The name Cottian comes from Marcus Julius Cottius, a king of the tribes inhabiting that mountainous region in the 1st century BC.

Cottius was succeeded by his son, also named Marcus Julius Cottius, who was granted the title of king by the emperor Claudius.

* Marcus Julius Cottius, king of several Alpine tribes of the Ligures, submitted to Augustus and granted the title of praefectus.

* Marcus Julius M. f. Cottius, son of Marcus Julius Cottius, praefect of the Ligures, upon whom the title of king was conferred by the emperor Claudius.

) says that from Tarasco to the borders of the Vocontii and the beginning of the ascent of the Alps, through the Druentia and Caballio, is 63 miles ; and from thence to the other boundaries of the Vocontii, to the kingdom of Cottius ( the Alpes Cottiae ), to the village of Ebrodunum, 99 miles.

Briançon was the Brigantium of the Romans and formed part of the kingdom of King Cottius.

The restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII made him a peer of France on 4 June, with a seat in the upper house, but, having commanded one of Napoleon's armies on the Alpine frontier during the Hundred Days, he was deprived of his peerage on 24 July 1815.

" This section is a " covenantal land grant ": Yahweh, as king, is issuing each tribe its territory.

Boiorix, who may have a Celtic name if not a Celticized Germanic name, was king of the Cimbri after they moved away for their ancestral home of northern Jutland ; Boiorix and his tribe lived around Celtic peoples during his era as J.

* King Kuru ( Hindu mythology ), the imputed ancestral king of Indo-Aryan Kuru tribe

In Roman mythology, the tribe of the Latini took their name from king Latinus.

* the father of Ishmaiah, governor of the tribe of Zebulun during the reign of king David ()

The king would appoint a tribunus celerum to serve as both the tribune of Ramnes tribe in Rome and as the commander of the king's personal bodyguard, the Celeres.

Henry Francis Fynn provided medical treatment to the king after an assassination attempt from a rival tribe member hidden in a crowd ( see account of Nathaniel Isaacs ).

Next comes the Tyro tribe and, on the Red Sea, the harbour of the Daneoi, from which Sesostris, king of Egypt, intended to carry a ship-canal to where the Nile flows into what is known as the Delta ; this is a distance of over 60 miles.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

* Boudicca marries Prasutagus, king of the British Celtic tribe the Iceni.

* Boiorix, king of the Cimbri tribe, killed at the Battle of Vercellae.

Each tribe had a council of elders, and initially a king.

Among the Aedui, a tribe of Gaul, the executive held the title of Vergobret, a position much like a king, but his powers were held in check by rules laid down by the council.

According to Ibn Ishaq, he was stopped from doing so by two rabbis from the Banu Qurayza tribe, who implored the king to spare the oasis because it was the place " to which a prophet of the Quraysh would migrate in time to come, and it would be his home and resting-place.

In early 6 CE, before Varus was commander on the Rhine, it was Legatus Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus under Tiberius who led an army of 65, 000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10, 000 – 20, 000 cavalrymen, archers, 10, 000 – 20, 000 civilians ( 13 legions & entourage, probably about 100, 000 + men ) and was planning a major attack on Maroboduus, the king of the Marcomanni, a tribe of the Suebi who had fled the attacks of Drusus I in 9 BCE into the territory of the Boii, where they formed a powerful tribal alliance with the Hermunduri, Quadi, Semnones, Lugians, Zumi, Butones, Mugilones, Sibini and Langobards.

* King Midang, king of the Qiang tribe

8. 4 ) how Alans ( whom he calls a " Scythian " tribe ) living near the Sea of Azov, crossed the Iron Gates for plunder and defeated the armies of Pacorus, king of Media, and Tiridates, King of Armenia, two brothers of Vologeses I ( for whom the above-mentioned inscription was made ):

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king Genseric entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics.

Celts and Ligurians lived widely widespread in Provence and the Celto-Ligures eventually shared the territory of Provence, each tribe in its own alpine valley or settlement along a river, each with its own king and dynasty.

* Ixion was the king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly.

* Hasdrubal Gisco retreats to the coast and then crosses to North Africa, where he gives his daughter in marriage to Syphax, king of the Numidian Masaesyli tribe, to formalize their military alliance.

* Syphax, king of the western Numidian tribe, the Masaesyli, concludes an alliance with the Romans and they send military advisers to help Syphax train his soldiers.

After the Avars and the neighbouring tribe of the Lombards had combined to destroy the Gepids, from whom Justin had obtained the Danube fortress of Sirmium, Avar pressure caused the Lombards to migrate West, and in 568 they invaded Italy under their king Alboin.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for striking his friend and fellow dwarf, Trippetta, he dresses them as orangutans for a masquerade.

Joinville was a close friend, confidant, and counsellor to the king, and also participated as a witness in the papal inquest into Louis ' life that ended with his canonisation in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.

Otto became a friend of Richard I of England, who attempted to make him Earl of York in 1190, and, through marriage with Margaret, king of Scotland.

He had created the Archbishopric of Uppsala in Sweden in 1164 probably at the suggestion of his close friend Eskil, Archbishop of Lund-exiled in Clairvaux, France, due to a conflict with the Danish king.

For Carloman, king of the Franks, is the friend of Christophorus and Sergius, and will be wishful to come to Rome and seize you .”

Ignacy Krasicki, the last prince-bishop of Warmia as well as Elightment Polish poet, friend of Frederick the Great whom he did not give Homage as his new king, was nominated to the Archbishopric of Gnesen ( Gniezno ) in 1795.

* Germanicus conclude a peace treaty with Artabanus II of Parthia, in which he is recognized as king and friend of Rome.

The king attributed his son ’ s preferences to his strong attachment to Piers Gaveston, a Gascon knight, and Edward I exiled Gaveston from court after Prince Edward attempted to bestow on his friend a title reserved for royalty.

Ironically, it was the king who had originally chosen Gaveston in 1298 to be a suitable friend for his son due to his wit, courtesy and abilities.

Edward recalled his friend, but could do little to prevent Gaveston being captured in 1312 under the orders of the Earl of Lancaster and his allies, who claimed that he had led the king to folly.

The king, once more ignoring the queen's pro-Austrian candidate, appointed a childhood friend, the comte de Montmorin, to replace Vergennes as Foreign Minister.

Juba, a later king, was a friend of Rome.

This created a difficult situation for the poet-bishop who, while a friend of the Polish king, maintained close relations with the Prussian king.

Lionel's father was a friend of the king before he was cast away because of his gambling.

Philip II of Macedon ( – φίλος phílos, " friend " + ἵππος híppos, " horse " — transliterated ; 382 – 336 BCE ), was king ( basileus ) of Macedon from 359 BCE until his assassination in 336 BCE.

Although their sexual relationship stopped, she remained the close confidante and friend of the king until her death, quite a feat in the history of royal mistresses.

* Scipio Aemilianus is sent by the Roman general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, to Numidia to obtain some elephants from the Numidian king Masinissa, the friend of his grandfather Scipio Africanus.

Arnulf, his lifelong friend, was appointed adviser to the new king alongside him.

Following Tiberius ' death and the ascension of Agrippa's friend Caligula, Agrippa was set free and made governor first of the territories of Batanaea and Trachonitis that his cousin Herod II had held, then of the tetrarchy of Lysanias, with the title of " king ".

In Artaxerxes ' 20th year ( 444 BCE ), Nehemiah, the king's cupbearer, apparently was also a friend of the king as in that year Artaxerxes inquired after Nehemiah's sadness.

" The Amorah ( and Tanna ) Rav was a personal friend of the last Parthian king Artabenus and Shmuel was close to Shapur I King of Persia.

However, January 15, 1541 saw Cartier supplanted by Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval, a Huguenot courtier and friend of the king named as the first lieutenant general of French Canada.