In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

Alexander Balas (), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150 – 146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne.

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.

Alexander was born as son of the King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and Elisabeth Habsburg of Hungary, daughter of the King Albert of Hungary.

Alexander attempted to persuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV of Norway.

It includes depictions of Alexander III and his opponent Haakon IV of Norway.

* Alexander IV of Macedon

Alexander IV may refer to:

* Pope Alexander IV ( 1199 or ca.

* Alexander IV of Imereti ( died 1695 ), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, king of Imereti ( western Georgia )

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However, during the schism between Pope Alexander III and Antipope Victor IV, Absalon stayed loyal to Valdemar even as he joined the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barberossa in supporting Victor IV.

In 1529 he executed The Battle of Alexander at Issus for Duke William IV of Bavaria.

His rather atypical Battle of Issus ( or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich.

Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.

A rebellion by his nephew, Alexander of Lochalsh provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the family's lands in 1493.

Cardinale ( 1983 ), the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded by two Bolognese nobles Loderingo degli Andalò and Catalano di Guido in 1233, and approved by pope Alexander IV in 1261.

* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.

Therefore they applied for help from Alexander II of Macedon.

Alexander has been the name of many rulers, including kings of Macedon, kings of Scotland, emperors of Russia and popes.

* Alexander I of Macedon

* Alexander II of Macedon

* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC

* Alexander V of Macedon

* Alexander I of Macedon, king of Macedon 495 – 450 BC

* Alexander II of Macedon, King of Macedon from 370 to 368 BC

* Alexander III of Macedon ( 356 BC – 323 BC ), also known as Alexander the Great

* Alexander V of Macedon ( died 294BC )

Near the later site of Amphipolis Alexander I of Macedon defeated the remains of Xerxes ' army in 479 BC.

By his wife Eurydice, Amyntas had three sons, Alexander II, Perdiccas III and the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II of Macedon.

Other famous victims are Philip II of Macedon ( 336 BC ), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesar ( 44 BC ).

Its name was changed by Lysimachus to Alexandria Troas, in memory of Alexander III of Macedon ( Pliny merely states that the name changed from Antigonia to Alexandria ).

They did so at the invitation of their long-time ally, king Philip V of Macedon, a direct descendant of Antigonus, one of the Diadochi, the generals of Alexander the Great who had shared out his empire after his death in 323 BC.

Alexander did not live long enough to consolidate his realm, and in the half-century following his death ( 323 BC ) it was carved up by his feuding generals.

* 323 BC: Alexander the Great dies and his Macedonian Empire fragments.

Jericho went from being an administrative centre of Yehud Medinata under Persian rule to serving as the private estate of Alexander the Great between 336 and 323 BCE after his conquest of the region.

It was common among the Macedonian upper class at the time of Alexander the Great, and there were several of this name among Alexander's army, one of whom made himself King of Egypt in 323 BC: Ptolemy I Soter.

Ptolemy, one of the six somatophylakes ( bodyguards ) who served as Alexander the Great's generals and deputies, was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 BC.

The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek ( the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, until the development of Byzantine Greek around 600 CE ), but not in Hebrew.

Map of the world in 323 BC ( at the death of Alexander the Great )

Philip's son, Alexander the Great ( 356 – 323 BC ), managed to briefly extend Macedonian power not only over the central Greek city-states by becoming Hegemon of the League of Corinth ( also known as the " Hellenic League "), but also to the Persian empire, including Egypt and lands as far east as the fringes of India.

The classical period of Greek civilization covers a time spanning from the early 5th century BC to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC ( some authors prefer to split this period into ' Classical ', from the end of the Persian wars to the end of the Peloponnesian War, and ' Fourth Century ', up to the death of Alexander ).

Alexander the Great conquered Babylon in 332 BC for the Greeks, and died there in 323 BC.

* July 356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king 336 – 323 BC

* 323 BC – Alexander the Great, ruler of the Mediterranean world

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

The Hellenic period commenced circa 900 BC, ( with substantial works of architecture appearing from about 600 BC ) and ended with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.

During the Hellenistic period, 323 BC-AD 30, Hellenic culture was spread widely, firstly throughout lands conquered by Alexander, and then by the Roman Empire which absorbed much of Greek culture.

Only Greek architecture in the time before Alexander ( who died in 323 BC ) carries an authentic, ethnic designation.

* 323 Alexander dies, his generals vie for power in Wars of the Diadochi: Antigonus-Macedon, Antipater-Macedon, Seleucus-Babylonia and Syria, Ptolemy-Egypt, Eumenes-Macedon, Lysimachus, later Antipater's son Cassander also vies for power.