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Wills, successions and estate fights from 500 to 1500, newest first.

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How were estates passed on, 500 to 1500?

A defect in title surfaces at the worst moment; William's heirs paid for his grave plot during the funeral. A ruler killed in a succession war may have no grave his heirs control, and tradition can mark a tomb for centuries that holds nothing.

Stories
197
Main regions
Europe, East Asia, Middle East
Main subjects
Medieval Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia, Russia and Byzantium
Legal traditions
Royal and church law, Common law
Updated
30 October 2026

Every story, 500 to 1500

  1. 1495Mehmed II's younger son lost the throne to his brother and spent 13 years as a paid captive of the Knights of Rhodes, the Pope and the King of FranceEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  2. 1492Lorenzo de' Medici took 53,643 florins from his cousins' inheritance, and two years after his death Florence seized the insolvent Medici bankcambridge.org and 5 more
  3. 1490A childless shogun adopted his brother as heir in 1464, then his wife bore a son, and the quarrel burned Kyoto for 11 yearskotobank.jp and 3 more
  4. 1487Queen Charlotte of Cyprus lost her throne to her father's illegitimate son and signed her crowns of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia over to Savoymedievalists.net and 3 more
  5. 1485Richard III's bones were found under a car park, and his distant relatives sued the government over where to bury himle.ac.uk and 1 more
  6. 1485Malory says Uther's heir was raised in secret, the lords refused the boy who pulled the sword, and the common people made him kingProject Gutenberg and 3 more
  7. 1483Parliament declared Edward IV's sons illegitimate, they vanished in the Tower, and two child skeletons found in 1674 have never been DNA-testedwestminster-abbey.org and 3 more
  8. 1481A Turkish court ruled in 2020 that Mehmed II's endowment deed still bound Hagia Sophia as a mosque, while an Armenian foundation could not recover its confiscated Istanbul innharvardlawreview.org and 2 more
  9. 1478Florence seized the Pazzi bank's property the day after the cathedral murder and ordered the family's name and arms erased foreverTreccani and 2 more
  10. 1477Charles the Bold died at Nancy, the King of France seized Burgundy from his 19-year-old heiress, and her marriage gave the Netherlands to the Habsburgsdeutsche-biographie.de and 2 more
  11. 1476Vlad III Dracula's head was sent to the sultan, and the grave at Snagov opened in 1933 held no bodyresearch.library.kutztown.edu and 5 more
  12. 1476Perchta of Rožmberk was married off for money in 1449, refused her dying husband's plea for forgiveness, and the legend made her the White Ladyencyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz and 2 more
  13. 1475Colleoni left Venice 100,000 ducats for a statue of himself in Piazza San Marco; Venice took the money and put the statue in front of the Scuola di San MarcoTreccani and 2 more
  14. 1472The chronicles say Nezahualcóyotl had his bride's betrothed killed in battle, executed their son for treason, and named a 7-year-old heir on his deathbeddocs.enriquedussel.com and 2 more
  15. 1471The dead Inca kings kept their palaces, servants and estates, and the Spanish seized their mummies in 1559 and lost them in a Lima hospitalInternet Archive and 5 more
  16. 1467The Teutonic Knights could not pay their mercenaries, so the mercenaries sold the Order's capital, Marienburg, to the King of Poland in 1457deutsche-biographie.de and 2 more
  17. 1459John Paston claimed Sir John Fastolf's lands under a deathbed spoken will, and the Duke of Norfolk besieged Caister Castle to take themthisispaston.co.uk and 4 more
  18. 1457Danjong's uncle took his throne, and three Joseon records give three accounts of how the 16-year-old died in exileencykorea.aks.ac.kr and 2 more
  19. 1456Jacques Coeur financed Charles VII's war, then the king charged him with poisoning the royal mistress and confiscated everythingWikisource (primary text) and 2 more
  20. 1455Gutenberg's investor sued him in 1455 while the Bible was being printed, and Soviet officers carried one of the Bibles to Moscow in 1945gutenberg-gesellschaft.de and 2 more
  21. 1450Kyoto Imperial University took bones from a Ryukyuan royal tomb, descendants sued for them, and the university gave them to the village in 2025 on condition they never be buriedryukyushimpo.jp and 4 more
  22. 1450The Gest of Robyn Hode says a knight pledged his lands to an abbot for £400 and Robin paid the debt; a 1598 play made Robin an earl robbed by his uncleboldoutlaw.com and 4 more
  23. 1449Ulugh Beg kept back his son's share of the treasury, and the son defeated him, had him sentenced, and let the emirs kill him on the road to Meccaislamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 2 more
  24. 1443Zeami lost his son and the leadership of his Noh troupe to the shogun's favourite, and was exiled to Sado at about 72the-noh.com and 2 more
  25. 1441Sejo dug up Queen Hyeondeok's tomb after her son's fall; the legend says her coffin was thrown into the sea, and her rank came back 56 years laterih.snu.ac.kr and 2 more
  26. 1440Gilles de Rais sold his castles to the Duke of Brittany, seized a priest in church, and was hanged; his heirs then claimed the lands backfamous-trials.com and 1 more
  27. 1439A lady-in-waiting stole the Holy Crown of Hungary in 1440 so a baby born hours later could be crowned kinggermanhistorydocs.org and 5 more
  28. 1438Sarmiento records that Inca Viracocha named his illegitimate son Urco heir, fled the Chanca attack, and died stripped of his property after his other sons killed UrcoInternet Archive and 2 more
  29. 1431Joan of Arc's mother sued to clear her daughter's name, and in 1456 the church declared the 1431 trial nullarchive.joan-of-arc.org and 2 more
  30. 1430Polish lords stopped the crown sent for Vytautas in 1430, he died uncrowned, and his grave in Vilnius Cathedral has never been foundold.lituanus.org and 2 more
  31. 1428A Highland family kept St Fillan's crozier for 500 years, took it to Canada, and sold it back to Scotland for $500journals.socantscot.org and 3 more
  32. 1426A Hanseatic merchant was jailed for debt in Bruges for years, died weeks after release, and his widow was sued out of her housedeutsche-biographie.de and 2 more
  33. 1426Tezozómoc named one son heir; another son took the throne and killed him, and the cities he had ruled destroyed Azcapotzalcoisabelbueno.es and 2 more
  34. 1425Moscow's grand prince was blinded by his cousin in 1446, after his mother tore a disputed gold belt from another cousin at his weddingru.wikisource.org and 3 more
  35. 1424Japan's Southern Court gave up the sacred regalia in 1392 on a promise to share the throne, the promise was broken, and loyalists stole the jewel back in 1443kotobank.jp and 5 more
  36. 1424Two princes of Ayutthaya killed each other on elephants in 1424, and looters robbed their crypt in 1957vajirayana.org and 2 more
  37. 1423An emperor gave Nuremberg the crown jewels "for permanent custody" in 1423; Vienna took them in 1800, Hitler took them back, and an American found them walled in a bunkertext-message.blogs.archives.gov and 3 more
  38. 1423Richard Whittington left no children and his fortune to London; his executors rebuilt Newgate prison and founded almshouses that still operatethe-orb.arlima.net and 2 more
  39. 1418Nicolas Flamel left his property to his Paris parish church, a 1612 book made him an alchemist, and treasure hunters ransacked his house for golduniversalis.fr and 3 more
  40. 1410The merchant of Prato rewrote his will five weeks before he died and left 100,000 florins to the poor, under the town's controlTreccani and 4 more
  41. 1409France's grand master was beheaded and hung at Montfaucon; his son won back his name and body, then died at Agincourtherodote.net and 4 more
  42. 1407A royal in-law took Vietnam's throne from his own grandson in 1400, and China invaded claiming to restore the true heirzh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  43. 1406Two heirs of Majapahit went to war, 170 Ming soldiers died in the crossfire, and China billed the winner 60,000 liang of goldjv.wikisource.org and 5 more
  44. 1405Soviet scientists opened Timur's tomb on 19 June 1941 over the objections of Samarkand's clerics, and the keeper who read out its warning was ordered arrestedEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  45. 1405Timur's will named a grandson in Kandahar, but another grandson took Samarkand and the treasury firstEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  46. 1401Hamburg beheaded the pirate Störtebeker, legend put his gold in a church spire, and a skull said to be his was stolen from the city museum in 2010historynewsnetwork.org and 2 more
  47. 1398The Yongle Emperor took his nephew's throne in 1402, and the deposed emperor's two-year-old son was held for 55 yearszh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  48. 1393The last king of Armenia was ransomed from Cairo, made lord of Madrid for life, and his title passed to the kings of Cypruspublications.gov.cy and 5 more
  49. 1379The History of Ming says a rich man paid for a third of Nanjing's walls, offered to pay the emperor's army, and was exiled to Yunnanzh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  50. 1374Venice gave Petrarch a house for his library, the library went to his enemies' heirs and then to France, and the skull in his tomb is a woman'sbnf.fr and 4 more
  51. 1362Tradition says Pedro the Cruel took the "Black Prince's Ruby" from a Granadan sultan he killed with his own lance; it is a spinel in the front of Britain's crowngia.edu and 4 more
  52. 1361Plague estates paid for Sultan Hasan's Cairo mosque, a minaret fell and killed about 300, and the sultan was murdered and never buried in his tombmadainproject.com and 2 more
  53. 1355Venice beheaded Doge Marino Faliero in 1355, seized his palace, painted a black shroud over his portrait, and later voided his widow's willhistorywalksvenice.com and 3 more
  54. 1349A Jewish moneylender's silver lay under his Erfurt cellar from the 1349 massacre until archaeologists found it in 1998juedisches-leben.erfurt.de and 3 more
  55. 1343Edward III did not repay the Bardi and Peruzzi, and both Florentine banks failed in the 1340sbritish-history.ac.uk and 4 more
  56. 1343King Robert's will left Naples to Joanna, her husband was strangled, and she sold the city of Avignon to the pope while the murder was examinedTreccani and 3 more
  57. 1340The sultan had his viceroy of Syria arrested, killed and stripped of his fortune; three years later the viceroy's grandson was sultan and his body came home to Damascussussex.ac.uk and 2 more
  58. 1331Serbia's King Milutin ordered his son blinded, and that son was later deposed by his own son and died in prison at Zvečan in 1331tib.oeaw.ac.at and 3 more
  59. 1330Edward III hanged Roger Mortimer without a trial and took his lands, and Mortimer's grandson won them back in 1354Wikisource (primary text) and 2 more
  60. 1330Korean thieves stole a Buddha from a Japanese island temple, a Korean temple claimed pirates had stolen it first, and Korea's Supreme Court sent it backculturalpropertynews.org and 2 more
  61. 1328France kept two kings' daughters off the throne, passed over Edward III, and later cited a Frankish land rule to justify itavalon.law.yale.edu and 4 more
  62. 1324Marco Polo's son-in-law kept his daughter's third of the Polo estate, and she won it back in court 42 years laterhistorywalksvenice.com and 7 more
  63. 1324Mansa Musa said he took Mali's throne because his predecessor sailed into the Atlantic and never came backcambridge.org and 6 more
  64. 1321Florence demanded Dante's bones for 200 years; friars took them out of the tomb, and a worker found them in 1865Wikipedia (English)
  65. 1316Malik Kafur read out a will that made a six-year-old sultan of Delhi, blinded the heirs, and was beheaded 35 days laterInternet Archive and 1 more
  66. 1315Philip IV's treasurer was hanged on the Montfaucon gallows he had built, and the king who let him hang left legacies to his childrenEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  67. 1314Philip IV arrested every Templar in France in one morning, the pope gave their property to the Hospitallers, and the Hospitallers paid the king 200,000 livresblogs.loc.gov and 3 more
  68. 1308One Templar said under torture in 1308 that he saw a brother leading 50 horses and heard of 18 galleys, and that is the only medieval source for a Templar treasure fleetjasoncolavito.com and 2 more
  69. 1300In the Yuan play The Chalk Circle, a wife poisons her husband and claims his concubine's son to take the fortune, and Judge Bao tests the two motherswww2.kansai-u.ac.jp and 2 more
  70. 1297A Colonna cardinal kept his brothers' lands, the pope razed Palestrina in the fight, and a Colonna seized the pope at AnagniTreccani and 2 more
  71. 1296Edward I took Scotland's coronation stone in 1296; four students took it back on Christmas Day 1950 and broke it in twoperthmuseum.co.uk and 4 more
  72. 1290Sultan Qalawun built Cairo's great hospital with forced labour after a vow in a Damascus hospital funded by a captured European king's ransomegymonuments.gov.eg and 3 more
  73. 1275A widowed nun rode from Kyoto to Kamakura in 1279 to sue her stepson for her son's estate, and her son's family still owns the archive she fought forkotobank.jp and 5 more
  74. 1275Nun Abutsu travelled to Kamakura in 1279 to claim her son's inheritance, died waiting, and the case ended 30 years lateredizionicafoscari.unive.it and 3 more
  75. 1268Conradin, the last legitimate Staufer, willed his lands to his Bavarian uncles and was beheaded in Naples at 16de.wikisource.org and 2 more
  76. 1259When Möngke died at a siege, two of his brothers were proclaimed Great Khan in the same year and fought for four yearszh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  77. 1258Hulagu took Baghdad and killed the last Abbasid caliph in 1258, chroniclers gave seven different deaths, and a surviving kinsman was made caliph in Cairocambridge.org and 3 more
  78. 1256The last lord of Alamut surrendered to the Mongols in 1256, the Persian historian Juvayni burned the castle's library, and the imam was killed on his way home from the Khaniis.ac.uk and 3 more
  79. 1250The Völsunga saga says Fafnir killed his father for a cursed gold hoard and refused his brother any sharemorrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu and 3 more
  80. 1250Six men leased Spiro's burial mound for $300 from the guardian of the heirs, tunnelled in, sold the grave goods worldwide, and tried to blow up the restokhistory.org and 2 more
  81. 1249Shajar al-Durr hid the death of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub in 1249, became sultan after his heir was killed, and was beaten to death in 1257engelsbergideas.com and 3 more
  82. 1248Ögedei named a grandson as heir, two widows put other men on the throne, and Möngke executed the grandson's mother for sorceryzh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  83. 1247The Pararaton says a smith cursed the kris that killed him, and that it killed three rulers of Singhasari in turnInternet Archive and 3 more
  84. 1246The last Babenberg duke died without sons in 1246, his widowed sister of about 47 married a 19-year-old Ottokar and handed him her title deeds, and he divorced herdeutsche-biographie.de and 3 more
  85. 1244Henry III took a third of David of Oxford's estate in 1244 and held his widow Licoricia in the Tower until it was settledmajw.uvic.ca and 5 more
  86. 1238A bankrupt emperor of Constantinople pawned the Crown of Thorns to Venetian lenders, and a fire chaplain carried it out of burning Notre-Damenewadvent.org and 4 more
  87. 1236Sultan Iltutmish named his daughter Razia heir over his sons; the nobles crowned a son, and the people of Delhi put her on the throneInternet Archive and 1 more
  88. 1229Monks scraped Archimedes off the page in 1229, a Paris family kept the book in a damp cellar, and a judge let them sell it hours before a church's claim could stop itarchive.archaeology.org and 4 more
  89. 1227Genghis Khan's sons fought over the eldest son's birth before he named a successor, and his grave was never recordedzh.wikisource.org and 5 more
  90. 1226Vietnam's only reigning empress was made to hand the throne to her child husband in 1225, and the chronicle says the Lý clan was buried alive in 1232zh.wikisource.org and 7 more
  91. 1224The Sundiata epic says the king wanted his crippled son to rule, the council crowned his half-brother, and the exiled son came back to found Malibu.edu and 2 more
  92. 1222The Church gave Raymond VI's county to the crusade leader and refused his body burial, and his granddaughter's childless marriage handed Toulouse to Francenewadvent.org and 4 more
  93. 1220Mapungubwe's royal dead were dug up in 1933 and reburied on their hill in 2007, but the gold rhinoceros stayed in a university museumrepository.up.ac.za and 7 more
  94. 1219The shogun's nephew killed him on the shrine steps in 1219 to avenge his father, and the Minamoto line of shoguns ended that nightkotobank.jp and 3 more
  95. 1213Georgia's King George III had no son and crowned his daughter Tamar co-ruler, and the place of her grave is still disputedgeorgianencyclopedia.ge and 3 more
  96. 1205Venice took four bronze horses from Constantinople in 1204, Napoleon took them and Veronese's Wedding at Cana in 1797, and in 1815 only the horses went homehaaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu and 4 more
  97. 1200The Nibelungenlied says Hagen sank a widow's bridal treasure in the Rhine, and she had her brother beheaded trying to learn whereProject Gutenberg and 3 more
  98. 1199Richard I's nephew Arthur disappeared in his uncle King John's prison, and Arthur's sister was held for 39 years until she diedbritish-history.ac.uk and 4 more
  99. 1193A waqf fed Maghrebi pilgrims in Jerusalem for 774 years, and its quarter was bulldozed in one night in June 1967laviedesidees.fr and 2 more
  100. 1193Saladin left a gold ingot and 47 silver dirhams, not enough for his grave, and his brother took the empire from his sonsEncyclopaedia Britannica and 5 more
  101. 1189The Ōshū Fujiwara grew rich on northern gold, the fourth lord turned on the fugitive his father told him to protect, his own vassal beheaded him, and his head lies in the family's gold hallebi.ac.uk and 2 more
  102. 1187Two Muslim families have opened the Church of the Holy Sepulchre every day for centuries, and dispute which of them came firstipsnews.net and 4 more
  103. 1186When Aaron of Lincoln died in 1186, Henry II took his whole estate and set up a separate exchequer to collect his debtsJournal article (DOI) and 4 more
  104. 1185A six-year-old emperor drowned at Dan-no-ura in 1185 in his grandmother's arms, and the sacred sword went down with himkotobank.jp and 4 more
  105. 1176The Tale of the Soga Brothers says a guardian took his ward's estate, the ward killed the guardian's son, and the son's boys killed him 17 years laterkotobank.jp and 3 more
  106. 1164Emperor Sutoku lost the throne to his brothers, died in exile, and was brought home as a spirit in 1868archived.writersinkyoto.com and 2 more
  107. 1156A retired emperor and his brother went to war over the throne in 1156, and the winning side made a son behead his own fatherkotobank.jp and 2 more
  108. 1150Tradition says a dying Lady Tichborne crawled round 23 acres for a bread dole and cursed the family if it ever stoppedhistoric-uk.com and 4 more
  109. 1143Rahere founded St Bartholomew's Hospital after a vow in Rome, Henry VIII seized its income in 1539, and the City of London saved it weeks before the king diednationalarchives.gov.uk and 2 more
  110. 1142Song China killed its leading general on a charge its chancellor admitted might not exist, held his family 20 years, then restored his name and reburied himehangzhou.gov.cn and 3 more
  111. 1142The Haudenosaunee Great Law vests the chiefs' titles in the women of each family, who can take back the antlersInternet Archive and 2 more
  112. 1138Bolesław III had his half-brother blinded, then split Poland among his sons in 1138, and the country stayed divided for about two centurieszpe.gov.pl and 2 more
  113. 1138Yemen's Queen Arwa ruled for half a century and left her jewels by will to a boy imam who had vanished in Cairoiis.ac.uk and 2 more
  114. 1137Eleanor inherited Aquitaine at about 13, took it back when France annulled her marriage, and married the future king of England eight weeks laterfontevraud.fr and 2 more
  115. 1136A bishop's son ran England's oldest almshouse for decades on an income Trollope turned into The Wardenbritish-history.ac.uk and 6 more
  116. 1135Henry I's barons swore to make his daughter queen, and his nephew Stephen took the crown within weeks of his deathavalon.law.yale.edu and 4 more
  117. 1135The Jurchens took two Song emperors north in 1127; a 1142 treaty brought home the father's coffin and left the son, a crowned emperor, in captivity until he diedzh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  118. 1134Tradition says conjoined twins left Biddenden 20 acres for bread and cheese, and the rector sued to take the landengland.prm.ox.ac.uk and 2 more
  119. 1129Li Qingzhao lost her late husband's collection to war and thieves, then reported her second husband to the courts and went to jail for itzh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  120. 1124Hasan-i Sabbah had both his sons executed and left Alamut to a lieutenant from another castleiis.ac.uk and 2 more
  121. 1115Matilda of Tuscany gave her lands to the papacy, a historian says the surviving deed is a forgery, and the emperor took the lands the year after she diedTreccani and 3 more
  122. 1115The Mixtec codices record that Lord Eight Deer killed his wife's father to take Tilantongo, and that the boy he spared later killed him and married his daughterfamsi.org and 2 more
  123. 1100Wuhsha the broker was thrown out of synagogue on Yom Kippur for her son by a lover, and her will gave the lover "not one penny"geniza.princeton.edu and 2 more
  124. 1099El Cid's widow carried his body out of Valencia, and his bones were moved five times between 1102 and 1921encyclopedia.com and 4 more
  125. 1097The princes of Rus' agreed at Liubech in 1097 that each would keep his father's lands, and two of them then blinded a thirdru.wikisource.org and 6 more
  126. 1094The vizier al-Afdal put al-Musta'li on the Fatimid throne in 1094 over his elder brother Nizar, and the Ismailis splitiis.ac.uk and 4 more
  127. 1087William the Conqueror's funeral stopped when a man said the church stood on his father's stolen landUniversity of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 more
  128. 1066Joseph ibn Naghrela inherited his father's place as vizier of Granada and was killed in the massacre of 1066fordham.edu and 3 more
  129. 1066Domesday shows Count Alan holding 33 of the 40 estates of Edith the Fair, and in 1094 Archbishop Anselm wrote to her daughter, King Harold's daughter, who had left Wilton Abbey with Alanpase.ac.uk and 4 more
  130. 1063Al-Bakri wrote that Ghana's king took every gold nugget and his heir was his sister's son, and in 1063 a nephew took the throne over the dead king's Muslim sonbu.edu and 2 more
  131. 1052Fan Zhongyan's 1050 clan trust fed every member a daily rice ration, and within a few years his son had to ask the emperor to let courts enforce itzh.wikisource.org and 5 more
  132. 1050At Cahokia a man and woman were buried on 10,000 shell beads, and the same mound held 53 young women who had been stranglednews.illinois.edu and 1 more
  133. 1041Empress Zoe adopted Michael V as her heir, he exiled her, and the people of Constantinople had him blinded in 1042sourcebooks.fordham.edu and 2 more
  134. 1030Mahmud of Ghazni left his throne to one son; the other blinded him, and the blind brother's son later killed the victorInternet Archive and 2 more
  135. 1030Britain carried gates from Mahmud of Ghazni's tomb to India in 1842 as the stolen gates of Somnath; they were Afghan cedar and are still in Agra Fortcollections.vam.ac.uk and 2 more
  136. 1025Basil II left 200,000 pounds of gold and no son; his successors spent it, and the gold coin was debased to almost nothing by the 1080ssourcebooks.fordham.edu and 4 more
  137. 1021Sitt al-Mulk set aside the Fatimid heir after the caliph al-Hakim disappeared in 1021 and put his son al-Zahir on the throneislamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 3 more
  138. 1020Tradition says Sultan Mahmud's gold for the Shahnameh reached Ferdowsi's town as his coffin left it, and his daughter refused itjls.um.ac.ir and 2 more
  139. 1015The Primary Chronicle says Sviatopolk had his brothers Borys and Hlib killed in 1015, and Yaroslav buried them as saints after taking Kyivencyclopediaofukraine.com and 6 more
  140. 1011The saga says Freydís Eiríksdóttir had her partners killed in Vinland, axed their five women herself and sailed home in their larger shipcanadianmysteries.ca and 2 more
  141. 1010The Shahnameh says King Faridun gave Iran to his youngest son, and the two elder sons killed him and sent his head to their fatherInternet Archive and 4 more
  142. 1003Kalhana's chronicle says Queen Didda of Kashmir killed three grandsons on the throne and chose her heir with a heap of applesInternet Archive and 2 more
  143. 1000Beowulf says a dying king won a dragon's hoard with no son to leave it to, and his people buried the gold with himProject Gutenberg and 2 more
  144. 995An emperor gave Japan's oldest medical book to one physician family, and the author's descendants spent centuries trying to get it backonline.bunka.go.jp and 2 more
  145. 976Song records say the founder's mother made him leave the throne to his brother, and on the night he died the messenger fetched the brother instead of the sonzh.wikisource.org and 4 more
  146. 972Sviatoslav split Rus' among three sons, and within eight years one had died in battle with his brother and another was killed on the third brother's ordersencyclopediaofukraine.com and 3 more
  147. 969The Chola heir Aditya Karikala was murdered, and his brother Rajaraja seized the killers' lands and their relatives' lands years laterInternet Archive and 2 more
  148. 944Qarmatian raiders took the Black Stone from Mecca in 930 and held it for about 20 years before dropping it in a mosque in Kufamadainproject.com and 3 more
  149. 940Masakado fought his uncles for land, called himself the new emperor, and his head mound in Tokyo moved the Finance Ministrypinktentacle.com and 2 more
  150. 937China's Heirloom Seal passed to every usurper for 1,100 years, and the last Later Tang emperor carried it into the firezh.wikisource.org and 4 more
  151. 935Egil's saga says a queen's men cut the court ropes to stop Egil's inheritance suit, and Egil later won the land by biting a man's throat outviking.ucla.edu and 6 more
  152. 930Aleppo's Jews were told their 1,000-year-old Bible was burned in 1947; it reached Israel in 1957, and the community sued for itmattifriedman.com and 3 more
  153. 926The Liao History says Abaoji's widow cut off her right hand and put it in his coffin instead of following him into deathzh.wikisource.org and 2 more
  154. 912Leo VI married his mistress as his fourth wife to make their son legitimate, and the patriarch who refused was forced outjohnsanidopoulos.com and 4 more
  155. 903Japan's court exiled Michizane on a rival's charge, then restored his offices and made him Chancellor 90 years after his deathkotobank.jp and 2 more
  156. 900The Laguna Copperplate of 900 AD cleared the children of Namwaran of a debt in gold, and warned anyone who later said it was unpaidInternet Archive and 2 more
  157. 899Alfred the Great's will answered his nephews' claim to their father's land, and one nephew rose against Alfred's sonbl.uk and 3 more
  158. 879Two detectorists sold a Viking-age hoard with coins showing Alfred the Great beside Ceolwulf II of Mercia, and about 270 coins are still missingthehistoryblog.com and 2 more
  159. 850Jain tradition says Bahubali beat his elder brother for the kingdom, gave it up, and stood a year in meditation troubled that he stood on his brother's landInternet Archive and 2 more
  160. 842Tibetan Buddhist histories say a monk shot Emperor Langdarma in 842; his two sons by different queens split the empireinfo-buddhism.com and 2 more
  161. 841Jang Bogo ruled the seas between China, Korea and Japan, tried to make his daughter a queen, and was stabbed over wine by an envoy who said he had fled the courtworldhistory.org and 2 more
  162. 840Louis the Pious's sons deposed him twice and fought a battle at Fontenoy, and the Treaty of Verdun split the empire into the lands that became France and Germanysourcebooks.web.fordham.edu and 5 more
  163. 828The Bukhtishu physicians served the caliphs for six generations: one was sentenced to death, one died in exile, and one great-grandson was disinherited by his stepfatherjima.imana.org and 2 more
  164. 814Charlemagne's 811 division left two-thirds of his treasure to 21 archbishoprics and a silver table engraved with Constantinople to St Peter'ssourcebooks.fordham.edu and 2 more
  165. 803Harun al-Rashid had his vizier Ja'far killed in one night in 803, hung his body in Baghdad, and took the Barmakid fortuneWikisource (primary text) and 4 more
  166. 800Pueblo Bonito's richest crypt held one maternal line for 330 years, and scientists sequenced it without asking the Pueblo tribespar.nsf.gov and 2 more
  167. 797Empress Irene had her son Constantine VI blinded in the room where he was born and ruled Byzantium alone from 797pbe.kcl.ac.uk and 4 more
  168. 790Bonampak's king had his heir presented on the painted walls of his temple, and the heir never ruledlugares.inah.gob.mx and 2 more
  169. 756An empress gave her dead husband's treasures to a temple in 756, took back two swords, and they were found under the Great Buddhahistorynewsnetwork.org and 2 more
  170. 750Looters had dug all around it, but the Wari tomb at Castillo de Huarmey held 58 noblewomen and their queens, untouchednationalgeographic.com and 2 more
  171. 742Yaxchilan had no recorded king for ten years after Shield Jaguar died, and the son of his foreign second wife took the thronecambridge.org and 3 more
  172. 722The last Sogdian king of Panjikent claimed the throne of Samarkand, was captured on Mount Mugh in 722 and executed; his archive survived in the castle ruinsinvisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk and 3 more
  173. 718A Japanese inn passed father to son for 46 generations since 718, and the heir's death put a daughter in line for the first timepublishing.insead.edu and 3 more
  174. 711Justinian II lost his throne and his nose in 695, took Constantinople back in 705, and was killed with his son in 711Wikisource (primary text) and 3 more
  175. 705Wu Zetian deposed one son, had another forced to kill himself, made herself emperor, and was buried as an empress in her husband's sealed tombzh.wikisource.org and 5 more
  176. 683Pakal took Palenque's throne at 12 after an enemy sacked the city and the king died, and his son cut three rulers out of the official king listmesoweb.com and 2 more
  177. 680Mu'awiya made his son Yazid heir to the caliphate; Muhammad's grandson al-Husayn refused to swear and was killed at Karbala with most of his family's menInternet Archive and 2 more
  178. 671Emperor Tenji passed over his brother for his son in 671, and the brother raised an army, won the throne and had the official history written by his own sonWikisource (primary text) and 4 more
  179. 660The exilarch Bostanai married a Persian princess; after his death his other sons claimed her and her children as slavesjewishencyclopedia.com and 3 more
  180. 656Tradition says Caliph Uthman was killed while reading this Quran; Russia took it as a trophy, and Lenin gave it backcambridge.org and 3 more
  181. 649A Tang emperor sent an agent in disguise to take Wang Xizhi's Orchid Pavilion Preface from an old monk, and took it into his tombzh.wikisource.org and 2 more
  182. 645Prince Naka no Ōe cut down Soga no Iruka at court in 645, Iruka's father burned the court histories as he died, and a 646 edict abolished private estateskotobank.jp and 3 more
  183. 634Full brothers left with nothing asked the caliph Umar to treat their father as a donkey, and he changed his rulingislamqa.info and 2 more
  184. 632Jabir, with only sisters to inherit, asked Muhammad how to leave his estate; the last verse revealed answered him, and the caliph Umar said he never fully understood itihadis.com and 3 more
  185. 632While Muhammad's family prepared his body, a meeting in a Medina courtyard chose Abu Bakr as successor over the people of Medina's own candidateihadis.com and 3 more
  186. 632Fatima asked Abu Bakr for her inheritance from Muhammad; he refused, she did not speak to him again, and caliphs returned and seized the land of Fadak for 200 yearsInternet Archive and 2 more
  187. 628Persia's crown prince overthrew his father to stop a half-brother's succession, executed him, killed his brothers, and died of plague within monthsiranicaonline.org and 2 more
  188. 626Li Shimin killed his two brothers at the Xuanwu Gate, executed their ten sons and had the throne from his father within two monthszh.wikisource.org and 2 more
  189. 625Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' was killed at Uhud and his brother took everything; his widow brought their two daughters to Muhammad, and the Koran's inheritance verse followedihadis.com and 3 more
  190. 624A 1939 inquest ruled the Sutton Hoo ship burial was Edith Pretty's property, and she gave it to the nationnationaltrust.org.uk and 3 more
  191. 615The Koran says a servant of God holed a poor family's ship and rebuilt a stranger's wall for free, to save the ship from a king and two orphans' treasure from a townquran.com and 4 more
  192. 610The Quran says a servant of God rebuilt a wall in an inhospitable town so two orphans could recover their father's buried treasurequran.com and 3 more
  193. 578The Kongō family built temples for 40 generations from 578, and lost the company to debt in 2006kongogumi.co.jp and 4 more
  194. 567Avar family trees show widows taken by their husband's son or brother, and one male line that vanished from its own cemeteryeuropepmc.org and 2 more
  195. 524Clovis's sons sent their mother scissors and a sword, then killed two of their dead brother's sons and split his kingdomsourcebooks.fordham.edu and 4 more
  196. 524Theodoric had Boethius clubbed to death and seized his estates, and the king's daughter gave them back to his sonsUniversity of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 more
  197. 520The exilarch Mar Zutra II ruled a Jewish state at Mahoza for seven years and was crucified on its bridge; his son was born the same dayencyclopedia.com and 2 more