He was raised to the cardinalate, and his nephew, and heir, Antoine de Blanchefort, assumed the name and arms of Créquy.

If the deceased was a widow or the master of the homestead, the rightful heir could assume the high seat and thereby mark the shift in authority.

The heir to the chieftaincy assumed power with a great offering to the gods.

On the contrary, he was said to be as sharp and as quick as the rapier he wielded, a fitting heir to assume the family mantle, a man to be approached directly.

The 32-year-old heir, Christian II of Denmark assumed the throne.

The intervening heirs (the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Baronets) did not assume the title.

The Norwegian vice-roy and heir to the throne of Denmark-Norway, Christian Frederik took the lead in a national uprising, assumed the title of regent, and convened a constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll.

After his death, his descendants and heirs assumed absolute political power over the region, forming the basis of the Holy Ashah Dynasty and ruling through a combination of religious doctrine and military power for millennia.

Muhlenberg and his school-making heirs assumed that the school is the Church in its scholastic mode.

The belief in their own superiority led Stimson and his heirs to assume that American solutions to the world's problems were probably the right ones.