Along with his sister Laodice VI, the youngster Alexander was " discovered " by Heracleides, a former minister of Antiochus IV and brother of Timarchus, an usurper in Media who had been executed by the reigning king Demetrius I Soter.

He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli, the Spanish national church in Rome, immediately below the tombs of Pope Callixtus III and Pope Alexander VI.

* 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI ( d. 1519 )

With the Papal Bull of 1493, Pope Alexander VI commanded Spain to conquer, colonize and convert the Pagans of the New World to Catholicism.

He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei.

He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.

Cesare's father, Pope Alexander VI, was the first pope who openly recognized his children by a lover.

Alexander VI staked the hopes of the Borgia family in Cesare's brother Giovanni, who was made captain general of the military forces of the papacy.

But when Savonarola publicly accused Pope Alexander VI of corruption, he was banned from speaking in public.

Together, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon were known as the " Catholic Monarchs " (), a title bestowed on them by Pope Alexander VI.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

This instrument also found its way to parts of Italy that were under Spanish domination ( especially Sicily and the papal states under the Borgia pope Alexander VI who brought many Catalan musicians to Italy ), where it was known as the viola da mano.

Lucrezia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519 ) was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei.

Her mother was Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of the many mistresses of Lucrezia's father Rodrigo Borgia, who is better known as Pope Alexander VI.

When Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI he sought to be allied with powerful princely families and founding dynasties of Italy.

The second, contradictory, bull recognized him as the son of Pope Alexander VI.

After the death of her second husband, Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged a third marriage.

* 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.

* 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.

* 1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI.

* 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”

The initial production at Arena Stage, paid for, at least in part, by two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, was so well received that the entire original cast, including Jones and Alexander, moved to Broadway with the production in 1968.

Harryman has received grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Fund for Poetry, Opera America Next Stage Grant ( with composer Erling Wold ), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others.

* 1621: James I of England ( VI of Scotland ) grants Acadia to Sir William Alexander who renames it New Scotland ( Nova Scotia )

Tuomela has received several grants and awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award ( Forschungspreis ), awarded in recognition of achievements in research.

One of the first land grants in the area was to Lt. Alexander MacDonell of Butler's Rangers.

He was awarded the Alexander Henderson Award and received numerous scholarships, fellowships, and research grants from many sources including the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the FDIC.

On July 3 and July 6, 1842, two land grants were issued to Alexander Bourgeois d ' Orvanne and Armand Ducos, for colonization of 1, 700 families along the Uvalde, Frio and Medina rivers.

In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as an independent crown with the right to conquer lands from the Moors.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

When Alexander died in 1124, the crown passed to Margaret's fourth son David I, who had spent most of his life as an English baron.

That same year, Alexander oversaw the admission of the British crown colony of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation and toured the new province that summer.

The last crown prince of Yugoslavia, Alexander, has been living in Belgrade in the Dedinje Royal Palace since 2001.

Crown Prince Alexander II was born in London but on property temporarily recognised by the United Kingdom's government as subject to the sovereignty of the Yugoslav crown, on which occasion it was publicly declared that the Crown Prince had been born on the native soil of the land he was expected to eventually rule.

As a papal legate of Pope Alexander III, he was sent to teach canon law throughout Europe in the 1160s, and was sent to Portugal to crown Afonso II.

* Alexander I inherits the Scottish crown with the death of Edgar of Scotland.

Reverting to the crown, the territory came in 1452 to Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly, and still gives the title of " Lord of Badenoch " to the marquess of Huntly.

Buchan's lands did not fall to the Albany Stewarts but were forfeited by the crown, Albany's father-in-law, Duncan, Earl of Lennox was imprisoned and in December the duke's main ally Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar settled his differences with the king.

Seal of Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross | Alexander, Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles. The king's need for allies in the west and north led him to pursue a policy of rapprochement with Alexander and, hoping that he would now become a loyal servant of the crown, James released him.

For Douglas this was a formal acknowledgement of his having been freed three weeks earlier but for Alexander this was a total reversal of crown policy towards the Lordship.

Alexander II of Imereti ( Georgia ( country ) | Georgia ) wearing the lost crown of Imereti

The crown dates from at least 1540 and the sceptre and the sword were gifts by Pope Alexander VI and Pope Julius II respectively to the King of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Alexander III visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, previously Scots but for 180 years subjected by the crown of Norway.

Finally, the Entente powers intervened and asked Venizelos to back down, allowing Alexander to retain the crown.

Thus, it is possible to imagine Alexander and Hephaestion hoping that their respective offspring might unite their lines, and that ultimately, the crown of Macedon and Persia might be worn by one who was a descendant of them both.

He later passed the crown onto Alexander and Cassima.

Alexander and Francis I of Austria were present in person ; King Frederick William III of Prussia was represented by the crown prince ( afterwards Frederick William IV ).

The badge's clear blue border bears the motto IN ACTION FAITHFUL AND IN HONOUR CLEAR ( Alexander Pope's description ( in iambic pentameter ) in his Epistle to Mr Addison of James Craggs, later used on Craggs ' monument in Westminster Abbey ) in gold letters, and the oval is surmounted by an imperial crown.

The first requirement ( coronation by the Archbishop of Esztergom ) was confirmed by Béla III, who had been crowned by the Archbishop of Kalocsa based on the special authorisation of Pope Alexander III, but after his coronation he declared that his coronation would not harm the customary claim of the Archbishops of Esztergom to crown the kings.