He endowed several church institutions, most prominently his family's Sorø Abbey.

After a period of confusion, Demetrius's son Antigonus II Gonatas was able to establish the family's control over the old Kingdom of Macedon, as well as over most of the Greek city-states, by 276 BC.

After Carlo's death, he enlarged the family's tenure with lands inherited by his wife, another Orsini from Salerno, and most of all he was amongst the favourites of Ferdinand I of Naples, who appointed him as Great Connestable of Naples.

As a child she most likely lived at her family's residence of Belclare and Clare Island, but she may have been fostered to another family since fosterage was traditional among Irish nobility at the time.

Thoreau returned to Concord and worked in his family's pencil factory, which he continued to do for most of his adult life.

Alexandra was not their first choice, since the Danes were at loggerheads with the Prussians over the Schleswig-Holstein Question and most of the British royal family's relations were German.

That family's most famous member, Mary of Teck, married George V of the United Kingdom, and the present British Royal Family descends from her.

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

The Emperors of Eastern Jin had limited power, with most of it concentrated in the royal family's hands, whilst military power was mostly wielded by non-royals.

With the family's finances in jeopardy, Richard travelled regularly to northwest England, where most of his clients were.

The bailiffs entered the family's home just as Eugenia went into labour ; the family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of her.

When Emmanuel Philibert came to power in 1553 most of his family's territories were in French hands, so he offered to serve France's leading enemy the House of Habsburg, in the hope of recovering his lands.

Despite later reverses in the family's fortunes, on 13 August 1504 their only child, Jeanne de Commines ( d. 1513 ), made a splendid marriage to the heir of Brittany's most powerful family, René de Brosse comte de Penthièvre ( d. 1524 ).

For most of the year the family's private apartments at Lismore are available to rent by groups of up to twenty-three visitors.

On March 1, however, a faction of the Guise family's retainers attacked a Calvinist service in Wassy-sur-Blaise in Champagne, massacring the worshippers and most of the residents of the town.

As a participant in sacred drama, her image inspires one of the most important fresco cycles in all of Italian painting: Giotto's narrative cycle in the Arena Chapel, next to the Scrovegni family's palace in Padua.

Moberg's most famous work is The Emigrants series of four novels written between 1949 and 1959 that describe one Swedish family's migration from Småland to Chisago County, Minnesota in the mid 19th century.

He tries often to keep his family's perceptions of each other positive or " happy " by defending each of them during their many arguments, but still has the most turbulent relationship with Linda, who looks down on him for his lifestyle and apparent cheapness, despite him giving them money.

This is how he was defined by scholars for most of history, and Graves uses these peculiarities to develop a sympathetic character whose survival in a murderous dynasty depends upon his family's incorrect assumption that he is a harmless idiot.

Shortly after the royal family's move to Chengzhou, a hierarchical alliance system arose where the Zhou king would give the title of hegemon to the leader of the state with the most powerful military ; the hegemon was obligated to protect both the weaker Zhou states and the Zhou royalty from the intruding non-Zhou peoples: the Northern Di, the Southern Man, the Eastern Yi, and the Western Rong.

" Diver " refers to the family's underwater method of hunting for prey, while " red-throated " is a straightforward reference to the bird's most distinctive breeding plumage feature.

As boss of the family, Gigante strengthened the family's stranglehold of some of New York City's most lucrative rackets, including the New York Coliseum, Jacob K. Javits Center, labor racketeering, the drywall business, Concrete Club, Fulton Fish Market, drug trafficking, private waste industry, and gambling.

Married to the former Louene Dance ( 1994 – 2010 ), who preceded him in death by nine months, Palmer Long was otherwise involved in the family's oil and natural gas business and shunned most other political participation beyond personal contributions.

They are, however, quite distinctly united by their anatomy, and the family's phylogeny as well as the most ancient fossils of this order suggest that the original lampriform was indeed rather " opah-shaped ".

Peng's father was forced to sell most of his family possessions for food, and to pawn most of his family's land.

The town of Holcomb was thrust into national headlines on November 15, 1959, when four members of the prominent Clutter family — Herbert, 48 ; his wife Bonnie, 45 ; daughter Nancy, 16 ; and son Kenyon, 15 — were found bound and shot to death in various rooms of their home, on the family's River Valley Farm on the outskirts of Holcomb.

Balfour Castle, built in the Scottish Baronial style, is one of the island's most prominent features, a reminder of the Balfour family's domination of Shapinsay during the 18th and 19th centuries ; the Balfours transformed life on the island by introducing new agricultural techniques.

One prominent example was the radio and later short-lived TV show Beulah, which featured a black maid named Beulah who helped solve a white family's problems.

She also painted a prominent Atlanta family's four boys in the 1970s.

Another of the family's Jeptha H. Wades ( December 26, 1924-August 8, 2008 ) was a prominent Boston attorney who assisted in the formation of the federal Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Although initially placed beneath the Christmas tree, by the early 19th century a family's " putz " might have also been found on the fireplace mantel, side tables, and other prominent places within the home.

O Globo is the most prominent print publication in the Marinho family's Brazilian media conglomerate.

Nichol married secondly Elizabeth Pease in 1853, a prominent reformer and member of the Darlington Pease family, much against her family's wishes.

Maitland was prominent in the family's unsuccessful attempt to mount a defence of diminished responsibility, sparing neither his personal privacy nor his standing in the community in the failed attempt to save his brother from execution.

The shield has been the family's coat-of-arms since the 12th century when a family member was knighted by the German-based Holy Roman Empire.

A welcome party is held for the purpose of welcoming a newcomer, such as a new club member, a new employee, or a family's new baby.

As the family was eating dinner that night, Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the detachment, came in and announced that the family's kitchen boy and Alexei's playmate, 14-year-old Leonid Sednev, must gather his things and go to a family member.

Frank claimed that he had obtained from a relative of Hitler's by marriage a collection of letters between Maria Schicklgruber and a member of the Frankenberger family that discussed a stipend for her after she left the family's employ.

A younger brother of the third Viscount remained chairman until 1972, but the Smith family's control slipped away, and the last family member left the board in 1996.

Marie's relation to Regensburg's Thurn and Taxis is rather distant, however ; she was married to Alexander Thurn and Taxis, a member of the family's branch that in the early 19th century settled in Bohemia ( now Czech Republic ) and became strongly connected to Czech national culture and history.

* The second tithe was saved by the individual member to fund the member's ( and his family's ) observance of the annual holy days, especially the 8-day-long Feast of Tabernacles.

Gotti was recognized as the Gambino family's boss and a member of The Commission by each of the other Five Families, including the Genovese family, whose approval for the hit on Castellano had been deliberately bypassed by Gotti and his co-conspirators.

In one instance during the wake of a Genovese member, Gigante pulled aside Victor Amuso, the acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, to discuss the Lucchese family's encroachment on his families " Windows Racket ".

The family's lawyer said the suit was filed against Citibank headquarters in New York and the bank's subsididary Citibank Indonesia concerning the death of a family member while meeting with debt collectors in Citibank, Jakarta Office.

Later given to the family's Vienna branch, where a family servant kept them hidden during the Holocaust when the Nazis confiscated the family's other possessions, the Netsuke were in 1947 taken back to Japan by a surviving family member who came to live in Tokyo.

The rusty-spotted cat ( Prionailurus rubiginosus ) is the cat family's smallest member and found only in India and Sri Lanka.

The Cockatiel is now biologically classified as a genuine member of Cacatuidae on account of sharing all of the Cockatoo family's biological features, namely, the erectile crest, a gallbladder, powder down, suppressed cloudy-layer ( enabling Lories, Lorikeets ( long-tailed Lories ), Parakeets and typical Parrot species ' display of structural colours such as aquas, blues, greens, purples and turquoises ), and facial feathers covering the sides of the beak, all of which are rarely found outside the Cacatuidae family.

When a male member of the family is married, a new section is added to the family's house where he and his new wife will live in.

During 1560s, upon the family's last member passing away, the town became one of the most favorite properties for Polish king and Lithuanian Grand Prince Sigismund II Augustus who had a Renaissance castle built there instead of the medieval one.

Holding of Vchynice manor was confirmed by the Habsburg emperor Rudolf II in 1596 and in 1611 one of the family's members, Radslav Vchynský of Vchynice the Elder, ennobled as lord (), became a member of the Diet of Bohemia ( zemský sněm ).

Gonzaga was born at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantova in northern Italy in what was then part of the Duchy of Mantua, a member of the illustrious House of Gonzaga.

She is a semi-regular cast member on Family Guy, voicing the Griffin family's neighbor, Bonnie Swanson, Joe Swanson's wife who was pregnant for most of the show's run until she finally had her baby during Family Guys current post-2005 cancellation era.

This was when Architect Lindy Locsin, then a member of the DLSU board of Trustees, offered to donate several hectares of his family's land to La Salle.

Chatmon's family was well known in Mississippi for their musical talents ; Chatmon was a member of the family's string band when he was young.

After retiring from football in 1972, Hunt joined his family's haulage company and in 1975 became a sitting member of the pools panel, who predict the results of games affected due to adverse weather in order for pools participants to be still able to win the prizes available.

** Jakub Ludwik Sobieski ( James Louis Henry Sobieski ( 1667-1737 ), another son of King John III Sobieski and last member of the family's branch started with Marek Sobieski

His heir, John Neville ( 1299 / 1300 – 1335 ) became a member of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster's household, beginning the family's link with the Earls of Lancaster.