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.

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.

Alerted by a Union reconnaissance on January 14, 1862, Johnston ordered Tilghman to fortify the high ground opposite Fort Henry, which Polk had failed to do despite Johnston's orders.

It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.

When Henry Compton, the Bishop of London, did not ban John Sharp from preaching after he gave an anti-Catholic sermon, James ordered his removal.

During the late medieval period, King Henry V of England ( lived 1387-1422 ) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings before him and before the government bureaucracies.

Richard refused to give up Aquitaine ; Henry II was furious and ordered John, with help from Geoffrey, to march south and retake the duchy by force.

In 1350 there was a serious shortage, and Henry IV of England ordered his royal bowyer to enter private land and cut yew and other woods.

" What are we to make, then, of trader Henry Francis Fynn's statement that once the Zulu army reached hard and stony ground in 1826, Shaka ordered sandals of ox-hide to be made for himself?

Henry chose to blame Cromwell for the failed marriage, and ordered him beheaded on 28 July 1540.

It is likely that King Henry IV ordered the death of Richard by starvation to prevent further uprisings.

The entries are ordered approximately by the social status of the poets, starting with the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, Kings Conradin and Wenceslaus II, down through dukes, counts and knights, to the commoners.

Leaving a sizable force at Fort William Henry to distract Montcalm, he began organizing for the expedition to Quebec, only to be ordered by William Pitt, the Secretary of State responsible for the colonies, to attack Louisbourg first.

Henry of Huntingdon ( 12th century ) claimed that Harthacnut ordered for the dining tables of his court to be " laid four times a day with royal sumptuousness " which O ' Brien says is likely a popular myth.

* July – Mary de Ferrers is ordered to surrender land and Liverpool Castle to Edmund, second son of Henry III.

Later, Colonel Picquart ( Henry O ' Neill ), the new chief of intelligence, discovers evidence implicating Major Walsin-Esterhazy ( Robert Barrat ) as the spy, but he is ordered by his superiors to remain silent, as this revelation would embarrass them.

In the final years of her life Eleanor was moved to Bristol, and Henry ordered the mayor and bailiff there to increase her household.

In 1244, when the Scots threatened to invade England, King Henry III visited York Castle and ordered it rebuilt in stone.

It has been suggested that Henry ordered her memorial to be removed to distance himself from his illegitimate ancestry.

It was after this battle that she, in a blatant act of vengeance, ordered the execution of two Yorkist prisoners-of-war, William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville, and Sir Thomas Kyriel, who had kept watch over King Henry to keep him out of harm's way during the battle.

With Bristol secure, Isabella moved her base of operations up to the border town of Hereford, from where she ordered Henry of Lancaster to locate and arrest her husband.

On a visit to Fontevraud, her son King Henry III of England was shocked to find her buried outside the Abbey and ordered her immediately moved inside.

When the Lancastrians retook England, Warwick ordered the duke to watch over Henry VI in London.

Viaux's kidnapping plan had been supported by the CIA, although the then U. S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger claims to have ordered the plans postponed at the last moment.

In 1911, Chaplain Groves was ordered to return to the 14th Infantry, which was now stationed at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana.