In 1322, Mikhail's son, Dmitry, seeking revenge for his father's murder, went to Sarai and persuaded the Khan that Yury had appropriated a large portion of the tribute due to the Horde.

But Mikhail's son and successor, Dmitry the Terrible Eyes, still opposed him.

Another son of Mikhail's, Dmitry Mikhailovich ( 1721 – 1793 ), was the Russian ambassador in Vienna during the reign of Catherine the Great.

And Mikhail's son Alexander Mikhailovich ( 1718 – 1783 ) was a diplomat and soldier, who likewise rose to be field-marshal and governor of St. Petersburg.

During Mikhail's reign, when the Romanov dynasty was still weak, such assemblies were summoned annually.

Mikhail's actions were often impeded by lack of funding for the Swedish mercenaries and necessity to train his own army.

In 1742, however, the French agents de la Chétardie and Lestocq arranged a complicated intrigue to slander both Lopukhina and Bestuzheva, thereby securing the downfall of the Austrophilic chancellor Aleksey Bestuzhev ( Mikhail's brother ).

Mikhail's deportation, and death not long after, also marked the beginning of the end for Abkhazian self-governance for the next 140 years.

When she died in Mikhail's custody, he was blamed for her death, although it seems unlikely that he would have killed her knowing how much it would hurt him politically for such little gain.

In 1478 he was pressured into giving Belozersk to Ivan, who got all of Mikhail's land on his death in 1486.

The duchy only survived until 1505 when Mikhail's son Matvei was replaced by a Russian governor and Komi independence came to an end.

In 1866, a popular uprising declared Mikhail's son Giorgi Prince, but this was short-lived.

On Mikhail's behest, the adjoining Golden Tsaritsa's Chamber constructed back in the 1560s for Ivan IV's wife, was surmounted with 11 golden domes of the Upper Saviour Cathedral.

However, it was later discovered that the explosion was set up by the government who learned of Mikhail's powers and wanted to exploit them without the family's interaction.

Another of Mikhail's human allies was Bruce Banner, a scientist seeking to mutate himself, who obtained a supply of mutant test subjects in exchange for his aid.

The Australian Open was the tournament that started off Mikhail's 2010 season.

In Mikhail's case this was at a young age and he was abandoned in the mountains, growing up amongst the animals of the forest and presumably using his shape-changing power to survive.

Both Aleksandr Mikhailovich, and Mikhail Aleksandrovich briefly held the Grand Princely office ( in 1326-1327 and 1371-1372 respectively ) but Mikhail's failure to defeat Yury of Moscow, followed by Aleksandr's role ( real or perceived ) in the Tver Uprising of 1327, led the Tver branch to lose the favor of the Khans, and the Danilovich-the Muscovite princes, held the title for all but two years after 1317.

However, Apocalypse impressed by Mikhail's victory, prompted him to capture and brainwash Mikhail.

Mikhail's rivals suggested to Uzbeg Khan that he had poisoned the Khan's sister and revolted against his rule.

Yury availed himself of the confusion that followed and announced to the khan that she had been poisoned on Mikhail's order.

Mikhail's conversion failed to stop an attack by Moscow which seized Cherdyn in 1472.

Thus the support of the Church aided Yury to Mikhail's detriment.

Mikhail's wife Anna took the veil in Kashin's nunnery and died there on October 2, 1368.

Mikhail's powers have always been rather ambiguous and have never fully been explained.

Nevertheless, many supporters of False Dmitriy II chose to flee at the sight of Mikhail's army and this gained him a reputation of the saviour of the fatherland.

Arnulf had the nobility also recognize the rights of his illegitimate sons Zwentibold and Ratold as his successors.

Among Atenulf's successors the principality was ruled jointly by fathers, sons, brothers, cousins, and uncles for the greater part of the century.

Samuel initially appointed his two sons as his successors ; however, the Israelites rejected them and insisted on having a king rule over them.

To make the matters worse, the successors of Tanshihuai ( his sons and nephews ) after his death in 181 never earned the respect from the chieftains of the three federations.

As Cnut the Great's sons had chosen to abandon Norway and instead fight over England, and his sons and successors Harold Harefoot and Harthacnut had died young, Magnus ' position had been secured.

In 1120, Dudo-Henry's sons and successors, Counts Robert I ( German: Ruprecht ; also translated Rupert ) and Arnold I of Laurenburg, established themselves at Nassau Castle with its tower.

After the two elder sons of Julia by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, whom Augustus had adopted as sons and successors, had died, the one remaining son Agrippa Postumus was incarcerated and finally killed.

The abbot of Bisham, John Cordery, is said to have cursed the building thus: " As God is my witness, this property shall ne ’ er be inherited by two direct successors, for its sons will be hounded by misfortune ", as he was dragged from it.

Under his sons, Ulrich II and Eberhard I, and their successors, the power of the family grew steadily.

Kim's three sons and his brother-in-law, along with O Kuk-ryol, an army general, had been noted as possible successors, but the North Korean government had for a time been wholly silent on this matter.

When one Great Khan died, rival kurultai councils would simultaneously elect different successors, such as the brothers Ariq Boke and Kublai, they were both elected and then not only had to defy each other, but also deal with challenges from descendants of other of Genghis's sons.

He never had the opportunity to become chief executive officer, because his father's will established a trust that had five family ( initially his sons, then their heirs ) and eight non-family trustees, all serving for life and electing their successors maintaining those proportions.

Cyrus presumably continued paying tribute to his sons and successors Ashur-etil-ilani ( 627 – 623 BC ) and Sin-shar-ishkun ( 623 BC – 612 BC ).

His children and legal successors were locked away and never released: his sons Llywelyn ap Dafydd and Owain ap Dafydd in Bristol Castle ; his daughter and niece in priories in Lincolnshire.

This made the succession to the throne of Egypt descend to the eldest of the male children and in the same manner to the eldest sons of these successors, instead of to the eldest male of the family, following the practice of Turkish law.

The presumed successors of the 7th marquess in the Earldoms of Ormonde and Ossory have been the 17th and 18th Viscount Mountgarret, descending in the male line from a younger son of the 8th Earl, but the claim has not been proven, because there is still the chance of possible male descendants of sons of the 9th earl.

For the sons and descendants of successors of Alexander the Great ( called Epigoni ) see Diadochi

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor proclaimed Alessandro de ' Medici, ruler of Florence " for his lifetime, and after his death to be succeeded by his sons, male heirs and successors, of his body, by order of primogeniture, and failing them by the closest male of the Medici family, and likewise in succession forever, by order of primogeniture.

From that time on his successors began to sign their names as " z Rytwian " ( from Rytwiany ): his brother was Scibor, Leczyca voivode, and he had twenty sons, and Paprocki saw all their portraits in the Bensowa church, but the signatures under them could not be read.

* The Chingisid states were the successor states or Khanates after the Mongol empire broke up following the death of the Genghis Khan's sons and their successors.

Non-heir sons who entered the priesthood were styled, and were automatically excluded from the succession, but could be recalled to " secular " status ( and thus reinstated as potential successors ) as need arose.

The 1952 Constitution stipulates that the king and his successors must be Muslims and sons of Muslim parents.