Perhaps there should be a rule that princes only become monarch if there are no princesses, and that all Governors General be female? |
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Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
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Is that so bad if Rual wants to read about elegant princes saving beautiful princess from danger? |
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There are the kings and queens, princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, and barons. |
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They all had expensive appointments and untold luxuries for the knights, lords, dukes and princes who served the king. |
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The naturally defensible site may even have been a prehistoric hillfort, and was certainly a stronghold of the Welsh princes. |
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Frequently visited by princes and high ecclesiastics, the monastery soon became famous. |
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All of these brothers, all of these princes, it just sounds like it would be inevitably a nest of plots and counterplots, ambitions and current. |
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In June 1960 a group of princes signed a memorandum calling for a constitutional monarchy. |
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I can read the lives of dukes and of princes in nice picture books by the comfort of my own fireside. |
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In the eighteenth century, the Phanariotes were appointed hospodars, or princes, of the Romanian provinces Moldavia and Wallachia. |
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But the lofty merchant princes had fallen hard, the priests had shuffled off, and the profane durwans took over. |
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The church of Rome and its Italian princes had deeply disgraced themselves by their conduct to the unhappy Vaudois. |
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Hagen told Gunther how Siegfried won treasure from the Nibelungs, two brothers and mighty princes named Schilbung and Nibelung. |
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Crusader princes, atabeqs, emirs and even Saladin himself had been forced to come to terms with them or suffer the consequences. |
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Seth and Bridget were standing in one corner of the ballroom socializing with the other princes and princesses from other kingdoms. |
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Similar developments were evident in the incomes of the lesser princes and lords, both lay and clerical. |
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In theory, all the princes in the Holy Roman Empire were subservient to the emperor. |
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Wallachia and Moldavia became tributaries of the Ottoman Empire from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but kept their own princes. |
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Politicians, princes and bigwigs of every stripe vied for a place in their circle and were roundly rejected. |
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To the strains of an ancient crusader hymn, the princes of the church led the pontiff into the square. |
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Both princes are styled Highness, rather than Royal Highness, as the latter is used only for the heir apparent and his or her children. |
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Clerics from the wealthiest churches and cathedrals had robes as fine as any worn by nobles and princes. |
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But despite the commanders, the dukes, marquises knights and princes it is the common cateran who has left his mark. |
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Only the king could appoint people to it and normally only princes of the blood, senior prelates and magnates were allowed to join. |
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The sovereign body empowered kings, princes and optimates and could remove them. |
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The people were governed by hereditary princes called Sao-Phas who ruled in as many as forty different principalities. |
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I used to sneak into bars when I was 18 with some Saudi princes who were studying in the States. |
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If princes ought not to conduct themselves according to the dictates of conventional morality, how ought they to conduct themselves? |
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The Muscovite tsars rose to power during Mongol rule not by fighting the Golden Horde, but conspiring against other Russian princes. |
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Altogether, 36 members of the royal family attended, including the princes William and Harry. |
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Indian royal ritual and garments with their glittering gold work and flamboyant colours were adopted by Indonesian ruling princes. |
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He had spent his life in India, for the most part as a political agent at the courts of Indian princes. |
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He was also remarkably a versatile actor, excelling equally well at noble princes and light-hearted rogues. |
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The West Saxon kings used Kent as a sort of appanage to be ruled as subkingdoms by West Saxon princes. |
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When they choose to get involved, though, it is almost always on the side of the anarchs instead of the princes. |
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Of all Europe's princes today, Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre must be one of the most amiable and likeable. |
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But let us hope the exhibitions and installations also bring forth some modern merchant princes. |
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Georgian may be the last word in chic for today's online merchant princes, but doubtless they'd have found the real thing a bit grim. |
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However important the preached word was to the mendicants and the late medieval princes of the pulpit, it was still ancillary to the sacraments. |
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Whether forced or voluntary, Roman emperors, kings and queens, hereditary princes and grand dukes and, yes, even popes have abdicated. |
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They had been introduced to most of the guests at the ball, the counts and countesses, princes and princesses, kings and queens. |
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At this time it was necessary for scientists to obtain patronage from their kings, princes or rulers. |
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Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities. |
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And behind his eyes are towers and jewels and djinn, carpets and rings and wild afreets, kings and princes and cities of brass. |
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The sun king was, however, reluctant to call upon the services of the princes of the blood. |
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I mean, doesn't everyone think Witches are mythical old hags who ride broomsticks and turn princes into frogs? |
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The princes of Italy have lost their kingdoms due to their reliance upon mercenary or auxiliary armies. |
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While the oil-rich sheikhs and Saudi princes are treated like, well, royalty, what are those lowlier types in business and economy class eating? |
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Other princes and princesses fly a standard with the royal arms in an ermine border. |
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The official guest list named at least 70 kings, queens, grand dukes, princes, counts and lesser nobles. |
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Once the proud residences of merchant princes and princelings, they have fallen sadly from grace. |
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Their princes, or khans, made capital and court at Karabalghasun on the River Orkhon in present-day Mongolia. |
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These examples show that the princes on the throne of Kiev were obliged to get on well with Karakalpaks. |
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Rather than temper their hunting, the kings, princes and sheikhs are seeking to produce their own supply of houbaras. |
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Although he feels the princes were betrayed by the government when the privy purses were abolished, he has a positive way of looking at it. |
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It was plain as soon as I was ushered into each man's presence that these were not mere business leaders, but princes of the blood. |
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It was headed by the grand officers of the crown and the gentilhommes d' honneur of the princes of the blood. |
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This played into the hands of the dukes, princes and landholders who had no desire to share political power. |
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Since most Fantasy stories have a medieval slant, this has resulted in a lot of wars between kings and lords and princes and demonic forces. |
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It was intimidating being in the presence of princes and princesses, even though they ranged from Sasha's seventeen to Alois' fifty-nine. |
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Once upon a time, India's princes and princesses lived in the kind of wealth you would only find in fairy tales. |
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Shades of yellow that included brown were the prerogative of the princes and princesses. |
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After the princes and their state had subordinated the church, sometimes in violent conflicts, it was allowed to keep its privileged and parasitic existence. |
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In fact the diorama of the Sultan's durbar could have been taken from an illustration of the court of one of the old princes of God's Own Country! |
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Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people, it is no wonder why states by encouraging marriage, advance their own interests. |
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These princes of Transylvania, as well as their successors in the following century, were all eager to prepare the liberation of Hungary from both Germans and Turks. |
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In 1163, he attempted to firmly define his rights as feudal overlord of the Welsh princes by demanding oaths of vassalage from them at the Council of Woodstock. |
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The ranks snapped to attention before the princes with a silence that gave the effect not of noiselessness but of waiting, of repressing, a great noise to come. |
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Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings. |
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Ugly sisters and wicked stepmothers, handsome princes and beautiful princesses are all culprits in making some children grow up with low self-esteem, say the US academics. |
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We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after. |
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In the medieval times, most patronage came from the Church but the ruling classes, the kings, princes and nobles, made up a second group of patrons. |
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These displays of generosity were used by princes to bind their subjects to themselves, promoting a culture based on the granting of gifts in exchange for loyalty and service. |
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Many princes and dukes have come, seeking your hands in marriage. |
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The seriousness with which the Beijing government now looked at the situation is shown by the appointment of these two princes of the blood to rescue Nanjing. |
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The Opera House is still the great highlight, while at the end of Andrassy ut is Heroes Square where the seven princes of the Magyar tribes are commemorated. |
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Popes ceased to be temporal princes and concentrated on spiritual matters. |
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This was once the place of royal summer retreat, and there is a wealth of stories about the kings, queens, princes and princesses who spent time here. |
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This was supposed to be an End of Watch reunion, with jake Gyllenhaal playing one of the princes. |
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He is little known among Cambodians as he has spent most of his life overseas and has never engaged in politics, unlike several other Cambodian princes. |
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If the princes were quietly sent abroad for safekeeping, they probably resurfaced later, one at a time, to claim the throne. |
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If yachting was the focus of social life during the daytime, at night bronzed shoulders rubbed together in the villas and mansions of various tycoons and princes. |
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She was the eldest daughter of the wealthiest of Exeter's merchant princes according to contemporary tax assessments, and mayor of Exeter at the time of his murder. |
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The Martin factor has changed the dynamic in Cork South-Central and the merchant princes have been deposed as the dominant force on the southside of the city. |
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After all, isn't that what merchant princes like Whitaker have done? |
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From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom. |
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A man of the people, he was unawed by popes but often too awed by princes. |
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While the royal girlfriends have remained constant, the princes are also unstintingly loyal to their favorite nightspots. |
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When combined with the conspicuous deployment of troops and liberal dispensation of patronage to the other princes and Court grandees it was enough to ensure victory. |
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He was now an author of world renown, a baronet, the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders. |
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Family shrines are denuded as children of princes, chiefs, priests, village headmen, and elders slough off ancient beliefs and sell or burn a heritage they abhor. |
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Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes. |
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In short, the young princes arguably had an unqualified right of succession to the British throne, a right that was much stronger than their uncle. |
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The Dutch tried to put it together and were able to keep it together through playing sultans and local princes and potentates off against one another for several centuries. |
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And our concerns that perhaps some of the princes were shaken down by blackmail to provide funds that have fueled a very large-scale international terrorist network. |
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Who needs a Subway Series when you've got the pompadoured rockabilly boys of Union Pool going head to head with the tattooed punk princes of Sweetwater in your own back yard? |
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In India the factiousness and feebleness of native princes combined with the rapacity of the French and English East India Companies to create a volatile situation. |
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He has pulled the princes from their thrones and exalted the humble. |
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The agreement came too late to free Prussia to pursue all she wanted with her full strength in Poland, but it left the Rhenish princes and electors at the Republic's mercy. |
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He has spent much of his political life battling with and resenting the princes. |
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On a hillside in leafy Caucade, within spitting distance of Nice airport, is the last home of poets, princes, and countesses, all of them Russian. |
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He oversaw a brutal regime, aimed at instilling respect, deference and acceptance of duty into the princes. |
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The frogs would rain down on him, land with a plop, gaze up at his smile and become princes. |
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They came together in a variety of salons, private academies, libraries and the like, enjoying the discreet but effective patronage of princes, ministers, and aristocrats. |
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The other is that, when it comes to assessing the behaviour of princes, even the shrewdest observers are largely condemned to judge by appearances. |
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Instead, the loot was retained for the benefit of the despicable Emir Al-Sabah IV and a few hundred gluttonous Kuwaiti princes. |
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After his accession, Robert continued Norman support for the English princes Edward and Alfred, who were still in exile in northern France. |
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The Jesuits became preachers, confessors to monarchs and princes, and humanist educators. |
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Alfred's relations with the Celtic princes in the western half of Britain are clearer. |
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Peace was short lived and, with the 1282 Edwardian conquest, the rule of the Welsh princes permanently ended. |
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The area of the March varied as the fortunes of the Marcher Lords and the Welsh princes ebbed and flowed. |
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Victoria marked the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June with a banquet to which 50 kings and princes were invited. |
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The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes. |
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Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. |
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As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. |
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The word Andriana has often formed part of the names of Malagasy kings, princes and nobles. |
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The first class, the Council of Electors, consisted of the electors, or the princes who could vote for King of the Romans. |
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By 1216 he was the dominant power in Wales, holding a council at Aberdyfi that year to apportion lands to the other princes. |
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Edward and Harold were then able to impose vassalage on some Welsh princes. |
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In the early stages of the war, Edward's strategy was to build alliances with other Continental princes. |
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Publicly, he replied that he could not accept a crown without the consent of the actual states, by which he meant the princes. |
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Privately, he feared opposition from the other German princes and military intervention from Austria or Russia. |
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Despite holding the imperial throne, Charles's real authority was limited by the German princes. |
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In 1552 Protestant princes, in alliance with Henry II of France, rebelled again, which caused Charles to retreat to the Netherlands. |
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It was printed in an edition of 700 copies and distributed to be coloured and pasted on the walls of city halls or the palaces of princes. |
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Cossacks were usually organized by Ruthenian boyars or princes of the nobility, especially various Lithuanian starostas. |
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After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Russian princes started to see themselves as the heirs of the Byzantine Empire. |
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Charles V continued to battle the French and the Protestant princes in Germany for much of his reign. |
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There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown. |
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Leading soldiers and officials received income and land from the princes in return for their political and military services. |
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Edward defeated the local Welsh princes in a major campaign and set about permanently colonising the area. |
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Some were ruled by princes or other hereditary rulers, some were governed by bishops or abbots. |
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He also had two Macedonian princes from the region of Lyncestis killed, but spared a third, Alexander Lyncestes. |
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Only Tancred of the crusader princes remained with the aim of establishing his own lordship. |
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The Qing eventually sent the seventeen Ming princes still living in Taiwan back to mainland China where they spent the rest of their lives. |
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We must go through life unloved and uncherished, bringing princes into the world, seeing happiness and love just beyond our reach all the time. |
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After the fall of Baghdad in 1258, a few of Abbasid princes fled to Syria and Egypt. |
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After several battles, the two princes made peace, whereby Yaroslav married Mstislav's daughter. |
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Gegeen was assassinated in a coup involving five princes from a rival faction, perhaps steppe elite opposed to Confucian reforms. |
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Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees. |
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The court of the Golden Horde returned the princes as a peace overture to the Yuan Dynasty in 1282 and induced Kaidu to release Kublai's general. |
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As was customary in Mongol military tradition, all princes of Genghis's line had to attend the kurultai to elect a successor. |
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The invasion was met by an alliance of all the Welsh princes, with Owain as the undisputed leader. |
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The other Welsh princes, who had supported King John against Llywelyn, soon became disillusioned with John's rule and changed sides. |
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It was destroyed, date uncertain, either by one of the princes of the Kirman Seljuk, or by the Mongols. |
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The Taman peninsula remained in the control of the de Ghisolfi family, but the princes of that clan now reported to the Bank. |
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It is now seventeen years since I came to serve these princes with the Enterprise of the Indies. |
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However, the princes of Europe were slow in responding to the call of the pope, largely due to their own national rivalries. |
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The Welsh recaptured Gwynedd in 1115, and Caernarfon Castle came into the possession of the Welsh princes. |
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They are ruled by many kings and princes who live in peace with each other. |
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His reign was fraught with battles with other Welsh princes and with Henry II of England. |
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However, it was evident that from time to time local revolts, led by local princes or kings, took place. |
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Maurice also provided diplomatic support, pressing both the Protestant German princes and James I to come to Frederick's aid. |
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In the early days of the Reformation, the revolutionary potential of bulk printing took princes and papacy alike by surprise. |
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Individual princes have also held additional titles, which were theirs prior to becoming Prince of Wales. |
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In the Punjab, the Sikh princes crucially helped the British by providing both soldiers and support. |
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Only a handful of native princes had their claim to the overlordship of Wales recognised by the English Crown. |
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Llywelyn called up the other princes for a campaign against him and drove him out of southern Powys once more. |
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Various princes of the Holy Land arrived in Limassol at the same time, in particular Guy de Lusignan. |
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All the dukes and princes that ever stepped foot in America, never deserved a tenth part of the attention which is due to Prof. Agassiz. |
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He is considered to be the most successful of all the North Welsh princes prior to his grandson, Llywelyn the Great. |
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Instead of only societies most elite, such as caliphs and princes, information was something that was offered to everyone. |
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In 1483 the princes were publicly declared illegitimate by a cleric. |
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Of the other princes, only Tancred remained with the ambition to gain his own princedom. |
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Before the English built the town of Conwy, Aberconwy Abbey, the site was occupied by a Cistercian monastery favoured by the Welsh princes. |
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Situated to the north east of Brittany, the earliest princes are mentioned in several Lives of the Saints. |
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Kakukan was a clerical official at Ninnaji, a Shingon temple in northern Kyoto, which was historically headed by cloistered imperial princes. |
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As already noted, they were typically located on sites that had been associated with the former Welsh princes. |
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The mental illness of Charles VI of France allowed his power to be exercised by royal princes whose rivalries caused deep divisions in France. |
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This standard is mainly used for the wives of British princes, or members of the Royal Family who have not yet been granted their own arms. |
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Throughout this period the Lombard princes swung in allegiance from one party to another. |
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However, Llywelyn's territorial ambitions gradually made him unpopular with some minor Welsh leaders, particularly the princes of south Wales. |
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Parliament managed to negotiate treaties with the princes of German states for large sums of money, in exchange for mercenary troops. |
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With the princes in the hands of their uncle, Margaret, now expecting a child by Angus, retired to Edinburgh. |
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He divided Wales into new military districts, which he then allocated either to regional tribal princes or to officers of the limitanei. |
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Despite Gustavus' open-handed dealing, many princes of Europe did not trust him. |
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The most important such support came from the subsidiary alliances with Indian princes during the first 75 years of Company rule. |
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The Pope and the German princes had surfaced as major players in the political system of the empire. |
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Victoria was aware of the various matrimonial plans and critically appraised a parade of eligible princes. |
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Lairds reigned over their estates like princes, their castles forming a small court. |
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The first alludes to the story as recorded by Boece who relates that in 855 Scotland was invaded by two Northumbrian princes, Osbrecht and Ella. |
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Francis I of France sought allies from all quarters, including with German Protestant princes and Muslims. |
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The new class of lawyers staffed the bureaucracies that were beginning to be required by the princes of Europe. |
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The collection was in the tradition of a schatzkammer or treasure house such as those formed by the Renaissance princes of Europe. |
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The German Enlightenment won the support of princes, aristocrats and the middle classes and it permanently reshaped the culture. |
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Many of the lesser Welsh princes who had supported Llywelyn now hastened to make peace with Edward. |
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Konrad of Masovia gave Chelmno to the Teutonic Knights in 1226 as a base for Crusade against the local Polish princes. |
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In 1618 he became chaplain to Viscount Doncaster, who was on an embassy to the princes of Germany. |
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Welsh law usually applied in the Welsh Marches as well as the areas ruled by Welsh princes. |
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In 1238, Llywelyn held a council at Strata Florida Abbey where the other Welsh princes swore fealty to Dafydd. |
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It also had the permanent consequence of empowering German princes at the expense of the German emperors. |
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The Spanish princes married the heirs of Portugal, England and the House of Habsburg. |
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There were also civil service offices to oversee the affairs of imperial princes. |
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In the third century Jordanes claims that the Marcomanni paid tribute to the Goths, and that the princes of the Quadi were enslaved. |
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After they were declared bastards, the two princes were confined in the Tower of London and never seen in public again. |
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Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. |
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From princes to presidents to pop stars, these are the famous faces who have come a cropper on a Segway. |
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Finally, the political authority of the German princes had started to grow, constraining the independence of the merchants and Hanseatic towns. |
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In the second half of the 14th century, Tver was further weakened by dynastic struggles between its princes. |
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The two young princes disappeared within the confines of the Tower of London. |
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Such forms are not used by peers and princes, except when the names of the former are written out in their fullest forms. |
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They were received at the courts of sultans, kings, and princes, and often were employed as ambassadors, envoys, or agents. |
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Yermak, taking advantage of this lull in hostilities, set out down the Irtysh and Ob to complete his subjugation of the local tribal princes. |
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The Huguenots held the southwest and were allied to England and the princes of Germany. |
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They considered the House of Bourbon, princes of the blood, as their natural enemies. |
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This was the feudal system, in which new princes and kings arose, the greatest of which was the Frank ruler Charlemagne. |
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With the creation of permanent Slavic states in Kievan Rus', in Bohemia and Poland, the highest authority was passed to dukes and princes. |
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Francis supported the conversion of the German princes to Protestantism, as it increased his potential allies against the emperor. |
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Burgundy, the most powerful of the princes and peers, naturally took power in his hands. |
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Edward's initial strategy is to ally with Flanders and the princes of the Empire. |
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Their deaths left the majority of the magnates younger and more naturally aligned to the princes than to the king himself. |
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The debacle in Russia loosened the French grip on the German princes. |
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Ruling princes often endorsed and fostered these figures and even attempted to apply their ideas of government in what was known as enlightened absolutism. |
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In general, the Lombard princes were less inclined to ally with the Saracens than with their Greek neighbours of Amalfi, Gaeta, Naples, and Sorrento. |
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By the 13th century, earls had a social rank just below the king and princes, but were not necessarily more powerful or wealthier than other noblemen. |
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The title of duke was reintroduced in Sweden in 1772 and since this time, Swedish princes have been created dukes of various provinces, although the titles are purely nominal. |
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The Hanseatic League sought civil and commercial privileges from the princes and royalty of the countries and cities along the coasts of the Baltic Sea. |
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By early 1282, many of the lesser princes who had supported Edward against Llywelyn in 1277 were becoming disillusioned with the exactions of the royal officers. |
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The Norman lords each had similar rights to the Welsh princes. |
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The other aspect of the tradition was the professionalism of the poets and their reliance on patronage from kings, princes and nobles for their living. |
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From the time of the Reformation, many northern German princes, resenting the authority of the Emperor, used Protestantism as a flag of rebellion. |
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The title of Le'ul Ras was accorded to the heads of various noble families and cadet branches of the Solomonic dynasty, such as the princes of Gojjam, Tigray, and Selalle. |
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The second class, the Council of Princes, consisted of the other princes. |
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Edward and his allies amongst the Welsh princes soon began to quarrel, and in early 1282 rebellion broke out, led by Llwelyn's brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd. |
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Llywelyn was forced to seek terms and to give up all lands west of the River Conwy, but was able to recover them the following year in alliance with the other Welsh princes. |
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In 1216, Llywelyn held a council at Aberdyfi to adjudicate on the territorial claims of the lesser princes, who affirmed their homage and allegiance to Llywelyn. |
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Stability under the princes of Powys enabled Wrexham to develop as a trading town and administrative centre of one of the two commotes making up the Lordship. |
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The king had ordered an inquiry into the rents and other dues to which the princes had been entitled, and these were enforced by the new officials. |
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The number of princes rebelling just prior to their 30th year may even indicate that they were required to assert their rights at that point or lose them. |
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There were conflicts between the barons and the families descended from the Welsh princes, and control of the land passed to and fro in the Welsh Marches. |
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Until the reign of Jonas, the rulers of Domnonia were titled princes. |
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All the native Welsh princes were to be vassals of Llywelyn and it is from this point that the independent history of the kingdom of Gwynedd comes to an end. |
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But the appanages given to the Valois princes, in imitation of the succession law of the monarchy that gave them, limited their transmission to males. |
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In Wales, Henry used his power to coerce and charm the indigenous Welsh princes, while Norman Marcher Lords pushed across the valleys of South Wales. |
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The number of princes is estimated to be at least 7,000, with most power and influence being wielded by the 200 or so male descendants of Ibn Saud. |
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This left a vacuum of power in Wales in which princes and kings were free to squabble over their lands, without the unifying presence of Gruffudd to ward off Norman attacks. |
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Later sources related how he gained an unclear form of homage from the two most powerful princes of Wales, Rhys ap Gruffydd and Owain Gwynedd, along with the king of Scotland. |
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These commercial connections enriched Rus' merchants and princes, funding military forces and the construction of churches, palaces, fortifications, and further towns. |
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Among other purposes, the reports conveyed to the Indian princes that Britain would not wage war on them, along with demanding that the HEIC recall Hastings. |
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Seris explains in a great amount of detail the extent to which Poliziano's poetry operates as a means to monumentalize the lives and deeds of princes. |
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You are, Oh Spain, holy and always happy mother of princes and peoples, the most beautiful of all the lands that extend far from the West to India. |
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Harold returned many of the Welsh princes their lands, so that after Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings, Wales was again divided without a leader to resist the Normans. |
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On 19 November, a grand ceremony was held where the Yongle Emperor bestowed gifts to princes, civil officials, military officers, and the ambassadors of 18 countries. |
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Kublai's force pursued Nayan, who was eventually captured and executed without bloodshed, by being smothered under felt carpets, a traditional way of executing princes. |
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This rebellion forced Kublai to approve the creation of the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat on December 4, 1287, while rewarding loyal fraternal princes. |
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The hostages included two of his sons, several princes and nobles, four inhabitants of Paris, and two citizens from each of the nineteen principal towns of France. |
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Yermak was then able to secure tribute from the eight other princes. |
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Former kingmakers are now forced to cozy up to uncrowned princes. |
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The Emperor was enthroned, and the Indian princes paid homage to him. |
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Was he not Rajah Hassim and was not the other a man of strong heart, of strong arm, of proud courage, a man great enough to protect highborn princes? |
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Comparatively early in his reign, according to Asser, the southern Welsh princes, owing to the pressure on them from North Wales and Mercia, commended themselves to Alfred. |
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Edward III married all his sons to wealthy English heiresses rather than following his predecessors' practice of finding continental political marriages for royal princes. |
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He persuaded Henry that safety from political alliances that Rome might attempt to bring together lay in negotiations with the German Lutheran princes. |
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He allied with the Franks by his marriage to Audofleda, sister of Clovis I, and married his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Visigoths, Vandals and Burgundians. |
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During the Hohenstaufen period, German princes facilitated a successful, peaceful eastward settlement of lands that were uninhabited or inhabited sparsely by West Slavs. |
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Several Emperors attempted to reverse this steady dissemination of their authority, but were thwarted both by the papacy and by the princes of the Empire. |
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The princes of Saxony, for example, carried out an impressive series of fundamental fiscal, administrative, judicial, educational, cultural and general economic reforms. |
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One ritual involved seven princes with milk offerings who ascended the stairs with 20 female shamans and offered prayers, sprinkling the statues with the sacred milk. |
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Kublai's Chinese staff encouraged Kublai to ascend the throne, and almost all the senior princes in North China and Manchuria supported his candidacy. |
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By the end of the century, Samoothiri was at the zenith of his powers with all princes and chieftains of Kerala north of Kochi acknowledging his suzerainty. |
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The Kingdom was established by Arab princes in the 10th century who in 1262 came under the suzerainty of Persia, before becoming a client state of the Portuguese Empire. |
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Nuncios had been dispatched to all the countries of Europe to beseech the princes to join once more in an effort to check the danger of a Turkish invasion. |
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Alexander VI now followed the general tendency of all the princes of the day to crush the great feudatories and establish a centralized despotism. |
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Ferdinand allied with various Italian princes and with Emperor Maximilian I to expel the French by 1496 and install Alfonso's son, Ferdinand, on the Neapolitan throne. |
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Afonso then used Goa to secure the Spice trade in favor of Portugal and sell Persian horses to Vijayanagara and Hindu princes in return for their assistance. |
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They belonged to different faiths and professions like farmers, artisans, merchants, monks, priests and even princes and quite few of them were even women. |
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The decisive victory of the Timurid forces is one reason opponents rarely met Mughal princes in pitched battle over the course of the empire's history. |
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After the death of Robert Guiscard in 1085, peninsular southern Italy experienced a series of civil wars and fell under the control of increasingly weaker princes. |
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To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity. |
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The titles of the junior princes were gradually lowered in rank by each generation while the senior heir continued to inherit their father's titles. |
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