Horton reported that brand name Nosferatu was inspired by an infamous Walachian prince known as Viad the Impaler. |
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The prince, Gruffudd ap Cynan, however, saw fit to make peace with the king rather than engage in open warfare or hostility. |
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The conquest of Gwynedd was completed with the capture in June 1283 of Dafydd, who had succeeded his brother as prince the previous December. |
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The announcement was made by the prince on 3 July 1969, during a tour of Wales. |
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The leader of the national emancipation process was the Portuguese prince Pedro I, elder son of the king of Portugal. |
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However, in Book XX he rescues Aeneas after the Trojan prince is laid low by Achilles. |
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When prince Sultan died before ascending to the throne on 21 October 2011, King Abdullah appointed Prince Nayef as crown prince. |
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These contained no ransom demand, but required the Scots to name the English prince John of Gaunt as heir presumptive. |
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James IV was a true Renaissance prince with an interest in practical and scientific matters. |
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The foundation myth of Ephesus has the city being built over the site where prince Androklos of Athens killed a boar. |
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Praise poetry was powerful propaganda, inspiring loyalty and courage from the teulu, the warband or retinue of a king, prince or lord. |
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He said that the intention had been to make Dafydd prince of Gwynedd, and that Dafydd would reward Gruffudd with lands. |
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It was not until some time later that an English knight recognised the body as that of the prince. |
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Owain remained free, but he had lost his ancestral home and was a hunted prince. |
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The use of the title prince was a recognition of the ruler of Gwynedd in relation to the wider international feudal world. |
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In 928 Hywel made a pilgrimage to Rome, becoming the first Welsh prince to undertake such a trip and return. |
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The prince of Powys, Madog ap Maredudd, with assistance from Earl Ranulf of Chester, gave battle at Coleshill, but Owain was victorious. |
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Matilda de Braose, a granddaughter of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, married a Welsh prince. |
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Llywelyn's mother was Marared, occasionally anglicised to Margaret, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys. |
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His revolt was suppressed, however, after the Battle of Maes Moydog in March 1295, and the prince was imprisoned in London. |
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He was a prince of Gwynedd, a younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and his wife, Senena, and thus grandson of Llywelyn Fawr. |
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In 1294, Wales broke out in rebellion led by Madog ap Llywelyn, prince of Wales. |
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There has been speculation as to what regnal name the prince will choose upon his succession to the throne. |
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Dionysus was once captured by Etruscan pirates who mistook him for a wealthy prince they could ransom. |
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With the death of the last native prince of Wales in 1282 the tradition gradually disappears. |
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The prince also used badges of one or more ostrich feathers in a number of other contexts. |
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By 897 the young prince ruled only the city of Laon before Odo on his deathbed designated him as his successor. |
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They sided with the renegade Seleucid prince Antiochus Hierax, who reigned in Asia Minor. |
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This mythical flower, which was almost certainly not the modern hyacinth, sprang up from the blood of the dying prince Hyacinthus. |
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Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile, and granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King of England. |
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When the Mongols arrived in Java, a local prince named Raden Wijaya offered his service to assist the Mongols in punishing Kadiri. |
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That night Athena, disguised as Telemachus, finds a ship and crew for the true prince. |
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In both Phoenician and Greek mythologies, Cadmus is a Phoenician prince, the son of Agenor, the king of Tyre in South Lebanon. |
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Tithes were paid to the lord of the land, and the lord owed duties to the regional prince. |
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In 1441, in the southern Ukraine, especially Crimea and surrounding steppes, Genghisid prince Haci I Giray founded the Crimean Khanate. |
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In 1028, after his coronation as Emperor in 1027, Conrad II had his son, Henry III, elected King of Germany by the prince electors. |
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Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go. |
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The Low Countries, which until the late sixteenth century consisted of several counties, prince bishoprics, duchies etc. |
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The prince withdrew as a candidate, thus defusing the crisis, but the French ambassador to Berlin would not let the issue lie. |
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Young prince Henry the Navigator was there and became aware of profit possibilities in the Saharan trade routes. |
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Roger's execution of the prince and his counsellors was perhaps the most violent act of his life. |
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In the autumn of 1381, a Ming army invaded and conquered Yunnan, which was then ruled by the Mongol prince Basalawarmi, Prince of Liang. |
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The remains of the prince were uncovered in response to a vision, before the Battle of Kulikovo in the year 1380, and found to be incorrupt. |
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Kublai secured the northeast border in 1259 by installing the hostage prince Wonjong as the ruler of Korea, making it a Mongol tributary state. |
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The crown prince was banished to Yangzhou for life by his father, Kublai Khan. |
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Meanwhile, the rebel prince Shikqtur invaded the Chinese district of Liaoning but was defeated within a month. |
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Kublai sent Abishka, a Chagataid prince loyal to him, to take charge of Chagatai's realm. |
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She proclaimed the Tianshou era of Wu Zhou on October 16, 690, and three days later demoted Emperor Ruizong to crown prince. |
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Diogo Gomes was a servant and explorer of Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator. |
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John II is considered to have lived his life exactly according to the writer's idea of a perfect prince. |
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The men who were against Atahualpa's conviction and murder argued that he should be judged by King Charles since he was the sovereign prince. |
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They saw Lede give the girls the money and explain the deal, whereupon the women threw kisses at the princessless prince and took off. |
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He soon encountered the Ostyak prince Demian, who had fortified himself in a fortress on the banks of the Irtysh with 2,000 loyal fighters. |
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Initially a small group of professional soldiers, the druzhina grew in order to control the vast areas under authority of the prince. |
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For example, the words prince and prints have come to be homophones or nearly so. |
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However, the role of Western bishops as civil authorities, often called prince bishops, continued throughout much of the Middle Ages. |
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In grievous and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince. |
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The latter were placed to obtain office and political power, owing allegiance to the local prince, who owed allegiance to the Son of Heaven. |
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When his charioteer Channa explained to him that all people grew old, the prince went on further trips beyond the palace. |
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In 1380, prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow led a united Russian army to an important victory over the Mongols in the Battle of Kulikovo. |
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The mayor was forced to welcome the prince, and the event is commemorated in one of the town's silk tapestries. |
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When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. |
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The mosque was built by the Caliph Umar bin Abdulaziz when he was prince of Madinah and renewed during the Abbassid and Ottoman eras. |
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If I talk you up to the prince, will that be enough? Will you unsteal the pumpkin? Return it to the library? |
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Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor. |
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Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. |
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When the prince got married, it was called the wedding of the century. |
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But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. |
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Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince. |
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The President of the Republic of France is, ex officio, also prince of the dyarchy called Andorra. |
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After the Glorious Revolution the Dutch prince William ascended to the English throne. |
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The other sister, whose name is uncertain, was married to a prince from near the Alps who has not definitely been identified. |
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John had spent the Great Revolt travelling alongside his father and most observers now began to regard the prince as Henry's favourite child. |
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Odo saw no option but to invoke the aid of Charles Martel and pledge allegiance to the Frankish prince. |
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In the 2013 film Richard The Lionheart, actor Chandler Maness portrayed Richard as a young and petulant prince. |
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Henry of Almain would remain a close companion of the prince, both through the civil war that followed, and later during the crusade. |
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To bolster further the independent prestige of the young prince, the king had him created Earl of Chester at only twelve days of age. |
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Both in foreign and domestic policy he differed from the king, who in November 1411 discharged the prince from the council. |
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The political maturation of the principality's government fostered a more defined relationship between prince and the people. |
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The increase in men allowed the prince to call on and field a far more substantial army. |
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As a prince he had leagued with the nobility against his father, but as a king he found that his power could only be maintained by subduing them. |
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To pay off debts incurred during the Castille campaign, the prince instituted a hearth tax. |
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Mary soon announced her intention to marry the Spanish prince Philip, son of her mother's nephew Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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Devout, she began to believe that it was God's will that she marry the prince despite his opposition. |
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I will never break the word of a prince spoken in public place, for my honour's sake. |
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The vampire Eric Northman, in the HBO TV series True Blood, was a Viking prince before being turned into a vampire. |
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In 1714, George I, a German Hanoverian prince, ascended to the British throne, founding the British House of Hanover. |
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The son of Gwynllyw, a prince of South Wales, who before his death renounced the world to lead an eremitical life. |
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Indeed, in 1519, he was elected because he was considered a German prince while his main opponent was French. |
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A prince is a man among men, a canny fighter, a steely sovereign who takes what he wants out of life. |
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He promptly challenged the prince of the Saxons and one of his champions to a duel in order to regain the honour of the Angles. |
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It is thought likely that the king had ordered him to be killed to avoid the disgrace of executing a prince of the blood. |
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His mother, Maria Sofia of Neuburg, had recently died, and the prince had fallen into a depression. |
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In 1640 he accompanied prince John Casimir of Poland after he was freed from French imprisonment. |
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That night on the rampart, the ghost appears to Hamlet, telling the prince that he was murdered by Claudius and demanding that Hamlet avenge him. |
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As the poison takes effect, Hamlet, hearing that Fortinbras is marching through the area, names the Norwegian prince as his successor. |
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Finally, the ghost's confirmation of an alternative fatherhood for Hamlet is a fabrication that gives the prince a motive for revenge. |
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Walpole attempted to buy off the prince with the promise of an increased allowance and offered to pay off his debts, but Frederick refused. |
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And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince that standeth for the children of thy people. |
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The Alcayde found the prince playing at chess with an Alfaqui or priest. |
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Resembling Murat in personal enterprise and fearlessness, he also resembled that prince of beaux sabreurs in carrying his love of dress into the very field of battle. |
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The Act also made it a crime to assert the authority of any foreign prince, prelate, or other authority, and was aimed at abolishing the authority of the Pope in England. |
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The Viking prince Thorfinn Karlsefni took two Scottish slaves to Vinland. |
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However, earlier in Scandinavia, jarl could also mean a sovereign prince. |
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The imperfect prince was a role he could get his arms around. |
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He may of course be of higher rank, as esquire, knight, peer, or prince. |
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About the same time, Russian prince Yaroslav of Vladimir, and subsequently his sons Alexander Nevsky and Andrey II of Vladimir, travelled to the Mongolian capital. |
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This increasingly absurd arrangement was highlighted by Charles Martel, who as Mayor of the Palace was effectively the strongest prince in the kingdom. |
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The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet. |
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There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. |
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It was agreed that all of England north of the Thames was to be the domain of the Danish prince, while all to the south was kept by the English king, along with London. |
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In 1053 Edward ordered the assassination of the south Welsh prince Rhys ap Rhydderch in reprisal for a raid on England, and Rhys's head was delivered to him. |
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I speak the more freely, as the best time for abolishing this ridiculous custom is while the prince is a man of virtue and the poet a man of genius. |
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The son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fawr and grandson of Llywelyn the Great, he was the last sovereign prince of Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England. |
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When Tekuder seized the throne of the Ilkhanate in 1282, attempting to make peace with the Mamluks, Abaqa's old Mongols under prince Arghun appealed to Kublai. |
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Instead, he named as his heir the young prince Sigismund of Luxemburg. |
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The real prince Dmitry of Uglich, son of Ivan IV, had been stabbed to death at early age, before his brother Feodor's death, either by accident or by Godunov's order. |
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Some sources state he was the son of Erthil, a prince of the Hen Ogledd, while others suggest he was the son of Gwriad, the contemporaneous king of the Isle of Man. |
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The basis of the power of a prince was his band of warriors or druzhina. |
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From this point forwards the prince, his family and the remains of his government were fugitives sleeping outdoors, forced to keep moving from place to place to avoid capture. |
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In times of war, boyars were compelled by the feudal system of allegiance to supply the prince with troops in accordance with the extent of their manorial domain. |
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The young prince was chased to the Adriatic littoral and fled to Constantinople to plead for assistance from Constantine V, who was waging war with Bulgaria. |
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Her peacemaking also helped reconcile Henry with his daughters Mary and Elizabeth and fostered a good relationship between her and the crown prince. |
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Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant. |
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He took with him a Tungus prince Mozheul to assist in finding the way. |
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Dafydd succeeded Llywelyn as prince of Gwynedd, but King Henry was not prepared to allow him to inherit his father's position in the remainder of Wales. |
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He was therefore childless, and in his final will he left his throne to a French prince, the Bourbon Philip of Anjou, rather than to a fellow Habsburg, albeit from Austria. |
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I know already, for your forwardness, you have deserved rewards and crowns, and, we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. |
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The marriage merged the Stuarts with England's Tudor line of succession, despite the improbability of a Scottish prince acceding the English throne at the time. |
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In these lessons, the prince was taught that he was predestined to become an instrument of Divine Providence, fulfilling the historical destiny of the House of Orange. |
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The prince called at The George Inn on Irongate, where the Duke of Devonshire had set up his headquarters, and demanded billets for his 9,000 troops. |
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Constantine the Great is known to have raised the five scholae of horsemen who formed the actual lifeguard of the prince, and followed his person whenever he went out to war. |
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He was described as a crown prince who was endowed with the quality of an excellent monarch in a section surrounded by superstition, of his biography. |
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The Roman poet Virgil recounted this legend in his classical epic poem the Aeneid, where the Trojan prince Aeneas is destined by the gods to found a new Troy. |
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Though the treaty required Llywelyn to do homage to the king of England for the land, it was in effect an acknowledgement of the power and authority of the prince. |
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In the prologue to his Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson euhemerises Thor as a prince of Troy, and the son of king Memnon by Troana, a daughter of Priam. |
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The hero who speaks these words in Dryden's play is here denying the right of a prince to put him to death, on the grounds that he is not that prince's subject. |
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Though Spain was the core of his personal possessions and though he had many Iberian ancestors, in his earlier years Charles felt as if he were viewed as a foreign prince. |
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During the middle 670s Wilfrid acted as middleman in the negotiations to return a Merovingian prince, Dagobert II, from his exile in Ireland to Gaul. |
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Others formerly connected with the prince have betrayed his confidence. |
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The king also supported the exploration of the Atlantic Ocean led by prince Henry the Navigator but after Henry's death in 1460, he did nothing to continue Henry's work. |
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The banners used by the prince vary depending upon location. |
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The legend of Saint Winifred tells how, in AD 660, Caradoc, the son of a local prince, severed the head of the young Winifred after she spurned his advances. |
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As a result of their conquest of China, almost all the Manchus followed the prince regent Dorgon and the Shunzhi Emperor to Beijing and mainly settled there. |
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The poetry praises the military prowess of the prince in a language that is deliberately antiquarian and obscure, echoing the earlier praise poetry tradition of Taliesin. |
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Polonius forces Ophelia to return Hamlet's love letters and tokens of affection to the prince while he and Claudius watch from afar to evaluate Hamlet's reaction. |
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Perhaps most notably, in 66 CE, Nero accepted a formal proskynesis from the Armenian prince Tiridates, who paid a visit to him in Rome to be crowned king of Armenia. |
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The imperial army was able to block him at Huai'an and, given that three of his sons were serving as hostages in the capital, the prince withdrew in disgrace. |
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Sarah Bernhardt played the prince in her popular 1899 London production. |
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Evans later performed a highly truncated version of the play that he played for South Pacific war zones during World War II which made the prince a more decisive character. |
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In 1710, Handel became Kapellmeister to German prince George, the Elector of Hanover, who in 1714 would become King George I of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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Only seven men survive the conflict, among them Manawydan, Taliesin and Pryderi fab Pwyll, prince of Dyfed, Branwen having herself died of a broken heart. |
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While the Austrians were concerned with the War of the Polish Succession, a Bourbon prince, Charles from Spain was able to conquer Sicily and Naples. |
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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. |
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Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus. |
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After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily indicates all that the devil, and the city of which he is the prince, shall suffer in the last judgment. |
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Eventually, he would gain the confidence and trust of the prince. |
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A prince who is a member of Parliament is styled Yang Berhormat Mulia. |
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Alais made the trip over the Alps and joined Henry II's court, but she died before marrying John, which left the prince once again without an inheritance. |
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Louis' planned arrival in England presented a significant problem for John, as the prince would bring with him naval vessels and siege engines essential to the rebel cause. |
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It was an annual custom to send the rose to a deserving prince. |
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A legend that became popular during the Elizabethan era claims that a Welsh prince named Madoc established a colony in North America in the late 12th century. |
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He has souped himself up with a couple of mighty croutons, this low-slung prince of the netherthought, and will bring furious ancient knowledge ringing around our inner ears. |
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In 1238, when the Mongols first invaded Kievan Rus and his elder brother Yuri was killed in battle, Yaroslav left Kiev for Vladimir, where he was crowned grand prince. |
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There will never be another prince like him in the Suzdalian land. |
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