And how many of these were sons??

Gladden's wife and two of his sons, John, 17, and Jim, 13, were inside the house.

Oracles were also given by sons of Apollo.

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

The sons of Bor then constructed Asgard ( to be identified with Troy, Snorri insists in section 9 ) as a home for the Æsir, who were divinities.

The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

In 29, Agrippina and her sons Nero and Drusus, were arrested on the orders of Tiberius.

Agrippina and her sons were put on trial by the Roman Senate.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

His first wife was the widow of his patron Damas by whom he had two sons: Archagathus and Agathocles, whom they were both murdered in 307 BC.

Amalric and Guy were sons of Hugh VIII of Lusignan, who had himself campaigned in the Holy Land in the 1160s.

Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

The sons ' names were Agathyrnus, Astyochus, Androcles, Iocastus, Pheraemon, Xuthus, whereas the daughters are not mentioned at all.

Fruit still life with shells painted by Balthasar van der Ast. His sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.

Her sons, Mar Ukba and Nehemiah, were considered types of the highest aristocracy.

There was a great deal of freedom of interaction between the groups: for example, Sarah, the granddaughter of the Visigoth king Wittiza, married a Muslim man and bore two sons who were later counted among the ranks of the highest Arab nobility.

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and three of his sons are said to have landed at a place called Cymensora and fought against the local Britons.

-- Hergeir, the faithful servant of the Lord, was angry with them and said, -- " They will lead away your wives and sons as captives, they will burn our city ( urbs ) and town ( vicus ) and will destroy you with the sword --"" ( Chapter XIX )

He first summoned his sons, and in their presence said, " Who will suffer most because of my death?

Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, " The Lord has not chosen these .” So he asked Jesse, " Are these all the sons you have?

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

The Canaanite pantheon consisted of El and Asherah as the chief deities, with 70 sons who were said to rule over each of the nations of the earth.

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.

The Morrígan's name is also said to be Anand, and she had three sons, Glon, Gaim, and Coscar.

One of Larsson's sons said that the ransom was not paid.

He is said to have left seven sons and six daughters including:

It is said that he had to watch as his sons were executed in front of his eyes.

Abdi-heba's principle trouble arose from persons called Iilkili and the sons of Labaya, who are said to have entered into a treasonable league with the Habiri.

Elam (; ע ֵ יל ָ ם ) in the Hebrew Bible ( Genesis 10: 22, Ezra 4: 9 ;) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah.

He had three sons: Prince Yuan Keding, who was handicapped and deemed an " idiot " by his father ; Prince Yuan Kewen, who was said by his father to be a ' fake scholar ', and Prince Yuan Keliang, whom Yuan Shikai called a " bandit ".

The taniwha Araiteuru is said to have arrived in New Zealand with the early voyaging canoes and her eleven sons are credited with creating the various branches of the Hokianga Harbour ( Orbell 1995: 184-185 ).

This piece came from a challenge from one of his sons, who pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said ; " I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?

It is said that the deposed emperor was forced to watch his six sons executed before his eyes, before he was beheaded himself.

Here it is said that Michal " brought up " " bare " these five sons, either that she treated them as if she had been their own mother, or that for " Michal " we should read " Merab ", as in 1 Sam.

His sons are said to have escaped up the nearby mountain and thrown the Cumbrian crown jewels into Grisedale Tarn before being themselves captured, blinded and castrated by the victorious English.