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 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.

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.

The elder Bourbon branch ( as represented by Louis XVIII and later by its last scion, Henri, Comte de Chambord ) was prepared to grant ( octroyer ) a charter of liberties or constitution, but insisted that they ruled by " divine right " and conferred these liberties on their subjects of their own free will.

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.

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.

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 ).

Like the House of Battenberg in Europe, Mandela's family has since rehabilitated its dynastic status to some extent: Mandela was still in prison when his daughter Zenani was married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini in 1973, elder brother of King Mswati III of Swaziland.

His last speech was in a debate on marine pilotage in 1986, when he commented as an elder brother of Trinity House ; in the same year, he played himself as Prime Minister in an Anglia Television drama, " Inside Story ".

It is split into two branches ; the elder is known as the House of Welf-Este or House of Welf ( Guelf or Guelph ), and the younger, known as the House of Fulc-Este or later simply as the House of Este.

Humbert's son, Otto of Savoy ascended the throne in 1051 after the death of his elder brother Amedeo and married the Marchioness Adelaide of Turin, passing the Marquessate of Susa, with the towns of Turin and Pinerolo, into the House of Savoy's possession.

Benn's father had been created Viscount Stansgate in 1942 when Winston Churchill increased the number of Labour peers to aid political work in the House of Lords ; at this time, Benn's elder brother Michael was intending to enter the priesthood and had no objections to inheriting a peerage.

His elder brother and Lord of the House Bregolas was slain together with the majority of warriors, but Barahir was battling further westward nigh the Pass of Sirion.

In the elder line the numbering covers all male children of the elder House, and the numbers increase until 100 is reached and then start again at 1.

After her husband's death in 1947, the Princess Royal lived at Harewood House with her elder son and his family.

On 28 March 1965 The Princess Royal suffered a fatal heart attack during a walk with her elder son, Lord Harewood, and his children on the grounds of the Harewood House estate.

Charles Maitland married, on 18 November 1652, Elizabeth, younger daughter of Richard Lauder of Haltoun, ( nr. Ratho ), Sheriff Principal for Edinburgh, & c., the owner of Haltoun House and its lands, as well as extensive properties at Lauder, all of which passed to the Maitlands upon and after his marriage, Lauder's elder daughter having been provided with a money dowry.

He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard, that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses made its claim on the throne ( the other party in the Wars of the Roses, the Lancasters, being the male descendants of his elder brother, John of Gaunt ).

Mary Beatrice d ' Este, the elder child of Alfonso IV, Duke of Modena, and his wife, Laura Martinozzi, was born on 5 October 1658 NS in Modena, Duchy of Modena, Italy.

The elder, Laura, married Alfonso IV d ' Este, duke of Modena and became the mother of Mary of Modena, second wife of James II of England.

The property of the House of Welf was inherited by the elder branch of the House of Este that came to be known as the younger House of Welf, or House of Welf-Este.

Rudolph belonged to the elder Welf family and was the son of Conrad, Count of Auxerre and Waldrada of Worms.

In the 1635 redivision of the territories of the House of Welf after the death of Frederick Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg, he received the Principality of Calenberg, which included the former Principality of Göttingen since 1495, while his elder brother Augustus retained the Principality of Lüneburg.

Application of a pattern different from the one that has been used historically can give rise to a new word, such as older replacing elder ( where older follows the normal pattern of adjectival superlatives ) and cows replacing kine ( where cows fits the regular pattern of plural formation ).

Application of a pattern different from the one that has been used historically can give rise to a new word, such as older replacing elder ( where older follows the normal pattern of adjectival superlatives ) and cows replacing kine ( where cows fits the regular pattern of plural formation ).

This rendered futile any attempt to forcibly separate the couple, as had been done when the duke's elder brother was compelled to abandon his great love, Ebba Brahe, whose noble birth had likewise been deemed insufficient to allow Gustavus Adolphus to marry her.

The original Greek term geron ( meaning " elder ", as in gerontology ) was rendered by the Russian word starets, from Old Church Slavonic starĭtsĭ, " elder ", derived from starŭ, " old ".

: The municipality of Rimini here records the claim of their city to the family of the Ramusios, adorned during the 15th and 16th centuries by the illustrious jurist and man of letters Paolo the elder, who rendered the work of Valturius, our fellow-citizen, into the vernacular ; by the physician Girolamo, a most successful student of Oriental tongues, and the first to present Europe with a translation of Avicenna ; and by Giovanni Battista, cosmographer to the Venetian republic and secretary to the Council of Ten, who bequeathed to the world that famous collection of voyages and travels, regarded in his own day as a marvellous work, and still full of authority among all civilized nations.

* 1733 – Thomas Linley the elder English musician ( d. 1795 )

The translation into English of Natural History written by the elder Pliny of Greece shows a few sentences on the subject of a volcanic glass called Obsian, so named from its resemblance to a stone found in Ethiopia by Obsius ( obsiānus lapis ).

As well as promising a large sum of money, the ailing William agreed to his elder daughters marrying English nobles and, when the treaty was renewed in 1212, John apparently gained the hand of William's only surviving legitimate son, and heir, Alexander, for his eldest daughter, Joan.

Eleanor was the daughter of Duke Geoffrey II of Brittany, elder brother of King John, which meant that she had a better claim to the English throne than John and Henry according to Primogeniture, thus should have been queen regnant in 1203.

A person who practices benevolent magic " is not called saahir or sahhaar ( sorcerer, witch ), but is normally referred to as shaikh ( or shaikha for a female ), a title which is normally used to refer to a clergyman or a community notable or elder, and is equal to the English title: ‘ Reverend .’"

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

On the death of their father, de Montfort's elder brother Amaury succeeded him in possession of the French lands: the English Estates were temporarily confiscated by the King.

On his return from France in 1374, John took a more decisive and persistent role in the direction of English foreign policy, and from then until 1377 because his father and elder brother were both ill and unable to exercise their authority, he was effectively the head of the English government.

Of the two elder sons Robert was considered to be much the weaker and was generally preferred by the nobles who held lands on both sides of the English Channel since they could more easily circumvent his authority.

* they shared a grandmother in English princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England and the elder sister of Henry VIII ( Mary descending from Margaret's marriage to James IV of Scotland, Darnley from Margaret's marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus ), putting both Mary and Darnley high in the line of succession for the English throne ;

* Henry Venn ( Clapham Sect ) the elder, ( 1725 – 1797 ), English evangelical minister

Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

He was the elder of two sons of Cécile Sauvage, a poet, and Pierre Messiaen, a teacher of English who translated the plays of William Shakespeare into French.

After Cnut's death in 1035, Harold Harefoot, his elder son by his first wife, acceded to the English throne.

She is the elder sister of twins Edgar Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury, both producers, and a cousin of the late English animator and puppeteer Oliver Postgate.

The elder Lomax, a former professor of English at Texas A & M and a celebrated authority on Texas folklore and cowboy songs, had worked as an administrator, and later Secretary of the Alumni Society, of the University of Texas.

Coke's elder son, Sir John Coke was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War, while his younger son Thomas Coke was a Royalist.

William Mitford ( 10 February 1744 – 10 February 1827 ), English historian, was the elder of the two sons of John Mitford, a barrister ( died 1761 ) and his wife Philadelphia Reveley.

Researcher Paul Kroskrity offers the following example of code-switching by of three elder Arizona Tewa men, who are trilingual in Tewa, Hopi, and English.

Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, KG ( 1343 – 23 July 1403 ) was an English medieval nobleman best known for taking part in the rebellion with his nephew Henry Percy, known as ' Harry Hotspur ', and his elder brother, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.

The elder of these two works, the Shi Jing ( also familiarly known, in English, as the Classic of Poetry and as the Book of Songs or transliterated as the Sheh Ching ) is a preserved collection of Classical Chinese poetry from over two millennia ago.

All the children learned to read and write in English, but James and his elder brother Rezin could also read, write, and speak Spanish and French fluently.