Agathias speaks also with great praise of his four brothers, Anthemius, Dioscorus, Metrodorus, and Olympius, who were all eminent in their several professions.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

This led to the first British chocolate bar in 1847, followed in 1849 by the Cadbury brothers.

Once he left Moina, Almagro followed the Inca trail followed by 750 Spaniards deciding to join him in quest for the gold lost in the ransom of Atahualpa, which had mainly benefited the Pizarro brothers and their supporters.

Large numbers of Irish priests, nuns and brothers followed other Irish immigrants to Australia from the earliest years of European settlement in order to provide education to the children of those immigrants.

It could be that the reason for the Czech preference of Mieszko was the existence in Bohemia of a mission which followed the precepts of the Byzantine Greek brothers and later saints Cyril and Methodius, who developed and performed the liturgy in the Slavic rite, more readily understood by Mieszko and his subjects.

Lothair was unable to visit Rome immediately as Germany was rocked by the rebellion of the Hohenstaufen brothers, with Conrad Hohenstaufen elected anti-king in December 1127, followed by his descent into Italy and his crowning as King of Italy at Monza on 29 July 1128.

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.

Henry the Young King abandoned his father and left for the French court seeking the protection of Louis VII ; he was soon followed by his younger brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, while the 5-year-old John remained with Henry II.

The king is not followed by blood brothers.

In 1821 William followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and attended Eton College before matriculating in 1828 at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Classics and Mathematics, although he had no great interest in mathematics.

His uncle Duke William of Inner Austria, then head of the rivaling Leopoldinian line, served as regent for his nephew, followed by his brothers Leopold IV and Ernest the Iron in 1406.

The son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon and Elisabeth of Austria, Sigismund followed his brothers John I of Poland and Alexander I of Poland to the Polish throne.

When Sweyn Forkbeard seized the throne at the end of 1013 and Æthelred fled to France, the brothers do not appear to have followed him, but stayed in England.

He was the first son of Fahima and Abdel Nasser and was later followed by two brothers, Izz al-Arab and al-Leithi.

Godrīc's brothers Godwine and Godwīg followed him.

Maimonides, and other rabbinical commentators, extrapolated this into the conclusion that, if they exist, then male sons and their descendants are the heirs of an individual, but if they do not it would be any daughters or their descendants, and if these do not exist then it would be the individual's father, and if he is no longer alive then the rule concerning heirs applies to him-the father's sons ( the individual's brothers ) and their descendants have priority, followed by the father's daughters ( the individual's sisters ), followed by the father's father ( the individual's grandfather ), and so on.

After a spell at a private school at Sunbury, he followed his father and two older brothers to Winchester College, where he remained for three years.

By the time Theseus returned to Athens, the Dioscuri ( Helen's twin brothers Castor and Pollux ) had taken Helen back to Sparta ; they had taken captive Aethra and Physadeia, the sister of Pirithous, who became handmaidens of Helen and later followed her to Troy.

Temenus and his brothers complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them ( the oracle had told Hyllas to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe ).

Cresphontes and his brothers complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them ( the oracle had told Hyllas to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe ).

Aristodemus and his brothers complained to the Oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them ( the Oracle had told Hyllas to attack through the narrow passage when the third fruit was ripe ).

The brothers followed Narada ’ s advice on a sharing arrangement with regard to Draupadi: each brother will have exclusive rights over her for a year, after which the mantle will shift to the next brother.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

Later in 1051, when he was sent to intercept Harold Godwinson and his brothers as they fled England after their father's outlawing, Ealdred " could not, or would not " capture the brothers.

Adalbert had five full brothers: Soběslav ( Slavnik's heir ), Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej, Čáslav and a half-brother Radim ( Gaudentius ) from his father's liaison with another woman.

The second son of Constantine I and Fausta, he ascended to the throne with his brothers Constantine II and Constans upon their father's death.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

The last of them became king of the Scythians, according to his father's arrangement, because he was the only one among the three brothers that was able to manage the bow which Heracles had left behind, and to use his father's girdle.

In the tragedy, Iolaus, Heracles ' old comrade, and his children, Macaria and her brothers and sisters have hidden from Eurystheus in Athens, which was ruled by King Demophon ; as the first scene makes clear, their expectation is that the blood relationship of the kings with Heracles and their father's past indebtedness to Theseus, will finally provide them sanctuary.

In ancient China, first cousins with the same surnames ( i. e., those born to the father's brothers ) were not permitted to marry, while those with different surnames ( i. e., maternal cousins and paternal cousins born to the father's sisters ) were.

In Numbers 27: 1-4, the daughters of Zelophehad ( Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah ) of the tribe of Manasseh come to Moses and ask for their father's inheritance, as they have no brothers.

( The daughters of Zelophehad marry the sons ' of their father's brothers.

James inherited twenty of his father's slaves, either directly or from deceased brothers.

However, since Bolesław did not wish to break up the kingdom, Mieszko's brothers received nothing from their father's legacy.

Soon after his father's death, however, he turned on his brothers and succeeded in dispossessing them, reuniting thus his father's possessions under his control in 1072.

When Shah Jahan became ill in 1658, Dara Shikoh ( Mumtaz Mahal's eldest son ) assumed the role of regent in his father's stead, which swiftly incurred the animosity of his brothers.

Upon his father's death in 1375 he ruled the March of Moravia often quarreling with his surviving brothers and also held the family castle Luxembourg.

Their father's death in 1796, about a decade into their lives, caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years.

In the Vigil of the Princes, Prince Albert and his three brothers took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it lay in state, in a closed casket, in Westminster Hall.

His involvement in the first civil war of his father's reign was limited, but in the second, his elder brothers, Lothair, then King of Italy, and Pepin, King of Aquitaine, induced him to invade Alamannia — which their father had given to their half-brother Charles — by promising to give him the land in the new partition they would make.