However, he was not, according to several sources, Dinis ' favourite son ; his half-brother, the illegitimate Afonso Sanches, enjoyed full royal favour.

For the remainder of his reign there are problems: one of his sons rapes one of his daughters, another son kills the first, his favourite son rebels and is killed, until finally only two contenders for the succession remain, one of them Bathsheba's son Solomon.

His second wife, Alice, died in 1911 and his oldest son Jean, who had married Alice's daughter Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

Lineker was made a freeman of the City of Leicester ( which entitles him to graze his sheep — should he have any — on Town Hall Square ) in 1995 and he is often referred to as " Leicester's favourite son ".

Joseph, Jacob's favourite son, is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers.

Jahangir considered his third son Prince Khurram ( future Shah Jahan-born 1592 of Hindu Rajput princess Manmati ), his favourite.

In 1506, Leonardo took on another pupil, Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who is considered to have been his favourite student.

Richard is often depicted as having been the favourite son of his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine.

He was born in Constantinople a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his third and favourite Ruthenian wife Hürrem Sultan ( Roxelana ).

Baadshah Shah Jahan was born as Prince Shihab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram, on January 5 ( Julian ), 1592 in Lahore, Pakistan as the third and favourite son of the emperor Jahangir from his Rajput wife Gossaini.

Elizabeth also appointed her personal favourite, the son of the Duke of Northumberland Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse, giving him constant personal access to the queen.

Paikea, the youngest and favourite son of the chief Uenuku from the island of Mangaia, in the present day Cook Islands, was said by the Kati Kuri people of Kaikoura to have come from the Pacific Islands on the back of a whale many centuries before.

Khosrau I, his favourite son, is proclaimed successor over his elder brothers.

How she will bequeath her great wealth is a source of constant conflict between the branches of the Crawley family who vie shamelessly for her affections ; initially her favourite is Sir Pitt's younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley.

He was the fourth and favourite son of Yaroslav I the Wise by Ingigerd Olafsdottir.

" These comments by Hird, considered to be Essendon's " favourite son ", furthered speculation towards the future of then-Essendon coach Matthew Knights.

This wish, however, the son ignored, and had his favourite recalled from exile almost immediately.

Rhun was Owain's favourite son, and his premature death in 1147 plunged his father into a deep melancholy, from which he was only roused by the news that his forces had captured Mold castle.

For an example of the form that morganatic unions tend to take amongst African royalty, we have only to look at the biography of the continent's favourite son: President Nelson Mandela, the former leader of South Africa.

When he grew old, Harald handed over the supreme power to his favourite son Eirik Bloodaxe, whom he intended to be his successor.

All legitimate children shared equally in the father's estate on his death, reservation being made of a bride-price for an unmarried son, dower for a daughter, or property deeded to favourite children by the father.

Parysatis cannot forgive Tissaphernes for the rough treatment he has handed out to her favourite son, the late Cyrus.

King Matthias favoured ancient artillery ( catapults ) as opposed to cannons, which were the favourite of his father, Johannes Hunyadi, former Regent of Hungary.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

John had spent the conflict travelling alongside his father, and was given widespread possessions across the Angevin empire as part of the Montlouis settlement ; from then onwards, most observers regarded John as Henry II's favourite child, although he was the furthest removed in terms of the royal succession.

He had been so dominated by his father that he had little confidence in himself, and was often in the hands of a court favourite with a stronger will than his own.

Al-Mu ' tamid went, however, considerably further in patronage of literature than his father, for he chose as his favourite and prime minister the poet Ibn Ammar.

Tydeus was Athena ’ s favourite warrior at the time, and when he was dying she wanted to offer him a magic elixir ( which she had obtained from her father ) that would make him immortal.

During the reign of Philip's father, Philip III, the royal court had been dominated by the Sandoval noble family, most strikingly by the Duke of Lerma, Philip III's principle favourite and chief minister for almost all of his reign.

Under the influence of de Zúñiga and Olivares, however, Philip was then quick to place de Lerma's estates — expanded considerably during his long period as favourite — under administration, and to remove from office Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda, de Lerma's son, who had initially helped de Zúñiga remove from office his own father to advance his own position.

Despite Port Vale being Matthews ' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion ; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £ 1 a week.

It was during this period of probation, with little else to do, that Noel first began to teach himself to play a guitar his father had left him, imitating his favourite songs from the radio.

He was the father of Elizabeth I's favourite of her later years, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

The situation was aggravated by the king's ostentatious patronage of his favourite, Hugh Despenser, and Hugh's father by the same name.

She was born in the prison of the Château of Vincennes into which her father and mother had been thrown for opposition to Marshal d ' Ancre, the favourite of Marie de ' Medici, who was then regent during the minority of Louis XIII.

Other interests included science and technology, shared by her father Prince Albert, and horseback riding and boating, two of her favourite childhood occupations.

Matthew Fortune's father John had previously run Fortune's Tavern in Old Stamp Office Close in the High Street in the Old Town, a favourite of the upper classes.

Granvelle had a famous art collection, which partly featured the favourite artists of his Habsburg patrons, such as Titian and Leone Leoni, but also included a number of works by Pieter Brueghel, as well as a significant collection inherited from his father.

June 2010 Michael launched The Garden of Music and Memory in Culfadda, County Sligo the village his father left to seek a new life in America, part of this ceremony including Michael's speech and an impromptu performance of one of his father's favourite tunes can be heard at http :// www. podcasts. ie / michael-flatley-in-culfadda /

He was one of Liszt's favourite pupils ; after his death, he wrote a letter of sympathy to Reubke's father:

James was a great favourite of his father, and in 1456, at the age of 16, he was appointed to the archbishopric of Nicosia.

* Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine ( 31 March 1670 – 14 May 1736 ) favourite Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon, he was despised by the Princes of the Blood due to his constant honours and great wealth he accumulated from his father – as well as his illegitimacy ; he died at Sceaux aged 66 ;

He was given the names Rohan Jaivishwa by his father as a tribute to his 3 favourite cricketers-Rohan Kanhai ; M. L. Jaisimha ; and Rohan's uncle, Gundappa Vishwanath -