11 sentences with “heir”

Shortly afterwards, he died without naming an heir.

When Tiberius died, to the relief of the Roman populace, great hopes were pinned on his heir.

That heir was Gaius (r. 37 - 41 CE), much better known as "Caligula", which literally means "little boots".

When Anne Boleyn failed to produce a male heir in due course, Henry VIII trumped up charges of adultery and beheaded her.

Because he did not name an heir, Alexander the Great all but guaranteed that his empire would collapse when his generals turned on each other.

Its architect was Julius Caesar's heir, his great-nephew Octavian, to whom Caesar left (to the surprise of almost everyone) almost all his vast wealth.

Henry VIII decided that he needed a new wife and another chance at a male heir, so he began an affair with Anne Boleyn, a young noblewoman at his court.

His decision to make Commodus (Lucius Aurelius Commodus) his heir was due to a simple fact: Aurelius was the first of the Five Good Emperors to have a biological son who survived to adulthood.

In 34 BC, Mark Antony and Cleopatra declared that Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, was Caesar's heir (not Octavian's), and that their own twins would be rulers of the Roman provinces.

More assassinations followed, including those of the Duke of Guise and the King. The only heir to the throne was Henry of Navarre himself, as he had married into the royal family, so after a climactic battle in 1594 he was declared Henry IV of France.

a ruling dynasty that saw itself as the heir to all the dynasties of the past (whether Persian, Macedonian or Turkic) and, most importantly, the establishment of the Shi'ite ulama as the official religious authorities of the empire. In short, from the Safavid period onwards, Persia was the heartland of Shia Islam.