The last Assyrian city to fall was Harran in south east Anotolia, this city was also the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar.

He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during the Nazi occupation of Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there ; his association with the Foundation led to allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.

The state of turmoil caused by these religious and political disputes was increased by the possibility of Albert's early death and the need, should that happen, to appoint a regent, as his only son, Albert Frederick was still a mere youth.

As both a foreigner and a woman, the queen was not a popular choice for regent.

His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority.

In 1229, his mother, who was regent of France, forced the Treaty of Paris on Raymond VII of Toulouse after his rebellion.

There was some resistance to his accession as count, which was suppressed with the help of his mother Blanche of Castile who was acting as regent in the absence of Louis IX.

In 1252, on the death of his mother, Blanche of Castile, Alphonse was joint regent with Charles of Anjou until the return of Louis IX.

Empress Adelaide was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century ; she was regent of the Holy Roman Empire as the guardian of her grandson in 991-995.

Ptolemy, advised by his regent, the eunuch Pothinus, and his rhetoric tutor Theodotus of Chios, did not take into account that Caesar was granting amnesty to a great number of those of the senatorial faction in their defeat.

.” in 1: 8 as evidence that the kingdom was still ruled by a regent for Josiah.

The young emperor was raised by the regent, Bayram Khān, an Iranian statesman whose father and grandfather had joined Babur's service.

Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.

The short-lived 11th dynasty of the Kings of Babylon ( 6th century BC ) is conventionally known to historians as the Chaldean Dynasty, although only the first four rulers of this dynasty were known to be Chaldeans, and the last ruler, Nabonidus ( and his son and regent Belshazzar ) was known to be from Assyria.

For six months, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in France.

There was one known instance in history that a calipha ruled a Caliphate: Sitt al-Mulk was regent of the Fatimid Caliphate from 1221 to 1223.

The Fifth Dalai Lama's death was kept secret for fifteen years by the regent (), Sanggye Gyatso.

The regent was murdered, and the Dalai Lama sent to Beijing.

In 913, Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned Emperor ( Tsar ) by the Patriarch of Constantinople and imperial regent Nicholas Mystikos outside of the Byzantine capital.

Thus Indra, the chief of the devas, was regarded as the regent of the east ; Agni, the fire, was in the same way associated with the southeast ; Yama, lord of death and justice with the south ; Surya, the sun, with the southwest ; Varuna, originally the representative of the all-embracing heaven ( atmosphere ), now the god of the ocean, with the west ; Vayu ( or Pavana ), the wind, with the northwest ; Kubera, the god of wealth, with the north ; and Soma with the northeast.

She was the daughter of King Louis VII of France by his third wife Adèle of Champagne, and the sister of Philip II of France ; she had originally come to Constantinople to be betrothed to Alexios II Komnenos, but Alexios was murdered by his co-emperor and regent Andronikos I Komnenos in 1183.

In fact, the Nizam had a French regent stationed at Hyderabad in the later years of the 18th century as an important adviser, and there remains to this day street of Hyderabad city named Troop Bazaar where the French originally had their Military Barracks.

It was suggested in The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop that he was originally a conqueror who fathered king Ninus the first, and that after Ninus ' death his wife Semiramis began to claim Ninus as a Sun god, Cush ( Belus ) as the Lord God, herself as the mother goddess and her son Tammuz as the god of love, in an effort to control her subjects better after the death of her husband, and to allow her to rule as her newborn son's regent.

William originally considered himself only his brother's regent, but after a year declared himself ruling duke.

She had originally been chosen by her grandmother, Aliénor, to marry the French heir, considered a more suitable a Queen of the Franks than her sister Urraca ; as regent, she proved this to be so, being associated in the Kingship not only during her son's minority, but even after he came into his own.

Qutb-ud-din, at the age of 18, was originally appointed regent to his younger six-year old brother, the king.

Ludovico, who was then duke of Bari and regent to the duke of Milan, had originally requested a betrothal to Isabella, Beatrice's older sister, but because she was already promised to Francesco Gonzaga, Ercole offered him Beatrice instead.

After George Frederick's death in 1603, the Polish king Zygmunt Waza appointed Joachim Frederick as regent in 1605, and permitted his son, John Sigismund, to succeed him in 1611.

As early as 1488, when his father was in East Frisia fighting on behalf of the emperor, George was regent of the ducal possessions, which included the Margraviate of Meissen with the cities of Dresden and Leipzig.

A weak ruler as regent ( 1811 – 20 ) and king ( 1820 – 30 ), George IV let his ministers take full charge of government affairs, playing a far lesser role than his father, George III.

* King George III ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ), with his son as regent ( see British Regency ).

* August 25 – George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicaea

The Prince of Wales continued as regent until his father's death in 1820, when he became George IV.

From May 1732, she was regent for four months while George II was again away in Hanover.

When Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1525 secularized the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, Insterburg became part of the Duchy of Prussia and was granted town privileges on October 10, 1583 by the Prussian regent Margrave George Frederick.

As the 1947 Letters Patent issued by King George VI permit the Governor General of Canada to exercise almost all of the monarch's powers in respect of Canada, the viceroy is expected to continue to act as the personal representative of the monarch, and not any regent, even if the monarch is a child or incapacitated.

In the midst of this crisis, Theodore II's epileptic condition worsened, and the Emperor died on August 18, 1258, leaving George Mouzalon as the regent for his minor son John IV Laskaris.

It was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic.

; 1811: George, Prince of Wales begins his nine-year tenure as regent and becomes known as The Prince Regent.

" With Constantine abroad, Colonel George Papadopoulos illegally appointed himself prime-minister and General George Zoitakis as regent.

This standoff continued until 1972, when George Papadopoulos illegally dismissed George Zoitakis and appointed himself regent.

In the meantime, John Hunyadi acted as regent for Ladislaus in Hungary, while George of Poděbrady performed the same office in Bohemia.

The crisis over the ' madness ' of King George III produced a major strain in Anglo-Irish relations, as both of the King's parliaments in both of his kingdoms possessed the theoretical right to nominate a regent, without the requirement that they choose the same person.

He was appointed potential regent for his niece, when his brother ( George VI ) came to the throne in 1936, and was required to stay in the United Kingdom until she came of age in case her father died and she ascended the throne as a minor.

William Pitt the Younger had been in power on the authority of George II, but, as the King's health worsened, parliament came close ( by a matter of weeks ) to instating the Prince of Wales as regent.

This demand was supported by George I and the regent yielded.

In an attempt to reach a compromise the government introduced a bill to Parliament declaring that Augusta was to be a regent along with a council of others, and that George would become the heir when he reached maturity.

He was succeeded by his son Peter I, with George Sursuvul, the new emperor's maternal uncle, initially acting as a regent.