The Saxon ruler's younger daughter was the Dauphin's wife and his elder daughter was married to Charles VII of Naples, a Bourbon cousin.

The elder branch of the House of Bourbon, to which the kings belonged, deeply distrusted the intentions of the cadet branch, which would succeed to the throne of France should the senior branch die out.

When the July Revolution of 1830 resulted in the downfall of the elder Bourbon branch, the Orléanists stepped in.

In 1883, the death of the Comte de Chambord ended the elder Bourbon branch and left the Comte de Paris as head of the Royal house of France.

Legitimists are royalists in France who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession of the descendants of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution.

The arguments are, on one side, that Louis XIV's younger grandson, Philip de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou renounced any future claim to the French throne when he left France to become king of Spain as Philip V in 1700 ( ratified internationally by the Treaty of Utrecht ), leaving the Dukes of Orléans as heirs to the throne of France in the event of extinction of descendants of Louis XIV's elder grandson, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, which occurred in 1883.

Elected Archbishop of Lyon at the age of 10 through his family connections, and later made a Cardinal, he was also Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne for a short period of time in April 1488, succeeding his elder brother, John II.

When Charles ' elder brother, John II, Duke of Bourbon, died on 1 April 1488, Charles-as John's nearest heir-made a claim for the family inheritance in the Bourbonnais and Auvergne.

A marriage between Peter and the King's elder daughter, Anne, was arranged ( as was another marriage between Louis of Orleans and Anne's younger sister, Jeanne ); as a mark of his favour, the King forced Peter's older brother John II, Duke of Bourbon to grant the Bourbon fief of Beaujeu ( Beaujolais ) to Peter, who was also given a seat on the royal council.

Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême ( the elder son of Charles X of France, last of the Bourbon kings ) and his wife Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, ( the daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette ), moved into what is now 22 ( then 21 ) Regent Terrace in 1830.

During a later division of territory among the heirs of Duke Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, in 1294, the elder branch of the Wittelsbachs came into possession of both the Rhenish Palatinate and the territories in the Bavarian " Nordgau " ( Bavaria north of the Danube river ) with the centre around the town of Amberg.

Toynbee concludes that the conquest of the world by elder branch of the House of Achaemenes had been achieved by the valor of the Kuru and Kamboja Nomad reinforcements, hence as a commemoration, the elder branch of the House had named all their great princes from Cyrus-I onwards, alternately, as Cyrus ( Kurosh / Kuru ) and Cambyses ( Kambujiya / Kamboja ).

The elder branch of the House of Este included the dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg ( 1208 – 1918 ) and produced England's Hanoverian monarchs.

He inherited the property of his maternal uncle, Welf, Duke of Carinthia, became duke of Bavaria in 1070, and is the ancestor of the elder branch, the House of Welf.

The elder branch of the House of Este, the House of Welf, historically rendered " Guelf " or " Guelph " in English, produced dukes of Bavaria ( 1070 – 1139, 1156 – 1180 ), dukes of Saxony ( 1138 – 1139, 1142 – 1180 ), a German King ( 1198 – 1218 ), and the dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg ( 1208 – 1918 ), later styled the " Electors of Hanover " when two branches of the family recombined in 1705.

The elder branch of the family, the Báthory of Somlyó were descended from John, Count of Szatmár, the first-born son of Briccius, through his eldest son Ladislaus ( died 1373 ).

In 1306 the Plauen branch was subdivided into an elder line that died out in 1572, and a younger line called Plauen at Greiz.

The elder Frederick was of practically Danish upbringing, having lived all his life in Denmark, but in 1875, when the senior branch of Hesse-Kassel became extinct, he settled in northern Germany, where the House had substantial landholdings.

After the restoration of the Bourbons ( 1815 ), the liberals were identified with the Orléanists, who rejected the legitimism of the elder branch as well as Bonapartism, which in their view was essentially " democratic Caesarism "-an equal submission of all men to one despotic ruler.

However, by the extinction of the elder branch, the admiral became head of the family.

Charles proved the last of the elder branch of the House of Valois, and upon his death at Amboise the throne passed to a cousin, the duc d ' Orléans, who reigned as King Louis XII of France, who would try to make good his clearer claim to the Duchy of Milan.

The elder branch of Béziers-Albi-Carcassonne-Razès and the younger of Nîmes-Agde were to remain separate for the remainder of the family's existence.

The practical capital of the elder branch was Béziers.

Liudolf's elder son Bruno ( Brun ), progenitor of the Brunswick cadet branch of the Brunonen, was killed in a battle with invading Vikings under Godfrid in 880.

Some peace was restored to the coast by the establishment in 879 of a new kingdom of Provence, ruled first by the Bosonids dynasty ( 879 – 1112 ), then by the Catalans ( 1112 – 1246 ), and finally by the Angevins ( 1246 – 1382, elder branch, 1382 – 1483 ( younger branch ).

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

Little Women represented the time period in a young woman's life where childhood and elder childhood was " overlapping " young womanhood.

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

They were preceded in proximity only by Henry VIII's three children-Prince Edward, Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth-and the descendents of Margaret Tudor, the elder daughter of Henry VII and Queen consort of Scotland, after 1542 represented by Mary, Queen of Scots.

Her father, a physical education teacher ( who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics ), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as " Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow ".

Before them, Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music, with Stasov as their artistic adviser and Dargomyzhsky as an elder statesman to the group, so to speak.

His downfall is represented when he confronted Alexandra, Princess of Wales and demanded her to use her influence with the Prince to stop Lord Aylesford proceeding with a divorce from his wife, Lady Aylesford, after she had planned to elope with Lord Randolph's elder brother, the Marquess of Blandford.

His second son, the eighth Earl ( who succeeded his elder brother ), briefly represented Stamford in the House of Commons.

His great-grandson, the fourth Earl ( who succeeded his elder brother in 1853, who in his turn had succeeded his father in 1797, who in his turn had succeeded his grandfather the first Earl ), represented Andover and Devonshire North in Parliament.

His younger son, the third Earl ( who succeeded his elder brother ), represented Camelford in Parliament.

In 1984 AIMIM sent its candidate Salahuddin to prliament and he represented Hyderabad till 2004, Since then Salahuddin's elder son Asaduddin Owaisi represents the Parliament seat of Hyderabad.

During the first years of contact with Europeans, the Wurundjeri-willam people were represented by influential senior men such as Billibellary, a respected elder.

The fact that the inscription was on the inside of a cover to a grave has resulted in speculation that it represented a use of the elder futhark to pacify the dead man in some manner.

One of six cricketing brothers, four of whom represented Victoria, Harvey followed his elder brother Merv into Test cricket and made his debut in January 1948, aged 19 and three months.

For the previous half century, the familial rivalry had centered mostly on the conflict between Christianity and paganism, respectively represented by the elder and the younger branches.

Conyngham was returned to Parliament for Westbury in 1818, a seat he held until 1820, and later represented Donegal ( succeeding his deceased elder brother the Earl of Mount Charles ) between 1825 and 1831.

His elder brothers included Thomas ( who signed the Declaration of Independence ) and Michael ( who represented Maryland in the U. S. Congress ).