He was also adopted by Justin and thus became his appointed heir.

Mumia was appointed heir on the eve of his father's death.

He was the eldest son and appointed heir of the pharaoh.

He is Hard Master's most talented student and appointed heir of the clan leadership.

This table lists all heads of these houses, as well as some that were appointed heir but died before they became head of the house.

I am her appointed heir!"

His nephew and appointed heir, Fath Ali Shah, was his opposite in every way.

He claimed that he was appointed heir by Puyi, the Last Emperor of China.

Morriel watched, arranged in brittle stillness as her appointed heir arose in fervent grace and departed.

On his death John Gawsworth became both his literary executor and his appointed heir to the "kingdom".

Volle's second son, 16 year old Yilon, has been appointed heir of Lord Dewanne, recently deceased.

Stephen of Blois rushed to England upon learning of Henry's death and moved quickly to seize the crown from the appointed heir.

Even after Leslie Porter emerged as the successor Sir Jack could not stop clashing with his appointed heir - quite literally.

Otto was appointed heir of the allodial property of the Guelphs by his uncle Henry the Elder.

After Kubrat's death his empire was divided when his appointed heir Batbayan submitted to the Khazars.

Amun-her-khepeshef (20th dynasty), eldest son and appointed heir of Pharaoh Ramesses III.

Jean-Christophe Napoléon, Claimant (1997-present), son of Charles, appointed heir by his grandfather Louis.

Son of the previous caliph, Muhammad an-Nasir, the ten-year-old Yusuf was unexpectedly appointed heir by his father on his deathbed.

President Boris Yeltsin's 1996 re-election and the transfer of power to his appointed heir, Vladimir Putin, in 2000 were democratic in form but not in substance.

Following Stephen's death, his nephew Peter Urseolo (his appointed heir) and his brother-in-law Samuel Aba contended for the crown.

Edward VI was dying and his appointed heir was his cousin Lady Jane Grey, Northumberland's daughter-in-law.

As Empress Zewditu's reign progressed, the difference in outlook gradually widened between her and her appointed heir, Ras Tafari Makonnen.

The King also suggested that Prince Hassan, his appointed heir for 34 years, had opposed Hussein's wish that his own sons succeed his brother as King.

He was originally appointed heir to the childless Gisulf I of Salerno, who had been reinstated on his throne by Pandulf's father, Pandulf Ironhead.

The Pictish succession was not by primogeniture but by tanistry, a system in which the senior and fittest member of the same blood was appointed heir, frequently from the matrilineal side.