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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.
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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.
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By proceeding more quickly, Berengaria prevented the daughters of her former husband from marrying a man who could claim the throne of León.
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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.
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By marrying Safiyyah, Muhammad aimed at ending the enmity and hostility between Jews and Islam.
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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.
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By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.
By the time of the rediscovery of the Roman law in Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, the common law had already developed far enough to prevent a Roman law reception as it occurred on the continent.
" By the time of Justinian ( reigned 527-565 ), Roman Law recognized a range of corporate entities under the names universitas, corpus or collegium.
By 6, Domitian's mother and sister had long died, while his father and brother were continuously active in the Roman military, commanding armies in Germania and Judaea.
By the Roman period, however, the sacrifices were performed in the mid-afternoon.
By the first century BC Germanic languages had become prevalent, and the inhabitants were called Belgæ while the area was the coastal district of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height.
By Roman custom, February 24 is the day added to a leap year in the Julian calendar.
By the devotio of a voluntary oath, a slave might achieve the quality of a Roman ( Romanitas ), become the embodiment of true virtus ( manliness, or manly virtue ), and paradoxically, be granted missio while remaining a slave.
By AD 100, the time of Tacitus's Germania, Germanic tribes settled along the Roman frontier at the Rhine and the Danube ( the Limes Germanicus ), occupying most of the area of modern Germany ; however, Austria, southern Bavaria, and the western Rhineland were Roman provinces.
By the end of the Roman Empire, having undergone Christian attack and repression, Epicureanism had all but died out, and would be resurrected in the 17th century by the atomist Pierre Gassendi, who adapted it to the Christian doctrine.
By 407 there were no new Roman coins going into circulation, and by 430 it is likely that coinage as a medium of exchange had been abandoned.
By the 3rd century, Pagans Hill Roman Temple in Somerset was able to exist peaceably and it did so into the 5th century.
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By contrast it was continually read and taught in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire where the majority of the classics also survived.
By 1212 John had successfully concluded alliances with Renault of Dammartin, who controlled Boulogne, and Count Ferdinand of Flanders, as well as Otto IV, a contender for the crown of Holy Roman Emperor in Germany ; Otto was also John's nephew.
By the 5th century, when the public performance of pagan rites had been outlawed, a nominally Christian Roman populace still clung to the Lupercalia in the time of Pope Gelasius I ( 494 – 96 ).
By 69, when the Batavians, the original inhabitants of the Rhine and Maas delta, revolted, a village called Oppidum Batavorum had formed near the Roman camp.
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