Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

Under the title, To Markos III ( supposedly named for a " rich uncle " of Spyropoulos who helped finance the album ), it was released in the UK on the Pye label in May 1970, though reportedly only 250 copies were pressed it was deleted shortly after.

Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.

William helped Malcolm's eldest son Duncan, who had spent many years as a hostage at William I's court and remained there when set at liberty by William II, to overthrow his uncle, but Donald soon regained the throne and Duncan was killed.

Teamed with his uncle Yabba-Doo and Deputy Dusty, he helped maintain law and order in a small town in the American west.

With the assistance of his uncle, Charles W. Smith, whose connections had helped him obtain the position, Fairbanks was able to become a railroad financier, and served as counsel for millionaire Jay Gould.

During the War of Liberation in 1813, Frederick changed sides and went over to the Allies, where his status as the brother-in-law of the British Prince Regent ( later George IV ) and uncle to the Russian Emperor Alexander I helped his standing.

Walter owed his early advancement to his uncle Ranulf de Glanvill, who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer.

The eldest brother, Theobald Walter, and Walter himself, were helped in their careers by their uncle, Ranulf de Glanvill.

Samuel and his uncle, William Williams “ helped the boy to find a new world in the Bible ”.

Nyro was very close to her aunt and uncle, the artists Theresa Bernstein and William Meyerowitz, who helped to support her education and early career.

In December 1826, with his flag aboard the third rate, Hardy escorted 4, 000 British troops to Lisbon, where they helped to quell a revolution by the eight-year-old queen's uncle.

He helped his uncle Vladislav II of Syrmia to regain all Serbia, but after the fall of Ostrvica at Rudnik at the hands of Stephen Uroš III of Serbia, there was no more point in supporting him during the struggles for the Serbian throne, so he took Usora and Soli for himself.

He also helped organize his uncle Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign against Mitt Romney in 1994.

These sources also deal with his war against Onela, which he won with foreign assistance: in Beowulf he gained the throne of Sweden by defeating his uncle Onela with Geatish help, and in two Scandinavian sources ( Skáldskaparmál and Skjöldunga saga ), he is also helped to defeat Onela in the Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern, but with Danish help.

Art Metrano played Chachi's uncle Rico Mastorelli, who was the band's manager and helped Joanie and Chachi advance in their careers.

She began to develop her singing career at the age of eight when her uncle, record producer Didier Pain, helped her appear on the local television program L ' École des fans, a talent show for child singers.

Tad's biological mother, Opal, returned to Pine Valley and helped Dixie's uncle Palmer break up the couple.

He taught West about the Speed Force, and helped him to access his full speed by encouraging him to break a mental block he'd placed on his powers — stopping Wally from being as fast as Barry because he would then have really replaced his uncle as the Flash, he also attempted to teach Impulse a measure of patience with varying results.

Her lazy Uncle Joe Carson ( Edgar Buchanan ), who was the great uncle to Kate's three daughters, helped her in the day-to-day running of the business while she served as a mediator in the various minor crises that befell her daughters Betty Jo ( redhead ), Bobbie Jo ( brunette ), and Billie Jo ( blonde ).

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Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100, 000 men with only 8000 men.

The historical paradox was that the Yusufzais were ousted from Kabul by Mirza Ullegh beg, the uncle of Baber, and killed 600 malak of Yusufzai ; the Gabaris helped Yousofzais refugees with a warm welcome and settled them in Bajour Dir and Swat regions.

During the First World War, Lilian Bowes Lyon helped at Glamis Castle ( owned by her uncle ) which became a convalescence home for soldiers.

In 1601, Maffeo, through the influence of an uncle who had become apostolic protonotary, was able to secure from Clement VIII the appointment as papal legate to the court of King Henry IV of France.

Louis XV was later joined by his uncle, King Philip V of Spain, who hoped to secure territories in Italy for his sons by his second marriage to Elizabeth Farnese.

Under Salic law, where inheritance of territory was restricted to the male line, the succession of George and his brothers to the territories of their father and uncle now seemed secure.

He was well placed to secure Duff Cooper's life of Talleyrand, as Cooper was his uncle.

Mandelson was able to secure close friendships within the Labour Party because of uncle Alexander Butler, who had worked alongside many important Labour politicians during the 1960s.

He went on to secure the leading role in Silver Bullet, Stephen King's feature adaptation of his own lycanthropic novella, playing a paraplegic teen living in Tarker's Hill, Maine, who warns his uncle ( played by Gary Busey ) that their town is being terrorized by a werewolf.

Cope was described as a genius and what Marsh lacked in intelligence, he easily made up for in connections — Marsh's uncle was George Peabody, a rich banker who supported Marsh with money, and a secure position at the Peabody Museum.

A year later, his uncle Svyatoslav, offended by his ousting from Vladimir, went to the Horde to secure the throne for himself.

Emperor Claudius ( who was husband to Messalina, father to Brittanicus and maternal uncle to Julia ) did not secure any legal defense for his niece.

As Araman attempts to secure an undertaking from Foster not to persist in publication, Foster's uncle, Nimmo, is brought in.

:: Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,

While Crown Prince Ju's well-respected uncle, the great general Wei Qing was alive, Crown Prince Ju was secure politically.

He went to Chile in 1819 to work in the Santiago branch of John Begg & Co., a firm where his uncle, Edward Petty Hartnell, had helped him secure a job.

He stopped first in Buffalo, New York, where his uncle, Lewis W. Allen gave him a clerical job.

In 1779, Louis de Rohan succeeded his uncle, Constantine de Rohan-Rochefort, as bishop of Strasbourg, though he spent much of his career working in Paris, as he preferred a fashionable life to his clerical duties ; also in 1779, he became abbot of Noirmoutiers and Chaise-Dieu.

Rory's uncle Dary takes Catholic clerical vows, only to have a powerful love drive him to question both celibacy and his calling.

Asked by anxious citizens — Abbie's uncle, Dr. Irving ( Henry Travers ) among them — to be the new sheriff, Hatton politely declines, saying he is not cut out for this kind of job.

* River Lea Farmhouse – an 1849 Victorian farmhouse once owned by Grover Cleveland's uncle, who hired Cleveland to work on the farm, the future president's first job.

At age 18, on the advice of an uncle, he decided to take a job in the want-ad department of a Des Moines newspaper, the Daily Capital.

In the radio series, the plot involved outsider Benjamin Denton visiting his aunt and uncle in Spent to be interviewed for a job at the local power plant.

He became an apprentice coachbuilder at the age of 14 and ten years later took up a job at the machine works of his uncle, Levi Stephens, at Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

While remaining aloof from him as a kinsman and doing nothing to embrace him personally or advance him socially, the uncle does give Clyde a job and ultimately advances him to a position of relative importance within the factory.

In 1927, he took a job escorting a shipment of bananas from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, where he eventually picked up some theater work under the name of Peter Richmond, in homage to his uncle.

However, Christine's uncle, who reveals a tacit respect for Dixon's individuality and attitude towards pretension, offers Dixon the coveted assistant job in London that pays much better than his lecturing position.

" When a girl pulls out her hair due to supernatural forces in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Where the Wild Things Are ," the character Xander remarks, " People are going all ' Felicity ' with their hair ," while in the One Tree Hill episode " The Desperate Kingdom Of Love ," when Lucas walks up to Keith at the beach, his uncle says, " Nice job, Felicity ," referring to his new shorter haircut.

His job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Triads and the Fukienese Dragons, a problem complicated by the fact that he is also an informant for the Tongs under " uncle " Benny Chan ( Chan ) and his lieutenant Henry Lee ( Young ).

She suggests taking up the job of a governess but her uncle dismisses it and assures her that she need not work.

The captive artist working on the printing plates is the elder uncle to Hong and agreed to do the job in exchange for his family's safe passage to the United States.

His uncle found him a job in a bank.

Dissatisfied with these jobs, William persisted in asking his uncle for a better job, writing to him with blackmail threats that he would sell embarrassing stories about the family to the newspapers.

When we first meet Monty Bodkin at the start of Heavy Weather, he is employed by Lord Tilbury as assistant editor of Tiny Tots, one of the many imprints of the mighty Mammoth Publishing Company, his uncle Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe having prevailed upon Tilbury to give him the job at a public dinner.

After several unsuccessful attempts to get another job, mostly because he is either overqualified or underqualified and has little experience, Brantley ends up working in the mailroom of the Pemrose Corporation, which is directed by his uncle, Howard Prescott ( Richard Jordan ), the CEO.

He visits Lord Holdhurst, Phelps's uncle, who gave his nephew his important job with the treaty, but Holmes dismisses him as a suspect, and is quite sure now that no-one could have overheard their discussion about the job.

First, that at the time it was in no way shameful for a government official to admit that he got his job directly by the favour of his uncle, a cabinet minister – nepotism in the most literal sense.

He briefly worked for Andy Warhol at Interview magazine but left that job to become a science fiction illustrator, at which his uncle expressed his disgust in his diary.

In his late twenties, Wonowidjojo got his big break when his uncle offered him a job working with tobacco and sauce at his kretek factory Cap 93.

George Rowland is a mildly dissolute young man who is dependent on his rich uncle for both his keep and his job at the family city firm.

George Dundas is sacked by his uncle from his job for taking too much time off work.