Born in Treviso, Totila was a relative of Theudis, king of the Visigoths.

A relative of his, Theodorus, was hostage at the court of the King of Visigoths, Theodoric I: in 425 / 426 Avitus went and met him, thus meeting the King, who let Avitus enter his own court.

Analysis of mtDNA sequences has confirmed morphological and biogeographical studies suggesting that the Razorbill is the Great Auk's closest living relative.

It is traditionally believed that the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 added the section that follows the words " We believe in the Holy Spirit " ( without the words " and the Son " relative to the procession of the Holy Spirit, which would become a point of contention in the Great Schism of Orthodoxy from Catholicism ); hence the name " Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ", referring to the Creed as modified in the First Council of Constantinople.

While the air has already been dried by orographic lift before reaching the Great Basin as well as by subsidence from the upper atmosphere, the relative humidity of the air is further decreased as it descends from the high desert toward the coast, often falling below 10 percent.

* Achaeus ( general ) ( died 213 BC ), grandson to the above and a relative of Antiochus III the Great who was appointed governor of all the king's provinces beyond Taurus Mountains

According to classical sources, he killed his predecessor and relative, Darius III, after the Persian army had been defeated by Alexander the Great.

As a close relative of Canute the Great, Canute's claim was easily as valid as that of William of Normandy's.

His father was Christian Augustus ( 1673 — 1726 ) duke and a younger prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, prince-bishop of Lubeck, and administrator, during the Great Northern War, of the duchies of Holstein-Gottorp for his relative Charles Frederick.

However, increased domestic and foreign competition, coupled with Johnstown's relative distance from its primary iron ore source in the western Great Lakes, led to a steady decline in profitability.

These early boom industries, however, faded into a period of relative quiet by the time of the Great Depression.

The Red-necked Grebe's closest relative is the fish-eating Great Crested Grebe of Europe and western Asia.

In fact, genetic evidence suggests that it is a closer relative of the Great Tit and its relatives in the genus Parus sensu stricto than the chickadees and their relatives of the genus Poecile.

In his famous 1987 work, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers British-American historian Paul Kennedy charts the relative status of the various powers from AD 1500 to 2000.

Lord John Russell now intervened, on behalf of Great Britain, with a proposal for a settlement of the whole question on the basis of the independence of the duchies under the Danish crown, with a decennial budget for common expenses to be agreed on by the four assemblies, and a supreme council of state consisting in relative proportion of Danes and Germans.

Despite this relative stubbornness, it is quite unusual for the Great Pyrenees to become aggressive or turn on its master.

The Marsh Tit's hippocampus is 31 % bigger than that of the Great Tit, despite the Great Tit's larger overall size and larger forebrain ; the relative volume of this part of the brain is greater in birds that cache food.

The town is named after its local geographical setting, a relative comparison of two tributaries ( the other being the neighboring Great Valley ) of the Allegheny River.

Three masted ships at one time were called the Great Ships, and marked transition in European seafaring from shallow coastal waters of the Age of Navigation confined primarily to the European shores and those of North Africa, via the Age of Discovery of other continents in relative proximity of Western Europe, to the " deep sea " oceanic sailing of the Age of Sail.

Drought, poor weather conditions, and the policies of the Communist Party of China contributed to the famine, although the relative weights of the contributions are disputed due to the Great Leap Forward.

It was probably introduced to Great Britain in ancient times, partially replacing its close relative, the Mountain hare.

It is closest living relative to the Great Auk ( Pinguinis impennis ) which is now extinct.

The framework of his arguments center on the Great Chain of Being, in which God's perfect goodness is relative to His perfect being.

The Swedish sources make clear that the greatest concentration of England runestones are found in Uppland, and that these are most, if not all, from years relative to the disputed reign of Cnut the Great and often mention his levying of Danegeld, and whose coins were minted in Fornsigtuna after the Battle of the Helgeå in 1026.

Due to the low relative humidity in wintertime, along with the added lake-effect from the Great Salt Lake, the snow has a dry, powdery texture which most of the local ski resorts market as " the Greatest Snow on Earth ".

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

There was a school in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the basic skills of reading and writing Latin were taught ; the relative wealth of the merchant class meant that their children could be educated there along with the children of nobles – it is likely that William of Tyre was a classmate of future king Baldwin III.

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

Finally, Stephen ’ s intervention on behalf of the Frankish king Louis IV ( who was in conflict with Otto ) would not have occurred had Stephen been a relative of the German king, and had Stephen received the papal throne through Otto ’ s intervention.

But this did not last: over the next forty years, East Anglia was defeated by the Mercians twice, and it continued to weaken relative to the other kingdoms until in 794, Offa of Mercia had its king Æthelberht killed and took control of the kingdom himself.

While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the relative value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, and control of key squares and groups of squares ( e. g. diagonals, open files, individual squares ).

It is not meaningful to assign a value to the king relative to the other pieces, as it cannot be captured or exchanged.

A relative pin is one where the piece shielded by the pinned piece is a piece other than the king, but typically more valuable than the pinned piece.

In the absence of written history, with its chronicles and king lists, late 19th century archaeologists found that they could develop relative chronologies based on pottery techniques and styles.

Brown also writes of how Bower described the king as capable of stabbing a near relative through the hand for creating a disturbance at court.

And there he was received by a certain nobleman, Gunderic, by whom he was led to king Erichius in the town of York, because this king had as wife a relative of the godly Cathróe "

The French influence ceased in 1528, when Andrea Doria became the prestigious ally of the powerful king of Spain and imposed an aristocratic government which gave the republic a relative stability for about 250 years.

Cyprus was under the control of the Assyrians at this time but the city-states of the island enjoyed a relative independence as long as they paid their tribute to the Assyrian king.

Cycnus, king of Liguria, was the son of Sthenelus and a good friend or lover of Phaethon ; according to Ovid, he was a distant relative of Phaethon on mother's side.

But Ulrika Eleonora asserted that she was the closest surviving relative of the late king ( the idea of proximity of blood ) and cited the precedent of Queen Christina.

In 1847, his father was chosen as the heir presumptive to the Danish throne, because Frederick's mother Louise of Hesse-Kassel was a close relative of the last Danish king of the Oldenburg main line ( the other heirs of the House of Hesse renounced their claims to the Danish throne in favour of Louise and her husband ).

Margaret Leijonhuvfud was a member of one of Sweden's most powerful noble families, daughter of Erik Abrahamsson Leijonhufvud, a man executed in the Stockholm bloodbath, and Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa ( a relative of the king ) and was already engaged when the king decided to marry her.

Once again, the royal family were refused permission to return to Greece, and Queen Olga was the only relative of the king ( except his wife Aspasia ) present at his burial.