The first was Duchess Anna of Prussia, daughter of Duke John William's eldest sister, Marie Eleonore of Cleves.

The second was Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg, who was the son of Duke John William's second eldest sister, Anna of Cleves.

Duchess Anna of Prussia claimed Jülich-Cleves-Berg as the heir to the senior line, while Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg claimed Jülich-Cleves-Berg as Duke John William's eldest male heir.

William's father was Robert Pitt ( 1680 – 1727 ), the eldest son of Governor Pitt, who served as a Tory Member of Parliament from 1705 to 1727.

As well as promising a large sum of money, the ailing William agreed to his elder daughters marrying English nobles and, when the treaty was renewed in 1212, John apparently gained the hand of William's only surviving legitimate son, and heir, Alexander, for his eldest daughter, Joan.

William's final years were marked by difficulties in his continental domains, troubles with his eldest son, and threatened invasions of England by the Danes.

William's lands were divided after his death: Normandy went to his eldest son, Robert, and his second surviving son, William, received England.

After King William's death in 1087 Edgar supported William's eldest son Robert Curthose, who succeeded him as Duke of Normandy, against his second son, William Rufus, who received the throne of England as William II.

William's eldest surviving son, Aymer ( c. 1265 – 1324 ), succeeded to his father's estates, but was not formally recognized as Earl of Pembroke until after the death of his mother Joan in 1307.

William's eldest son Albert died at age 20 while attending the newly formed University of Michigan as a sophomore.

The crowns of Hanover and Great Britain, which had been in personal union since 1714, were separated in 1837 upon the death of King William IV: his niece Victoria inherited the British crown under male-preference primogeniture but, because of semi-Salic law, was ineligible to that of Hanover, which passed to William's eldest surviving brother, Ernest I.

William's wife, Maud, and eldest son, William, once captured, were murdered by King John, possibly starved to death while incarcerated at Windsor Castle and Corfe Castle in 1210.

William's eldest brother was General George Howe, who was killed just before the 1758 Battle of Carillon at Fort Ticonderoga.

William's eldest brother Thomas Canynges was Lord Mayor of London in 1456-7, having been elected Alderman for Aldgate ward in 1445, and was a Grocer.

It was William's will that his eldest son succeed him and his second son receive the principality of Capua.

A proposal to marry William's elder daughter Isabella to Andronikos, eldest son of Michael VIII, was strongly opposed by the Achaean nobility, who had no desire to come under Byzantine rule.

He was the eldest son of Raymond IV of Toulouse, and had ruled Toulouse since Raymond left on the First Crusade in 1095-although, between 1098 and 1100, he was dispossessed by his cousin Philippa and her husband Duke William IX of Aquitaine, who marched into Toulouse and captured it, before mortgaging it back to Bertrand in 1100 to fund Duke William's expedition to the Holy Land.

When in 1602 John William's son and successor Frederick William I died, the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar passed to his younger brother John II, while in 1603 Frederick William's eldest son John Philip in compensation received the newly created Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.

The family was continued by Sir William's eldest son, Erasmus ( b. 1502-d. 1540 ), whose son William succeeded to his grandfather's estates in 1554, and to those of his uncle Clement in 1597.

William's eldest brother, Colonel Samuel Wells, and his father-in-law, Frederick Geiger, were both at the Battle of Tippecanoe ; Geiger was wounded in the initial attack.

She was usually the first daughter in lists of William's children, and thus probably the eldest.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

One factor in William's favour was his marriage to Matilda of Flanders, the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders.

Waltheof was married to William's niece Judith, daughter of Adelaide, and a marriage between Edwin and one of William's daughters was proposed.

However, on William's death in 1417, a war of succession broke out between John and William's daughter Jacqueline of Hainaut.

Sir William's wife, Lady Elizabeth, was the daughter of Henry, 5th Lord FitzHugh and Lady Alice Neville.

Sometime around 1806, Martha Ogle and her brother, Peter Huskey, along with her daughter, Rebecca and her husband, James McCarter made the journey over the Indian Gap Trail to what is now Gatlinburg, where William's notched logs awaited them.

Lord Byron's son and heir ( also named William ) eloped with Juliana Byron, the daughter of William's brother John Byron.

The two brats together are much worse than either one singly: they both enjoy eating Smarties, but they cannot share a bowl of the multi-coloured sweet because Timmy likes blue Smarties and wants all the orange ones taken out, but William's daughter likes orange Smarties and wants all the blue ones taken out.

William Wilde was knighted in January 1864, but the family celebrations were short-lived, for in the same year Sir William and Lady Wilde were at the centre of a sensational Dublin court case regarding a young woman called Mary Travers, the daughter of a colleague of Sir William's, who claimed that he had seduced her and who then brought an action against Lady Wilde for libel.

Emma gave birth to Nelson's daughter Horatia, on 31 January 1801 at Sir William's rented home in Clarges Street, 23 Piccadilly, London.

Sir William's daughter Caroline received £ 26, 000 in trust, while his son Sir William Cameron Gull received the sum of £ 40, 000 and all the real estate.

William's mother was Matilda ( also called Edith ), the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland by Saint Margaret of Scotland.

With no clear male heir ( the obvious choice, William Clito, the son of Henry's older brother, was not favoured by the King ; Henry had an abundance of other nephews and illegitimate children, of whom his favoured nephew Stephen of Blois and illegitimate son Robert of Gloucester particularly stood out, but for various reasons none were chosen ), Henry designated his daughter, Matilda, dowager Holy Roman Empress, as his heiress, marrying her to William's brother-in-law Geoffrey V of Anjou, and forcing his Barons to swear to uphold her rights ; but on his death, the Barons reneged on their oaths on the grounds of coercion, and chose Henry's nephew, Stephen of Blois, prompting a period of English history known as The Anarchy.

Sir William's daughter Margaret married Murrough O ' Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin ; his son John was father of Arthur St Leger, created Viscount Doneraile in 1703.

By now William's daughter, Emily and his ward, Liocadia, were already in New Zealand.

Both William's brother John and his daughter Jacqueline claimed the county.

It remained in the de Ferrers family until 1445, when it passed to the Grey family after William's only surviving daughter married Edward Grey.

The Tories ' sole consolation was that the monarchs chosen were close to the main line of succession — William III was James II's nephew, and William's wife Mary was James's elder daughter.

William's daughter of his second marriage, Lady Eleanor Sinclair, married John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, a relative of the kings.

Ealdred at Whitsun 1068 performed the coronation of Matilda, William's wife.

A further blow was the death of Matilda, William's wife, on 2 November 1083.

Usually, this was a member of William's close family – frequently his half-brother Odo or his wife Matilda.

William's father, John Marshal, supported King Stephen when he took the throne in 1135, but in about 1139 he changed sides to back the Empress Matilda in the civil war of succession between her and Stephen which led to the collapse of England into " the Anarchy ".

Stigand was present at the coronation of William's queen, Matilda in 1068, although once more the ceremony was actually performed by Ealdred.

Edgar's niece Matilda of Scotland later married William's son Henry I, forming a link between the two dynasties.

* The Norman Romanesque Church of La Trinité, at the Abbaye-aux-Dames ( on the west side of the city ), was founded by William's wife, Matilda.