Quotes About Dynasty

Henry III (1207–1272) was the son and successor of King John, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death.

This pattern of the sickly wife and the autocratic, headstrong husband would be repeated in the life of their son Pierpont.

Epifania's first order was the most ancient wish of dynasts: that Carmen must conceive a male child, a king-in-waiting through whom his loving mother and grandmother would rule. Carmen, realising in her bitter consternation that this very first instruction would have to be disobeyed, lowered her eyes, muttered, 'Okay, Epifania Aunty, wish is my command,' and fled the room.

The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York

All he had wanted, for most of his long reign, was a son to succeed him. For that he had married six times. Would he be proud to see her now, seated in this chair of estate he had once occupied? She hoped so. She

From his mother, Philip inherited the Burgundian possessions. But a few years after Philip's marriage, his wife Joanna, daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand, inherited not only Castile, but Aragon, Sicily, Naples, America, and the Indies. So when Charles V came of age, he inherited from his father, his mother, and his grandparents a great empire. He was, at once, prince of the Netherlands, king of a united Spain, and emperor of Germany.

now called Alexander Helios (Greek "Sun") and Cleopatra Selene ("Moon").

Her co-monarch, Ptolemy XV Caesar, was the son whom she claimed, almost certainly truthfully, to have had by Julius Caesar.

produced two sons, "an heir and a spare." (Two daughters, Julia and Agrippina

he married Atia, a member of the Julian family.

See, our country has certain problems. Certain psychological problems. We are dynasty lovers. We love the fact that this guy comes from this family and we start giving them concessions.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But

I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. You must remember that he was an emperor, father-head of a dynasty that reached back into the dimmest history. But we denied him a legal son. Was this not the most terrible defeat a ruler ever suffered? My mother obeyed her Sister Superiors where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the stronger? History already has answered.

In the absence of the principle of hereditary rule

Archimedes of Syracuse, a friend and kinsman of the ruling dynasty

224 CE, a new Persian dynasty, the Sassanids, came to power.

the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8

were in charge and known as the Antigonids.

Philip ('Horse-Loving'), Cleopatra ('Father's Fame'), Ptolemy ('Warlike

The dynasty he founded, the Mauryans, would go on to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent.

Instantly Mehmet had clarified the practice of Ottoman succession, which he was later to codify as a law of fratricide: "whichever of my sons inherits the sultan's throne, it behooves him to kill his brother in the interest of the world order.

By the middle of the eleventh century a Turkish dynasty, the Seljuks, had emerged as sultans in Baghdad, and by its end the Islamic world, from Central Asia to Egypt, was largely ruled by Turks.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.