As Johann Wilhelm had syphilis the union produced no offspring, which, combined with her siblings ' barrenness, meant that the Medici were on the verge of extinction.

The Medici ruled the grand duchy until their extinction in 1737.

The grand duchy, initially, was ruled by the House of Medici until its extinction in 1737.

The de ' Medici continued to rule over Florence and Tuscany until their extinction in 1737.

From the extinction in 1254 of the Hohenstaufen dynasty until 1415, the area was ruled by the Habsburgs, and many castles from that time still stand ( examples include Habsburg, Lenzburg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin and Wildegg ).

After these lines ended in extinction, the electors began to elect kings from different families so that the throne would not once again settle within a single dynasty.

After the extinction of the Ottonian dynasty with the death of Henry II in 1024 the crown passed to the Salian dynasty.

The extinction of the Kyburg dynasty paved the way for the Habsburg dynasty to bring much of the territory south of the Rhine under their control, aiding their rise to power.

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.

It was first ruled by the Polish Silesian Piast dynasty ( until its extinction ).

Her father was the only surviving male member of the House of Habsburg and hoped for a son who would prevent the extinction of his dynasty and succeed him.

As the senior line reigning over the Principality of Lippe bordered on extinction as the 20th century approached, a succession dispute between the Lippe-Biesterfeld and Schaumburg-Lippe branches of the dynasty arose, evoking international intervention and troop movements.

In 1318, with the extinction of the Angelid dynasty, the Almogavars occupied Siderokastron and southern Thessaly ( 1319 ) and formed the duchy of Neopatria.

The Bohemian rule in Upper Lusatia was secured with the extinction of the rivaling Brandenburg House of Ascania in 1320 and the rise of the Luxembourg dynasty, Kings of Bohemia since 1310.

When, therefore, the brothers, as well as delegates of the people's party, which, weary of Hasmonean quarrels, desired the extinction of the dynasty, presented themselves before Pompey, he delayed the decision, in spite of Aristobulus ' gift of a golden vine valued at five hundred talents.

The decline of a dynasty or culture could also mean the extinction of its capital city, as occurred at Babylon and Cahokia.

Upon the extinction of the senior dynasty ruling the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1685, the Neuburg line inherited the Electorate and generally made Düsseldorf its capital until the Elector Palatine also inherited the Electorate of Bavaria in 1777.

Using the pretext of a 1537 treaty ( vetoed by Emperor Ferdinand I ) by which parts of Silesia were to pass to Brandenburg after the extinction of its ruling Piast dynasty, Frederick invaded Silesia, thereby beginning the War of the Austrian Succession.

* Michael of Russia, chosen by a Zemsky Sobor ( national assembly ) after the extinction of the Rurikid dynasty and the end of the Time of Troubles.

These were captured by Wenceslaus who now, after gaining most of the Polish lands, is crowned in Gniezno as king of Poland by archbishop Jakub Świnka Upon the deaths of Wenceslaus and his successor Wenceslaus III and with them the extinction of the Přemyslid dynasty, Pomerelia was recaptured by Władysław I the Elbow-high in 1306.

* From 14 January 1301 until 1308 in the Kingdom of Hungary between the extinction of the Árpád dynasty and when Charles I of Hungary secured the throne for himself against several pretenders.

The Přemyslid dynasty which had ruled Bohemia since the 9th century remained in power throughout the High Middle Ages, until the extinction of the male line with the death of Wenceslaus III of Bohemia in 1306.

Lewis Joseph in his article " Islamic Historiography during the Umayyad period 661-750 ", nevertheless argues that this was a later tradition created at a time when the Umayyad dynasty was facing extinction.

The articles took the form of 18 Articles written and adopted by the nobility in 1573 at the town of Kamień, near Warsaw, during the interregnum following the extinction of Jagiellon dynasty.

Coat of arms | Middle heraldic shield of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles I, representing territories in Spain ( top ) and his other European possessions ( bottom ) Spain as a unified state came into being de jure only after the death of Charles II and with it the extinction of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, and the ascension of Philip V and the inauguration of the Bourbon dynasty and its central reforms as in France.

On his accession to the papacy, Clement X, in order to save the Altieri name from extinction, adopted the Paluzzi family, and proposed that one of the Paluzzi should marry Laura Caterina Altieri, the sole heiress of the family.

The climax of his elevation occurred when, on the extinction of the line of Kettler, the estates of Courland, in June 1737, elected Biron their reigning duke.

The defeat of Napoleon restored Carniola to Austrian Emperor Francis I, with larger boundaries, but at the extinction of the Illyrian Kingdom Carniola was confined to the limits outlined at the Congress of Vienna, 1815.

The Galton – Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names.

* 1879: Francis Blake invents a carbon transmitter similar to Edison's that saves the Bell company from extinction.

Darwin reacted positively to a tract by the American Francis Abbott proposing " the extinction of faith in the Christian Confession " and a new humanist " Free Religion " for the " spiritual perfection of the individual and the spiritual unity of the race ".

In the book Ghastly Terror: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics,, Stephen Sennitt credits Lindall with the attempt to save the line of Warren horror magazines from extinction through his new style of cover art.

It is reported in " Mongol Warrior 1200-1350 " by Stephen Turnbull and Wayne Reynolds available on Google Books that the Mongols ate horse milk powder with water, around 250 grammes a day although an account they quote mentions they took 4. 5 kg along for an expedition, and claims they hunted on campaign, such as digging around for marmots, it also said they ate horse meat ( it is known that the wild Przewalski horses were eaten which contributed to their extinction, but that may have been due to food shortage and was later than the period of the historical Mongols when possibly even these horses were some of them still domestic ), on the other hand they also drank blood from their horses by temporarily opening a vein when in shortage.

Upon the extinction of the Counts of Flanders with the death of Louis II in 1384, Flanders was acquired by the Burgundian duke Philip the Bold.

On 1 April 1795 his father succeeded Ludwig's uncle, Charles II, as duke of Zweibrücken, and on 16 February 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Arch-Steward of the Empire, and Duke of Berg on the extinction of the Sulzbach line with the death of the elector Charles Theodore.

The Saxon dukes, however, continued to rule central Holstein, and when Lothair of Supplinburg became duke of Saxony ( 1106 ), on the extinction of the Billung line, he enfeoofed Lord Adolphus of Schauenburg with the County of Holstein, as a Saxon subfief, becoming Adolphus I, Count of Holstein with the Saxon, later Lower Saxon dukes as liege lords.

The Treaty of Grimnitz ( 1529 ) guaranteed Brandenburgian succession in the Duchy of Pomerania upon the extinction of the local House of Pomerania, and would have come into effect by the death of Pomeranian duke Bogislaw XIV in 1637.

Upon the extinction of the last duke George William of Legnica in 1675, Brieg came under the direct rule of the Habsburgs.

In 1537 the duke Frederick II of Liegnitz concluded a treaty with Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, whereby the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg would inherit the duchy upon the extinction of the Silesian Piasts.

A list of duke titles no longer used ( extinction ) or have been suspended.

According to the last will of Frederick III, he named his illegitimate son, William of Aragon, Count of Malta as heir presumptive in this case of the extinction of his daughter's line and although William died in c. 1380, he had a daughter, Joan of Aragon, wife of a Sicilain noble man, Pietro di Gioeni, but she must not have contested the claim of her aunt's husband since Martin continued to rule until his death.