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Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.
Andronicus was himself a son of Theodora Komnene Angelina, the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, by his first wife, Osburh.
Andrew had to make peace with the Prince of Novgorod and he also engaged his youngest son, Andrew with one of his opponent's daughter.
In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.
In 1229, Prince Danylo of Halych expelled Andrew's youngest son from his principality, while Frederick II, Duke of Austria started to attack the western borders of the kingdom in 1230.
In the autumn of 1234, Prince Danylo laid siege to the capital of Andrew's youngest son who died during the siege.
His youngest son, Mahomed Omar Jan, was born in 1889 of an Afghan mother, connected by descent with the Barakzai family.
The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.
In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.
Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son ( but fifth child in order of birth ) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony, and Margarete of Austria, sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.
* Johann Christian Bach, a classical composer and 11th youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach
The Qur ' an, in the narrative of Joseph, refers to Benjamin as the righteous youngest son of Jacob.
Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.
His youngest son, Philip, stayed with him and fought at his side in the final phase of the battle.
* Prince Philip, the King's youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy, captured
Froissart again gives us a vivid description of the capture of King Jean II and his youngest son in this passage: " ...
John W. Haley, his eldest son, wrote Sound and Glory, a biography of Haley, while his youngest daughter, Gina Haley, is a professional musician based in Texas.
His youngest son Pedro is also a musician.
The genre evolved from folklore tales of a dunce or youngest son going out in the world to seek his fortune.
Clausewitz was born on June 1, 1780 in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, the fourth and youngest son of a middle-class family.
Constans was the third and youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, his father's second wife.

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He was the youngest son of William the Conqueror.
Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.
Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.
Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.
His mother was Charlotte, youngest daughter of William Baird of Newbyth.
He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.
His youngest daughter, Eleanor, married William Marshal's son, also called William, and later the famous English rebel Simon de Montfort.
William Pitt the Younger, the youngest ever British Prime Minister and alumnus of the College
In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became President at the age of 42 ; he remains the youngest president.
He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth.
According to his father's desire that his youngest son should choose a < em > gentleman's </ em > vocation, William, after his graduation from high school, entered the Cayuga County National Bank of Auburn as a clerk, where he spent long hours adding numbers.
He is succeded by his youngest son, William I of Sicily
" He therefore set himself up in rivalry with John Lackland, youngest son of Henry II, and supported by Philip Augustus of France, and aided by William des Roches, seneschal of Anjou, he managed to enter Angers ( 18 April 1199 ) and there have himself recognized as count of the three countships of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, for which he did homage to the king of France.
The youngest son, William M. Daley, was President Obama's former White House Chief of Staff and former US Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton.
Relations between Henry and his youngest brother, William X, Count of Poitou, were more cordial, and William was given vast estates in England.
* Henry William Wilberforce ( 1807 1873 ), the youngest son of William Wilberforce, Catholic convert, journalist and author
* Logan Lerman as William Martin: Benjamin's fifth and youngest son, he is often seen being taken care of by his sister, Margaret.
* Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ( 1854 1930 ), Home Secretary 1905 1910 and Governor-General of South Africa 1910 1914 ; youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone
# Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke ( 1197 27 June 1241 ), married ( 1 ) Marjorie of Scotland, youngest daughter of King William I of Scotland ; by an unknown mistress he had one illegitimate daughter:
He was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick Henry ( Dutch: Frederik Hendrik ), youngest son of William I. Maurits urged his successor on his deathbed to marry as soon as possible.

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