| In February 1878 Pius IX died but one month after allowing Victor Emanuel II to receive the viaticum during the king's final bout with malaria. |
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| The young king's head began to ache, and he took of his crown, a delicate woven wreath of gold. |
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| She threatened that Queen Saraelye herself would come to fry them, and their asininity would justify it in their king's eyes. |
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| The financial structure of the Empire, with its king's land, crown land, royalties, burdens and gifts, is extremely difficult to disentangle. |
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| We may note the menseful way in which Beowulf acts as regent for the deceased king's young sons. |
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| The five key political parties called the 48-hour strike Tuesday to protest the king's seizure of executive powers. |
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| The battle was turned into a rout as soldiers struggled to carry the king's body to the castle. |
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| The king's wife finds out his secret, and on the sly sends for the two children in the king's name. |
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| The intricately beaded calabashes and carvings indicate this tribal king's royal status. |
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| The medieval parliament and king's court often sat under its carved angels and it was from here that the kingdom was ruled. |
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| Honor was permanently surrendered for the king's shilling as otherwise decent men chose to become informers. |
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| Englishmen were notoriously litigious, but that represented a willingness to submit to the arbitration of the king's courts. |
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| He was the independent master of a peasant household, whose position was protected by the king's law. |
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| He sees something magic in it, scientific magic, like being touched by the king for the king's evil. |
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| Dressed in an ever deeper purple, the king's robe was adorned with silver fox around the neckline. |
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| The charm made in Blackmore Vale Dairy was good against the king's evil and tubercular wounds. |
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| The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's pyramid but were only small rectangular tombs or mastabas. |
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| The king's carriage waited just off the bridge, escorted by two mounted men at arms, one on either side. |
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| A king's day had to be perfectly timed so that the officers serving the monarch knew exactly what they should do, when, and how. |
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| He's more East End than a Limehouse jellied eel in a pearly king's whistle. |
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| Dried blood caked the front of the late king's clothes and the broken hand which still clutched his sword. |
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| As a reward she is allowed to choose her husband and names Bertram, who unwillingly obeys the king's order to wed her. |
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| Her forceful personality and ease in the spotlight complemented the king's serious, thoughtful demeanour. |
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| He died in 1945 and the well-kept secret came to light only 50 years after the king's death when the doctor's private diary was opened. |
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| Back at the king's court, many warily watched the cardinal's rapid rise to power. |
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| While showering Taylor with jewels worth a king's ransom, he also gave generously to friends such as Smith. |
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| There have been reports both in this country and Australia suggesting that we were about to pay a king's ransom. |
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| A friend lost a king's ransom and asked me to look into the circumstances, and what I found was disturbing. |
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| The President had no option but to dissolve the House and order a mid-term poll which cost the exchequer a king's ransom. |
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| All of a sudden Muriel got her handbag and went up to him and gave him a king's ransom. |
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| While these industry titans get paid a king's ransom whether they succeed or fail, job security is a thing of the past. |
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| When he went against the king's orders and refused to slay a band of barbarian captives, he was promptly put under arrest. |
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| The library has shelves built into the inner recesses of the walls to house the king's collection of books. |
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| The crowd cheered and applauded, their downtrodden spirits uplifted once more at their chosen king's words. |
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| Khan said a large number of people in Nepal said the king's recent action was not in keeping with constitutional monarchy. |
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| His vast influence in the north-east made Charles I appoint him king's lieutenant in the north. |
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| Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers. |
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| Alas, not all of the energy within the king's body could heal, nor revive his beloved wife and queen. |
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| If the woodcutter finds the key and opens the door, he will win the hand of the king's daughter in marriage and all his riches. |
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| These antes that are paid for dealt cards go to the king's pot, which is placed near the king's hand. |
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| The balefires have been rekindled by the high king's messengers, and the land awaits the moment when winter will begin to ebb. |
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| Maud, William the Conqueror's queen, held the town and soke as part of the king's demesne. |
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| The next day it voted to remonstrate yet again against the king's reply to the protestations of the thirteenth. |
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| Taking his privilege as a dying man and the king's uncle, Gaunt remonstrates with him, calling him England's landlord rather than her king. |
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| They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on. |
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| They included interpreters, smiths to mint coins, and Munshi to write the king's Persian correspondence to the Mughal governor of Kashmir. |
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| So, too, is David trapped when the prophet Nathan uses a story to catch his king's conscience. |
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| Secondly, the king's lord chancellor was holding a masquerade about the traits of the perfect woman. |
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| By day, they gathered to denounce royal policy, while at night they expected to eat, drink, and make merry at the king's expense. |
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| She came to a stop outside the outer door to the king's privy chamber, swallowing hard. |
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| Yet when the dust finally settled, the new bishop of St Andrews was the king's chancellor. |
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| The king's absolute authority over the country at large was embodied in a handful of omnicompetent executive agents, the intendants. |
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| Thus disguised as a maiden, Achilles is introduced as his sister into the court of Lycomedes and there joins the company of the king's daughters. |
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| And when she opened it, she found garments beset with gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter. |
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| Then I went quickly to the king's chambers, escorted by the gentleman usher. |
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| By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council. |
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| Still their king's command they feared, and pressed around with arms upreared. |
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| They fell upon the king's soldiers because of the licentious conduct they had been allowed under Herod's government. |
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| The extremes of heaven's height and earth's depth are used to illustrate the unsearchableness of a king's heart. |
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| If anything, the reign of Henry VII marked as much the triumph of the king's courtiers in politics as of the king himself. |
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| Edward IV and Henry VII restored their authority by attainders and forfeitures coupled to the rigorous exploitation of the king's feudal rights. |
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| Now it happened that the lot fell on the only son of a widow who approached the close of her life, and who lived near the king's stronghold. |
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| But, they remain tight-lipped, to wait and silently revel in the king's stupidity. |
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| At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight. |
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| He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant. |
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| Parliament selected a regency council that excluded the king's uncle and leading lord, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. |
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| And reaching the king's bedchamber, she unrobed at once, and went into bed. |
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| The Rajguru, the king's main political advisor, is a man with a colossal ego and doesn't like Raman stealing his thunder. |
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| A contributory factor to the Wars of the Roses was another period of regency caused not by the king's age, but by his insanity. |
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| On the point of losing everything to the rebels, the king's triumphant emergence in the theater of war helps push back the enemy and offers a possibility of victory. |
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| The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre. |
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| At the time, I thought we had paid a king's ransom for the place. |
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| Erik smiled weakly and breathed his last in his king's arms. |
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| While all the king's horses and all the king's men do build this grand and mighty structure, the sound of their hammers echoes limitlessly in the hollow within. |
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| Another of the king's sniveling nobles had noticed, however, that she slipped out of his house long after candles had been snuffed and fires extinguished. |
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| In a tiny cottage near the king's palace there once lived an old man, his wife, and his son, a very lazy fellow, who would never do a stroke of work. |
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| They resolved that the king's bench had acted arbitrarily and illegally. |
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| No king touched so much for the king's evil, that class of unpleasant glandular and scrofulous disorders that kings were reputed to be able to cure. |
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| The allodium was held as an unconditional gift rather than as a fief, although the beneficiary was expected to be at the king's disposal in future military campaigns. |
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| The king's servant ran and brought them two goblets filled with wine. |
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| He has done me a great service, and I be under monstrous obligations to him, but he be, nathless, the Outlaw of Torn and I the daughter of an earl and a king's sister. |
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| Their lands and tenements should be seized into the king's hands. |
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| Strength and honor were the king's clothing, not armor and chain mail. |
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| Having stood for pre-selection and having been elected as a member of the Howard Government, the member for Kooyong has indeed taken the king's shilling. |
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| He is at his best when relieving a skinflint widow of her wealth, sorting out a king's love life or abandoning a band of raggle-taggle Gypsies to become an itinerant actor. |
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| Also present are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king's unfortunately clueless lackeys and subjects of Tom Stoppard's work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. |
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| Mainly you want to concentrate on attacking him to serve mainly as a distraction for moving your king's pawns as quickly forward as possible to attain a few more queens. |
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| At that time it began to be occupied by the king's burgraves. |
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| It is hardly a king's ransom, but it could make all the difference. |
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| The ambassador's servants quickly righted the man and helped him to his place at the high table, a few chairs down from the king's immediate left. |
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| Livra's words had set a bell tolling the death knell in the king's head. |
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| Although this was done, duplicates remained with the king's remembrancer. |
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| Tycho also found time to provide an annual astrological almanac for King Frederick and to write detailed reports on the horoscopes of the king's children. |
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| With sovereignty diffused from the king's body out into the multiple bodies of the nation, the old codes of readability broke down and new ones had to be elaborated. |
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| The Kongo king's power derived from being the apex of the trading system. |
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| The survival of chancery records from 1199 onwards permits historians to look, for the first time, into the daily routine of the king's government at work. |
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| It is land set aside for the king's game, in which the nourishment of deer, wild swine and hares took precedence over the nourishment of human beings. |
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| The regency was led by Count Magnus de la Gardie, the king's uncle. |
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| They blabbed about their time in the desert, became zillionaires and ruined it for everyone who fancied earning a bit more than the king's shilling. |
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| In Ireland the justiciar was the king's chief representative in the 13th cent. until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant. |
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| In 1720 the Scottish adventurer John Law had attempted to set up a state bank on the promise of overseas trading profits, and had paid the king's debts in banknotes. |
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| The sternum was found to have been sawn open from top to bottom, permitting removal of the king's heart after death. |
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| It described the patriotic acts of both Sir James, the Black Douglas and Walter the Steward, the king's father, in their support of Bruce. |
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| These complaints damaged the king's standing within the Council leading to criticism of his ability to curb Buchan's activities. |
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| Finally, however, there came a point in July 1461 when the king's physicians concluded that Charles would not live past August. |
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| Beaton's claim was based on a version of the late king's will that his opponents dismissed as a forgery. |
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| The office was a development from the practice in earlier times when minstrels and versifiers formed part of the king's retinue. |
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| Llywelyn restored his lands to Rhys, but the king's envoys approached Maredudd and offered him Rhys's lands if he would change sides. |
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| Gildas obeyed the king's summons and travelled all over the island, converting the inhabitants, building churches, and establishing monasteries. |
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| After Gwgon's death, Rhodri, husband to the dead king's sister Angharad, became steward of his kingdom. |
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| The first part of the laws deal with the rights and duties of the king and the officers of the king's court. |
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| In late 1062 Harold Godwinson obtained the king's approval for a surprise attack on Gruffydd's court at Rhuddlan. |
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| Hardrada's army was further augmented by the forces of Tostig, who supported the Norwegian king's bid for the throne. |
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| The fyrd was composed of men who owned their own land, and were equipped by their community to fulfil the king's demands for military forces. |
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| Without the king's direction, he took Llywelyn Bren to Cardiff Castle where he had him hanged, drawn and quartered without a proper trial. |
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| He was chosen to accompany one of the king's sons, John, in 1185 on John's first expedition to Ireland. |
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| Over time, some of the king's vassals would grow so powerful that they often posed a threat to the king. |
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| Austrasia was again neglected until, in 633, the people demanded the king's son as their own king again. |
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| In 1862, Britain decided to transfer the islands to Greece, as a gesture of support intended to bolster the new king's popularity. |
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| When asked to come to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods, they murdered the official. |
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| In 1489, out of gratitude for services and loans, Maximilian I awarded Amsterdam the right to adorn its coat of arms with the king's crown. |
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| This concession was a problem for the king since Charles was the puppet of the king's enemies. |
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| Discovering what was happening, Richard decided to attack the French king's forces, catching Philip by surprise. |
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| Richard carried on a factional struggle with the king's Beaufort relatives. |
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| Lord Boyd's son Thomas was made Earl of Arran and married to the king's sister Mary. |
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| Not finding King John II in Lisbon, Columbus wrote a letter to him and waited for the king's reply. |
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| By the time Vasco da Gama was in his 20s, the king's plans were coming to fruition. |
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| Politically he was the king's spokesman, supporting union with Norway, a platform that acquired him enemies among the chiefs. |
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| Instead the Witenagemot, the assembly of the kingdom's leading notables, would convene after a king's death to select a successor. |
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| Thus instead of becoming the king's protector, Hammond found himself his gaoler. |
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| In the king's secret correspondence in the summer of 1648, he wrote of Hammond's incivility. |
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| Osborne asserted that Hammond's second in command, Major Rolph, had plotted against the king's life, and that the governor was cognizant of it. |
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| From 1377 onwards the king's falconry birds were kept in the King's Mews at Charing Cross. |
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| In the hierarchy of the church, bishops and abbots looked to the patronage of the king's palace, where the sources of patronage and security lay. |
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| Considered the greatest scholar of his day, he became the king's confidant and adviser. |
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| Nobles elected a king's successor, and it was common for the successor to be of a different family as his predecessor. |
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| For each one is given the name of the king and of this king's father, which makes clear that none of them was a son of the previous king. |
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| To regulate the king's power, all future kings took an oath to uphold the law. |
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| The weregild for a Welshman was 220 shillings if he owned at least one hide of land and was able to pay the king's tribute. |
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| Snorri returned home, and although he soon became the country's most powerful chieftain, he did little to enforce the king's will. |
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| In 1142, once again, a king's son arrived in Norway from west of the North Sea. |
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| No nation would swap territory with other states simply, for example, because the king's daughter married. |
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| The Portuguese army was defeated and only escaped destruction by surrendering Prince Ferdinand, the king's youngest brother. |
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| Nonetheless, the captain was formally the king's representative and highest authority on his ship. |
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| A king's expedition arrived in and pillaged Lisbon in 798, probably concerted with the Carolingians. |
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| The royal family was taken to Bago, Burma, with the king's second son Mahinthrathirat installed as the vassal king. |
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| Their power struggles continued, but at court under the king's watchful eye. |
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| As a result of this policy, the king's wives usually numbered in the dozens. |
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| He was made captain of the Fortress of Hormuz and the Portuguese king's special magistrate for Indian affairs. |
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| The charter was granted with the king's condition that the Leiden group's religion would not receive official recognition. |
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| The people eat their bodies, and make great account of their skins, for their king's coat was made of them. |
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| This curia was the king's court, composed of those advisers and courtiers who followed the king as he travelled around the country. |
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| Gilbert Thornton, the chief justice of the king's bench made an epitome of it. |
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| And if the marks could not be collected because of poverty, they would be collected in the hundred for deposit in the king's treasury. |
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| Through such raiding, the Zambo gained a more dominant position and the king's domain was inhabited primarily by Zambos. |
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| Title VI Judicial Power, Article 117, Articles 122 through 124, outlines the king's role in the country's independent judiciary. |
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| In the Middle Ages, the Earl Marshal and the Lord High Constable were the officers of the king's horses and stables. |
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| Anne reinstituted the traditional religious practice of touching for the king's evil that had been eschewed by William as papist superstition. |
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| Instead, he requested that the cabinet declare him unable to reign for a day, which it did, thereby assuming the king's constitutional powers. |
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| Transportation continued to be described as a public exhibition of the king's mercy. |
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| There was also growing outrage at the king's insensitivity to social differences. |
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| In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes. |
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| Han Fei did win the king's heart, but not before Li Si forced him to commit suicide by drinking poison. |
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| The king's death and cremation was to inspire the creation of an order of nuns. |
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| In 1130 the civil war era broke out on the basis of unclear succession laws, which allowed all the king's sons to rule jointly. |
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| The reduction in taxes weakened the king's position, and many aristocrats lost the basis for their surplus, reducing some to mere farmers. |
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| Instead, he was captured by the king's enemies and beheaded and his head was set up on high battlements. |
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| At the king's coronation feast, several subtleties were served between main courses. |
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| A ZULU king's security measures were deflated after a nail pierced a bulletproof tyre on his armoured car. |
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| The group wants the last Yorkist king's remains to be re-interred in York Minster as they believe that was the monarch's wish. |
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| Across the country, Jordanians were anxious about the prospect of the king's death. |
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| If they decide to stay, then they should realise that accepting the king's shilling brings certain obligations. |
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| But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn. |
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| Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours. |
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| This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. |
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| I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. |
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| More important for Brienne than the king's disengagement and eeyorish bad temper, however, was the consistency of the queen's favour. |
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| The king's judges would then return to London and often discuss their cases and the decisions they made with the other judges. |
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| Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld. |
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| Early Scottish coins were similar to English ones, but with the king's head in profile instead of full face. |
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| The king's supporters were unable to suppress the rebellion and the king refused to compromise. |
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| The king's body was sent north for reburial, in the reign of his son Alexander, at Dunfermline Abbey, or possibly Iona. |
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| After the reconquest by Edward the Elder the king's representative in Essex was styled an ealdorman and Essex came to be regarded as a shire. |
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| In such cases, the Vikings were extremely vulnerable to pursuit by the king's joint military forces. |
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| The Grately code included a provision that there was to be only one coinage across the king's dominion. |
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| Another see in the king's favour was Winchester, second only to the Canterbury see in terms of wealth. |
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| Harald's army was further augmented by the forces of Tostig, who threw his support behind the Norwegian king's bid for the throne. |
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| This would have been considered tampering with the king's authority over his vassals, which William would not have tolerated. |
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| His mother married Henry VII's uncle Jasper Tudor, and his wardship was entrusted to the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. |
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| The king's income had declined seriously and royal control over the mints remained limited. |
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| Richard and his forces aided in the capture of Acre, despite the king's serious illness. |
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| Citing ongoing hostilities and the English king's harbouring of his enemies, Llywelyn refused to do homage to Edward. |
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| The perennial problem, however, was the status of Gascony within the kingdom of France, and Edward's role as the French king's vassal. |
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| One source of contention was the king's inactivity, and repeated failure, in the ongoing war with Scotland. |
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| Another controversial issue was the king's exclusive patronage of a small group of royal favourites. |
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| In 1337, Philip VI confiscated the English king's duchy of Aquitaine and the county of Ponthieu. |
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| In particular, criticism was directed at some of the king's closest advisors. |
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| Then, as a result of the king's ill health, Henry began to take a wider share in politics. |
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| John pursued the Black Prince, who tried to avoid battling the French king's superior force. |
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| In 1573, the king's brother, Henry, Duke of Anjou, was elected King of Poland. |
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| The death of the king's brother, in 1584, meant that the Huguenot King of Navarre had become heir presumptive to the throne of France. |
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| The political community preferred this to a regency led by the king's uncle, John of Gaunt, although Gaunt remained highly influential. |
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| With the king indisposed, York was again appointed Protector, and Margaret was shunted aside, charged with the king's care. |
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| At the Battle of Northampton on 10 July, the Yorkist army under Warwick defeated the Lancastrians, aided by treachery in the king's ranks. |
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| They raised an army that defeated the king's forces at the Battle of Edgecote Moor. |
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| Cromwell continued to gain the king's favour when he designed and pushed through the Laws in Wales Acts, uniting England and Wales. |
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| His domination of the Privy Council, the king's most senior body of advisers, was unchallenged. |
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| The money so extracted added to the king's personal fortune rather than the stated purpose. |
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| Edward V was too young to rule and a Royal Council was established to rule the country until the king's coming of age. |
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| Richard's spies informed him of Buckingham's activities, and the king's men captured and destroyed the bridges across the River Severn. |
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| Even though Lord Stanley had served as Edward IV's steward, his relations with the king's brother, the eventual Richard III, were not cordial. |
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| It was said that the blows were so violent that the king's helmet was driven into his skull. |
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| Northumberland and his men fled north on seeing the king's fate, and Norfolk was killed. |
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| Given the king's desperate desire for a son, the sequence of Anne's pregnancies has attracted much interest. |
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| This was effectively ended with the appointment of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and the king's son, as lord lieutenant. |
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| However, the promises made to them by the Duke of Suffolk were ignored on the king's orders. |
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| They were, by the king's will, to be members of the regency council on his death. |
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| Over 1539, the king's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, negotiated a potential alliance with the Duchy of Cleves. |
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| The details of his former behaviour towards Elizabeth emerged, and for his brother and the king's council, this was the last straw. |
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| Once summoned, a parliament's continued existence was at the king's pleasure, since it was subject to dissolution by him at any time. |
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| Unlike a guilty finding in a court case, attainder did not require a legal burden of proof, but it did require the king's approval. |
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| In the meantime both Parliament and the King agreed to an independent investigation into the king's involvement in Strafford's plot. |
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| Those who signed the petition undertook to defend 'the true reformed religion', Parliament, and the king's person, honour, and estate. |
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| The impeachment was the first since 1459 without the king's official sanction in the form of a bill of attainder. |
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| It assembled on 3 November 1640 and quickly began proceedings to impeach the king's leading counsellors of high treason. |
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| On the day after the execution, the king's head was sewn back onto his body, which was then embalmed and placed in a lead coffin. |
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| The king's son, Charles II, later planned for an elaborate royal mausoleum to be erected in Hyde Park, London, but it was never built. |
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| Churchill was eventually told by the First Sea Lord Admiral Battenberg that the king's decision must be treated as final. |
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| After the king's execution in January 1793, these powers, along with Spain and most other European states, joined the war against France. |
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| The king's army was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne and at the militarily crucial Battle of Aughrim in Ireland. |
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| Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king's ransom of diamonds. |
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| The terms steward, warden and forester appear to be synonymous for the king's chief officer of the royal forest. |
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| However, in reality, the king's rule only ever extended to parts of the island. |
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| Problems also came for Edward from the resentment caused by the king's introduction of Norman friends. |
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| One characteristic that the king's tun shared with some other groups of places is that it was a point of public assembly. |
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| In 1103, then, Anselm consented to journey himself to Rome, along with the king's envoy William Warelwast. |
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| His success prompted the king's son, Alhfrith, to appoint him Bishop of Northumbria. |
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| By this, Fisher was condemned to forfeit all his personal estate and to be imprisoned during the king's pleasure. |
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| The king's exact words are in doubt and several versions have been reported. |
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| Near Wakefield Tower was a postern gate which allowed private access to the king's apartments. |
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| The Rose Tower, designed for the king's private use, set off the west corner of the range. |
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| He sent the goblets to the king, the jewels to the queen and the brooch to the king's daughter. |
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| Later authors have Merlin serve as the king's advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake. |
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| Most of the aristocracy preferred this to a regency led by the king's uncle, John of Gaunt, yet Gaunt remained highly influential. |
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| Another member of the close circle around the king was Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who in this period emerged as the king's favourite. |
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| The king's duty was to be head over the military, to deal with foreign politics and also to decide on controversies between the gentes. |
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| Cromwell became the king's secretary in 1534, controlling all aspects of government, including artistic propaganda. |
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| The king's marriage in July 1543 to the reformist Catherine Parr, whose brother Holbein had painted in 1541, established Denny's party in power. |
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| Beowulf, a young warrior from Geatland, hears of Hrothgar's troubles and with his king's permission leaves his homeland to assist Hrothgar. |
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| On 12 July 1389, Chaucer was appointed the clerk of the king's works, a sort of foreman organising most of the king's building projects. |
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| A porter opens the gate and Macbeth leads them to the king's chamber, where Macduff discovers Duncan's body. |
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| At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking. |
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| At length, Donne acceded to the king's wishes, and in 1615 was ordained into the Church of England. |
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| Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance. |
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| Hunton had maintained that the king's prerogative is not superior to the authority of the Houses of Parliament. |
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| George's son, the Duke of Cumberland, commanded the king's troops in northern Germany. |
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| The ceremony included the laying on of hands by a senior cleric and the recitation of the king's genealogy. |
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| Bismarck used the king's telegram, called the Ems Dispatch, as a template for a short statement to the press. |
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| In some instances, the king's wife was simply unable to join him in the coronation ceremony due to circumstances preventing her from doing so. |
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| As a consequence, the Royal Arms of England and Scotland were combined in the king's new personal arms. |
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| Kings had their own brehons to deal with cases involving the king's own rights and to give him legal advice. |
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| This arrangement was seen as expedient, however, as Godwin had been implicated in the murder of Alfred, the king's brother. |
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| Concerning the king's feudal court, such deliberation could include the question of declaring war. |
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| The combination of de Valence's pressure from the south and the king's advance into the north was too much for the Welsh forces. |
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| Captain Henry King, sailing on the Elizabeth, landed on 2 March to find the king's colours already flying. |
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| The Edicts of Ashoka established constitutional principles for the 3rd century BC Maurya king's rule in Ancient India. |
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| He befriended the king's niece, Princess Victoria Kaiulani, who also had a link to Scottish heritage. |
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| The parliament, like other such institutions, evolved during the Middle Ages from the king's council of bishops and earls. |
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| The younger Alexander died on 28 January 1284, leaving only the king's granddaughter Margaret living out of his descendants. |
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| It remained in the king's hands until 1312 when Robert the Bruce granted the earldom of Moray to his nephew, Thomas Randolph. |
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| At the time of the king's death, there was no issue from his latest marriage. |
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| His Milanese physician, Maino De Maineri, did criticise the king's eating of eels as dangerous to his health in advancing years. |
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| The king's body was carried east from Cardross by a carriage decked in black lawn cloth, with stops recorded at Dunipace and Cambuskenneth Abbey. |
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| The loyalist reaction and the king's seizure of the shrievalty and the corporation made for the bitterest political battle since the restoration. |
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| A king's personal name and throne name were always written in ovals we call cartouches. |
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| The king's thegns were told to divide this half into four parts, the first of which would support the poor and needy of any race who came to him. |
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| Crucially, these silver pennies bore the king's name on the obverse and that the moneyer on the reverse. |
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| His concluding analysis places particular emphasis on the significance of various manifestations of the king's titulary. |
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| One wore a headdress of dentalia shells and was presumed to have been the king's wife. |
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| The king's stuttering problem was moderate and didn't show secondary characteristics, but I thought it did show the impact disfluency can have. |
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| Hoping to stir baronial opposition to weak King John, Godfrey worms his way into the king's service as Earl Marshal. |
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| Clarendon's enemy, Lord Arlington, became the favourite of the king and began to cooperate with the king's brother James, Duke of York, the Lord High Admiral. |
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| The king's contention was that flogging, fines, degradation, and excommunication, beyond which the spiritual courts could not go, were insufficient as punishment. |
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| Bracton gave samples of writs that could be used in the case of a recalcitrant Bishop who refused to produce a witness for the common law or king's court. |
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| The king's palace was located on the southern side of the square. |
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| Pinto similarly was betrayed by a mercenary, captured by the Burmese and placed under the charge of the king's treasurer who took him to the kingdom of Calaminham. |
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| In the Classic period, such trophy heads no longer appeared on the king's belt, but Classic period kings are frequently depicted standing over humiliated war captives. |
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| Although the crown's plans for both the Toluca and Veracruz portions of the king's highway were ambitious, the actual results saw improvements only for a localized network. |
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| These officials had to submit to the king's command when war broke out. |
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| The major characteristic of Prester John tales from this period is the king's portrayal not as an invincible hero, but merely one of many adversaries defeated by the Mongols. |
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| According to the saga, many Norsemen objected to the Norwegian king's unification politics and thus fled to other countries, including the newfound places in the west. |
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| Ricardians, as the king's latter-day adherents are called, have a long and sometimes distinguished lineage stretching back to Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century. |
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| These armies were subject to the king's call for military support. |
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| His reputation for ruthlessness further undermined the king's position. |
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| Many Castilians favoured the king's younger brother Ferdinand, who grew up in Castile, and in fact the Council of Castile opposed the idea of Charles as King of Castile. |
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| It was probably in the king's interest to have the Isle of Wight under control of someone trustworthy as it was a prime target for further attack from abroad. |
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| In particular his attempt to claim the vacant earldom of Mar led to the intervention of the powerful George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, on the king's side. |
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| This wedding took place without the king's approval or permission. |
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| When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walter, died on 13 July 1205, John became involved in a dispute with Pope Innocent III that would lead to the king's excommunication. |
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| Frankish paganism has been observed in the burial site of Childeric I, where the king's body was found covered in a cloth decorated with numerous bees. |
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