distinction.

Pope Clement VI obligingly annulled the marriage, bastardized the issue, and provided a dispensation for his second marriage to the woman with whom he had been living in adultery ( the dispensation, dated 4 March 1344 / 1345, was required because his first and second wives were first cousins ).

Thereafter known as David VI Narin ( i. e. “ the junior ”) and David VII Ulu ( i. e. “ the senior ”), the cousins ruled jointly until 1259, when the former rose, unsuccessfully, against the Mongol yoke and, then, fled to Kutaisi, from whence he reigned over western Georgia ( Imereti ) as a separate ruler.

Thereafter known as David VII Ulu ( i. e. " the senior ") and David VI Narin ( i. e. " the junior "), the cousins ruled jointly for years.

However, the marriage of Ferdinand II and Urraca was annulled in 1175 by the Pope, the two being second cousins, great-grandchildren of Alfonso VI of León and Castile.

Rotation went often between two or more of the branches of the imperial house, thus more or less distant cousins succeeded each other.

Kingly fathers were not frequently succeeded by their sons, not because the Picts practised matrilineal succession, but because they were usually followed by their own brothers or cousins, more likely to be experienced men with the authority and the support necessary to be king.

Within a few years, however, Jamal was assassinated by either disloyal friends or cousins around 1432 or 1433, and was succeeded by his brother Badlay ibn Sa ' ad ad-Din.

By 1914, the cousins succeeded in forcing out Managing Editor William Keeley.

In 1662 he finally succeeded in recovering Gawsworth from his Fitton cousins ; when Alexander Fitton claimed that Gerard had won the case by suborning witnesses, he was prosecuted for libelling a peer and imprisoned, although many people believed his accusations.

Both these lines survived in Iberia into the 8th century, being succeeded by their energetic cousins of the Bagratid family.

When Natshinnaung succeeded as king following the death of his father on 16 August 1609 ( 15th waxing of Wagaung 971 ME ), much of the country had been reunited under the leadership of King Anaukpetlun, one of Natshinnaung's cousins.

However, very distant agnates had lost out to the daughter of the late king in 11th century, when Petronila of Aragon succeeded over claims of the then agnates ( second cousins or the like ), the Kings of Navarre and Castile.

After his death in 664, he was succeeded by his cousins Sighere and Sebbi.