#hp lexicon

[toixxx-ace]

sirius black meta, aka sirius and regulus have invaded my brain again

putting this under a read more because its long and i dont want to subject my mutuals to it too much. also this is more like characterization meta than like actual book meta please dont hate me

ive been thinking about sirius' relationship with regulus and their parents involvement. now, im not of the belief that orion and walburga were physically abusive, at least not in any unique way that other pureblood families have been shown in canon (see: the longbottoms). they were definitely no dursley family, because that isnt something i can see sirius ommitting when talking to harry. if they could connect with each other due to shared abuse, i think sirius would do anything he could to help harry out.

i can see the black parents being controlling and manipulative, however. i personally see their obsession with pureblood purity as cult-like, using fear to get their sons on board with their beliefs. a kind of rhetoric like "muggleborns and muggles are trying to breed out all the purebloods. soon there won't be any of us left! we have to prolong the purity!" i can see them putting a lot of pressure on sirius as the heir to the family to get into slytherin and marry a pureblood witch. but i can also see them giving sirius a lot of leeway as a child, kind of giving him whatever he wants. especially walburga, as she may have had a lower hierarchal status in the house as a mother (and the only woman in the house) and her eldest son being the heir of the household. sirius has been known pre-azkaban to being haughty and a bully. i can see him as a young child as a dudley or draco role; things he wants just come to him, he has a higher social status than his younger brother, and he's being told all these things about pureblood supremacy and house of black supremacy.

from my reading, it doesn't seem like young-sirius understands that any of his actions have consequences until the werewolf prank he pulls on snape in 1976 (please fact check the dates but i think i got it). despite being sorted into gryffindor and (i assume) making friends with various half-bloods and muggleborns, his attitude stays the same, just shifts towards the slytherins because of the house rivalry. he still feels that sense of superiority and power, and i dont think its a coincidence that snape, a slytherin half-blood, was james and sirius' primary bullying victim. snape checks off all the boxes that sirius was told to hate as a child and as an eleven year old and got sorted into gryffindor.

sirius getting sorted into gryffindor was a point of contention in the family. his parents probably thought "well thats a shame. but there are still purebloods in gryffindor, he can still make connections and eventually marry a pureblood witch". i think sirius makes friends with james first, if not on the train then once he's sorted. the potters are a pureblood family, even if their name sounds very muggle, this he knows. he knows what his parents expect from him, so he gravitates towards james like his family may have wanted. but james is not a pureblood supremacist; im sure it was a sore spot in his family that they were stricken from the sacred 28 list due to rumors of "tainted blood" and james doesn't like the dark arts, associated with pureblood wizards, very much anyway. james was, however, just as pampered as sirius was and had developed just as much of a cruel streak. so i imagine his parents were giving him tentative thumbs up in approval when they learned he was friends with james potter.

but then he became friends with peter pettigrew and remus lupin. we dont really know how they all became friends, only that they were very close in later years. but those friendships really are what changed sirius' beliefs, as well as becoming aware of lilly evans. i mean, james, a pureblood, was infatuated with a muggleborn and he didnt seem very worried about the sanctity of pureblood lineage. so maybe all this is kind of bullshit, sirius thinks. maybe his parents are kind of freaks and the real world is a lot more chill with muggleborns and muggles. maybe his family is the outlier.

this is where i see the conflict coming in. sirius comes home from hogwarts, has all these questions that can no longer be answered in simple "because we're better" answers. but now they've raised him to be arrogant, so he thinks he's entitled to proper answers and to see his parents wrong. walburga stops being so gentle with him. he is being a failed heir, and that reflects badly onto her as a failed mother. (i still dont think they physically hurt sirius on the regular, even after he started rebelling)

regulus is caught in the crossfire, but i think he kinds of fades away until he goes to hogwarts and gets in slytherin. cue: his parents now comparing sirius to regulus. for regulus this is like the world has been upside down; for all his life sirius was the role model to look up to, and now his parents were using him as an example as what sirius ought to do? i imagine it messed up their family dynamics more than they already were. sirius builds resentment toward his younger brother and (gently, brotherly) bullies him at home when he can get the chance. due to the house rivalry, due to their parents, due to a whole number of things, sirius and regulus' relationship (which i imagine was quite close pre-hogwarts) starts to deteriorate.

at some point, when sirius is sixteen, he can no longer deal with the pressure. he cant deal with his parents expectations, with their bigotry, he cant do it anymore. so he, essentially, emancipates himself. i dont think his parents necessarily disowned him (i mean, he still inherited the house. they didn't pass it down to regulus when sirius left, meaning lots of things but mostly that sirius was still the heir). he ran away to the potters and by then the damage was done. his family was split forever.

he still saw regulus at hogwarts. i cant imagine they were very nice to each other. and i do think sirius leaving made a deep impression on regulus that eventually led to his decision to join the death eaters. i dont blame sirius for it, i agree that leaving was the best option for him, but it did have its consequences.

[thegraveyardwitch]

Not necessarily the same thing, but here's Harry Potter

fandom wiki simulator

[xoxothesubwayfugitive]

idk if anyone here ever reads the Harry Potter fandom wiki but goddamn I wish there was a "no mobile game lore" button you could click

[ianwaite]

Still a damn good source:

[marislittlethings]

i'm working on a marauders-era fic rn and trying to understand canon is giving me a headache

what do you mean the prank happened before snape’s worst memory??? and sirius never understood why the prank was a big deal, even as an adult????? and snape knew remus was a werewolf while they were in school and kept his mouth shut despite hating the marauders and being radicalized into blood purist ideology, but told everyone in PoA even though he was now an adult, remus’s colleague, and allied with the order???????

[penny-anna]

one of the worst things about being a Terrible Pedant is a little while ago I learned that the T in 'Voldemort' is supposed to be silent and immediately involuntarily adopted the 'correct' pronunciation into my mental lexicon so now on the odd occasions he comes up conversation i have to correct back to the mainstream pronunciation bcos if you say 'Voldemorr' you sound firstly like you care about HP and secondly just unbelievably pretentious :(

[alenablack]

This is deeply inspired by various conversations with some friends! namely Zöe (@/ladystardog) and @metalomagnetic , thank you both for encouraging my insanity about both of these families!

EXCEPTIONALISM

Both families think they are fundamentally unique and deserving of power, respect, and independence from other great houses/pureblood dynasties.

Examples:

Sirius parents were convinced that to be a "Black' made you "practically royal." A belief that seemed widely shared by various Blacks throughout history based upon they strict values and motivation to eliminate members who didn't upheld the family name - HP lexicon

The doctrine of exceptionalism in the asoiaf universe proclaims that Targaryens are other from ordinary men; this allowed them special privileges outside of claiming the throne. (Incestous marriages, claiming dragons, wide held beliefs that Targs didn't get ill as other men did)

BLOOD SUPREMACY & INCEST

Both families value bloodline supremacy/keeping their respective bloodlines pure. Although the asoiaf universe gives many more examples of incestous marriages to keep their bloodline pure we have canon relationships within the HP universe that show the Blacks also follow incestous marriages to keep their bloodline pure (Orion and Walburga are cousins through their fathers and would go on to have two children together)

The Black family's core value is blood supremacy as shown by their motto Toujours Pur "Always Pure" and while the Targaryen's aren't as outward there's many in universe examples of their share belief in blood supremacy; only allowing people with Targaryen blood access to dragons, intermarriage to keep power consolidated etc.

TRAGIC ENDINGS

This parallel was the first to jump out to me when making this essay; both families experience exceptional short lifespans for wealthy upper class families (and in the case of the blacks much shorter than the average wizard lifespan), and not only short life spans but often tragic deaths.

Examples:

Regulus Black: died age 18 by drowning/dragged under by inferi

Prince Aegon **the uncrowned": died age 17 killed by his uncle Maegor & his dragon Balerion. Died with his dragon Quicksilver.

Sirius Black: Died age 35, killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange.

Princess Araea Targaryen: Died age 14, officially ruled as death by fever however witnesses claim there was moving creatures under her skin causing the princess great pain.

Nymphadora Lupin: Died age 25, killed by her aunt Bellatrix Lestrange.

These are only a few examples of each lineage suffering losses but a pattern of young often violent deaths is visible throughout both family trees.

FALL FROM GRACE/LOSS OF POWER

Both families suffer from hubris and a general distrust to outsiders which makes both of their eventual collapses interesting. In the case of the house of Black the family line ended due to infighting by various members joining opposite sides of a war, with most members ending at the hands of each other. In the case of the Targaryen's their line would continue for 200 years, however the power they held that granted them the throne was lost in one generation due to a civil war which ended the lives of 90% of the family as well as the total loss of dragons.

Both of these collapses can be contributed to outsiders working their way into the respective families; for the Targaryen's it was the intervention of the Hightowers and their various schemes that set the stage for a civil war, and for the Black's it was their alignment with Lord Voldemort that spelled their demise. Both families fought on opposing sides, violating the shared core value of family loyalty.

COMMON TRAITS

The similarities between the two families go beyond parallels of circumstances. The Black family and the Targaryen family both are described as passionat, confiden, and charismatic people. Many members of both households suffer from large egos and a reckless disregard for their lives, as well as a sense of superiority even among their peers.

Many members are known as powerful warriors/wizards and are sited to be born with innate abilities or genius. Both families are also described as otherworldly beauties, and despite their opposing color schemes are even depicted with similar features.

CHARACTER COUNTERPART

(*My personal opinions based on similar personalities and experiences*)

Bellatrix Lestrange = Daemon Targaryen (Both impulsive, powerful, loyal to a fault, violent, charismatic)

Andromeda Tonks = Saera Targaryen (disowned for engaging in relations deemed inappropriate by their families, built lives outside their respective families, never returned to the fold)

Regulus Black = Lucerys Velaryon (Both signaled the start of a shift in their respective wars, neither of them served as a strong political power but are important to the narrative, died young and tragically)

Rhaena Targaryen (daughter of Aenys I) = Narcissa Malfoy (Powerful women within their own families, uninterested in the lives of others beyond their children, inherently distrustful, withdrawn and detached)

Daeron I (the young dragon) = Sirius Black (Reckless charismatic warriors, considered talented but ultimately lost their lives due to avoidable circumstances, considered great by some but mad by others)

[marauderseraconfessions]

I hate the way that the Marauders fandom likes to shred characters up beyond recognition and take out everything that makes them interesting.

Remus went from being a mild, pushover, quiet, cowardly guy to being a jackass 'casanova' with anger issues who smokes all the time and is hypermasculinised. (If that sounds familiar it's because how most fics used to write Sirius.) We get the most time with him. You can find details on him on the HP Lexicon. You can find the books pretty swiftly online, too. (🏴‍☠️, or even scans people put online. They're out there, you don't gotta give JKR money lol.)

And Sirius. Oh Sirius. Right now the popular characterisation for him is either damn near offensively stereotypically queer who can't do a damn thing without his bf, or he gets raked over the coals for absolutely everything and bashed to hell and back. Am I saying he is perfect? No. But god please let him be the well intentioned but flawed, SMART person he is.

James will always remain Perfect, the sunshine, the does-no-wrong mum friend, despite the fact that of the three, we see him LEAST. Quite funny how 'oh we can just make up stuff to make them actually be interesting' doesn't seem to apply to one of the most important characters.

And Peter, I hear you ask? As ever, he still fades into the background or has all the imperfect bits about his character carefully removed.

- 🐞 (sorry for the yap session lol)

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[dreamyshifts]

Common Etiquette & Social Rules/Roles | AVALON

tl;dr —> here is a brief overview of common etiquette and social rules in my Avalon dr. Please remember that although it is HP, this reality is heavily inspired by Ellory’s Pureblood Culture ‘Verse and fantasy regency vibes. Many things may be the same in typical “canon,” but it’s wildly diverging from source material.

im happy to answer any questions tho!! you can find ellory’s lexicon here :)!

Hair Lore & Signet Rings

A witch’s hair is deemed Most Sacred, and it is illegal to cut, jinx, hex, or intentionally steal a witch’s hair. Minimum sentence is at least 5 years in a rehabilitative prison.

Why is it Most Sacred?

Due to the connection with Mother Magic, one of the ancient ways that a witch would show gratitude towards her would be through hair-weaving — e.g, weaving her magic through her hair via combing, styling, etc — and a blood-magic crafted hairbrush to help pool both the witch’s magic and her family magic into her hair. Another addition to this ritual is that her immediate paternal relatives or guardian — father, elder brother, son — have the Rites to tend to her hair, further cultivating and shoring the magic there.

A witch’s hair can act as a shield and holds an immense wealth of power, so long as the witch in question follows Mother Magic’s ways. Because of this, however, it is seen as a “ruination” if one were to see a witch’s hair down. It is only for her immediate family and her spouse.

As such, hair fashion often has rather stunning updo’s and fascinating hair accessories. Due to the magic stored in her hair, it will not feel heavy or weighed down even if it is kept ‘up’ all day.

Fun fact — if someone close to the witch, or has the Rites to her hair, is in trouble, they can instinctively reach out to the witch and use the magic from her hair, in which said hair will begin to glow.

Fun fact 2 — The highest sign of favor a witch can show is by gifting a lock of her hair that’s been tied by a ribbon created from her own magic.

What about Signet Rings?

Essentially, it is the hair equivalent for wizards. Their power is stored in a signet ring — not an Heir or Lordship ring as those are different — and can be called upon when the wizard in question is in a dire situation.

Common Etiquette; a Brief Overview

Titles

It follows similarly to regency/aristocracy vibes. As there is a social hierarchy, there are titles one uses when referring to someone. For example, the Head of House Black would be considered the Paterfamilias of the entire house, and would be called either “Lord Black” or “Duke Black.”

If someone isn’t the lord/lady of the house or the heir, or from the “main line,” then they cannot be called as “Lord [last name]”; it must be their first name or other subsidiary title. For example: Narcissa, because she’s not from the main line, she would be called “Lady Narcissa” rather than “Lady Black.”

Non-binary/GNC individuals receive the title of Wixen (Surname) or Wixen (First Name) depending on whether the person is head of the family or in line to inherit.

For Oligarchy, their titles would be “High Lord/Lady/Wix” and so on.

Heraldry Colors

Heraldry colors are a Pureblood House’s officially recognized colors. Essentially, it’s the colors that members of the bloodline/family can wear to galas, other formal events, or just casually.

It is considered poor taste, gauche, etc to be seen wearing another house’s heraldry colors. Exceptions are made for casual events, obviously. Some circles may even see it as an insult and start a Blood Fued, or see it as a proposal for a potential bonding into the House.

Established Heraldry Colors (not exhaustive):

Most Olde House of Hartride: blue grotto, soft rose pink

Noble House of Black: black and silver

Honorable House of Potter: crimson

Vigilant House of Malfoy: icy blue

Hope you enjoyed this post! I didn’t go as in-depth as there’s just so much world-building, so I do recommend looking at Ellory’s lexicon if you’re interested!

A Brief History of Hartridge will be posted next, so keep an eye out on that :)! Or I might introduce myself or family… we’ll see lol and as always, don’t be afraid to send me asks if you’ve got questions <3

[harrypotterprops]

🎃🏰 Hogwart's Halloween fest inspo 🏰🎃

Not my usual content but it feels so magic.

I recommend the following dishes:

Pumpkin pie

Apple pie

Mince pie

Baked potato

Carrot cake

Apples

Muffins

Various sweets such as chocolate coins, anise ball cones, blood-flavoured lollipop, cauldron cake...

Decorations according to the books:

PS: live bats fluttering from the walls and ceiling and swooping over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter.

CoS: Giant jack-o’lanterns carved by Hagrid large enough to sit in.

PoA: Pumpkins, Bats, and “orange streamers which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes.

GoF: Bats and pumpkins.

Entertainment:

CoS: Troupe of Dancing Skeletons.

PoA: The Hogwarts ghosts popped out of the walls and re-enacted Nearly Headless Nick’s beheading.

Explore more about Halloween at Hogwarts in HP Lexicon.

[ellorypurebloodculture]

for title tales, if you’re up for it, what about “you’ve made your one wrong move (now you’re done for)”

And also, sorry for putting this here as well, you don’t have to answer this or above if you don’t want to, but what makes a mudblood a mudblood in your verse? For that matter, how does someone become a blood traitor and when is someone titled a pure blood? Is it purely parentage like in JK’s world or something else?

thank you, I adore your works, both the hp and Naruto ones, have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hi Kite! The Lexicon link at the top of my blog answers those questions and many more about my pureblood culture 'verse. 😊

Thank you! I appreciate that! I hope you have a wonderful weekend. ❤️

Harry Potter & Hermione Granger genfic.

Miss Hermione Granger is Master Harry Potter's sister in all but blood. Anyone who seeks to hurt her will not live long enough to do so.

[authorityissues]

really is kind of bizarre as someone who just like...sees no need to engage with hp for a host of very obvious reasons how omnipresent it is in the cultural lexicon lmfao. just this constant conversational jumpscare rounding the corner of any number of social situations. '__'

[greenerteacups]

I’m not sure if you’ve specifically answered this before, but how long did it take you to outline, research, and prepare the foundational meat of Lionheart since it’s such a sprawling saga with threads for so many characters? Did you have it all mapped out before you started writing? What about shorter pieces like The Climb and the latest, delightful The Death Eater Diaries?

The series outline for Lionheart I wrote on one bleary, rabbit-hole of a day in the summer of 2022 when I was definitely supposed to be doing something else, and after that, each book took me between 3 days and 2 weeks to outline completely. The later books have taken longer because of their length and the number of threads — the series has a way of getting wider as well as longer, and for the last two books, I sometimes got a bit grumbly about how many characters pop up in every novel. As for research, most of that will happen before or during the outlining process; I'll have a copy of the book on-hand to check plot details, but for the most part I try to work without flipping back to the text, to avoid copying beats or stylistic choices unless I have a thematic reason to. I also use HP Lexicon and fanwikis while I'm editing for content, though when I'm drafting I make a real effort not to switch out of the tab for any reason, because it breaks flow. I'm sure I have missed some details despite my references, but c'est la vie; JKR had to do continuity edits in subsequent edition releases for several books, so at least I'm not alone.

For The Climb, I wrote the first chapter in the raw, then went through and blocked out the second two in an outline at the bottom of the document. Very very broad strokes there — TC is different from Lionheart because it's a slice-of-life tone piece, so there's not as much plot to be done. It's a novella conceived for the sole purpose of exploring one particular relationship, so the plot came secondary to the things I wanted to highlight about how that dynamic worked. It's a character-forward piece, to borrow culinary terminology, and outlining for character is a lot easier than outlining for plot. (For me.)

The Death Eater Diaries emerged almost fully-formed from a Tumblr post I made joking about the sort of ludicrously awful decade Narcissa experiences. The hardest part of outlining was nailing down canonical dates. Stuff like how old Andromeda was when she got pregnant, when Bellatrix got married, when the members of the previous generation died, all that's unspecified — but it's also all functionally constrained to a narrow window of time, if you take in where the characters are at certain other parts of the story, so you can't just say anything. It was very fun to write, though. Doing so also stressed how hilariously short the timeline on the Black family collapse actually is. Between 1971 and 1981, they go from a two-branch family with an heir, a spare, and three healthy daughters -> completely extinct in the male line, two of its descendants disinherited, two imprisoned, one missing, presumed dead, and Draco Malfoy's mom.

[senlinyu]

What was it about Draco that drew you to this character in the first place? I'm just curious because jk Rowling certainly did not portray him in a positive light.

I'm actually one of those horrible people who started shipping dramione before reading the books or even watching the movies. As I've mentioned before, I was raised ultra-conservative and I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter, but I was inexplicably obsessed with understanding it because as a twelve year old, I felt intensely perceived by the concept of Hermione Granger.

So I found my way around my parent's internet filters and read the entire HP lexicon, and basically constructed an understanding of the HP universe backwards starting with worldbuilding, then characters, and finally plot.

But that's actually very difficult way to perceive a story, so then I found out about fanfiction and started reading HP fanfic voraciously, first Harmony, then a lot of gen fic, and then one day I randomly read a Harry/Hermione/Draco love-triangle fic that was Harmony end game. And the idea of Draco and Hermione was so complicated and charged and there was nothing in the progression of the pairing that could be taken for granted, and I found that much more compelling than a friends to lovers pairing. So I switched from Harmony and started reading Dramione (with a few different alternative pairing phases, I had a whole Hermione/marauder's era, did a bit of sevmione and lumione, went into a Weasley brothers phase, then a sapphic period, a tomione chapter, and a Draco/Ginny rendezvous, at this point I have tried practically every single HP pairing you can think of). And after about 5 years of that, I finally went to college and got to read the actual Harry Potter series.

So it started with preference for a charged relationship dynamic in story telling, but as I've gotten older and started writing I've come to find Draco a very interesting character to explore the redemption arc of. As previously mentioned, I come from a background where children are often raised in a way that's very socially and informationally isolated, and have parents who like to make their love conditional upon their children parroting their beliefs with complete conviction. Fortunately for me in the long run but quite traumatically at the time, I am obstinate and distrusting by nature, and so I wasn't particularly cooperative about it for the most part (see reading the entire HP lexicon since I wasn't allowed to just read Harry Potter), but I had siblings and friends who did. So the process of a young person nearing adulthood and realising that all the things they believed/were told to believe/thought had to be believe are actually horrible and nightmarish and untrue is something that I've watched people go through the process of trying to deconstruct.

JKR sets all her characters in amber and they all have the exact same character flaws for seven books and never really grow or evolve in any ways, but I like exploring the idea that people grow and can learn to do better and eventually be better. You can't really give someone a redemption arc unless they actually did something that they need to be redeemed from.

[chaifootsteps]

Your response to the JK Rowling thing reminded me how there use to be like a fan made wiki site of HP that carefully documented a lot of HP stuff. Rowling even applauded the creator and said she would use the site to double check things. Yeah, later on she sued the creator and the website got shut down.

That wasn't the thing over Harry Potter Lexicon, was it? Because I know that that one was over the person trying to publish an actual book out of it.

[celestemagnoliathewriter]

Supernova Family Tree

I got a comment on Supernova, asking for a family tree. it turns out that creating a family tree on a computer is a lot harder than I thought it would be! Also, I went back and forth on ages, so forgive me if the dates don't perfectly line up with canon (I had to change them around for some obvious points, like Pollux and Cygnus becoming fathers at 13 based on JKR's tree).

Below you'll find the text version of the tree. I hope this helps for any of you following this Tedromeda (and soon to be Remadora) angst fest! As the story goes on and more characters are added, I'll add them to the list, but this one should be good for the time being.

Phineas Nigellus Black* (1837) m. Ursula Flint (1847) Sirius Black* (1868) m. Hesper Gamp (1870) Phineas Black (1869) - disowned Cygnus Black (1871) m. Violetta Bulstrode (1880) Belvina Black (1874) m. Herbert Burke (1869) Arcturus Black (1877) m. Lysandra Yaxley (1884)

Sirius Black* (1868) m. Hesper Gamp (1870) Arcturus Black* (1891) m. Melania Macmillan (1893) Lycoris Black (1894) - no data in Black Family Tree on HP Lexicon Regulus Black (1896) - no data

Arcturus Black* (1891) m. Melania Macmillan (1893) Lucretia Black (1925) m. Ignatius Prewett Orion Black* (1926) m. Walburga Black (1925)

Orion Black* (1926) m. Walburga Black (1925) Sirius Black* (1959) Regulus Black (1961)

Cygnus Black (1871) m. Violetta Bulstrode (1880) Pollux Black (1900) m. Irma Crabbe (1905) Cassiopeia Black (1903) - no data in BFT Marius Black (1910) - disowned Dorea Black (1920) m. Charlus Potter

Pollux Black (1900) m. Irma Crabbe (1905) Walburga Black (1925) m. Orion Black* (1926) Cygnus Black (1927) m. Druella Rosier (1927) Andromeda Black (1941) m. Byron Travers (1924)

Cygnus Black (1927) m. Druella Rosier (1927) Bellatrix Black (1950) m. Rodolphus Lestrange (1943) Alphard Black (1953) Narcissa Black (1955) m. Lucius Malfoy (1954)

Andromeda Black (1941) (ex w/ Edward “Ted” Tonks (1940)) m. Byron Travers (1924) Nymphadora Travers (1960)

Malvolio Travers (1895) m. Cressida Rowle (1901) Byron Travers (1924) m. Freya Nott (1925-1958) Malcolm Travers (1948) Claudius Travers (1949)

Joseph Tonks (1919-1957) m. Elizabeth “Elsie” Flanagan (1920) Edward “Ted” Tonks (1940) (ex w/ Andromeda Black (1941) Nymphadora Travers (1960)

*refers to oldest son/heir