After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

Hasan Ali Shah was succeeded as Imam by his eldest son Aqa Ali Shah, who became Aga Khan II.

" Alaric's heirs were his eldest son, the illegitimate Gesalec, and his younger son, the legitimate Amalaric who was still a child.

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Sancho I of Portugal by his wife, Dulce, Infanta of Aragon.

Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Eleanor of Aragon.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

Amyntas died at an advanced age, leaving his throne to his eldest son.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes.

Kolbe was born in Elliehausen, near Göttingen, Kingdom of Hanover ( Germany ) as the eldest son of a Protestant pastor.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius.

In 1834 his eldest son, Mohammed Mirza, succeeded Fath Ali Shah as the next king.

In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.

: In 1634, the eldest son of the raja of Jodhpur ran amok at the court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the emperor, but killing five of his officials.

Bal Thackeray lost his wife Meena to a heart attack in September 1995, and his eldest son Bindumadhav (" Binda ") to a road accident on 20 April 1996.

He was the second child and eldest son of Isaac D ' Israeli, a literary critic and historian, and Maria Basevi.

He died in 1574, succeeded by his eldest surviving son Francesco, whose inability to produce male heirs led to the succession of his younger brother, Ferdinando, upon his death in 1587.

Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria di Savoia was born in Turin, the eldest son of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, King of Sardinia and of his wife Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain.

He married Frances Dudley, 6th Baroness Dudley, daughter of Sir Ferdinando Dudley, eldest son of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley ( see the Baron Dudley for earlier history of the Sutton family ).

The future of the dynasty itself painted a similar picture: Cosimo's eldest son, Ferdinando, was an alcoholic and epileptic, while his younger son, Gian Gastone, according to historian Paul Strathern, was simply not appropriate material for the role of sovereign to the collapsing grand duchy.

Cosimo de ' Medici was born on 14 August 1642, the eldest surviving son of Vittoria della Rovere of Urbino, and Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Ferdinando was the eldest son of Cosimo II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Maria Maddalena of Austria.

Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven ( May 1580 – c. October 1647 ) was the eldest daughter and heir of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer.

When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl.

His eldest son, George, succeeded as fifth Earl, and was the father of John, the seventh Earl, who was created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916.

On 15 July 2008 the fifth eldest son of Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal Gaddafi, and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July.

His second but eldest surviving son, the fifth Earl, was also a soldier and fought at the Battle of Waterloo at an early age.

Devonshire was succeeded by his eldest son, William Cavendish, who became the fifth Duke of Devonshire.

On his death the titles passed to his second but eldest surviving son James, the fifth Earl.

He was succeeded by his fifth but eldest surviving son, the eleventh Earl.

He was the fifth child and eldest son of the 13 children of Abram Weaver ( 1804 – 1887 ) and Susan Imlay ( 1807 – 1886 ).

Throughout its history reign over the Sibir Khanate, was often contested between members of the illustrious Shaybanids and Taibugids, both of these competing tribes were direct patrilineal descendants of Genghis Khan through his eldest son Jochi and his fifth son Shayban ( Shiban ).

As of 2012 the titles are held by the latter's eldest son, the fifth Marquess, who succeeded in 1994.

His eldest son, the fifth Marquess, was also a Conservative politician.

He was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, the fifth Earl.

He married on 30 July of the following year Lady Evelyn FitzMaurice, the eldest daughter of the Marquess of Lansdowne, who until four years earlier had served as the fifth Governor General of Canada.

He was succeeded by his grandson, the fifth Earl, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson ( 1913 – 1958 ), eldest son of the fourth Earl.

His eldest son, the fifth Earl, was Conservative Member of Parliament for Somerset East and served as Lord Lieutenant of Essex.

He was succeeded on his death in 1829 by his eldest son, John, the fifth Duke.

Lord Clarendon was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, the fifth Earl.

His eldest son, the fifth Duke, was a Member of Parliament and Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.

* John D. Rockefeller V, lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, eldest son of West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, and fifth generation member of the Rockefeller family

Lyttelton was succeeded by his eldest son, the fifth Baronet, who was a prominent politician.

He was the son of the politician and sportsman the Honourable Alfred Lyttelton, eighth son of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, whose eldest son, the fifth Baron, succeeded his kinsman Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos as 8th Viscount Cobham in 1889. the title is held by the first Viscount's grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1980.

His eldest son, the second Earl, succeeded his first cousin as fifth Earl of Warwick in 1673.

He was succeeded by his eldest son from his second marriage, the fifth Earl.

He was succeeded by his eldest son from his second marriage, the fifth Marquess.