By 926 Sihtric had evidently acknowledged Æthelstan as over-king, adopting Christianity and marrying a sister of Æthelstan at Tamworth.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to senatorial rank.

By marrying Richard III's niece, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII successfully bolstered his own disputed claim to the throne, whilst moving to end the Wars of the Roses by presenting England with a new dynasty, of both Lancastrian and Yorkist descent.

By marrying his son Philip the Handsome to the future Queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian established the Habsburg dynasty in Spain and allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making him the first de jure King of Spain.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank.

By marrying Aspasia without obtaining the permission of the Archbishop, Alexander disobeyed the law and his attitude caused a major scandal in Greece.

By marrying her now, he would be removed from the line of succession early, and preclude the prospect of losing Natalia.

By 1840 he writes that seamen were marrying early with 86 marriages and 60 births in the parish in the space of one year.

By proceeding more quickly, Berengaria prevented the daughters of her former husband from marrying a man who could claim the throne of León.

By that time, less wealthy daughters were often marrying without any dowry.

By 1378, he owned the manor of Bodiam by virtue of marrying into a land-owning family.

By this — so this narrative alleges — Agnes hoped to foil any attempt by Raymond III of Tripoli ( the former regent ) from marrying her daughter into the rival court faction, led by the Ibelins.

By marrying Jacob and bearing his sons, who would be raised in the tzadik's home and continue his mission into the next generation ( indeed, all 12 sons became tzadikim in their own right and formed the foundation of the Nation of Israel ), they would develop an even closer relationship to God.

By the late 1940s, Marjorie slowly matures to a young woman of marrying age.

By marrying short passing to intelligent positional play, they made the ball do all the work, and so kept their opponents on the run wrote Joy.

By marrying two daughters to Frankish kings, he may have intended to involve the Merovingians in the Visigothic succession.

By marrying a Roman Catholic, Alexander lost his place in line of succession to the British throne, which he had held as a descendant of Queen Victoria through her second son Alfred.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank.

By now, he has added to his fortunes by marrying Héloise Plïsson, a rich socialite who has suspicions about how he makes his money, but prefers not to know.

By marrying Safiyyah, Muhammad aimed at ending the enmity and hostility between Jews and Islam.

By marrying her, Muhammad also established kinship ties with the banu Makhzum, his previous opponents.

By marrying Frederick, she became Electress of Brandenburg in 1688, and after the elevation of Brandenburg-Prussia to a kingdom in 1701, she became the first Queen in Prussia.

By then Lloyd Cotsen, had entered the Stolaroff family by marrying his daughter Joanne Stolaroff.

By the end of 1819 Calvos had a love affair with a student, Susan Fortune Rideout, but her parents did not approve, and it was considered too soon after his wife's death for them to think of marrying.

By this, he was invoking the terms of Baldwin IV's will, terms already broken by Guy and Sibylla: in the event of the death of his nephew Baldwin V it had been Baldwin's will that Baldwin V's " most rightful heirs " were to hold the regency until the succession could be settled by the King of England, the King of France, and the Holy Roman Emperor.

By September 1187, Saladin was besieging the Holy City, and Sibylla personally led the defence, along with Patriarch Eraclius and Balian of Ibelin, who had survived Hattin.

* 1108: By the Treaty of Devol, signed in September, Bohemond I of Antioch has to submit to the Byzantine Empire, becoming the vassal of Alexius I.

By 1427, the Xuande Emperor gave up the effort started by his grandfather and formally acknowledged Vietnam's independence on condition they accept vassal status.

By his nomen, it can be told that he ( or one of his male ancestors ) was made a Roman citizen ( and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal ) by either Augustus or Caligula.

By that time, Jayakatwang, the Adipati ( Duke ) of Kediri, a vassal state of Singhasari, had usurped and killed Kertanagara.

By the invitation of Bolesław III the Wrymouth and his vassal Wartisław I of Pomerania, Bishop Otto of Bamberg came with a mission to Pomerania in 1124 ; Białogard was one of the places he visited.

By c. 1550 – 1400BC, Jerusalem had become a vassal to Egypt after the Egyptian New Kingdom under Ahmose I and Thutmose I had reunited Egypt and expanded into the Levant.

By 1376 at the latest, Shishman accepted vassal status under Murad and sent his sister as the sultan's " wife " to the harem at Edirne.

By that homage, Sanudo chose to become the vassal of the Emperor to avoid ending a mere governor of the islands in the name of Venice.

By their accounts, when Edmund refused to become the vassal of a pagan, he was killed in much the same way as Saint Sebastian was martyred.

By 1236 AD, the Reconquista was essentially completed and Europeans had retaken the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims, but the Emirate of Granada, a small Muslim vassal of the Christian Kingdom of Castile, remained in Spain until 1492 AD.

By the time Nariakira had arrived in Satsuma to address a crisis related to the Ryūkyū Kingdom ( a vassal state under Satsuma ) in 1846, Yura had used her charm to thoroughly convince Narioki to promote the interests of her son Hisamitsu over Narioki ’ s legitimate son and heir-apparent ( Nariakira ).

By becoming a vassal, the player is given control over a certain fief, which he or she can manage and collect taxes from.

By inheritance, he was count of Verdun and he became margrave of Antwerp as a vassal of the duke of Lower Lorraine.

By some suppositions, Croatian prince Borna was a Frankish vassal sent from Liburnia to Dalmatia to organize it into a vassal state to the Frankish Empire ; in 820 AD, Louis the Pious rewarded him for his merits and devotion, by giving also Liburnia to his jurisdiction.

By the time Hattušili overthrew Urhi Teššup, the conquest was a fête accompli and a sheepish Hattušili was to request that Adad-nārārī intervene to curb the incursions of the people of Turira, a Hanigalbat frontier town, against those of Carchemish, still a loyal Hittite vassal ,“ If Turira is yours, smash it !... If Turira is not yours, write to me so that I may smash it.