Grimwald, King of the Lombards ( 662 – 671 ), and his young son and successor Garibald ( 671 ), were the last Arian kings in Europe.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I.

* his successor in Naples, King Ferdinand I of Naples, ( b. 1423 ; reigned 1458 – 1494 ).

Arnulf was granted the Duchy of Carinthia, a Frankish vassal state and successor of the ancient Principality of Carantania, by his father Carloman, after Carloman had become reconciled with his own father Louis the German and was created King of Bavaria.

Thus, and in order to provide a clear line of succession and avoid dynastic uncertainty, he arranged for his nephew, King Louis I of Hungary, to be his successor in Poland.

Hence England and, by extension its modern successor state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is in fact an Empire ruled by a King endowed with the imperial dignity.

Frederick the Peaceful KG ( September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 ) was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452.

Henry's designated successor, Otto, was elected King in Aachen in 936.

::: The King appoints and dismisses his ministers. The Federal Government offers its resignation to the King if the House of Representatives, by an absolute majority of its members, adopts a motion of no confidence proposing a successor to the prime minister for appointment by the King or proposes a successor to the prime minister for appointment by the King within three days of the rejection of a motion of confidence.

The King appoints the proposed successor as prime minister, who takes office when the new Federal Government is sworn in.

King John III Sobieski with son James Louis Sobieski | Jakub, whom he tried to position to be his successor.

This he refused, but his successor, King Vladislaus II, favored the Roman Catholics and proceeded against some zealous clergymen of the Calixtines.

Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

Henry's successor, Richard I, paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John significant building resumed at the castle.

King came to regard St-Laurent as his most trusted minister and natural successor.

His father designated Magnus as his successor in powers of the Jarl, henceforward titled Duke of Sweden.

Although Magnus had appointed Sweyn his successor as king of Denmark, Harald immediately announced his plans to gather an army and oust his former ally from the country.

However, his successor Magnus III, nicknamed Magnus Berrføtt ( Magnus Barefoot ), was his illegitimate son.

On becoming head of the government, Botha retained the defence portfolio until October 1980, when he appointed chief of the South African Defence Force, General Magnus Malan, his successor.

In Magnus Barefoot's Saga, a part of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla ( 1225 ), he is given as the successor of Stenkil ( who died in 1066 ):

Magnus is not mentioned as King in the law of Västergötland and was probably ousted from Sweden by his successor Sverker I of Sweden around 1130.

Professor and linguist Magnus Olsen, who was Bugge's assistant and his successor, would read and describe new discoveries of inscriptions.

His successor, King Magnus VI, sued for peace and secured the Treaty of Perth.

In 1533 the Pope finished investigating the Trolle matter and decided that Magnus was the most appropriate successor, and Magnus travelled to Rome to be ordained.

The Chevrolet Epica nameplate is now being utilized globally for the Daewoo Tosca, the successor to the V200 Daewoo Magnus.

Magnus separately listed Gaptus as son and successor of Beric, first king of the Goths south of the Baltic.

When Count Magnus ( Ian Keith ), who wants the Queen's affections for his own, riles up the people against the Spaniard, Christina abdicates the throne, nominating her groom Karl Gustav as her successor while declining to marry him.

Abbotsford gave its name to the " Abbotsford Club ", a successor of the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs, founded by William Barclay Turnbull in 1834 in Scott's honour, for printing and publishing historical works connected with his writings.

As we hear no further accusation on the Easter question — not even in those brought against his successor at Luxeuil Abbey, Eustasius of Luxeuil in 624 — it would appear that after Columbanus had moved to Italy, he gave up the Celtic Easter ( cf.

According to Sunni beliefs, Muhammad gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he died.

One of his favourite wives was a Rajput Princess, known as Jagat Gosain and Princess Manmati, who gave birth to Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan, Jahangir's successor to the throne.

However, in 1378 the breakdown in relations between the cardinals and Gregory's successor, Urban VI, gave rise to the Western Schism.

When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco ; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.

Pope Celestine had died on July 27 but his successor, Sixtus III, gave papal confirmation to the council's actions.

The replacement constitution of 1657, the Humble Petition and Advice, gave ‘ His Highness the Lord Protector ’ the power to nominate his successor.

Shortly before the Báb's execution, a follower of the Báb, Abd al-Karim, brought to the Báb's attention the necessity to appoint a successor ; thus the Báb wrote a certain number of tablets which he gave to Abd al-Karim to deliver to Subh-i-Azal and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Sales of the STAR were weak, but Control Data Corp. produced a successor system, the Cyber 200 / 205, that gave Cray Research some competition.

When Ptolemy XIV died – allegedly poisoned by his older sister – Cleopatra made Caesarion her co-regent and successor and gave him the epithets Theos Philopator Philometor (= Father-and motherloving God ).

Since Tiglath-Pileser came to the throne in 745 BC, Menahem's tribute would have to be in 745 or later, yet the " longer " chronology gave Pekah, successor to Menahem and Pekahiah, a twenty-year reign that started before this, in 752.

Elizabeth's successor James I did not like the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's ( and his own ) chief minister Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury, in exchange for Theobalds which was the Cecils ' family home.

Seleucus also took his future wife, the Persian princess Apama ( daughter of Spitamenes ), with him into India as his mistress, where she gave birth to his bastard eldest son and successor Antiochus I Soter ( 325 BC ).

Cárdenas ' successor Manuel Ávila Camacho gave the party its present name in 1946.

Perhaps a more reasonable account of the matter would be that Yazdegerd had originally a son Ardeshir, whom he intended to make his successor, but that this son died or offended him, and that then he gave his place to Bahramgur.

Eugene IV died on 23 February 1447, and the council at Lausanne, to save appearances, gave their support to his successor, Pope Nicholas V, who had already been governing the Church for two years.

The damage to the see of Rochester was so great that the incumbent bishop, Putta, retired from his diocese ; his appointed successor, Cwichelm, also gave up the see " because of its poverty ".

It was not then, as its successor the Scottish National Orchestra was later to be, a permanent ensemble, but gave a season lasting about six months of each year.

For most of its history, the Irish Independent ( also called simply the Independent or, more colloquially, the Indo ) was seen as a nationalist, Catholic newspaper, which gave its political allegiance to Cumann na nGaedheal and later its successor party, Fine Gael.

Macmillan quickly came to the view that Home would be the best choice as his successor, and gave him valuable behind-the-scenes backing.

Military dictator Francisco Franco appointed Juan Carlos de Borbón as his " successor with the title of King " but gave him the new title of Prince of Spain instead of Prince of Asturias.

In 1713, the son and successor of Charles XI, Charles XII, issued a new working order for the Chancellery to enable him to conduct government from the battle-field, but his sudden death at the siege of Fredricshald in Norway in 1718 provided the opportunity for the parliament ( Riksdag of the Estates ) to write a new constitution in 1719 and 1721, that gave Sweden half a century of first renewed conciliatory, and then parliamentary government.

Aznar was not considered senior enough to be a possible successor, and gave his support to the more conservative Miguel Herrero, who lost the leadership battle to Fraga's choice, Antonio Hernández Mancha.