Hezekiah (;, Ezekias, in the Septuagint ; ; also transliterated as Ḥizkiyyahu or Ḥizkiyyah ) was the son of Ahaz and the 14th king of Judah.

He ceased to pay the tribute imposed on his father, Ahaz, and " rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not ," but entered into a league with Egypt (; ).

Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel (; ).

Ahaz (; Akhaz ; ; an abbreviation of Jehoahaz, " Yahweh has held ") was king of Judah, and the son and successor of Jotham.

(; ; compare ; ; ) Tiglath-Pileser in an inscription mentions the slaying of Hoshea by his fellow Israelites.

Tiglath-Pileser I (; from the Hebraic form of, " my trust is in the son of Esharra ";, Takaltyu ʾapel ʿyushara ) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period ( 1114 – 1076 BC ).

Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: Alphonzo or Alphonse ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin ), the Bolognian ( Port.

Andronikos III Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus III Palaeologus (; 25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1328 to 1341, after being rival emperor since 1321.

William III & II (; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702 ) was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth.

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873 ) was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire.

Henry the Lion (; 1129 – 6 August 1195 ) was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony, as Henry III, from 1142, and Duke of Bavaria, as Henry XII, from 1156, which duchies he held until 1180.

Valentinian III (; 2 July 419 – 16 March 455 ), was Western Roman Emperor from 425 to 455.

Antiochus III the Great (; c. 241 – 187 BC, ruled 222 – 187 BC ) was a Seleucid Greek king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire.

Stanisław I Leszczyński () (; ; ) ( October 20, 1677 – February 23, 1766 ) was King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire ( a rank bestowed by Emperor Frederick III on the Leszczyński family ).

Philip IV of Spain (; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665 ) was King of Castile and León as Philip IV and King of Aragon and Portugal as Philip III ().

Philip III Arrhidaeus (; ca.

Felice Orsini (; 10 December 1819 – 13 March 1858 ) was an Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.

The Battle of Gaugamela (; ) took place in 331 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia.

Augustus III (; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 as Frederick Augustus II ().

Constantine III (; 3 May 612 – 20 April or 24 / 26 May 641 ) was Byzantine Emperor for four months in 641.

Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (; 25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889 ) was the consort of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Aga Khan (; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan ) is said by author Farhad Daftary to be the hereditary title of the Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community ( although in a legal proceeding, the Aga Khan III noted that Aga Khan is not a title, but instead a sort of alias or " pet name " that was given to the Aga Khan I when he was a young man ).

Maria Theresa of Spain (; ) ( 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683 ), also known as Maria Theresa of Austria, was the daughter of Philip III & IV, King of Portugal and Spain, and Elizabeth of France.

Thoros III or Toros III (; c. 1271 – 23 July 1298 ) was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, ruling from 1293 to 1298.

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (; 2 January 1784 – 29 January 1844 ), was as Ernest III the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and from 1826, the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Rudolf I of Habsburg (; 1281 – 3 / 4 July 1307 ) was Duke of Austria and Styria ( as Rudolph III ) from 1298 and King of Bohemia and titular King of Poland from 1306 until his death.

Somdet Phra Narai (; 1633 – 11 July 1688 ) or Somdet Phra Ramathibodi III () was the king of Ayutthaya from 1656 to 1688 and arguably the most famous Ayutthayan king.

The Order of the Golden Fleece (; ; ; ; ) is an order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy in 1430, to celebrate his marriage to the Portuguese princess Infanta Isabella of Portugal, daughter of King John I of Portugal.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

Ælle (; also Aelle or Ella ) is recorded in early sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.

Byzantium (;, Byzántion ; Latin: ) was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 657 BC and named after their king Byzas ( Greek: Βύζας, Býzas, genitive Βύζαντος, Býzantos ).

David (; Dawid ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to Christian scripture ( Matthew and Luke ), an ancestor of Jesus.

Jehu (; ) was a king of Israel.

Jeroboam II from " Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " Jeroboam II (; ; ) was the son and successor of Jehoash, ( alternatively spelled Joash ), and the fourteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years.

Odysseus ( or ; Greek:, Odusseus ), also known by the Roman name Ulysses (; ), was the perhaps fictional Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

Omri (; short for ) was a king of Israel, successful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, Ahaziah and Joram.

Saul (;, Ṭālūt ; Saoul ; ) ( circa 1079 BC – 1007 BC ) was, according to the Qur ' an and Hebrew Bible, the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel.

In the Books of Samuel, Saul is not referred to as a king ( melech ), but rather as a “ leader ” or “ commander ” ( nagid ) (; ).

The Israelite people generally used the term “ king ,” because their desire, 1 Samuel recounts, was to be like the other nations (; ).

Theodoric the Great (; ;, Theuderikhos ; ; ; 454 – August 30, 526 ) was king of the Ostrogoths ( 471 – 526 ), ruler of Italy ( 493 – 526 ), regent of the Visigoths ( 511 – 526 ), and a viceroy of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Edward the Confessor, (; ; 1003 – 05 to 4 or 5 January 1066 ), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

Xerxes I of Persia (, Khashayar Shah ) (; meaning " ruling over heroes ",, ), also known as Xerxes the Great ( 519 BC-465 BC ), was the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire.

Edmund Ironside or Edmund II (; c. 988 / 993 – 30 November 1016 ) was king of England from 23 April to 18 October 1016 and of Wessex from 23 April to 30 November 1016.

Edgar the Peaceful, or Edgar I (; c. 7 August 943 – 8 July 975 ), also called the Peaceable, was a king of England ( r. 959 – 75 ).

The Second Peace of Thorn of 1466 (; ) was a peace treaty signed in the Hanseatic city of Thorn ( Toruń ) on 19 October 1466 between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon on one side, and the Teutonic Knights on the other.

Nebuchadnezzar II (; ; ; Ancient Greek: Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ; Arabic: ن ِ ب ُ وخ َ ذن ِ ص َّ ر ; c 634 – 562 BCE ) was king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BCE – 562 BCE.

Abijam (; ; ) was the fourth king of the House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah.

Anointing a king was equivalent to crowning him ; in fact, in Israel a crown was not required (;, etc .).

Zerubbabel (;, Zorovavel ; ) was a governor of the Persian Province of Judah () and the grandson of Jehoiachin, penultimate king of Judah.