A few years later both crown would be again united in Habsburgs hands and the union would be restored.

Several of the Albany family were executed, but he succeeded in centralising control in the hands of the crown, at the cost of increasingly unpopularity and was assassinated in 1437.

Any Hohenstaufen in Sicily was bound to have claims over the cities of Lombardy, and as a check to Manfred, Urban IV introduced Charles of Anjou into the equation to place the crown of the Two Sicilies in the hands of a monarch amenable to papal control.

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan ( a cousin of the murdered John Comyn ), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife – who was not yet of age, and in English hands – arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.

He is first to accept the Byzantine crown from the hands of the patriarch of Constantinople.

Tamar sought to make use of the weakness of the Byzantine Empire and the crusaders ' defeat at the hands of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in order to gain Georgia's position on the international stage and to assume the traditional role of the Byzantine crown as a protector of the Christians of the Middle East.

At first, Charles was relatively unconcerned as in many ways this could play into the hands of the French crown by weakening the position of the Count of Flanders over the long term.

Latin King gang member showing his gang tattoo, a lion with a crown, and signifying the 5 point star with his hands

He was represented as wearing the sun for a crown, with thunderbolts in his hands, and tears descending from his eyes as rain.

When Klogg is confronted, he hands Hoborg's crown to Klaymen tells him that he must wear it.

When he puts the crown on, he is transformed-his eyes turn different colours, he gets big teeth and claws on his hands, his skin turns red and he was white socks with his toes sticking out.

In 1761 the Duchy fell back into the hands of the Danish crown.

In the early cathedral on the present site, Louis the Stammerer in 878 received at Troyes the imperial crown from the hands of Pope John VIII.

* The Osho Tarot calls this card Inner Voice and depicts it as a quiet person with a circle face in her center, holding a crystal in both hands and surrounded by two dolphins, a crescent-moon crown, and water.

In 1689, when she realized that power was slipping from her hands, she attempted to raise another riot, speculating that the Naryshkins had destroyed Ivan's crown and were poised to set his room on fire.

As a royal possession, the island was used as surety against loans made to the crown, and passed into various hands while debts remained unpaid.

By the 16th century, many lordships had passed into the hands of the crown, which governed its lordships through the traditional institutions.

It will either enter through the crown chakra ( as this is the highest ascension ), the heart chakra ( as indicated by the pure love of Reiki ), or the hands ( as the palms are attuned with specific Reiki symbols ).

After the deaths of many of the Marcher lords during the Wars of the Roses, many of the lordships had passed into the hands of the crown.

Thus Matthew of Paris, in recording the burial of Henry II of England in 1189, mentions that he was buried in his coronation robes with a golden crown on his head and gloves on his hands.

The Claddagh's distinctive design features two hands clasping a heart, and usually surmounted by a crown.

The elements of this symbol are often said to correspond to the qualities of love ( the heart ), friendship ( the hands ), and loyalty ( the crown ).

The Claddagh ring is a variation on the fede ring, while the hands, heart, and crown motif was used in England in the early 18th century.

Characteristically, she temporised ; but finding that O ' Neill was in danger of becoming a tool in the hands of Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to Ireland, " recognising " him as " The O ' Neill " and of Tyrone ( meaningless, as she had no authority to do so, and it was already done ); though a reservation was made of the rights of Hugh O ' Neill, who had meantime succeeded his brother Brian as baron of Dungannon, Brian having been murdered in April 1562 by his kinsman Turlough Luineach O ' Neill.

Upon his death, brought about by near kinsman and namesake, William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas it fell into the hands of the Dacre family for a time, it soon fell back into the hands of Earl William, through inheritance and it was he that enabled the construction of most of the present building, possibly with the help of John Lewin, master mason at Durham Cathedral.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

This arrangement barely survived Constantine I ’ s death, with the sons of Constantine arranging the slaughter of most of the family of Constantine I at the hands of the army.

Given this background and his health status, he proceeded to leave the government in the hands of his brother John, who had already become an influential minister under Constantine VIII and Romanos III.

This is a letter of Pope Constantine ( 708-715 ), in which he grants privileges to a monastery at Vermundesei, then in the hands of the abbot of Medeshamstede, as Peterborough was known at the time.

Since Athens was effectively in the hands of the junta militarily, Constantine decided to fly to the small northern city of Kavala, east of Thessaloniki.

The Lateran Palace fell into the hands of the emperor when Constantine I married his second wife Fausta, sister of Maxentius.

Tim attempts to return the box to its original owner, but Constantine wants nothing to do with it ; until it falls into the hands of a demon called Kobal (" Master of the Infernal Theatre ").

* Civil wars of the Tetrarchy ( 306 – 324 ), between the co-emperors of the Roman Empire, starting with the usurpation of Maxentius and the defeat of Severus, and ending with the defeat of Licinius at the hands of Constantine I.

The throne of Armenia had changed hands multiple times during Leo's brief lifetime, being held variously by his uncle Hethum II in 1295, passed peacefully to his father Thoros III in 1296, then usurped by another uncle Sempad, who was usurped by his brother Constantine III of Armenia, who himself was deposed by his brother Hethum II in 1299.

Departing from Geoffrey of Monmouth's history in which Mordred is left in charge, Malory's Arthur leaves his court in the hands of Sir Constantine of Cornwall and an advisor.

Arthur returns and kills Modred, but, mortally wounded, he is carried off to the isle of Avalon, and hands the kingdom to his cousin Constantine.

Eventually Constantine is made Roman Emperor, requiring him to leave Britain in the hands of a proconsul.

Arthur returns and kills Modred, but, mortally wounded, he is carried off to the isle of Avalon, and hands the kingdom to his cousin Constantine.

The Domus Laterani fell into the hands of the emperor when Constantine I married his second wife Fausta, sister of Maxentius.

The new ruler was a child, and the government was in the hands of his mother, the unnamed daughter of sebastocrator Constantine Palaiologos and niece of Michael VIII Palaiologos.

Ibrahim and Constantine fell in the hands of the fierce enemy.

Constantine shows the Doctor a number of live patients, each unresponsive, with gas masks seemingly fused to their faces and scars on their hands.

Constantine XI accepted to pay higher tributes to the sultan and recognized the status of all the conquered castles and lands in the hands of the Turks as Ottoman possession.

Since Athens was militarily in the hands of the colonels, Constantine decided to fly to the small northern city of Kavala, where he hoped to be among troops loyal only to him.

Nominated by the emperor until the 4th century, it was either Constantine I or Constantius II who transferred the nomination and election of suffect consuls from the prerogative of the emperor into the hands of the Senate, joining the other lower magistrate posts ( the quaestorship and praetorship ) which were also elected by the senate.