* c. 2550 BC: About this time, Mesannepada is king of Ur ( followed by his son, A-annepadda ) who founds the First dynasty of Ur and overthrows the last king of Uruk, as well as Mesalim of Kish.

The Chronicle lists successive early Sumerian rulers who kept up intermittent ceremonies at the temple: Aga of Kish, son of Enmebaragesi ; Mesannepada of Ur ; his son Meskiang-nunna ; Gilgamesh of Uruk ; his son Ur-Nungal ; Nanni of Ur and his son Meskiang-nanna.

Another son of Mesannepada, named A-anne-pada, ( Aja-ane-pada ' father chosen by An '), is known for having a temple constructed ( at modern Ubaid ), though he is not named on the kinglist.

Among the earliest rulers whose inscriptions describe them as lugals are Enmebaragesi and Mesilim at Kish, and Meskalamdug, Mesannepada and several of their successors at Ur.

* Ur-Nungal, Udul-kalama, La-ba ' shum, En-nun-tarah-ana, Mesh-he, Melem-ana, Lugal-kitun ; little is known of these rulers the final ruler was overthrown by Mesannepada of Ur, thus ending the first dynasty.

In the 1950s, Edmund I. Gordon conjectured that Mesannepada, and an archaeologically attested early " king of Kish ", Mesilim, were one and the same, as their names were interchanged in certain proverbs in later Babylonian tablets ; however this has not proved conclusive.

Mesilim's placement before, during, or after the reign of Mesannepada in Ur is uncertain, owing to the lack of other synchronous names in the inscriptions, and his absence from the king list.

Following the hegemony of Mesannepada of Ur, Ur-Nanshe succeeded Lugal-sha-engur as the new high priest of Lagash and achieved independence, making himself king.

One of the earliest to adopt this title upon subjecting Kish to his empire was King Mesannepada of Ur.

Mesannepada ( or Mesh-Ane-pada, " youngling chosen by An ") was the first king listed for the first dynasty of Ur ( ca.

Mesannepada gave gifts to the kings of Mari, and according to a lapis lazuli bead inscription found there, his father was Meskalamdug.

Seals from the royal cemetery at Ur have also been found bearing the names of Mesannepada and his predecessors Meskalamdug and Akalamdug, along with Queen Puabi.

Judging from the inscriptions, Mesannepada then assumed the title " King of Kish ", to indicate his hegemony.

More recent scholars tend to regard them as distinct, usually placing Mesilim in Kish before Mesannepada.

With peace and security established in his dominions, he convoked an assembly of the states and declared his son Malik Shah I his heir and successor.

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He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

Agrippina successfully manipulated and influenced Claudius into adopting her son and having him become his successor.

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Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

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He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

Abd al-Rahman's alleged favorite son was his choice for successor, and would later be known as Hisham I. Abd ar-Rahman's progeny would continue to rule al-Andalus in the name of the house of Umayya for several generations, with the zenith of their power coming during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III.

Abdallah instead chose as his successor his grandson, Abd al-Rahman III ( the son of his first son ).

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Beyazıt ) was the oldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512.

Philip's son and successor Perseus, while protesting his loyalty to Rome, deployed his Bastarnae guests in winter quarters in a valley in Dardania, presumably as a prelude to a campaign against the Dardani the following summer.

His son and successor Humāyūn knew Chaghatay well and read his father's memoirs.

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

Under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son and successor Richard.

After the passing of Chiang Kai-Shek, the next president, Chiang's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo's successor, Lee Teng-hui a native Taiwanese, would, in the 1980s and 1990s, increase native Taiwanese representation in the government and loosen the many authoritarian controls of the early era of ROC control in Taiwan.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

The entire middle section of The Walnut Trees is taken up with the life of Vincent Berger himself, whose fragmentary notes on his `` encounters with mankind '' are now conveyed by his son.

Mr. and Mrs. James F. Mitchell, with their daughter, Anne, and son, James, Jr. are spending several weeks in Florida, and will visit in Clearwater.

Even Professor Arnold Toynbee, agreeing with his son, does so in these terms: `` Compared to continuing to incur a constant risk of the destruction of the human race, all other evils are lesser evils.

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But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

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states that God said, " You are my son.

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The Levites are divided into three families, the Gershonites, the Kohathites, and the Merarites, each under a chief, and all headed by one prince, Eleazar, son of Aaron.

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