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.

The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.

In the event, Henry Tudor's ships ran into a storm and had to go back to Brittany.

The Manchester Poetry Festival's Richard Michael became interested in sponsoring this event, and Henry Normal, an up and coming poet, initially decided to sponsor it himself.

* March 12 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh, is shot in the back in Sydney, Australia, at a fund raising event for the Sydney Sailors Home by Irishman Henry James O ' Farrell.

This event opened an opportunity for Henry IV to realize his ambitious plans to gain Kraków and the title of High Duke.

Henry also petitioned, in the event of his becoming free, a dispensation to contract a new marriage with any woman even in the first degree of affinity, whether the affinity was contracted by lawful or unlawful connection.

* June 6 – King Henry I of Castile dies aged thirteen from the fall of a roof tile in Palencia, an event which his regent, Álvaro Núñez de Lara, attempts to conceal.

Henry of Lancaster was then sent to Wales in order to fetch the King and the younger Despenser ; on 16 November he with Welsh rebels caught Edward, Despenser and their soldiers in the open country near Tonyrefail, where a plaque now commemorates the event.

Henry VI was briefly restored to the throne in 1470 in an event known as the Readeption of Henry VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

Geoffrey and Matilda held the duchy conjointly until 1149, then ceded it to their son, Henry, which event was soon ratified by King Louis VII of France.

Henry Clay's Compromise Tariff passed the same day, satisfying John Calhoun and South Carolina, making nullification unnecessary in any event.

Nervous of the lengths to which Anne might go, James formally charged Mar in writing never to surrender Henry to anyone except on orders from his own mouth, " because in the surety of my son consists my surety ," nor to yield Henry to the Queen even in the event of his own death.

At first the King's wound did not appear fatal, but he enjoined all the officers around him, in the event that he did not survive, to be loyal to Henry of Navarre as their new king.

At the outset of the Revolutionary War, Henry led militia against the Royal Governor Lord Dunmore in defense of some disputed gunpowder, an event known as the Gunpowder Incident.

A young Boston artist, Henry Pelham, half-brother of the celebrated portrait painter John Singleton Copley, depicted the event.

The idea of the event began in Henry Cowell's philosophy of music.

An important historical event in this region was the tour of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a historian and explorer who, in 1818 and 1819 at the age of 25, visited this region to study its features and its occupants.

This first round of suppressions contributed to popular discontent in the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 ; an event which led to Henry increasingly associating monasticism with betrayal, as most of the spared religious houses in the north of England ( more or less willingly ) sided with the rebels ; while former monks resumed religious life in several of the suppressed houses.

The Mooreland Free Fair is the largest fair of its kind in Henry County and is a popular event during the summer.

During the 1790s Henry Maudslay created the first screw-cutting lathe, a watershed event that signaled the start of blacksmiths being replaced by machinists in factories for the hardware needs of the populace.

The documentary as a television " event " can send ripples far and wide ... Year Zero not only revealed the horror of the Pol Pot years, it showed how Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's ' secret ' bombing of that country had provided a critical catalyst for the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

The king had no option but to return to captivity — the English chronicler Henry Knighton wrote of the event: < div style = " font-size: 90 %;">< span style =" color :# eee ;"></ span > ... the Scots refused to have their King unless he entirely renounced the influence of the English, and similarly refused to submit themselves to them.