The last such ruling abbess was Sofia Albertina, Princess of Sweden.

As a result, their last king Ishaq ibn Ali was killed in Marrakesh in April 1147 by the Almohads who replaced them as a ruling dynasty both in Morocco and Al-Andalus.

Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment (" the anointed one ", as the title Messiah had it ), the " son of David " became in the last two pre-Christian centuries the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom.

The Court of Cassation, France's judicial court of last resort, upheld the ruling in March 1992.

Francis II () ( 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835 ) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz.

* 1508: Maximilian I the last ruling " King of the Romans " and the first " elected Emperor of the Romans ".

Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch, ruling until 1714.

Like the first ruling Hohenstaufen, Conrad III, also the last one, Conrad IV, was never crowned emperor.

In the last quarter of the Twentieth Century the belief that government ( ruling in accordance with the interests of the people ) ought to directly involve itself in the day to day workings of an economy declined in popularity amongst the center left, especially social-democrats who became influenced by ' third way ' ideology.

At the state level, from 1957 to 1989, the Country Party under Frank Nicklin and Joh Bjelke-Petersen dominated governments in Queensland -- the last six of those years ruling in its own right, without the Liberals.

* November 16 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma ( b. 1848 )

* July 9 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma ( d. 1907 )

Edward the Confessor, (; ; 1003 – 05 to 4 or 5 January 1066 ), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.

* Gruffydd Fychan I, last ruling prince of Powys Fadog

In the 1370s the last representative in the male line of the ruling house of Gwynedd, Owain Lawgoch, twice planned an invasion of Wales with French support.

The Qing Dynasty, the last of the ruling Chinese dynasties, collapsed in 1911.

The last ruling Piast George William of Brzeg and Legnica died in 1675, although numerous families link their genealogy to the Piasts.

He was the brother of Faramir and the elder son of Denethor II, the last ruling Steward of Gondor.

Although the ruling, Protestant, Stuarts died out with his half-sister, Queen Anne, the very last remaining Stuarts were James and his sons, and their endeavours to regain their ( putatively ) rightful throne whilst remaining devoted to their Catholic faith is remembered in history as Jacobitism.

Rome, buffered from Etruria by the Silva Ciminia, the Ciminian Forest, was influenced strongly by the Etruscans, with a series of Etruscan kings ruling at Rome until 509 BC when the last Etruscan king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was removed from power and the Roman Republic was established.

The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and affidavits but must go to trial.

Carolingian cadet branches continued to rule in Vermandois and Lower Lorraine after the last king died in 987, but they never sought thrones of principalities and made peace with the new ruling families.

He was never popular with the Northumbrian ruling class, a mix of Danish invaders and Anglo Saxon survivors of the last Norse invasion.

The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that schools were to be integrated forced the closing of Dalton Vocational School ; the last school year was 1955 – 1956.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

Cuba was the last to accede, becoming a full member on August 26, 1999.

Original member Lee Smith, who has co-producer credit on the original 12 ” " South Bronx " single, was the last to be inexplicably jettisoned by KRS-One and the future new label after Scott ’ s death.

Although he was not a member of the ASCAP, the society paid for any medical care he needed during his last two years.

By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.

The " Faculty and Their Courses " table described in the previous example suffers from this type of anomaly, for if a faculty member temporarily ceases to be assigned to any courses, we must delete the last of the records on which that faculty member appears, effectively also deleting the faculty member.

Ishi, who had grown up without contact to whites, was monolingual in Yahi and was the last surviving member of his people.

The scientific name Fringillidae comes from the Latin word fringilla for the Chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs ) – a member of that last subfamily – which is common in Europe.

When the last male member of the Salian dynasty, Emperor Henry V, had died without heirs in 1125, a controversy arose about the succession.

Towards 1068, Hummay, a member of the Sayfawa establishment, who was already a Muslim, discarded the last Duguwa king Selma from power and thus established the new dynasty of the Sayfawa.

Brazil was the first founding member to withdraw ( 14 June 1926 ), and Haiti the last ( April 1942 ).

Data are extracted using the operations first, butfirst, last, butlast, butmember, member and item.

Poland was the last member state of the EU to sign the cooperation agreement with ESA.

During each night of prayers, which can last for up to two hours each night, usually one member of the community who has memorized the entire Quran ( a Hafiz ) will recite a segment of the book.

A last quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member.

Mary ( 1371 – 17 May 1395 ), the last member of the Capetian House of Anjou on the Hungarian throne, succeeded her father, Louis I, on 10 September 1382 with her mother, Elizabeth of Bosnia, as regent.

The last member appointed to the court who was not a former student at one of those two institutions was Sandra Day O ' Connor, appointed by the newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

His normal career as a young member of the senatorial class did not last long.

These incubation shifts can last days and even weeks as one member of the pair feeds at sea.

The most famous member of the line was the last queen, Cleopatra VII, known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony.

He was a member of the Orsini of Rome, the third and last member of that family to become Pope.