He was the younger brother of King Edgar, who was unmarried, and his brother's heir presumptive by 1104 ( and perhabs earlier ).

The current heir presumptive to the barony is Guest's younger brother, the actor The Hon.

Eleanor became the heir presumptive to her father's domains.

This changed the existing line of succession by displacing the heir presumptive, his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange, with young James as heir apparent.

Having borne only a female heir presumptive, it appeared that Ferdinand would be succeeded by his brother, Infante Carlos of Spain.

In 1680, the Exclusion crisis occurred due to widespread objections to a Catholic serving as the King of England, since James was the heir presumptive to Charles, who was the king at that time.

Henry of Navarre was the heir presumptive and now effective King of France, so when he converted to Catholicism he was recognised by both Catholics and Protestants as King Henry IV ( reigned 1589 – 1610 ).

Armed conflict broke out between John and Longchamp, and by October 1191 Longchamp was isolated in the Tower of London with John in control of the city of London, thanks to promises John had made to the citizens in return for recognition as Richard's heir presumptive.

Mary was playing cards when her husband informed her of her father's accession, and that she was heir presumptive.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, was forever changed by the assassination, on June 28, 1914, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

Marie Antoinette's situation became more precarious when, on 6 August 1775, her sister-in-law, the comtesse d ' Artois, gave birth to a son, the duc d ' Angoulême ( who later became the presumptive heir to the French throne when his father, the comte d ' Artois, became King Charles X of France in 1824 ).

Hence there was no heir apparent during the reign of George VI, who had no sons: Princess Elizabeth was heiress presumptive, and was hence not eligible to be titled Princess of Wales.

When his aunt, Anna's younger sister Elizabeth, became Empress of Russia she brought Peter from Germany to Russia and proclaimed him her heir presumptive in the autumn of 1742.

About the same time, in October 1742, he was chosen by the Swedish parliament to become heir presumptive to the Swedish throne.

However, the Swedish parliament was unaware of the fact that he had also been proclaimed heir presumptive to the throne of Russia, and when their envoy arrived in Saint Petersburg in November, it was too late.

As Edward was unmarried and had no children, Albert was the heir presumptive to the throne.

When Richard II was forced to abdicate the throne in 1399, Henry was not next in line to the throne ; the heir presumptive was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, who descended from Edward III's second son, Lionel of Antwerp.

The Duke of York was the heir-general of Edward III, and the heir presumptive ( due to agnatic descent ) of Henry's grandson Henry VI ( since Henry IV's other sons did not have male heirs, and the legitimated Beauforts were excluded from the throne ).

Richard made the boy his heir presumptive, probably in deference to Anne's wishes.

Edward of Warwick was described as " simple-minded ", and after Anne died, Richard promptly named another nephew — John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln — as his heir presumptive.

Therefore, four-year-old Francis ( who was already Count of Angoulême after the death of his own father two years prior ) became the heir presumptive to the throne of France and was vested with the title of Duke of Valois.

" In June 1714, Dowager Electress Sophia died in Caroline's arms at the age of 84, and Caroline's father-in-law became heir presumptive to Queen Anne.

One such charge is the label, which in British usage ( outside the Royal Family ) is now always the mark of an heir apparent or ( in Scotland ) an heir presumptive.

And a minister of all men is most conscious that he is mere man -- prone to the stresses that earthly humanity is heir to.

He is still heir to the rare gifts of space and silence, if he chooses to be.

* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.

King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir.

For example, an estate is granted to A for life, with remainder to the heir of B.

During B's lifetime, the remainder is in abeyance, for until the death of B it is uncertain who is B's heir.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

The last five chapters are exclusively concerned with land: instructions for the extermination of the Canaanites, the demarcation of the boundaries of the land, how the land is to be divided, holy cities for the Levites and " cities of refuge ", the problem of pollution of the land by blood, and regulations for inheritance when a male heir is lacking.

Boaz and Ruth get married and have a son named Obed ( who by Levirate customs is also considered a son or heir to Elimelech, and thus Naomi ).

Since there is no heir to inherit Elimelech's land, levirate custom required a close relative ( usually the dead man's brother ) to marry the widow of the deceased in order to continue his family line ( Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 10 ).

The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon.

Banquo's loyalty to Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, after Duncan's death makes him a passive accomplice in the coup: Malcolm, as Prince of Cumberland, is the rightful heir to the throne and Macbeth a usurper.

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

The main ' Colonna di Paliano ' family is represented today by Prince Marcantonio Colonna di Paliano, Prince and Duke of Paliano ( b. 1948 ), whose heir is Giovanni Andrea Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1975 ), and by Don Prospero Colonna di Paliano, Prince of Avella ( b. 1956 ), whose heir is Filippo Colonna di Paliano ( b. 1995 ).

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

He became heir after his older brother James renounced his rights to become a monk.

Along with his younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence when Emperor Seinei died without an heir.

According to the act of settlement of 1499, George's Protestant brother Heinrich was now heir prospective ; but George, disregarding his father's will, sought to disinherit his brother and to bequeath the duchy to Ferdinand, brother of Charles V. His sudden death prevented the carrying out of this intention.

Henry was also known as " Henry Beauclerc " ( because of his education — as his older brother William was the heir apparent and thus given the practical training to be king, Henry received the alternate, formal education ), worked hard to reform and stabilise the country and smooth the differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman societies.

His eldest son and heir Edward V, aged 13, would have succeeded him, but the king's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester declared his marriage to be bigamous and invalid, making all his children illegitimate.

Conrad's choice was conveyed by Duke Eberhard of Franconia, Conrad's brother and heir, at the Reichstag of Fritzlar in 919.

This sought to bar Prince Henry from both thrones by stipulating that if either King William or Duke Robert died without an heir, the two dominions of their father would be reunited under the surviving brother.

With no male heirs, he is currently to be succeeded as Duke of Gravina by his unmarried brother Benedetto ( b. 1956 ), then by his cousin Don Raimondo Orsini d ' Aragona ( b. 1931 ), whose heir is Don Lelio Orsini ( b. 1981 ).

Qusay's older brother Uday Hussein was viewed as Saddam's heir until he sustained serious injuries in a 1996 assassination attempt.

Later, Alexander I, facing prospect of a morganatic alliance of his brother and heir, added the requirement that consorts of Russian dynasts had to be of equal birth ( i. e., born to a royal or sovereign house ).

Aurangzeb, the third son, and ablest and most virile of the brothers, gathered a well trained army and became its in chief commander, he faced his elder brother and heir apparent Dara's army close to Agra and completely defeated him during the Battle of Samugarh.

* Yousaka Takahashi / David Qin-A gentle, sensitive art student, Yousaka is the younger brother of Darcy Parker and the unwilling heir to the Takahashi crime syndicate.

However, four months after the marriage, Arthur died, leaving his younger brother Henry as heir apparent.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

His given name was confused for that of his brother and heir, Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys ( 1798 – 1863 ), in the story.

William, younger brother and heir to Malcolm IV of Scotland, is betrothed to Lady Jeanette " Jenny " Avenel.