Now the archon ( ruler ) who is weak has three names.

By contrast, Shakespeare's King John, a relatively anti-Catholic play that draws on The Troublesome Reign for its source material, offers a more " balanced, dual view of a complex monarch as both a proto-Protestant victim of Rome's machinations and as a weak, selfishly motivated ruler ".

The last King of the Kirat dynasty was Gasti, a weak ruler, who is said to have been overthrown by the Somavanshi ruler Nimisha.

Harsha Deva, the successor of Bama Deva was a weak ruler.

A weak ruler as regent ( 1811 – 20 ) and king ( 1820 – 30 ), George IV let his ministers take full charge of government affairs, playing a far lesser role than his father, George III.

He was to prove a weak ruler ; his reign was effectively a series of distinct regimes, depending who held the effective reins of power.

He was regarded, both during his time and in later times, as dependent on others, a weak ruler and lacking of any talents.

Charles had been an authoritarian and demanding ruler ; one reason the Swedish Estates elected Frederick was because he was taken to be fairly weak, which indeed he turned out to be.

Ine may have ruled alongside his father, Cenred, for a period: there is weak evidence for joint kingships, and stronger evidence of subkings reigning under a dominant ruler in Wessex, not long before this time.

As a king he proved ungrateful to his mother, and weak as a ruler.

During and after the Seven Year War ( 1592 – 1598 ), he acted as de facto ruler of the Joseon Dynasty, commanding battles and taking care of reconstruction of the nation after the devastating war in the place of old and weak King Seonjo.

Those cities were typically located in small territories where the ruler was weak.

If the law is successfully enforced, even a weak ruler will be strong.

The exceptional modesty and tolerance of this ruler was the main reason he was called " the weak ", and also the reason he was canonised 211 years after his death.

Today, Stephen Uroš V is viewed mostly in contrast to his able and strong-willed father, as a lacking and indecisive ruler, unable to keep the Serbian nobility under his control, whose weak and unassertive personality greatly contributed to the fall of the Empire and the eventual destruction of the Serbian state by the Ottomans.

In Serbian folklore and epic poems he is often described as a just, well-intentioned ruler of pleasant appearance but weak character.

The first Shou emperor of the La Dynasty was a weak ruler whose court was easily infiltrated by the agents of the Cult of the Black Panther who secretly ruled and manipulated the Shou government from within.

Mohammed was a weak ruler who was incapable of preventing Iran's rivals, the Ottoman Empire and the Uzbeks, invading the country or stopping factional feuding among the Qizilbash.

Coat of Arms of Peter I, Duke of Brittany and his successors. However, in 1212 King Philip II of France needed to find a weak and faithful ruler for Brittany.

His uncle, Duke of Zhou, fearing that Shang forces might rise again under the possible weak rule of a young ruler, became the regent and supervised government affairs for several years.

Compared with the military success of his father's reign, Petar has been traditionally considered a weak ruler, who lost lands and prestige, allowed his military forces to decline while his country was ravaged by foreign invaders, and turned Bulgaria into a Byzantine satellite governed by Byzantine agents in the persons of his empress and her retinue.

He felt that the crown prince Liu Ying who was born to the empress, his oldest son and heir apparent to the throne, was too weak to be a ruler.

He was viewed as a weak and incompetent ruler, who briefly ruled over an empire willing to let him rule over them, but was unable

In this reign of a weak Emperor dominated by court politics, a major theme was the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople at this period meant Goths.

A weak man who preferred to engage in activities like thatching and ditch-digging rather than jousting, hunting, or the usual entertainments of kings, he spent most of his reign trying in vain to control the nobility, who in return showed continual hostility to him.

Historian R. H. Davis's influential biography paints a picture of a weak king: a capable military leader in the field, full of activity and pleasant, but " beneath the surface ... mistrustful and sly ", with poor strategic judgement that ultimately undermined his reign.

The country was economically weak and in turmoil following the reign of Akhenaten.

* May 1 – Emperor Arcadius dies in his palace at Constantinople after a weak 13-year reign.

At the outset of the reign of Antiochus V, there was an attempt by the Syrians to quell the Maccabean Revolt in Judea, but this ended in a weak compromise.

Grant puts this into perspective and writes that it is notable that Robert III's reign could have been worse compared to the turmoil and violence experienced in England and France when ruled by weak kings — even on Robert ’ s death, Scotland didn ’ t descend into open civil war but was restricted to positioning among the royal family and its magnate groupings.

During Mikhail's reign, when the Romanov dynasty was still weak, such assemblies were summoned annually.

Legal codification was part of the count's efforts to forward and somehow control the process of feudalization which started during the reign of his weak father, Berenger Ramon.

' Therefore, let justice be done to all mankind, realizing that if the strong oppresses the weak, confusion and discontent will ever mark the path of man but with love, faith and charity towards all the reign of peace and plenty will be heralded into the world and the generations of men shall be called Blessed.

Edward II was a weak and ineffectual king, and his reign was marked by military failure and internal strife.

Emperor Ling's reign left the Eastern Han Dynasty weak and ready to crumble.

The reign of Vasil Mzhavanadze, Shevardnadze's predecessor in office, had been characterised by weak leadership, nepotism, despotism, bribery and corruption at the upper echelons of power.

Beginning with the reign of Sobekhotep IV, the power of this dynasty, weak to begin with, deteriorated.

The eldest son of Boleslav II " the Pious ", Boleslav III was a weak ruler in whose chaotic reign Bohemia became a pawn in the long war between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Bolesław the Brave, King of Poland.

Godunov's short reign ( 1598 – 1605 ) was not as successful as his administration under the weak Feodor.

The Majles was rendered ineffective because the central government was weak and did not have enough influence to reign in the changes that it had proposed.

During the reign of King Maha Thammaracha, the kingdom was in a weak condition due to being defeated by the Burmese.

Tsar Vasili Shuiski was unpopular and weak in Russia and his reign was far from stable.

Hatshepsut, an extremely successful pharaoh, celebrated her Sed jubilee at Thebes — in what some Victorian-era historians insist was only her sixteenth regnal year — but she did this by counting the time she was the strong consort of her weak husband, and some recent research indicates that she did exercise authority usually reserved for pharaohs during his reign, thereby acting as a co-ruler rather than as his Great Royal Wife, the duties of which were assigned to their royal daughter.

The two councils which checked the Alaafin had a tendency to select a weak Alaafin after the reign of a strong one to keep the office from becoming too powerful.

The efficiency of the government was quite weak and his actions during his 15 year reign mainly consisted of reforms of the government and the economy.