According to these sources Hengist and Horsa arrived in Britain as mercenaries serving Vortigern, King of the Britons.

* King Vortigern marries Hengist's daughter, Rowena, and becomes queen of the Britons.

* King Vortigern is burnt to death while being besieged by a Romano-British force under Ambrosius Aurelianus at Ganarew ( Herefordshire ).

The one leader at this time known by name is Vortigern, who may have held the title of " High King ".

Writing shortly before Geoffrey of Monmouth, William added much to the damnatio memoriae of Vortigern: " At this time Vortigern was King of Britain ; a man calculated neither for the field nor the council, but wholly given up to the lusts of the flesh, the slave of every vice: a character of insatiable avarice, ungovernable pride, and polluted by his lusts.

While Vortigern rarely appears in the later stories of King Arthur, when he does he is usually the figure as described by either Geoffrey of Monmouth or Wace.

Vortigern declared him King, "... though not with the free consent of the people.

Vortigern, King of the Britons, was under attack from other tribes and called for assistance.

According to early historians such as the Venerable Bede and Gildas, whose writings were later brought together in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes were invited to Britain by King Vortigern as mercenaries to help defend Britain against Picts and Scots.

For the years 449-455, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written c. 890, describes how King Vortigern ( a British tribal king ) invited the Angles to come and receive land in return for helping him defend against marauding Picts.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle relates that around the year 449 Vortigern, King of the Britons, invited the " Angle kin " ( Angles allegedly led by the Germanic brothers Hengist and Horsa ) to help repel invading Picts.

According to Nennius, Gwrangon was King of Kent in the time of Vortigern, until Vortigern took away the kingdom and gave it to Hengist ; but Nennius is regarded as an untrustworthy source, and “ Gwrangon seems to have been transported by the story-teller into Kent from Gwent ” and “ is turned into an imaginary King of Kent, secretly disposed of his realm in favour of Hengist, whose daughter Vortigern wished to marry ” ( Wade-Evans 1938 ).

The oldest known use of the dragon to represent Wales is from the Historia Brittonum, written around 830 ; the text describes a struggle between two serpents deep underground, which prevents King Vortigern from building a stronghold.

Meanwhile, Merlin, Joan, and the Clown have made their way to Wales, where King Vortigern, a Saxon ally, is having trouble building a castle.

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, he overthrows his father and reigns as King of Britain for a brief period before his death restores Vortigern to power.

The first recorded instance of a toast being offered occurred in A. D. 450 at a great feast given by the British King Vortigern to his Saxon allies.

Many years later, Merlin is summoned to see the tyrant King Vortigern ( Rutger Hauer ).

Nimue recognizes the captive Merlin and persuades King Vortigern to release him.

Malcolm, now the King of Scotland, declares his benevolent intentions for the country and invites all to see him crowned at Scone.

* Nechtan mac Der-Ilei, King of the Picts invites the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts.

Anna invites Will to her room at the Ritz, but her American boyfriend, a famous film star named Jeff King ( an uncredited cameo by Alec Baldwin ), has arrived unexpectedly.

Upon hearing of his miraculous appearance, the elderly King Arthur, seeing him as the savior whose appearance Merlin has predicted, dubs the boy Calvin of Reseda and invites him to dine with the court.

A mouse drinking water from a lake meets the Frog King, who invites him to his house.

To accomplish this, King seeks to create an unstoppable army using the data and invites Proto Man to join him.

In The King of Fighters 2001, an agent named Seth invites Iori to join his team for the next King of Fighters tournament, under the presumption that he would get his shot against Kyo.

Returning home to visit his mother he comes across the Fisher King, who invites him to stay at his castle.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

King, The ciphers of the monks-A forgotten number notation of the Middle Ages, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2001 ( ISBN 3-515-07640-9 )

Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic.

Cesare was appointed commander of the papal armies with a number of Italian mercenaries, supported by 300 cavalry and 4, 000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France.

The Declaration made a number of much-debated rhetorical points: that Scotland had always been independent, indeed for longer than England ; that Edward I of England had unjustly attacked Scotland and perpetrated atrocities ; that Robert the Bruce had delivered the Scottish nation from this peril ; and, most controversially, that the independence of Scotland was the prerogative of the Scottish people, rather than the King of Scots.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

On 20 June 1792 a number of armed women took part in a procession that " passed through the halls of the Legislative Assembly, into the Tuilleries Gardens, and then through the King ’ s residence.

" God Save the Queen " ( alternatively " God Save the King ") is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown Dependencies.

Stafford has also explored the Gloranthan setting in the fantasy novel King of Sartar and a number of extended essays known collectively as " the Stafford Library ".

The natural consequence of all this was that these men, to the number of 30, 000, flocked to the camp of Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, clamouring to be led against their cowardly enemies.

The invasion was stopped decisively at the Battle of Flodden Field during which the King, many of his nobles, and a large number of ordinary troops were killed, commemorated by the song Flowers of the Forest.

King Henry is famed for holding the record for more than twenty acknowledged illegitimate children, the largest number born to any English king ; they turned out to be significant political assets in subsequent years, his bastard daughters cementing alliances with a flock of lords whose lands bordered Henry's.

Loomis traced a number of parallels between Medieval Welsh literature and Irish material and the Grail romances, including similarities between the Mabinogions Bran the Blessed and the Arthurian Fisher King, and between Bran's life-restoring cauldron and the Grail.

The Brothers Grimm identified Hengist with Aschanes, mythical first King of the Saxons, in their notes for legend number 413 of their German Legends.

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.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

* Jerome Robbins, choreographer for a number of hit musicals, including Peter Pan, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, Funny Girl, and West Side Story.

The score for King Kong ( 1933 ) made Steiner's reputation ; it was one of the first American films to have an extensive musical score ( it was re-used in a number of RKO films, including Back to Bataan.

While in King Husayn's time there were about 20 telephones in the entire city ; in 1936 the number jumped to 450, totalling about half the telephones in the country.

The Bible provides a number of references to nails, including the story in Judges of the wife who drives a nail into the temple of her husband while he is asleep, the provision of iron for nails by King David for Solomon's Temple, and of course the crucifixion of Christ.

* In 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden asked Emanuel Swedenborg to elaborate a number system based on 64 instead of 10.

After a number of initial confrontations between King Henry IV and Owain's followers in September and October 1400, the revolt began to spread in 1401.

Each suit contained ten " spot " cards ( cards identified by the number of suit symbols or " pips " they show ) and three " court " cards named malik ( King ), nā ' ib malik ( Viceroy or Deputy King ), and thānī nā ' ib ( Second or Under-Deputy ).