The Agriculturalist king is not paid by the government through its treasuries ; his livelihood is derived from the profits he earns working in the fields, not his leadership.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

This passage begins by describing Scyld ’ s glory as a “ scourge of many tribes, a wrecker of mead-benches .” Scyld ’ s glory and importance is shown by the prestigious death he obtains through his service as the king of the Danes.

In the standard 52-card deck used in bridge, the ace is ranked highest followed by the king, queen, and jack and the spot-cards from ten down through to the two.

The king of Edom refuses permission to the Israelites to pass through his land and they go round it.

The bridge of Bouvines, the only means of retreat through the marshes, was guarded by 150 sergeants at arms of the king who form only to the French troops.

* The king may not be in check, nor may the king pass through squares that are under attack by enemy pieces, nor move to a square where it is in check.

The Agriculturalist king is not paid by the government through its treasuries ; his livelihood is derived from the profits he earns working in the fields, not his leadership.

* 1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

# The Old Testament, in which a line of kings was created by God through the prophecy of Jacob / Israel, who created his son Judah to be king and retain the sceptre until the coming of the Messiah, alongside the line of priests created in his other son, Levi.

" Haman thought the king meant himself, so he said that the man should wear a royal robe and be led on one of the king's horses through the city streets proclaiming before him, " This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!

" The king thought this well, then asked Haman to lead Mordecai through the streets in this way, to honor him for previously telling the king of a plot against him.

Incidentally by being king of Spain, he was also Roman ( Byzantine ) emperor in pretence through Andreas Palaiologos.

In 1324, two years before his first visit to Cairo, the West African Malian Mansa, or king of kings, Musa had passed through the same city on his own hajj and caused a sensation with a display of extravagant riches brought from his gold-rich homeland.

The English king Æthelred the Unready set up an early legal system through the Wantage Code of Ethelred, one provision of which stated that the twelve leading thegns ( minor nobles ) of each wapentake ( a small district ) were required to swear that they would investigate crimes without a bias.

Other descendants of Władysław the Short ( through the Silesian dukes of Świdnica ) included the then Emperor Wenceslas, king of Bohemia, who died without Issue in 1419, as well as the Silesian dukes of Opole and Sagan.

The king is to protect his vassals against damage to their possessions ; in case the clergy through their misuse of the temporalities cause injury, the king must offer protection.

The canons of the Holy Sepulchre asked the king for advice, and Heraclius was chosen through Agnes ' influence.

Rather than a conquest of the Picts, instead the idea of Pictish matrilineal succession, mentioned by Bede and apparently the only way to make sense of the list of Kings of the Picts found in the Pictish Chronicle, advanced the idea that Kenneth was a Gael, and a king of Dál Riata, who had inherited the throne of Pictland through a Pictish mother.

This was the first time that the duchy had a monarch who had no claim to inheritance of the medieval patrimony ( as lineages through his mother and wife had a better entitled claimant, the Prussian king himself ).

On the other hand, total destruction of both king and people will result if they turn to wickedness.

The wider area was certainly well-known ; in ancient Arabic poetry, Wabar or Ubar ( also known as " Iram of the Pillars ") was the site of a fabulous city that was destroyed by fire from the heavens because of the wickedness of its king.

Many elements of the text were drawn from long-standing Mesopotamian themes of legitimizing rule in Babylonia: the preceding king is reprimanded and he is proclaimed to have been abandoned by the gods for his wickedness ; the new king has gained power through the divine will of the gods ; the new king rights the wrongs of his predecessor, addressing the welfare of the people ; the sanctuaries of the gods are rebuilt or restored, offerings to the gods are made or increased and the blessings of the gods are sought ; and repairs are made to the whole city, in the manner of earlier rightful kings.

His death began an interregnum of years, the " Rule of the Dukes ", during which the dukes did not elect any king, and which is regarded as a period of violence and disorder.

In that day, Herod the king committed violence against some who belonged to the church.

Reacting to the wars of religion of his own time and the previous century, he maintained that the absolute rule of a king was the only possible alternative to the otherwise inevitable violence and anarchy of civil war.

Despite these incidences of occasional violence between African and European forces however, many African states were able to ensure that any trade went on in their own terms, imposing custom duties on foreign ships, and in one case that occurred in 1525, the Kongolese king, Afonso I, seized a French vessel and its crew for illegally trading on his coast.

Michelet argued that the death of the former king would lead to the acceptance of violence as a tool for happiness.

In the violence of 10 August 1792, citizens stormed the Tuileries Palace, killing six hundred of the King ’ s Swiss guards and insisting on the removal of the king.

There was episodes of extreme violence like the killing of Béziers, faced the forces assembled by vassal lords of the Capetian mainly from Ile de France and the north of France, led by Simon de Montfort, against the nobility of Toulouse led by Count Raymond VI of Toulouse and the family Trencavel that, as allies and vassals of the king of Aragon Peter II the Catholic, invoked direct involvement in the conflict at the Aragonese monarch, who was defeated and killed in the course of Battle of Muret in 1213.

The king personifying the rain deity is then shown carrying war implements and making prisoners, while his actions seem to be equated with the violence of a thunderstorm.

The king was considered to have committed an almost unpardonable crime in offering violence to members of the church, in defiance of the scriptural command, " Touch not mine anointed.

Fiannamail ua Dúnchado was a king of Dál Riata at the end of the 8th century, and a king about whom nothing can be said with certainty other than the fact of his death around 700 by violence.

The king Mwambutsa IV rapidly changed the Prime Minister as anti-Tutsi forces threatened to unleash the same violence as had hit Rwanda.

In this time of violence and confusion, Scotland's leaders understandably turned for support to their nearest neighbour and brother-in-law of their former king, King Edward I of England.

The early months of 1297 saw outbreaks of violence against the English occupiers and their Scottish allies, some of which were so serious, officials on the ground sought assistance from the king.

The privileges given to the Church are notable: in addition to the freedom from taxation, the oath of a bishop is " incontrovertible ", which places it at the same level as the oath of a king, and the Church receives the same level of compensation for violence done to dependents as does the king.

He also wrote to the king, reiterating his stance on violence against a rightful monarch.

Nonetheless, after this violence, nobles – little assured by the apparent and, as it was to prove, temporary reconciliation of king and people – started to flee the country as émigrés.

This resort to violence by Albany's youngest son may have been what the king needed to bring a charge of treason against the Albany Stewarts.

The king finally declared that he took the Jews under his special protection, and that he desired to have their persons and property protected from all violence, injury, and oppression.

However, the Pope annulled the " shameful and demeaning agreement, forced upon the king by violence and fear " one month after it was signed.

elevation to the rank of count in 1786 ; and Mirabeau would never have attacked him with such violence in his Secret History of the Court of Berlin, which appeared in 1788, if he had not seen in him the most powerful man after the king.

From 1680 to 1694, the Portuguese and Zumbi, now the new king of Angola Janga, waged an almost constant war of greater or lesser violence.

An ex-Dragon Rider, Brom, described their influence in the following words: " How many men would draw their swords if they knew a great fire-breathing lizard — one with more natural cunning and wisdom than even a king could hope for — would soon be there to stop the violence?