Otto II sought continued peace between himself and the descendants of his uncle Henry I, Duke of Bavaria.

This appointment elevated Otto the Great's descendants above Henry I's descendants in the selection process, further dividing Otto II and Henry II.

The reason for the transfer was likely that the future wasn't secured to the descendants of the Ezzonen: From Ezzo's ten children only Richeza and Otto had children.

Otto had already submitted a written statement, on 21 February 1958, that he and his family would renounce all privileges formerly entitled a member of the House of Habsburg, but this first declaration did not satisfy the requirements of the Habsburg Law, which stated that Otto and other descendants of Charles could only return to Austria if they renounced all royal claims and accepted the status of private citizens.

The unifying element of all these territories was that they were ruled by male-line descendants of Duke Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, nephew of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.

* Otto Kahn's maternal genealogy Information on his relatives, and some of his descendants.

# John Georg Henry von Berenhorst ( Sandersleben, 26 October 1733 – Dessau, 30 October 1814 ), who married first in Zöberitz on 8 May 1781 to Katharina Christiane Maria Otto, but divorced in 1783 ; in Köthen on 26 October 1783 he married for a second time to Henriette Christine Karoline von Bülow ( Predel, 30 June 1765 – Dessau, 29 August 1813 ), with whom he had six children, one son, George John ( whose descendants in the male line became extinct in 1952 ), and five daughters: Louise Sophie, Eugenie Johanne ( d. in infancy ), Wilhelmine Henriette, Klara Hedwig, and Thekla Pauline, who, from her first marriage to Julius, Freiherr von Richthofen, was a great-grandmother of Manfred von Richthofen.

The 1815-arms with the " Walram-crest " The kings and queens of the Netherlands are descendants of count Otto.

This crest is used by the descendants of Otto and differs from the crest used by the descendants of Walram.

The unifying element of all these territories was that they were ruled by male-line descendants of Duke Otto I.

Otto died in 1867, leaving Luitpold and his descendants as representatives of Otto's claim.

Archduke Robert decreed that all his descendants in male line are entitled to the surname Austria-Este, and he took also the title Duke of Este, which is intended to be carried by the head of the family of Austria-Este, currently Archduke Lorenz Otto Charles of Austria-Este, born 1955, eldest son of Archduke Robert and Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta.

To the direct descendants of the Jauchs belong furthermore the German painter and head of the Nazarene movement Johann Friedrich Overbeck ( 1789 – 1869 ), the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz ( 1846 – 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Feldmann ( 1873 – 1945 ), as Feldmann Pasha chief of military operations department at the Ottoman General Headquarters in World War I, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld ( 1885 – 1946 ), inter alia commander of the escalade of Prague's Ss.

They became adept at raiding Spanish settlements and, albeit in declining numbers, managed to hold off the Spaniards and their descendants until the late nineteenth century.

* then to Francis, Duke of Valois, Count of Angoulème, who became Francis I of France, and his descendants, of the Orléans-Angoulème,

This OS and the computers it ran on were nearly obsolete by the time PCs became common, with various descendants and other replacements.

Some of his descendants ( known as the Kammu Taira or Kammu Heishi ) took the Taira hereditary clan title, and in later generations became prominent warriors.

The Goths ' relationship with Sweden became an important part of Swedish nationalism, and until the 19th century the Swedes were commonly considered to be the direct descendants of the Goths.

Some of the lords and their descendants rose to high ranks in their adoptive countries, such as the French royalist Patrice de Mac-Mahon, who became president of France.

His descendants established themselves in the Iwami province as local administrators of Mino, and from the Kamakura period became part of the regional warrior caste under the name of the Masuda clan.

It was ruled by Herodian descendants also when Judea itself became a Roman Province in 6 CE, up until the death of Agrippa II in the year 92.

Some of the Tanka's descendants became Macanese people.

Slavery became a caste of people who were foreign to the English ( Native Americans, Africans and their descendants ) and non-Christians.

Rollo's descendant William, Duke of Normandy, became king of England in 1066 in the Norman Conquest culminating at the Battle of Hastings, while retaining the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants.

These men he called patres ( father, head ), and their descendants became the patricians.

After 1836, many were allowed to stay on and their descendants became integrated into the population.

Darwin takes as an example a country where a change in conditions led to extinction of some species, immigration of others and, where suitable variations occurred, descendants of some species became adapted to new conditions.

They are primarily descendants of Tuscarora groups absorbed in the early decades of the nineteenth century by relocated Iroquois Seneca and Cayuga bands from New York, who became known as Mingo.

When a son of Heracles, Hyllus, killed Sthenelus, Eurystheus became noted for his enmity to Heracles and for his ruthless persecution of the Heracleidae, the descendants of Heracles.

All branches of the anthracotheres, except that which evolved into Hippopotamidae, became extinct during the Pliocene without leaving any descendants.

Rudolf I this way became the ancestor of the older ( Palatinate ) line of the Wittelsbach dynasty, which returned to power also in Bavaria in 1777 after the extinction of the younger ( Bavarian ) line, the descendants of Louis IV.

On 1 September 1532, Henry granted her suo jure the Marquessate of Pembroke, an appropriate peerage for a future Queen ; as such she became a rich and important woman: the three Dukes and two Marquesses who existed in 1532 were the King's brother-in-law, the King's illegitimate son, and other descendants of royalty ; she ranked above all other peeresses.

The descendants of these settlers became known as the Māori, forming a distinct culture of their own.

Rollo ( c. 846 – c. 931 ), baptised Robert and so sometimes numbered Robert I to distinguish him from his descendants, was a Norse nobleman of Norwegian or Danish descent and founder and first ruler of the Viking principality in what soon became known as Normandy.

One of Feizi's descendants, Duke Zhuang, became favoured by King Ping of Zhou, the thirteenth king in that line.

Krystyna Skowrońska, renamed Christina Samuilovna Skavronskaya ( 1687 – 14 April 1729 ), had married Simon-Heinrich N ( 1672 – 1728 ) and their descendants became the Counts Guendrikov.

Anna Skowrońska, renamed Anna Samuilovna Skavronskaya, had married one Michael-Joachim N and their descendants became the Counts Efimovsky.

Karol Skowroński, renamed Karel Samuilovich Skavronsky, was created a Count of the Russian Empire on 5 January 1727 and made a Chamberlain of the Imperial Court ; he had married Maria Ivanovna, a Russian woman, by whom he had descendants who became extinct in the male line in 1793.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

Therefore Latinos are Americans who are descendants of the Latin group ( namely Spain, France, Italy and Portugal ) and Hispanic refers to the descendants from the Iberian Peninsula ( also known as Ibero-American ).

According to the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee, he has 2 million known and registered descendants, and there are an estimated 3 million in all.

Some descendants of the Catholic Apostolic Church also known as Irvingism, such as Apostelamt Jesu Christi, Apostelamt Juda, Restored Apostolic Mission Church and the Old Apostolic Church also believes in the allegorical interpretation of the Bible.

The Capetian dynasty (), also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line.

In this period, the Colonna started claiming they were descendants of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ( similar spurious claims are common among the old Roman nobility, the Massimo case probably being the best known ).

The first known documentation of Dachau was a medieval deed by the Noble Erchana of Dahauua to the Bishop of Freising, both descendants of the lineage of the Aribons.

* 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name " Mountbatten-Windsor ".

A partial summary of publicly known Wiccan descendants from Gardner is available here.

The death of Uthman was followed by a civil war known as the First Fitna, and the succession to Ali ibn Abi Talib was disputed, leading to the split between the Sunni and Shia sects, and later to competing caliphates when the descendants of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and Ali set up separate Fatimid societies.

Shaver claimed that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as " Dero ", live there still, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

The descendants of some Irish immigrants are known today in the West Indies as redlegs.

Jacob (;, ; Septuagint ; ; " heel " or " leg-puller "), also later known as Israel (,,, " persevere with God "; Septuagint ; ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur ' an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.

As there is no known Manichaean mythology or terminology in the writings of these groups there has been some dispute among historians as to whether these groups truly were descendants of Manichaeism.

Though officially known as the House of Romanov, these descendants of the Romanov and Oldenburg Houses are sometimes referred to as Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov.

The Shia extend this belief to Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt (" the People of the House "), and certain individuals among his descendants, known as imams, who have special spiritual and political authority over the community.

* Mestiços, or mixed-blood, descendants of Portuguese colonists and African slaves brought to the islands during the early years of settlement from Benin, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola ( these people also are known as filhos da terra or " children of the land ");

The most powerful clan faction is known as the ' Sudairi Seven ', comprising the late King Fahd and his full brothers and their descendants.

The hunter-gatherer people known as the Wanniyala-Aetto or Veddas, who still live in the central, Uva and north-eastern parts of the island, are probably direct descendants of the first inhabitants, Balangoda man.

In the 1830s and the 1840s, descendants of Dutch and other settlers, collectively known as Boers ( farmers ) or Voortrekkers ( pioneers ), left the British Cape Colony, in what was to be called the Great Trek.