The influential Leoussi family originated on the isle of Aigina ; their roots go as far back as the 15th century.

His family originated from Ovanåker in the province of Hälsingland.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

Fahrenheit's great-grandfather had lived in Rostock, and research suggests that the Fahrenheit family originated in Hildesheim.

Under King Agaja ( ruled 1708 – 1732 ), the kingdom conquered Allada, where the ruling family originated.

The double bass is generally regarded as a modern descendant of the string family of instruments that originated in Europe in the 15th century, and as such has been described as a bass Violin.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

The Sevier family name originated from the name Xavier.

The population of most of the Hittite Empire by this time spoke Luwian dialects, another Indo-European language of the Anatolian family that had originated to the west of the Hittite region.

Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, or in Rome, from a well-established family which had originated in Picenum in Italy and had subsequently settled in Italica, Hispania Baetica ( the republican Hispania Ulterior ), near the present-day location of Seville, Spain.

Hymenoptera originated in the Triassic, the oldest fossils belonging to the family Xyelidae.

JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks collectively known as xUnit that originated with SUnit.

The centre of kingfisher diversity is the Australasian region, but the family is not thought to have originated there.

Grigorije Božović ( 1880-1945 ) claimed that the family were Srbljaci ( natives ) in Vasojevići territory, and Montenegrin historian Miomir Dašić claimed that Karađorđe's family originated from the Gurešići from Podgorica, while folklorist Dragutin Vuković thought Tripko Knežević " Guriš " was Karađorđe's great-grandfather.

Another tradition that influenced Beijing cuisine ( as well as influenced by the latter itself ) is the Chinese imperial cuisine that originated from the " Emperor's Kitchen " (), which referred to the cooking facilities inside the Forbidden City, where thousands of cooks from different parts of China showed their best culinary skills to please the imperial family and officials.

One large family of achondrites ( the HED meteorites ) may have originated on the asteroid 4 Vesta.

Marcus ' family originated in Ucubi, a small town southeast of Córdoba in Iberian Baetica.

The Bychowiec Chronicles, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, have been discredited in this regard, since they assert an ancestry from the Palemonids, a noble family said to have originated within the Roman Empire.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.

" His family was of Kurdish background and ancestry, and had originated from the village of Ajdanakan near the city of Dvin, in medieval Armenia.

His mother's ancestors had moved from Italy to North Africa: they belonged to the gens Fulvia, an Italian patrician family that originated in Tusculum.

German chemists Walter Noddack, Otto Berg, and Ida Tacke reported the discovery of element 75 and element 43 in 1925, and named element 43 masurium ( after Masuria in eastern Prussia, now in Poland, the region where Walter Noddack's family originated ).

There are five major styles of t ' ai chi ch ' uan, each named after the Chinese family from which it originated:

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Puccini was born in Lucca in Tuscany, into a family with five generations of musical history behind them, including the composer Domenico Puccini.

Once Siena had been conquered by Florence under the rule of the Medici family in 1555, Montalcino held out for almost four years, but ultimately fell to the Florentines, under whose control it remained until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.

The Machiavelli family are believed to be descended from the old marquesses of Tuscany and to have produced thirteen Florentine Gonfalonieres of Justice, one of the offices of a group of nine citizens selected by drawing lots every two months, who formed the government, or Signoria.

The latter was also Senator of Rome and enlarged the family territories in Lazio and Tuscany.

Born Giulio Rospigliosi to a noble family of Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, he was a pupil of the Jesuits.

* The direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct with the death of Gian Gastone de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

However, Spain pressured Tuscany to expel Iturbide, and the Iturbide family moved to Great Britain.

Piero was born in the town of Borgo Santo Sepolcro, modern-day Tuscany ( where he also died ), to Benedetto de ' Franceschi, a tradesman, and Romana di Perino da Monterchi, part of the Florentine and Tuscan Franceschi noble family.

In the episode, she travelled to the Tuscany region of Italy and the island of Elba to uncover the truth about the 100-year-old murder of her great-grandfather, Francesco Leopoldo Bianchi, on her mother's side of the family.

Bernardino was born in 1380 to the noble Albizeschi family in Massa Marittima ( Tuscany ), a Sienese town of which his father was then governor.

The south of current Tuscany ( roughly identifiable with the modern province of Grosseto ) was instead a feudal dominion of the Aldobrandeschi family.

He was born at Arezzo in Tuscany, of a prominent family, several members of which were distinguished like himself for their attainments in law.

Leopold of Tuscany was a well-meaning, not unkindly man, and fonder of his subjects than were the other Italian despots, but he was weak, and too closely bound by family ties and Habsburg traditions ever to become a real Liberal.

HMS Foudroyant carried the exiled Piedmontese royal family from Sardinia to the neutral Duchy of Tuscany in September 1799.

Born in Turin into a Sicilian family, Amato grew up in Tuscany.

Berrettini was born into a family of artisans and masons, in Cortona, then a town in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Buonarroti was born in Pisa, in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to a family of local nobility.

When the Florentine Republic fell in 1530, Volterra came under the control of the Medici family and later followed the history of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Dudley designed and built warships for the arsenal of Tuscany and became a naval advisor to Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, of the Medici family.

: Chase's wife, Maggie is a freelance writer who supports her husband in his endeavour to build a new life for their family in Tuscany Valley.

When Dominic's wife Anna and daughter Cassandra returned to the Tuscany Valley years later to wreak revenge for what Angela allegedly did to their family, Angela was forced to tell Christopher he was her grandson.