The Black Prince tried to recover his losses by raising taxes in Aquitaine, which prompted them to appeal to the King of France. |
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The merchants who owned the goods claimed that the King of Almain was the lord of the town, and the Bishop could not do justice in the matter. |
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In 1363, Haakon VI married Margaret, the daughter of King Valdemar IV of Denmark. |
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The Romantic Era that followed the reign of King Charles III John brought some significant social and political reforms. |
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Although all government and parliamentary acts are decided beforehand, the privy council is an example of symbolic gesture the King retains. |
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In 1390, King Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince appointed his uncle John of Gaunt Duke of Aquitaine. |
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Additionally, the King and government are represented in every county by a fylkesmann, who effectively acts as a Governor. |
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As it was not retroactive, the current successor to the throne is the eldest son of the King, rather than his eldest child. |
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Confessor reflects his reputation as a saint who did not suffer martyrdom, as opposed to King Edward the Martyr. |
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King Magnus I of Norway aspired to the English throne, and in 1045 and 1046, fearing an invasion, Edward took command of the fleet at Sandwich. |
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In the 1230s King Henry III became attached to the cult of Saint Edward, and he commissioned a new life by Matthew Paris. |
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King Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in early September, leading a fleet of more than 300 ships carrying perhaps 15,000 men. |
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The two earls had rushed to engage the Norwegian forces before King Harold could arrive from the south. |
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William was acclaimed King of England and crowned by Ealdred on 25 December 1066, in Westminster Abbey. |
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Members of King Harold Godwinson's family sought refuge in Ireland and used their bases in that country for unsuccessful invasions of England. |
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The practice of slavery was not outlawed, and the Leges Henrici Primi from the reign of King Henry I continue to mention slaveholding as legal. |
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There are indications that Robert may have been briefly betrothed to a daughter of King Cnut, but no marriage took place. |
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In 1051 the childless King Edward of England appears to have chosen William as his successor to the English throne. |
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It may have been Norman propaganda designed to discredit Harold, who had emerged as the main contender to succeed King Edward. |
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The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations. |
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The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark. |
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Although William returned to York and built another castle, Edgar remained free, and in the autumn he joined up with King Sweyn of Denmark. |
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Edgar, having lost much of his support, fled to Scotland, where King Malcolm III was married to Edgar's sister Margaret. |
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King Philip of France later relieved the siege and defeated William at Dol, forcing him to retreat back to Normandy. |
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Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip. |
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Early Norman kings of England, as Dukes of Normandy, owed homage to the King of France for their land on the continent. |
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Bethencourt took the title of King of the Canary Islands, as vassal to Henry III of Castile. |
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Fighting was inconclusive before Gaunt agreed a treaty with King Juan of Castile. |
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Henry's mother, firstly married to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, was the eldest daughter of Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy. |
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Surprisingly, Henry instead turned to King Stephen, who paid the outstanding wages and thereby allowed Henry to retire gracefully. |
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The royal court was gathered in April 1155, where the barons swore fealty to the King and his sons. |
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In the 1160s King Diarmait Mac Murchada was deposed as King of Leinster by the High King of Ireland, Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair. |
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Word then reached Henry that King William had been defeated and captured by local forces at Alnwick, crushing the rebel cause in the north. |
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Philip of Flanders declared his neutrality towards Henry, in return for which the King agreed to provide him with regular financial support. |
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The empire was established by Henry II, as King of England, Count of Anjou, and Duke of Normandy. |
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One may therefore ask how King Henry II and his sons, in spite of their many wars, possessed so much treasure. |
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Alfonso II the King of Aragon, himself having interests there, joined the war. |
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Edward in turn claimed the entire Kingdom of France as the only grandson of King Philip IV of France. |
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In 1362, King Edward III, as Lord of Aquitaine, made his eldest son Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince of Aquitaine. |
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Richard was born on 8 September 1157, probably at Beaumont Palace, in Oxford, England, son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
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He was a younger brother of Count William IX of Poitiers, Henry the Young King and Duchess Matilda of Saxony. |
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As the third legitimate son of King Henry II, he was not expected to ascend the throne. |
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His elder brother Henry the Young King was crowned king of England during his father's lifetime. |
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Henry the Young King and the Count of Flanders planned to land in England to assist the rebellion led by the Earl of Leicester. |
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The King travelled to Anjou for this purpose, and Geoffrey dealt with Brittany. |
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Richard was discouraged from renouncing Alys because she was the sister of King Philip II of France, a close ally. |
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Finally, in 1183 Henry the Young King and Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, invaded Aquitaine in an attempt to subdue Richard. |
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With the death of Henry the Young King, Richard became the eldest surviving son and therefore heir to the English crown. |
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Overall, Howden is chiefly concerned with the politics of the relationship between Richard and King Philip. |
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Two days later Henry II died in Chinon, and Richard the Lionheart succeeded him as King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Count of Anjou. |
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Richard caused himself to be crowned King of Cyprus, and Berengaria Queen of England and of Cyprus, too. |
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Among his childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain, son of King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall. |
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Although the endowments King Henry made were sizeable, they offered Edward little independence. |
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When the King left for France in November, Edward's behaviour turned into pure insubordination. |
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The next year, King Henry sent him on a campaign in Wales against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, with only limited results. |
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It was at this pivotal moment, as the King seemed ready to resign to the barons' demands, that Edward began to take control of the situation. |
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These included the castles of Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech, intended to act both as fortresses and royal palaces for the King. |
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The King seems to have hoped that this would help in the pacification of the region, and that it would give his son more financial independence. |
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Edward took a keen interest in the stories of King Arthur, which were highly popular in Europe during his reign. |
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The King now had full backing for collecting lay subsidies from the entire population. |
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There was some resistance, but the King responded by threatening with outlawry, and the grant was eventually made. |
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As the King left the country with a greatly reduced force, the kingdom seemed to be on the verge of civil war. |
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Clement was a Gascon sympathetic to the King, and on Edward's instigation had Winchelsey suspended from office. |
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There is also a great difference between English and Scottish historiography on King Edward. |
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Yet, the French never invaded England and France's King John II died in captivity in England. |
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Shortly after this, on 17 October, an English army defeated and captured King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross. |
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Edward's claim on the French throne was based on his descent from King Philip IV of France, through his mother Isabella. |
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The King of Spain was a grandson of the deceased emperor, but the electors thought him to be a foreigner as much as the French king. |
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Magna Carta was however novel in that it set up a formally recognised means of collectively coercing the King. |
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Despite this, the King appealed to Pope Innocent for help in July, arguing that the charter compromised the Pope's rights as John's feudal lord. |
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The young King inherited a difficult situation, with over half of England occupied by the rebels. |
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In exchange for agreeing to support Henry, the barons demanded that the King reissue Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. |
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The barons anticipated that the King would act in accordance with these charters, subject to the law and moderated by the advice of the nobility. |
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King Edward I reissued the Charters of 1225 in 1297 in return for a new tax. |
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Brady realised that the liberties of the Charter were limited and argued that the liberties were the grant of the King. |
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However, by 1211 King John recognised the growing influence of Prince Llywelyn as a threat to English authority in Wales. |
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As King John was an enemy of the church, Pope Innocent III gave his blessing to Llywelyn's revolt. |
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Henry had wanted John to be crowned King of Ireland on his first visit in 1185, but Pope Lucius III specifically refused permission. |
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Instead of paying homage to the French king, as his ancestors had done, Edward claimed that he was the rightful King of France. |
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Those women lite up they were so excited they were all over themselves we did it girls we made the King happy and Diane to. |
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Many, therefore, who did not assent to all that the King had said, joined in a loud hum of approbation when he concluded. |
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King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage. |
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Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling. |
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King James delighted to chop logic and theology with the doctors of the university. |
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I did not always agree with Malcolm X, specifically his critiques of Dr King and of the philosophy of nonviolent resistance. |
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They came forward from the first, unconscripted, free devoters of their energies and abilities to the cause of their King and Country. |
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Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament. |
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Jon Snow is the legitimate heir to the Targaryen line, by the old rules, of the old government, which was dissolved and reshaped by King Robert. |
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The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel. |
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Fredrick the Great, Elector of Brandenburg and King of Prussia, commanded the most powerful electorate in the Empire. |
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Wee heard the King was solacing at the Caspian Sea, whither now wee are travelling. Till then let us keepe an Ephemerides or day-journey. |
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To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity. |
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This republican union was dissolved automatically with the restoration of King Charles II to the thrones of England and Scotland. |
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With a rumpled, folksy manner, he held court for years in the smoke-filled beer hall of the King Louis Hotel in Calgary. |
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King Gyanendra must gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies. |
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He styled himself King of Great Britain, although this had no basis in English law. |
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It was written in Cumbric or Old Welsh and contains the earliest known reference to King Arthur. |
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He was the third of five sons of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
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By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms. |
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War ensued and King John was deposed by Edward who took personal control of Scotland. |
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Although this poorly sited earlier platform dated back to the 1550s, it is now referred to as King Charles's Castle. |
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During the Dark Ages the island was settled by Jutes as the pagan kingdom of Wihtwara under King Arwald. |
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During the English Civil War, King Charles fled to the Isle of Wight, believing he would receive sympathy from the governor Robert Hammond. |
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That year John Cabot, also a commissioned Italian, got letters patent from King Henry VII of England. |
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The murder of the Archbishop gave rise to a wave of popular outrage against the King. |
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This had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. |
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Westminster Abbey, rebuilt in the Romanesque style by King Edward the Confessor, was one of the grandest churches in Europe. |
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Idris, the first High King, had silvery eyes in a face lined with years of bright laughter and unspeakable sorrow. |
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John Goss, who wrote the hymn tune for Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven, came from Fareham. |
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His brother Tostig and Harold Hardrada, King of Norway, attempted a takeover in the north, having won the Battle of Fulford. |
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The King of England marched North where the two armies met at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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The King was defeated at Hastings, which led to the Norman conquest of England. |
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He then became King Henry VII and married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Yorkist Edward IV, ending the wars. |
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From the time of King John onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of Rex or Regina Anglie. |
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Impetus for this incorporating union came almost entirely from King William, who feared leaving Scotland open to a French invasion. |
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For his part, King William III had given only lukewarm support to the whole Scottish colonial endeavour. |
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In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joining Scotland with England in a personal union. |
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Sheriffs, originally appointed by the King as royal administrators and tax collectors, developed legal functions. |
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From the reign of King James I a legal profession began to develop and the administration of criminal and civil justice was centralised. |
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After that King George III lost control of Parliament and was unable to continue the war. |
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With the regicide of King Louis XVI in 1793, the French Revolution represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations. |
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In 829 he conquered Mercia, driving its King Wiglaf into exile, and secured acknowledgement of his overlordship from the king of Northumbria. |
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Henry was proclaimed King of Ireland by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542, an Act of the Irish Parliament. |
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In this fashion, the Kingdom of Ireland was ruled by the reigning King of England. |
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In 1603 James VI King of Scots became James I of England, uniting the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in a personal union. |
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Since the 12th century, the King of England had been technical overlord of the Lordship of Ireland, a papal possession. |
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However, King George III was bitterly opposed to any such Emancipation and succeeded in defeating his government's attempts to introduce it. |
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However King George III blocked emancipation, arguing that to grant it would break his coronation oath to defend the Anglican Church. |
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From 1927 the Irish Government alone had the power to advise the King whom to appoint. |
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It was to the King in Ireland, not specifically to the King of the United Kingdom. |
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The Chronicle, commissioned by King Alfred the Great, drew on earlier oral traditions and on the few written fragments available. |
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However, after the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I, peace was largely established. |
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The survey provided the King with information on potential sources of funds when he needed to raise money. |
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When the Treasury moved to the Palace of Westminster, probably under King John, the book went with it. |
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For this reason therefore they parted with great dissatisfaction, and the King Malcolm returned to Scotland. |
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A popular legend is that the name comes from King Lot, who is king of Lothian in the Arthurian legend. |
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His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. |
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All of the Irish kingdoms had their own kings but were nominally subject to the High King. |
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Religious allegiance now determined the perception in law of loyalty to the Irish King and Parliament. |
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The famous cleric Gerald of Wales tells, in his Descriptio Cambriae, a story of King Henry II of England. |
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Shakespeare's plays contain several tales relating to these legendary kings, such as King Lear and Cymbeline. |
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Stonehenge has changed ownership several times since King Henry VIII acquired Amesbury Abbey and its surrounding lands. |
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Some historians, particularly Josephus, claim that Claudius was directed in his actions by the Judaean King Herod Agrippa. |
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At this time King Khosrov I of Armenia, also sent hostages, money and gifts. |
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King John granted the city's first charter in 1212, confirming trading rights in England and Europe. |
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According to Geoffrey, Cole was King of the Britons when Constantius, here a senator, came to Britain. |
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They had their son Constantine, who succeeded his father as King of Britain before becoming Roman Emperor. |
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Still others maintain that only a particular translation is inerrant, such as the King James Version. |
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The Reformation in England began in 1534, when King Henry VIII had himself declared head of the Church of England. |
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In his version, Lucius is the son of the benevolent King Coilus and rules in the manner of his father. |
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King Oswiu presided over the synod and acted as the final judge, who would give his royal authority in support of one side or the other. |
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This controversial figure was given land by King Wulfhere to build a monastery at Lichfield. |
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The saltire as a symbol of Mercia may have been in use since the time of King Offa. |
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The arms were subsequently used by the Abbey of St Albans, founded by King Offa of Mercia. |
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Gildas states that the Saxons were completely defeated in the battle, in which King Arthur participated according to Nennius. |
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Essex reverted to Paganism again in 660 with the ascension of the Pagan King Swithelm of Essex. |
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Finally King Osmund bought the land from his comes Erra and granted it to a religious woman known as Tidburgh. |
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In 765 and 770 grants are made by a King Osmund, the latter one was later confirmed by Offa of Mercia. |
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Earlier in the same year he witnessed a charter of King Ethelred the Unready as Eaduuine dux. |
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According to the 12th century author Sven Aggesen, the mythical King Dan gave name to the Danes. |
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But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe. |
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A prominent statue of King Alfred the Great stands in the middle of Pewsey. |
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King Burgred of Mercia then negotiated peace with Ivar, with the Danes keeping Nottingham in exchange for leaving the rest of Mercia alone. |
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Under Ivar the Boneless, the Danes continued their invasion in 869 by defeating King Edmund of East Anglia at Hoxne and conquering East Anglia. |
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King Alfred was saved when the Danish army coming from his rear was destroyed by inferior forces at the Battle of Cynuit. |
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The Danes were defeated and retreated to Chippenham, where King Alfred laid siege and soon forced them to surrender. |
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In order to establish peace, King Burhred of Mercia ceded Nottingham to the Danes in exchange for leaving the rest of Mercia undisturbed. |
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King Burgred of Mercia fought in vain against the Ivar the Boneless and his Danish invaders for three years until 874, when he fled to Europe. |
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She is succeeded by her brother, the Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex united in the person of King Edward. |
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King William eventually defeated his forces and devastated the region in the Harrying of the North. |
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In 934 Olaf Guthfrithson succeeded his father Guthfrith as the Norse King of Dublin. |
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His nephew Edgar called himself King of the English and revived the claim to rule over all the peoples of Britain. |
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He then succeeded his cousin as King of Dublin, but after a heavy defeat in battle in 947, he was once again forced to try his luck elsewhere. |
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Whether King Sweyn was a heathen or not, he enlisted priests and bishops from England rather than from Hamburg. |
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King Harald died childless in 1018 or 1019, leaving the country without a king. |
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He is equally at home over and under the waves, bringing some chosen ones, like Connla and Bran and the great King Cormac, to visit him in the Apple Isle, the Land of Promise. |
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Firstly, the King was authorised to issue a royal proclamation within six months of the Act's passing, authorising him to alter the royal style and titles. |
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Wherefore King Ban and King Bors made them ready, and dressed their shields and harness, and they were so courageous that many knights shook and bevered for eagerness. |
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The young Henry accompanied King Richard to Ireland, and while in the royal service, he visited Trim Castle in County Meath, the ancient meeting place of the Irish Parliament. |
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In the early 12th century Geoffrey of Anjou married Empress Matilda, King Henry I's only surviving legitimate child and heir to the English throne. |
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From 1180 to 1183 the tension between Henry and Richard grew, as King Henry commanded Richard to pay homage to Henry the Young King, but Richard refused. |
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Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis. |
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At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent. |
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Following Agincourt, Sigismund, then King of Hungary and later Holy Roman Emperor, made a visit to Henry in hopes of making peace between England and France. |
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If King had any wit he would have included a scene where a burka-clad Samantha performs the dance of the seven veils for one of her many smitten studs. |
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They're so dateless that Burger King will not offer them a job. |
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The conflict paused briefly in June 1183 when the Young King died. |
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To draw Stephen's forces away from Wallingford, Henry besieged Stephen's castle at Malmesbury, and the King responded by marching west with an army to relieve it. |
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King Charles III John, who came to the throne of Norway and Sweden in 1818, was the second king following Norway's break from Denmark and the union with Sweden. |
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England was ruled by King John, the third of the Angevin kings. |
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The High King was drawn from the ranks of the provincial kings and ruled also the royal kingdom of Meath, with a ceremonial capital at the Hill of Tara. |
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King Haakon and the Norwegian government escaped to Rotherhithe in London. |
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Additionally, an oath of allegiance to the King was to be taken. |
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King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. |
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Herman Stowell King, a long-time gafiate and collector, turned up in the local Sunday paper with a well-written review of Whitley Streiber's The Forbidden Zone. |
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John also began recruiting mercenary forces from France, although some were later sent back to avoid giving the impression that the King was escalating the conflict. |
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In the parliament of 1301, the King was forced to order an assessment of the royal forests, but in 1305 he obtained a papal bull that freed him from this concession. |
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In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee. |
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The King offered to submit the problem to a committee of arbitration with the Pope as the supreme arbiter, but this was not attractive to the rebels. |
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They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye. |
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King should feel a bit hard done by after being replaced in the team. |
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The weather was extremely hot, the King was increasingly ill and he appears to have wanted to die peacefully in Anjou rather than fight yet another campaign. |
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After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, it was constitutionally established that King and Parliament should rule together, though Parliament would have the real power. |
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As a result, he was succeeded by his brother John as King of England. |
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In the past the English kings would have to submit to the King of France. |
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Louis VII's daughter, Margaret, who was still a baby, was betrothed to Henry's heir, his eldest son, Henry the Young King with a dowry of the Norman Vexin. |
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When King Edward died at the beginning of 1066, the lack of a clear heir led to a disputed succession in which several contenders laid claim to the throne of England. |
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Robert I battled to restore Scottish Independence as King for over 20 years, beginning by winning Scotland back from the Norman English invaders piece by piece. |
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William le Poer, coroner of Scilly, is recorded in 1305 as being worried about the extent of wrecking in the islands, and sending a petition to the King. |
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In 1149, before Henry II became powerful, he made an oath to David that the lands north of Newcastle should belong to the King of Scotland forever. |
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Not to mention the least, Raymond V was married to Louis VII's sister therefore attacking Toulouse would have endangered the policy of peace with the King of France. |
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The young Edward was accompanied by his mother Isabella, who was the sister of King Charles, and was meant to negotiate a peace treaty with the French. |
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Vast territories in eastern England were overrun and occupied by the Vikings and the Danish King, Canute, eventually succeeded to the English crown. |
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After a week in Portugal, he set sail for Spain and on 15 March 1493 arrived in Barcelona, where he reported to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. |
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He then negotiated directly with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to move the line west, and allowing him to claim newly discovered lands east of it. |
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He wrote to King Theuderic II of Burgundy and to King Theudebert II of Austrasia, as well as their grandmother Brunhild, seeking aid for the mission. |
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In 1497, newly crowned King Manuel I of Portugal sent an exploratory fleet eastwards, fulfilling his predecessor's project of finding a route to the Indies. |
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By 1516 several Portuguese navigators, conflicting with King Manuel I of Portugal, had gathered in Seville to serve the newly crowned Charles I of Spain. |
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But he soon learned that his men on the coast had been attacked, and decided to hostage Moctezuma in his palace, demanding a ransom as tribute to King Charles. |
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In 1580 Philip II became King of Portugal, as heir to the Crown. |
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He represented this to the King of Spain as the Terra Australis incognita. |
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Through the educational reforms of King Alfred in the ninth century and the influence of the kingdom of Wessex, the West Saxon dialect became the standard written variety. |
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The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead. |
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The customary laws of Wales within the Kingdom of England were abolished by King Henry VIII's Laws in Wales Acts which brought Wales into legal conformity with England. |
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Gregory thanked King Chlothar II of Neustria for aiding Augustine. |
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William faced difficulties in his continental possessions in 1071, but in 1072 he returned to England and marched north to confront King Malcolm III of Scotland. |
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Richard was crowned King Richard I of England in Westminster Abbey in November 1189, and had already been installed as Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou and Duke of Aquitaine. |
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The two lion kings, William the Lion, King of Scotland, and Richard, opened negotiations to revoke the Treaty of Falaise and an agreement was reached. |
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The barons were trying to force John to keep to the charter, but clause 61 was so heavily weighted against the King that this version of the charter could not survive. |
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To address the growing power of the Count of Anjou, Geoffrey Martel, William joined with King Henry in a campaign against him, the last known cooperation between the two. |
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After the death of King Eadred in 955, England was divided between his two sons, with the elder Edwy ruling in Wessex while Mercia passed to his younger brother Edgar. |
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The reformist barons argued their case based on Magna Carta, suggesting that it was inviolable under English law and that the King had broken its terms. |
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When King Richard II was overthrown in 1399, antagonism between the House of York and the House of Lancaster, both branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, began to emerge. |
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In 710 Sussex was still under West Saxon domination when King Nothhelm of Sussex is recorded as having campaigned with Ine in the west against Dumnonia. |
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A plan from 1344 to revive the Round Table of King Arthur never came to fruition, but the new order carried connotations from this legend by the circular shape of the garter. |
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Harold, perhaps to secure the support of Edwin and Morcar in his bid for the throne, supported the rebels and persuaded King Edward to replace Tostig with Morcar. |
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The French King and his brother Charles of Anjou, who had made himself King of Sicily, decided to attack the emirate to establish a stronghold in North Africa. |
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In 1209 Prince Llywelyn joined King John on his campaign in Scotland. |
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King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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His grandson King Eadred seems to have suffered from a similar illness. |
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The Royal Navy has named one ship and two shore establishments HMS King Alfred, and one of the first ships of the US Navy was named USS Alfred in his honour. |
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Charles initially did not agree to the Petition of Right, and refused to confirm Magna Carta in any way that would reduce his independence as King. |
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At the ceremony where Richard's betrothal was confirmed, he paid homage to the King of France for Aquitaine, thus securing ties of vassalage between the two. |
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It came into being when the Parliament of Ireland passed the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 and proclaimed King Henry VIII of England as King of Ireland. |
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This the Scottish King did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in the war against France. |
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Henry II returned to France and raised the siege of Rouen, where Louis VII had been joined by Henry the Young King after abandoning his plan to invade England. |
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William immediately attacked the rebels and drove them from Remalard, but King Philip gave them the castle at Gerberoi, where they were joined by new supporters. |
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As King Edward's heir, he controlled all of the former royal lands. |
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This relationship eventually produced closer ties of blood through the marriage of Emma, sister of Duke Richard II of Normandy, and King Ethelred II of England. |
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When Edward of Caernarfon demanded an earldom for his favourite Gaveston, the King erupted in anger and supposedly tore out handfuls of his son's hair. |
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Under Article 12 of the Treaty, Northern Ireland could exercise its option by presenting an address to the King requesting not to be part of the Irish Free State. |
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King Malcolm III of Scotland married Edgar's sister Margaret, and came into opposition to William who had already disputed Scotland's southern borders. |
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He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. |
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