He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.

He there entered the service of Henry II of France and had undertaken a campaign to regain his lands when he died at Pforzheim on 8 January 1557.

After the death of his brother-in-law, Henry II, margrave of a small area on the Elbe called the Saxon Northern March, in 1128, Albert, disappointed at not receiving this fief himself, attacked Udo, the heir, and was consequently deprived of Lusatia by Lothar.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952 ; Bruno, born 953 ; Matilda, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954 ; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.

His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.

* Emperor Henry II ( 972-1024 )

After the council of Étampes, Bernard went to speak with the King of England, Henry I, Beauclerc, about the king's reservations regarding Pope Innocent II.

Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture.

In 1007, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II made Bamberg a family inheritance, the seat of a separate diocese.

Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.

The church was enriched with gifts from the pope, and Henry II had it dedicated in honor of him.

In 1017 Henry II also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg (" Mount St. Michael "), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

In 1154, Henry II became the first Plantagenet king.

Henry II developed the practice of sending judges from his own central court to hear the various disputes throughout the country.

Some notable collectors were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Henry IV of France and Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, who started the Berlin Coin Cabinet ( German: Münzkabinett Berlin ).

** Henry II ( 1547 – 1559 )

* Henry II ( 1547 – 1559 )

In 1122, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor entered into an agreement with Pope Calistus II known as the Concordat of Worms.

The Concordat of Worms, sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum by papal historians, was an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V on September 23, 1122 near the city of Worms.

Following efforts by Lamberto Scannabecchi ( later Pope Honorius II ) and the Diet of Würzburg ( 1121 ) in 1122, Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V entered into an agreement that effectively ended the Investiture Controversy.

However, when Henry died of suspected typhoid ( or possibly porphyria ) at the age of 18 in 1612, two weeks before Charles's 12th birthday, Charles became heir apparent.

On 18 May 1152 ( Whit Sunday ), eight weeks after her annulment, Eleanor married Henry ' without the pomp and ceremony that befitted their rank '.

On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.

After 18 months, not proving suitable for shop work, Cook travelled to the nearby port town of Whitby to be introduced to friends of Sanderson's, John and Henry Walker.

* 1510 – Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.

Literal Christian interpreters like Henry M. Morris say that the stranger was " God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His preincarnate state ", citing Jacob's own evaluation and the name he assumed thereafter, " one who fights victoriously with God ", and adding that God had appeared in the human form of the Angel of the L < SMALL > ORD </ SMALL > to eat a meal with Abraham in Genesis 18.

# Ursula of Brandenburg ( 17 October 1488 – 18 September 1510, Güstrow ), married 16 February 1507 to Duke Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg.

Henry II himself arrived in May during the siege, but the city fell on May 18.

On 18 November, she was received by Henry Ford in Detroit and Olympia was shown at " The Chicago Engineers Club " two days later.

On 18 June 1611 at Southwark he married Mary Machell of Hackney ( who had been a nurse to Prince Henry the son of James I ) and their children were christened at Aller over the following decade.

Over the next 18 years, he experiments with every vice, mostly under the influence of a " poisonous " French decadence novel, a present from Lord Henry.

*— ( 2004 ) " Reynolds, John Henry ( 1842 – 1927 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 18 June 2005 ( subscription required )

* August 18 – Henry Norwest, Canadian sniper ( b. 1884 )

* October 18 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1784 )

* August 18 – Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles and daughter of Catherine de Medici, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.

* October 18 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister ( d. 1714 )

* September 18 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.

* December 18 – Henry James Sr., American theologian ( b. 1811 )

* January 18 – Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford ( b. 1811 )

* June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia ; the assassins are sentenced to death July 18.

* January 18 – British foreign secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, sends ships to blockade the port of Piraeus, ostensibly as a result of the Don Pacifico affair.

* August 18 – Henry Hammond, English churchman ( d. 1660 )

* May 18 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou after getting her previous marriage to Louis VII annulled.

* November 3 – December 18 – The English Reformation Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England.

* June 18 – Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England ( b. 1519 )