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How to use brother in a sentence

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The sheriff in the movie gets revenge on the dirty varmint who killed his brother.
He was not in the mood to put up with any nonsense from his little brother.
Even so, it is possible that Thorold, who appears in the Domesday Book as sheriff of Lincolnshire, was her brother.
Hereward took revenge on the Normans who killed his brother while they were ridiculing the English at a drunken feast.
Therefore, Henry VIII instructed Wolsey to watch Buckingham, his brother Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and three other peers.
On his deathbed, Edward had named his surviving brother Richard of Gloucester as Protector of England.
Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared.
Branwen and Matholwch marry, but when she becomes abused by Matholwch, her brother crosses the sea from Wales to Ireland to rescue her.
Arundel's brother Thomas Arundel, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was exiled for life.
He was a son of the painter and draughtsman Hans Holbein the Elder, whose trade he and his older brother, Ambrosius, followed.
Holbein the Elder ran a large and busy workshop in Augsburg, sometimes assisted by his brother Sigmund, also a painter.
His brother fades from the record at about this time, and it is usually presumed that he died.
The king's marriage in July 1543 to the reformist Catherine Parr, whose brother Holbein had painted in 1541, established Denny's party in power.
Now Henry refused to give Anjou to his brother because it would mean splitting his land in two.
Jan van Eyck, with his brother Hubert painted The Altarpiece of the Mystical Lamb.
He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti.
Subsequently, the question was again raised of Henry's oath to cede Anjou to his brother Geoffrey.
She also wrote metaphorically of Jesus in connection with conception, nursing, labour, and upbringing, but saw him as our brother as well.
Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow.
Of course you know that Carl Duruside, or 'Doctor Carl', as he is always called by almost anybody, is my husband's brother?
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As Sidney was a brother of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, the procession included 120 of his company brethren.
Thomas Hobbes, the younger, had a brother Edmund, about two years older, and a sister.
There were further plans of expansion considered as Henry II's last brother didn't have a fiefdom.
Johnson left for London with his former pupil David Garrick on 2 March 1737, the day Johnson's brother died.
Burke died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, on 9 July 1797 and was buried there alongside his son and brother.
Henry ordered him to hand Aquitaine to his brother, John, but Richard refused.
His sister Miriam, now a highschoolgirl, could not tear awkward eyes from the brother absence had changed so greatly.
Both John and George nursed their brother Tom, who was suffering from tuberculosis.
His brother Tostig and Harold Hardrada, King of Norway, attempted a takeover in the north, having won the Battle of Fulford.
He was a younger brother of Count William IX of Poitiers, Henry the Young King and Duchess Matilda of Saxony.
His elder brother Henry the Young King was crowned king of England during his father's lifetime.
Richard's brother John was not satisfied by this decision and started scheming against William.
The death of his brother John, also in 1805, affected him strongly and may have influenced his decisions about these works.
In 1080, William sent his son Robert Curthose north with an army while his brother Odo punished the Northumbrians.
At the age of fourteen, Mill stayed a year in France with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham.
When Russell was eleven years old, his brother Frank introduced him to the work of Euclid, which transformed his life.
Upon the death of his elder brother Frank, in 1931, Russell became the 3rd Earl Russell.
Elizabeth was less vivacious than her brother and her sisters, and apparently less advanced for her age.
Charlotte avoided boredom by following the development of Angria which she received in letters from her brother.
Meanwhile, her brother Branwell fell into a rapid decline punctuated by dramas, drunkenness, and delirium.
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Anne's health began to decline rapidly, like that of her brother and sister some months earlier.
Richard then set his affairs in order, bequeathing all his territory to his brother John and his jewels to his nephew Otto.
When she was 21, her brother Isaac married and took over the family home, so Evans and her father moved to Foleshill near Coventry.
By this time Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal Barca sought to cross the Alps into Italy and join his brother with a second army.
For some time, relations between Carrie and her brother Beatty Balestier had been strained, owing to his drinking and insolvency.
In 1885 Thomas and his wife moved into Max Gate, a house designed by Hardy and built by his brother.
Then in 1885, they moved for the last time, to Max Gate, a house outside Dorchester designed by Hardy and built by his brother.
During this period, he also enjoyed shooting, fishing and birdwatching with Jacintha's brother and sister.
Ida Blair's brother Charles Limouzin recommended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, East Sussex.
She could not recall his having schoolfriends to stay and exchange visits as her brother Prosper often did in holidays.
He and his brother Warnie created the world of Boxen, inhabited and run by animals.
In a 2005 interview, Douglas Gresham acknowledged that he and his brother were not close, but he did say that they are in email contact.
Tolkien, Nevill Coghill, Lord David Cecil, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and his brother Warren Lewis.
When he was three, he went to England with his mother and brother on what was intended to be a lengthy family visit.
Among his childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, son of King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall.
Edith replied that she had already accepted the proposal of George Field, the brother of one of her closest schoolfriends.
In 1754, Pelham died, to be succeeded by his elder brother, the Duke of Newcastle.
Ward sometimes stayed there, as did an old Bradford friend, Charles Douglas, and Delius's brother Ernest.
He returned to England, joined briefly by his brother for a holiday together in the Cotswolds.
The judges Sir Edward and Sir Roland Vaughan Williams were respectively Arthur's father and brother.
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After Tincomarus, the emperor Augustus chose to recognize his brother, Eppillus, as the next client king.
While he was in England, Henry's brother Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, led the English forces in France.
At four years of age her mother signed her and her elder brother up for ballet classes.
For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother Sydney were sent to live with their father, whom the young boys scarcely knew.
His elder brother was already a pupil, and Olivier gradually settled in, though he felt himself to be something of an outsider.
In January 1924, his brother left England to work in India as a rubber planter.
Myron Selznick also represented Olivier and when he met Leigh, he felt that she possessed the qualities that his brother was searching for.
Although christened Richard Henry, his parents called him Peter, after his elder stillborn brother.
Following Dafydd's death, Gwynedd was divided between Owain Goch and his younger brother Llywelyn.
This situation lasted until 1252 when their younger brother Dafydd ap Gruffudd reached his majority.
Yates grew up with his younger brother, Andrew, and elder sister, Beverley, in North West England.
He has an older brother, Matthew Francis Nolan, a convicted criminal, and a younger brother, Jonathan.
Then, the key figure was Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, brother of Louis XVI's Queen Marie Antoinette.
In 1995, both Ridley and his brother Tony received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema.
His elder brother, Frank, joined the British Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact.
I watched Jeb Bush as his brother spoke. He paid attention, grinned and laughed, even ad-libbed when called upon.
In 1995, Ridley and his brother Tony formed a production company, Scott Free Productions, in Los Angeles.
In 2009, the TV Series The Good Wife premiered with Ridley and his brother Tony credited as executive producers.
In 1995, Ridley and his brother Tony received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema.
He joined a revolt instigated by his brother Dafydd in 1282 in which he died in battle.
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Power struggles between Bedford, his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and their uncle Cardinal Beaufort hampered the English war effort.
Cassius Dio mentions Gnaeus Hosidius Geta, who probably led the IX Hispana, and Vespasian's brother Titus Flavius Sabinus the Younger.
By 1947 he was deemed ready by his brother to take over the mantle but lost the world final to the Scotsman Walter Donaldson.
In 1573, the king's brother, Henry, Duke of Anjou, was elected King of Poland.
If thou designest to be honest, methinkst thou sayst, Why should not Singleton's plot be over with thee, as it is with her brother?
Edith greatly supported her younger brother throughout his sporting achievements.
His father Ray was his manager, and manages Hatton's brother and fellow boxer Matthew Hatton.
Bermondsey might have been bad, but he, his brother and his sister were nice people from a nice family.
The death of the king's brother, in 1584, meant that the Huguenot King of Navarre had become heir presumptive to the throne of France.
Philip, Count of Poitiers, brother of Louis X, asserted that women were ineligible to succeed to the French throne.
Louis took full control of the company as the only remaining brother in 1906 when Fernand retired for health reasons.
Henry had left his brother and presumptive heir Thomas, Duke of Clarence in charge while he returned to England.
However, Shawar asserted his independence and allied with Baldwin's brother and successor Amalric of Jerusalem.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and his brother Lemoyne de Bienville founded Louisiana, Biloxi, Mobile and New Orleans.
Her first adultish memory is of a piercing desire, a hunger for her mother, father, and brother that is tinged with fear.
Constable worked in the corn business after leaving school, but his younger brother Abram eventually took over the running of the mills.
Her father acceded to the throne on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive.
When they returned, Clarence switched sides at the Battle of Barnet and Warwick and his brother were killed.
One of their leaders, Togodumnus, was killed, but his brother Caratacus survived to continue resistance elsewhere.
Richard's claim to the throne was based on the principle that the son of an elder brother had priority in the succession over his uncles.
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As commander of the Mercian army she worked with her brother, Edward the Elder, to win back the Mercian lands that were under Danish control.
This arrangement was seen as expedient, however, as Godwin had been implicated in the murder of Alfred, the king's brother.
The founder of the House of York was Edmund of Langley, the fourth son of Edward III and the younger brother of John of Gaunt.
According to Robert of Torigni, Henry discussed plans to invade Ireland and grant it to his brother William.
However, he had no right to do this under Gaelic law and he was opposed by Diarmait's brother Murchad.
The conquest of Gwynedd was completed with the capture in June 1283 of Dafydd, who had succeeded his brother as prince the previous December.
The chief mourners at the service at Hughenden on 26 April were his brother Ralph and nephew Coningsby, to whom Hughenden would eventually pass.
Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.
He made a bet with his brother that he could finish his chores first.
His older brother Tom played Gaelic football for Derry and is regarded as one of the county's best ever players.
Plautianus's excessive power came to an end in 204, when he was denounced by the Emperor's dying brother.
He was replaced in 1962 by his brother, Albert, who was defeated by Siaka Stevens in the 1967 general election.
It was founded in 1862 by Henry Isaac Rowntree, who was joined in 1869 by his brother the philanthropist Joseph.
Francisco Franco Suelves, his older brother, also opened Vamfield Alliance Limited in 1997 as a director.
Diacore is run by Daniel Steinmetz, but until recently his brother Beny Steinmetz had a power of attorney for the company.
He and his brother have a bet about who can finish his chores first.
The Mossack Fonseca documents do not name either prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or his younger brother, Punjab chief minister Shebaz Sharif.
The Panama Papers name Maryam as the joint owner with her brother Hussain of Coomber Group.
Samina Durrani, mother of Shebaz Sharif's second wife, and Ilyas Mehraj, brother of his first, also figure in the documents.
Alaa and his brother were convicted last year of embezzling state funds and still face trial for insider trading.
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However, four months after the marriage, Arthur died, leaving his younger brother Henry as heir apparent.
While his brother constructed the throat and larynx, Bell tackled the more difficult task of recreating a realistic skull.
From 1799 to 1807, the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.
George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant leaders in the movement.
When Nathaniel Gilbert died in 1774 his work in Antigua was continued by his brother Francis Gilbert to approximately 200 Methodists.
The family had not talked about their history and neither brother knew what had happened to the family left behind in Czechoslovakia.
At first, they were unenthusiastic about the novel, but Fleming's brother Peter, whose books they managed, persuaded the company to publish it.
Cape finally published it in 1953 on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother Peter, an established travel writer.
Hughes's sister Olwyn was two years older and his brother Gerald was ten years older.
In 1809 Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brother to move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there.
Barrie would say, to amuse them, that their little brother Peter could fly.
In October 1786, Mary and her father sailed from Campbeltown to visit her brother in Greenock.
My brother is king of the contradicks! You can't reason with them. It's like trying to talk to a magic 8 ball.
When my brother left for college, I inherited his old computer.
His brother, Charles, was alarmed by the ordinations and Wesley's evolving view of the matter.
The courtiers urged Gloucester to assume the role of Protector quickly, as had been previously requested by his now dead brother.
The duke had served Richard's brother for many years and had been one of Edward IV's closer confidants.
Initially the earl had issues with Richard III as Edward groomed his brother to be the leading power of the north.
Sir William's elder brother, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley, was not as steadfast.
Even though Lord Stanley had served as Edward IV's steward, his relations with the king's brother, the eventual Richard III, were not cordial.
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After Geoffrey's investment as duke, further rebellion occurred in Anjou, including Geoffrey's younger brother, Helie, demanding Maine.
Richard's marriage plans brought him into conflict with his brother George.
Although Richard III has been accused of having Edward and his brother killed, there is debate about their actual fate.
The executors chose Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, Jane Seymour's elder brother, to be Lord Protector of the Realm.
He made a dynastic marriage with Catherine of Aragon, widow of his brother Arthur, in June 1509, just before his coronation on Midsummer's Day.
Just before Edward VI's death, Mary was summoned to London to visit her dying brother.
Six years later, in about 594, Ceol was succeeded by a brother, Ceolwulf, who was succeeded in his turn in about 617 by Cynegils.
The details of his former behaviour towards Elizabeth emerged, and for his brother and the king's council, this was the last straw.
Elizabeth continued to maintain the diplomatic relations with the Tsardom of Russia originally established by her deceased brother.
The Austrians, led by Charles's younger brother Ferdinand, continued to fight the Ottomans in the east.
The founding of the sanctuary at Braurona is related to the myths of Iphigenia and her brother, Orestes.
He was his brother, Mark says. It comes into his head how much Faye loved songs. He had quite forgotten how much.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
Well sung brother, you have paid your debt in good coyn, we Anglers are all beholding to the good man that made this Song.
His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.
He later abdicated in favour of his brother Ecgric and retired to a monastery.
In 1653, Cromwell was passed over as a member of Barebone's Parliament, although his younger brother Henry was a member of it.
Offa's eventual successor, Coenwulf, reconquered Kent in 798, however, and installed his brother Cuthred as king.
Charles was succeeded by his brother, who became James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland.
In this state of emergency, Charles again overrode the City authorities and put his brother James, Duke of York in charge of operations.
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I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.
When Charles I was executed by the rebels in 1649, monarchists proclaimed James's older brother as Charles II of England.
She is succeeded by her brother, the Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex united in the person of King Edward.
James quarrelled with his brother over the diplomatic choice of Spain over France.
The king stands in your father's place, since your brother is an attainted traitor.
James worked harder as king than his brother had, but was less willing to compromise when his advisers disagreed.
The people thus incited, De Witt and his brother, Cornelis, were brutally murdered by an Orangist civil militia in The Hague on 20 August.
James was not inclined to consent, but Charles II pressured his brother to agree.
Said in French, 'This is a fine fermentation your brother has engifted us with.
The agent for both Francis Egerton and his older brother, who was now the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, was James Loch.
Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.
Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
The King had in 1791 offered him a Knighthood of the Garter, but he suggested the honour go to his elder brother, the second Earl of Chatham.
Soon afterwards, her brother Harold and her Danish cousin Beorn Estrithson, were also given earldoms in southern England.
In 1055 Siward died but his son was considered too young to command Northumbria, and Harold's brother, Tostig was appointed.
Alexander faced pressure from his brother, Duke Constantine, to make peace with Napoleon.
They nominated Morcar, the brother of Edwin of Mercia, as earl, and invited the brothers to join them in marching south.
In 1781, Arthur's father died and his eldest brother Richard inherited his father's earldom.
Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete.
Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture Seringapatam and defeat Tipu.
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Even though I know what happened with my brother was a freak accident, I wish I had made choices that would have led to a different outcome.
At the age of thirteen, he went on to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.
Robert became Duke of Normandy on 6 August 1027, succeeding his elder brother Richard III, who had only succeeded to the title the previous year.
My brother Basil was probably the most protective of me. He would be willing to wallop anyone with a knuckle sandwich who messed with me.
Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived in the area after graduating from Portsmouth Naval Academy.
The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother.
From September 1818, he joined his older brother Erasmus attending the nearby Anglican Shrewsbury School as a boarder.
He was fascinated by electricity, and he and his brother experimented by giving electric shocks to each other and to the family's servants.
Robert and his brother had been at odds over the succession, and Richard's death was sudden.
Robert was accused by some writers of killing his brother, a plausible but now unprovable charge.
Later, convinced by the advice of his brother and his own solicitor, Turing entered a plea of guilty.
Hawking has two younger sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward.
Penrose is the brother of physicist Oliver Penrose and of chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose.
My little brother Trevor was so giddy he finally got his blood wings today!
King Numitor was deposed by his brother, Amulius, while Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, gave birth to the twins.
Harold's claim to the throne was not entirely secure, however, as there were other claimants, perhaps including his exiled brother Tostig.
In that same year Caracalla had his brother, a youth, assassinated in his mother's arms, and may have murdered 20,000 of Geta's followers.
Then Harald the King was slain, and Leofwine the Earl, his brother, and Gyrth, and many good men, and the Frenchmen held the place of slaughter.
Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
A lengthy war of attrition, conducted on his behalf by his younger brother Ferdinand, continued for the rest of Charles's reign.
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He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Charles delegated increasing responsibility for Germany to his brother Ferdinand while he concentrated on problems elsewhere.
Some groaners are converted into running gags, as when Joel and his brother get in a duel of parting, one-last-thing-before-you-go affirmations.
Meanwhile, Anselm publicly supported Henry against the claims and threatened invasion of his brother Robert Curthose.
Then he cajoled with his brother, and persuaded him what service he had done him.
Henry and Becket had repeated disputes over issues such as church tenures, the marriage of Henry's brother, and taxation.
He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 2 March with his brother Charles.
My brother doesn't always do the right thing, but he has his heart in the right place.
Clare was for a while protected by the man's unreadiness to have words with his brother, who always took his wife's part.
By tradition the leaders who slew the king were Ivar the Boneless and his brother Ubba.
Richard's childless older brother Edward was killed at the Battle of Agincourt later the same year.
In 1173, Becket's sister Mary was appointed as abbess of Barking Abbey as reparation for the murder of her brother.
Sean, the older brother, was as mad as a fish, but he was also the one with the brains and together they were a very entrepreneurial family.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, plotted against his brother and was executed.
His younger brother Kumbhakarna was said to be as tall as a mountain and was quite good natured.
George wanted to move into the Ranger's House by the castle, but his brother, Henry was already living in it and refused to move out.
Fred gave his younger brother a five minute head start in the Easter egg hunt.
Rhys Lewis is the younger son in a poor family where the father is absent and the only source of income is what his older brother, Bob, earns as a coal miner.
May 20th, after dynner, I with my brother, Mr. Justice Yong, went to the Archebishop of Canterbury to Lambeth, abowt the personagis who used me well.
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
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In June 1940 at night-time the air-raid siren went, my father was at the docs so my mother told my elder brother to go down the steps ready for me to be handed to him.
And so longe dured there the batayle that Sir Bors sate up all angwyshlye and behylde Sir Collegrevaunce, the good knyght, that fought with his brother for his quarell.
Andrew Else was an aquaholic for 30 years, an inquest into his death heard. Yesterday his brother, Stephen, said he should not have been left alone near free-flowing water.
Dan's brother bought us a bottle of whisky and we got bombed.
Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.
My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
Kurt Fuehlen's brother, Helmut, waited at the basement doorway behind the cathedral, stomping his feet and clomping his mittened hands against his beefy arms.
The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
John became the donee of the bone marrow donated by his brother.
Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.
My nephew came up for the summer with my brother and co-uncle George.
Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.
Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.
I would like to thank my brother Onuora Nwosu, my grandcousin, Mr. Tony Ikebudu, and my brother-in-law, Mr. Emma Nnedum, for making that connection for me.
My little brother, he couldn't say Harriet. He called me 'Hassie'. 'Hassie' it's been ever since. I don't like it, but I giss nobody never had a name like it in the world.
Despite fulfilling his promise of filling one room with gold and two with silver, he was convicted for killing his brother and plotting against Pizarro, and was executed.
Cicero wrote letters to his friend Gaius Trebatius Testa and his brother Quintus, both of whom were serving in Caesar's army, expressing his excitement at the prospect.
However, if they showed treasonous inclinations, the Emperor did punish them with just force, as in the case of Polybius and Pallas' brother, Felix.
He wrote that Sabinus was Vespasian's lieutenant, but as Sabinus was the older brother and preceded Vespasian into public life, he could hardly have been a military tribune.
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Caracalla left with a punitive expedition, but by the following year his ailing father had died and he and his brother left the province to press their claim to the throne.
In 821, Coenwulf was succeeded by his brother Ceolwulf, who demonstrated his military prowess by his attack on and destruction of the fortress of Deganwy in Gwynedd.
Bram Stoker set his 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm in a contemporary Mercia that may have been influenced by Hardy, whose secretary was a friend of Stoker's brother.
His brother George turned traitor again, abandoning Warwick.
Aescwine's reign only lasted two years, and in 676 the throne passed back to the immediate family of Cenwealh with the accession of his brother Centwine.
In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild.
After the death of King Eadred in 955, England was divided between his two sons, with the elder Edwy ruling in Wessex while Mercia passed to his younger brother Edgar.
The unstated premise was that the surviving brother would be king.
Cnut's brother Harald may have been at Cnut's coronation, in 1016, returning to Denmark as its king, with part of the fleet, at some point thereafter.
Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
In 1036 Edward and his brother Alfred separately came to England.
In early 1066, Harold's exiled brother, Tostig Godwinson, raided southeastern England with a fleet he had recruited in Flanders, later joined by other ships from Orkney.
Meanwhile, the Danish king's brother, Cnut, had finally arrived in England with a fleet of 200 ships, but he was too late as Norwich had already surrendered.
In 1065 Northumbria revolted against Tostig, and the rebels chose Morcar, the younger brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, as earl in place of Tostig.
Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.
Harold's brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada invaded Northumbria in September 1066 and defeated the local forces under Morcar and Edwin at the Battle of Fulford near York.
Her rule, however, was contested by Robert, Baldwin's brother.
After William drowned in the wreck of the White Ship Fulk married another of his daughters, Sibylla, to William Clito, son of Henry I's older brother, Robert Curthose.
It originally allowed Henry's brother William some territory.
The pope offered Henry's brother Richard the Kingdom of Sicily, but the military cost of displacing the incumbent Emperor Frederick was prohibitive.
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John de la Pole's attainder meant that his brother Edmund inherited their father's titles, but much of the wealth of the duchy of Suffolk was forfeit.
Louis's alliance was joined by Henry's younger brother, Geoffrey, who rose in revolt, claiming that Henry had dispossessed him of his inheritance.
Geoffrey refused and returned to Anjou to rebel against his brother.
In January 1193, Richard's brother, John, was summoned to Paris, where he did homage to Philip for all of Richard's lands, and promised to marry Alys with Artois as her dowry.
Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
Richard knew that both Philip and his own brother John were starting to plot against him, and the morale of Saladin's army had been badly eroded by repeated defeats.
As a result, he was succeeded by his brother John as King of England.
The French King and his brother Charles of Anjou, who had made himself King of Sicily, decided to attack the emirate to establish a stronghold in North Africa.
To relieve Harfleur, Henry sent his brother, John of Lancaster, the Duke of Bedford, who raised a fleet and set sail from Beachy Head on 14 August.
Owain spent the remainder of his days a prisoner of his brother.
He retook Normandy from his brother at the first opportunity.
Edward IV's younger brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was appointed Protector, and escorted the young king, and his brother Richard, to the Tower of London.
Furious, Warwick tried first to supplant Edward with his younger brother George, Duke of Clarence, establishing the alliance by marriage to his daughter, Isabel Neville.
By 1469, Warwick had formed an alliance with Edward's jealous and treacherous brother George, who married Isabel Neville in defiance of Edward's wishes in Calais.
Edward was escorted to London by Warwick's brother George Neville, the Archbishop of York, where he and Warwick were reconciled, to outward appearances.
Warwick's brother John Neville, who had recently received the empty title Marquess of Montagu and who led large armies in the Scottish marches, suddenly defected to Warwick.
It has been argued that his supporting Tudor rather than either Edward V or his younger brother, showed Buckingham was aware that both were already dead.
She pleaded to her brother to let her return home, but he only sent a few agents who tried to assist in helping her situation and refused to let her return home.
Henry's uncle Jasper Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke and Edmund's younger brother, undertook to protect the young widow, who was 13 years old when she gave birth to Henry.
During Warwick's lifetime, George was the only royal brother to marry one of his daughters, the eldest, Isabel, on 12 July 1469, without the king's permission.
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Catherine Parr, Henry's widow, soon married Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and the brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.
In 1806, Napoleon dissolved the Batavian Republic and established a monarchy with his brother, Louis Bonaparte, on the throne as King of the Netherlands.
Edgar triumphed, sending his uncle and brother to monasteries.
After the reign of David I, the Scottish throne was passed according to rules of primogeniture, moving from father to son, or where not possible, brother to brother.
Dude, your girlfriend left you for your brother? That's jacked up.
In the latter half of 1660, Charles's joy at the Restoration was tempered by the deaths of his youngest brother, Henry, and sister, Mary, of smallpox.
He was educated by private tutors, along with his brother, the future King Charles II, and the two sons of the Duke of Buckingham, George and Francis Villiers.
Like his brother, James sought refuge in France, serving in the French army under Turenne against the Fronde, and later against their Spanish allies.
In September 1666, his brother Charles put him in charge of firefighting operations in the Great Fire of London, in the absence of action by Lord Mayor Thomas Bloodworth.
When Charles died in 1788 the Stuart claim to the throne passed to his younger brother Henry, who had become a Cardinal, and who now styled himself King Henry IX of England.
Marie Antoinette, the King's younger brother the Comte d'Artois, and other conservative members of the King's privy council urged him to dismiss Necker as financial advisor.
The family moved to Leicester Square, where George and his younger brother Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, were educated together by private tutors.
In 1770, his brother Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, was exposed as an adulterer, and the following year Cumberland married a young widow, Anne Horton.
The impact of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and ousting of the Spanish Bourbon monarchy in favor of his brother Joseph had an enormous impact on the Spanish empire.
In 1793, he sought her hand, but was turned down by her brother Thomas, Earl of Longford, who considered Wellesley to be a young man, in debt, with very poor prospects.
Empress Matilda was declared heir presumptive by her father, Henry I, after the death of her brother on the White Ship, and acknowledged as such by the barons.
His elder brother, David Miliband, still owns the house today.
He marketed the book with his brother Timothy, but unsuccessfully.
He had a brother two years younger than he was, Frederick Vernon Thomson.
In the absence of male relatives, an unmarried woman with no son could inherit not only property but also the position as head of the family from a deceased father or brother.

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