The secular articles of the abridged Serbian version of the Syntagma were drawn chiefly from Basil I's law code and the Novella's of Emperors who succeeded him ; they focused on laws governing contracts, loans, inheritance, marriage, dowries etc.

It is presumed that Basil I's votive church of the Theotokos of the Pharos and the Nea Ekklesia ( both no longer existent ) served as a model for most cross-in-square sanctuaries of the period, including the Cattolica di Stilo in southern Italy ( 9th century ), the monastery church of Hosios Lukas in Greece ( ca.

" I simply had to protect Our Lord ," said Mrs Whitehouse at the time, though both the Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan and Cardinal Basil Hume declined Whitehouse's invitation for them to give evidence at the trial.

The most known are: Ecloga ( 740 )— enacted by emperor Leo the Isaurian, Proheiron ( c. 879 )— enacted by emperor Basil the Macedonian and Basilika ( late 9th century )— started by Basil the Macedonian and finished by his son Leo the Wise.

* Constantine ( circa 865 – September 3, 879 ), co-emperor to Basil from January 6, 868 to his death.

After the death of his mother from emphysema when he was 14 years old, Jones rejected acting in favour of a career as a jockey, apprenticing with Newmarket trainer Basil Foster.

This state of affairs changed when Photius's patrons, Bardas and Emperor Michael III, were murdered in 866 and 867, respectively, by Basil the Macedonian, who now usurped the throne.

In the West, the most significant development occurred when the rules for monastic communities were written, the Rule of St Basil being credited with having been the first.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Early portrayers of the character Sherlock Holmes, particularly William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, took advantage of this fact when it was required to portray Holmes smoking.

After decades of planning, the realisation of the three-tier school system began in 1988 under the aegis of the Head of Education, Basil George, when the Prince Andrew School was opened for all pupils of 12 onwards.

Although Dorian is hedonistic, when Basil accuses him of making Lord Henry's sister's name a " by-word ," Dorian replies " Take care, Basil.

The historian Basil Williams has claimed that this is the first time in British history when a " man was called to supreme power by the voice of the people " rather than by the king's appointment or as the choice of Parliament.

* September 17 – The D ' Oliveira Affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D ' Oliveira, a Cape Coloured, in the side.

In 960, Basil was associated on the throne by his father, but the latter died in 963, when Basil was only five years old.

Finally, when John died on 10 January 976, Basil II took the throne as senior emperor.

Within months, the land laws of Basil II were dropped under pressure from the Anatolian aristocracy ( the dynatoi ), although Constantine struck at the nobility when threatened by conspiracy.

The Rathbones fled to England when Basil was three years old after his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy near the onset of the Second Boer War at the end of the 1890s.

Basil lived there until 836, when he and several others escaped to Byzantine-held territory in Thrace.

It is notable that when Leo was born, Michael III celebrated the event with public chariot races, whilst he pointedly instructed Basil not to presume on his new position as junior emperor.

Michael and Basiliskian were insensibly drunk following a banquet at the palace of Anthimos when Basil, with a small group of companions ( including his father Bardas, brother Marinos, and cousin Ayleon ), gained entry.

Basil I died on August 29, 886 from a fever contracted after a serious hunting accident when his belt was caught in the antlers of a deer, and he was allegedly dragged 16 miles through the woods.

The marital contract was broken in 871 when relations between Basil and Louis broke down.

The rights of her sons were, however, safeguarded and eventually, when Tzimiskes died at war, Basil II ( her elder son ) became senior emperor.

Ostensibly troubled by the favor Michael was beginning to show to another courtier, named Basiliskianos ( Basiliskian ), who was raised as another co-emperor, Basil had Michael assassinated when he lay insensible in his bedchamber following a drinking bout in September 867.

To secure his family on the throne, Basil I raised his eldest son Constantine ( in 869 ) and his second son Leo ( in 870 ) to the position of co-emperor.

Basil the Great was the second oldest of Makrina's brothers, the eldest being the famous Christian jurist Naucratius, and another brother, Peter, also became a bishop.

She was predeceased by her husband, Sir Basil Goulding, in 1982, but survived by her sons, the eldest of whom, Sir William Goulding, is Headmaster of the Headfort School in County Meath ; the other sons are Hamilton and Timothy of Dr. Strangely Strange.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, Basil, the aforementioned fifth Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1952.

Born in Horsham, Victoria, Australia in 1925, the eldest child of Thomas Basil Hennessy and Nell Poultney, Hennessy was educated in nearby Ballarat, before leaving school at 17 to join the Royal Australian Navy.

Macrina born in 330, the eldest sister of Basil and Gregory of Nussa, was also a well known deaconess who founded her own monastic community.

Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh ( c. 1608 – 28 November 1675 ) was the eldest son of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh.

On Emperor Michael's orders, Basil divorced his wife Maria and married Eudokia Ingerina, Michael's favorite mistress in around 865.

The solution he chose was to have Ingerina marry his favorite courtier and chamberlain Basil the Macedonian.

The ambitions of Gregory's father to have his son rise in the Church hierarchy and the insistence of his friend Basil convinced Gregory to accept this position despite his reservations.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Other immediate issues were that in Constantinople, the Patriarch Photius had been ejected and Stephen, the son of Emperor Basil I, had taken the office.

Basil was the son of Emperor Romanos II and Empress Theophano, whose maternal family was of Laconian Greek origin originating in the Peloponnesian region of Laconia, possibly from the city of Sparta.

In the early years of his reign, the administration remained in the hands of the eunuch Basil Lekapenos ( an illegitimate son of Emperor Romanos I ), President of the Senate, a wily and gifted man, who hoped that the young emperors would be his puppets.

He was the son of the Emperor Romanos II and Theophano, and the younger brother of the eminent Basil II, who died childless and thus left the rule of the Byzantine Empire in his hands.

Stephen was the son of Eudokia Ingerina and, officially, Emperor Basil I.

Apart from the bastard eunuch Basil Lekapenos, who was appointed parakoimomenos, Theophylact was the only son of Romanos I to retain his high office after the family's fall from power in 945.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Isaac was the son of Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, the strategos autokrator of the East under Emperor Basil II Manuel originated in Thrace and was possibly of Vlach ancestry, though other ethnic origins have been suggested.

Basil I and his son Leo.

Basil now raised his youngest son, Alexander, to the rank of co-emperor.

Basil disliked the bookish Leo, on occasion physically beating him ; he probably suspected Leo of being the son of Michael III.

Romanos also had an illegitimate son, the eunuch Basil, who remained influential at court, particularly during the period 976 – 985.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

His father, Basil Kendall, was the son of the Rev.

Born to the empress Eudokia Ingerina, Leo was either the illegitimate son of Emperor Michael III or the second son of his successor, Basil I the Macedonian.

He was the third son of Emperor Basil I and Eudokia Ingerina.