However, these kinship ties did little in the way of mediating between the semi-independent shugo lords and the regime.

However the 3rd Division never fought as a formation ; its component brigades became involved in semi-independent actions as part of the Allied forces in the Solomons, Treasury Islands and Green Island.

However, many parts of Mani remained under the also semi-independent Sparta, the most notable being Asine and Kardamyli.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

However, Lombard nobles continued to rule parts of the Italian peninsula well into the 11th century, when they were conquered by the Normans, and added to their County of Sicily.

However, Michael, in league with the Lombard king Desiderius, and the Duke of Rimini had imprisoned Leo, who had been elected first.

However, in 751 the Lombard king, Aistulf, succeeded in conquering Ravenna, thus ending Byzantine rule in northern Italy.

However it was, by the end of the year Bertrada and Charlemagne had successfully encircled Carloman: Charlemagne had married Desiderata, the daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius, Carloman's immediate eastern neighbor, and the marriage created an alliance between Charlemagne and the Lombards ; Bertrada had also secured for Charlemagne the friendship of Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, her husband's nephew ; she had even attempted to secure Papal support for the marriage by arranging for Desiderius to cede to Rome certain territories to which the Papacy laid claim, although Pope Stephen III remained in theory hostile to an alliance between his allies the Franks and his enemies the Lombards, and in reality deeply conflicted between the threat the Lombards posed to him and the chance to dispose of the anti-Lombard Christopher the Primicerius, the dominant figure at the Papal court.

However, Hawks believed that Lombard was a brilliant actress who had yet to be unleashed on film.

However, in 1167 the city changed sides and joined the Lombard League.

However, the Lombard League did not survive this victory for long.

However, he soon ostracised his admiral, Stephen, whose wife was the sister of John the Eunuch, the highest ranking man at court, and, by publicly humiliating the leader of the Lombard contingent, Arduin, he caused them to desert him, with the Normans and Norsemen.

However, Charles invaded the Rhone valley with his brother Childebrand and a Lombard army and devastated the region.

However, certain stalwart clerics were unhappy and having fled to mainland Aquileia under Lombard protection elected a John as a rival bishop who maintained the schism.

However, the Italian Republic and Swiss Confederation do not recognise Lombard speakers as a linguistic minority.

However, the remainder of Italy stayed under Lombard or Byzantine control.

However, Arianism was disappearing even in the duchy, as was the distinction between the ethnic Lombard minority and the Latin-and Greek-speaking population.

He married Ermenberga, the daughter of the Visigothic king of Spain, Witteric, at Chalon in 606, However, the next year ( 607 ), he sent her home in disgrace and a quadruple alliance of Clotaire, Theudebert, Witteric, and the Lombard king Agilulf connived against him, but it all came to naught.

However, she maintained her friendship with Lombard, and acted as Lombard's secretary until her marriage.

However some historians dispute this and argue that he believed in the virgin birth until the day of his death, Certainly these skeptical views were not held by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania in his lifetime, nor included in the later Hungarian Unitarian statement of faith of David's successor Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám.

However, after William Wellman Sr. met Carole Lombard, he convinced Selznick to cast her.

However around 601, Callinicus took advantage of a rebellion by the duces of Tridentum and Forum Julii and broke the peace by kidnapping the Lombard king Agilulf's daughter and her husband from Parma.

However for most of the period the two parts were under a single ruler, and were known as the Duchy of Greater Poland ( although at times there were separately ruled duchies of Poznań, Gniezno, Kalisz and Ujście ).

However, with the beginning of civil war in France upon the coronation of King Robert I, Henry sought to wrest the Duchy of Lorraine from the Western Kingdom.

However, the Finnish government considered the islands to be a part of their new nation, as the Russians had included Åland in the Grand Duchy of Finland, formed in 1809.

However in 1815, following the Congress of Vienna, the region was returned to Prussia, and Poznań became the capital of the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Posen.

However, in 725, possibly at the emperor ’ s request, Marinus, who had been sent from Constantinople to govern the Duchy of Rome, encouraged a conspiracy to murder the pope.

However, the militia of the exarch of Ravenna and the Duchy of Pentapolis frustrated the attempt.

However, he escaped and returned to Saint Petersburg where he lived illegally before moving to the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1906 to finish his studies.

However, the tensions continued and Thomas II, using the support of the Papal Legate, and wanting to break the rebelliousness of Henry IV he excommunicated him and the whole Duchy in March 1284.

However for most of the period the two parts were under a single ruler, and were known as the Duchy of Greater Poland ( although at times there were separately ruled duchies of Poznań, Gniezno, Kalisz and Ujście ).

However the Grand Duchy of Lithuania retained much autonomy, and was governed by a separate code of laws called the Lithuanian Statutes, which codified both civil and property rights.

However, the title of duke has never been associated with independent rule in the British Isles: they hold dukedoms, not duchies ( excepting the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster ).

However, from 1381 until the end of the fifteenth century Vannes ( Gwened in Breton ) had served as the administrative capital of the Duchy, remaining the seat of its Chambre des comptes until the 1490s, and also the seat of the its Parlement until 1553 and then again between 1675 and 1689.

However, he died without issue, and there followed a succession of grants and reversions until Glastonbury Abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII, and the Abbey's lands, including Shepton Mallet, were granted to the Duchy of Cornwall in 1536.

However, the status of the Duchy of Aquitaine remained a sore point, and tension increased.

However, Philip was still in a commanding position: during Papally-arbitrated negotiations in 1343, he refused Edward's offer to end the war in exchange for the Duchy of Aquitaine in full sovereignty.

However, in 1815, the Duchy of Lucca was carved out of Tuscany, again as temporary compensation for the Bourbons of Parma.

However, he did not return to the Duchy of Warsaw and did not join the reborn Polish Army allied with Napoleon.

However, soon afterwards, in Vienna, Kościuszko learned that the Kingdom of Poland created by the Tsar would be even smaller than the earlier Duchy of Warsaw.

However, he was taken captive in Ingelheim-he escaped and instigated a revolt in Bavaria, but was defeated in 976 and stripped of his Duchy, and, following the War of the Three Henries in 978, was placed under the custody of the Bishop of Utrecht.

However, the involvement of the Chancellor in the running of the day-to-day affairs of the Duchy is slight, and the office is held by a senior politician whose main role is something quite different.

However imperial governor Otto von Eberstein had to contend with an Austrian rebellion, preventing immediate benefits from the annexation of the Duchy.

However, upon his death, Anne returned to Brittany and took steps to return the Duchy to independent rule under herself as Duchess.

However Henry attempted to create a separate legal status for Brittany vis-a-vis the Kingdom of France similar to the position of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Kingdom of Great Britain.