When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

When his eldest daughters died of consumption in 1825, Maria on 6 May and Elizabeth on 15 June, Charlotte and Emily were immediately brought home.

When David has become old and bedridden, Adonijah, his eldest surviving son and natural heir, declares himself king and worthy to marry Abishag.

When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl.

When he died the titles passed to his eldest son, the fourth Marquess.

When John I died, Henry's eldest brother, Edward became head of the castles council, and granted Henry a " Royal Flush " of all profits from trading within the areas he discovered as well as the sole right to authorize expeditions beyond Cape Bojador.

When the emperor Macrinus came to power, he suppressed the threat against his reign by the family of his assassinated predecessor, Caracalla, by exiling them — Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson Elagabalus — to their estate at Emesa in Syria.

When Reuben, the eldest, mentioned that they needed to bring Benjamin to Egypt to prove their word as honest men, their father became furious with them.

When Louis died in 1382, the Hungarian throne was inherited by his eldest surviving daughter Mary, under the regency of their Bosnian mother.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

When Shah Jahan became ill in 1658, Dara Shikoh ( Mumtaz Mahal's eldest son ) assumed the role of regent in his father's stead, which swiftly incurred the animosity of his brothers.

When Louis the Pious died in 840, his eldest son, Lothair I, claimed overlordship over his brothers ' kingdoms and supported the claim of his nephew Pepin II as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France.

When he died in the 1840s, his eldest son became King Paolo I.

When Frederick I retired in 1437, he compensated his incapable eldest son John with the Principality of Bayreuth while Frederick II assumed the government of Brandenburg.

When Ms. McLean died in 1947, she bequeathed the diamond to her grandchildren through a will which insisted that her former property would remain in the custody of trustees until the eldest child had reached 25 years of age.

When his wife gives birth to their firstborn son, they name him after Benjamin's late eldest son, Gabriel.

When Mao's eldest son was killed in the Korean War, his widow accused Jiang of feeling " immense ecstasy ".

When they died, the holding normally passed to their next heir-who might be the eldest son / daughter ( primogeniture ); or youngest son / daughter ( Borough English or ultimogeniture ); or a division between children ( partible inheritance ), depending upon the custom of that particular manor.

When Ralph de Neville died in 1425, his lands and titles should, by law of rights, have passed on to his eldest surviving son from his first marriage, another Ralph Neville.

When summoned to fight at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, Thomas Stanley stayed aloof from the battle, even though his eldest son, George Stanley ( styled Lord Strange ), was held hostage by Richard.

* When Sir George Stonhouse, 1st Baronet was made a baronet, the remainder specifically excluded his eldest son.

When Odin ( speaking under the assumed name Gagnrad ) asks who was the eldest of the Æsir or of the giants in bygone days, Vafþrúðnir answers:

When still a girl, she was briefly in the retinue of Anne de Beaujeu, eldest sister of King Charles VIII, a capable and highly intelligent woman who held the regency of France during his minority.

When he died in the 1840s, his eldest son became King Paolo I.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

When Othon's period of quarantine ends, he elects to stay in the camp as a volunteer because this will make him feel less separated from his dead son.

When Charlemagne sent his young son Pepin to Italy as King of the Lombards Angilbert went along as primicerius palatii, a high administrator of the satellite court.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

When his brother and his infant son died, Andrew ascended the throne and started to grant royal domains to his partisans.

When Valdemar died in 1182, his son succeeded him as Canute VI, and Absalon served as Canute VI's counsellor.

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

When his son Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988, he was entombed in a separate mausoleum in nearby Touliao ( 頭寮 ).

When they were together one day on the Acropolis of Athens, Perdix was asking Daedalus about his son who had died, Icarus.

When the news of the victory is brought to David, he does not rejoice, but is instead shaken with grief: " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

When Danny did return to New York, his father did not pressure him to return to school or to get a job, giving his son the chance to mature and discover his own abilities.

When Aedon discovered this was indeed her sister, she chopped up Polytekhnos ' son and fed him to Polytekhnos.

When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she does not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive.

When Ahab hears this he repents to such a degree that God relents in punishing Ahab but will punish Jezebel and their son — Ahaziah.