Earlier dukes had been illegitimate, and William's association with his father on ducal charters appears to indicate that William was considered Robert's most likely heir.

From Kentish charters it is known that Æthelbald was in control of London, and from Æthelbald's time on, the transition to Mercian control appears to be complete ; an early charter of Offa's, granting land near Harrow, does not even include the king of Essex on the witness list.

Sigered appears on two charters of Coenwulf's in 811 as king ( rex ) of Essex, but his title is reduced thereafter, first to subregulus, or subking, and thereafter to dux or ealdorman.

This version of events " bristles with historical problems ", according to one historian, and it is also possible that Cynehelm is to be identified with an ealdorman who is found witnessing charters earlier in Coenwulf's reign, and who appears to have died by about 812.

Archbishop Stigand appears on a number of royal charters in 1069, along with both Norman and English leaders.

Besides witnessing charters and consecrating Remigius, Stigand appears to have been a member of the royal council, and able to move freely about the country.

William was present as a witness when three charters were issued by Stephen at Lewes dated to the years 1148 – 53, therefore it appears that he remained loyal to the king until the Treaty of Wallingford ended the hostilities.

The same name appears on a number of other charters up to 1113 also relating to Count Hugh of Champagne, suggesting that Hugo de Pedano or Hugo dominus de Peanz was a member of the Count's court.

There has been much scholarly debate over the dating of the charters he received from Stephen and Matilda ; depending on the order and timing of those documents, Geoffrey appears to have either been playing off one against the other to get what he wanted or was courted by the rival claimants to the throne for his support.

Direct unconfirmed evidence for this connection occurs in 1478 when his name appears as a witness on abbey charters.

But around this time Offa, King of Mercia, appears to have been attempting to rule Kent directly, as he seems to have issued or confirmed a number of charters relating to Kent

Douce and Ramon Berenguer signed all charters jointly until her death in 1127, after which he alone appears as count in all charters until his death in 1131.

Her name appears on 45 royal charters from the reign of Louis VI.

By 951, Wulfstan appears to have supported Erik's claim to the kingdom of York over Olaf as he ceased to witness charters at the English court.

A man of that name appears as a witness to one of Earl Hugh's charters ( Morris, HBII 2 ), but as the eighteenth name in a list of twenty, suggesting no close connection to the main branch of the family.

At first view this proposition of King Alfonso appears uncertain, because the official documents conserved until our times demonstrate the existence of many fueros that ought to be called " founding charters ", and of others given for the better government of the inhabitants of places already populated.

' Renglas ' appears in charters and other records of the late 12th century.

Æthelweard and Ælfweard re-appear as brothers and thegns ( ministri ) in the witness list of a spurious royal charter dated 974 This appears to be the same Æthelweard who regularly attests royal charters between 958 and 977 as the king's thegn and may have moved on to become the illustrious ealdorman of the Western Provinces and author of a Latin chronicle, in which he claimed descent from King Æthelred of Wessex ( d. 871 ), fourth son of King Æthelwulf.

She appears under Edgar ’ s patronage in two royal charters of AD 966, in which he calls her " a certain noble matron ( matrona ) who is connected to me by the relationship of worldly blood ".

He first appears in the historical record as a witness to charters in 1148.

His precise year of birth is unknown, but he was of the age of majority ( usually 15 ) by 1158, when he first appears in charters, having been described as under-age (" infra annos ") in 1155.

Hugh appears as count of Jaffa in charters dated to 1133 and 1134, and the date of 1134 is now accepted by most scholars.

In 799, Kenelm witnessed a deed of gift of land to Christ Church, Canterbury, and from 803 onwards his name appears on a variety of charters.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Solomon ’ s name appears in Proverbs 1: 1, " The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, King of Israel.

Hartley appears in the memorable double-length episode " Married " ( in which David finds another source of help with whom he falls in love and marries ), and subsequently won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

Mayhew also often appears as a character in television and radio histories of Victorian London, played by Timothy West in the documentary London ( 2004 ) and by David Haig in the Afternoon Play A Chaos of Wealth and Want ( 2010 ).

The Tower of David in Jerusalem as it appears today

Presently the concept is most often associated with Marxian economics, although it appears as a foundation to earlier classical economic theorists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class — which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.

Shaffer read the David Pinner novel Ritual, in which a devout Christian policeman is called to investigate what appears to be the ritual murder of a young girl in a rural village, and decided that it would serve well as the source material for the project.

A story very similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the young Nestor fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion.

Goliath appears in chapter 2 of the Qur ' an ( II: 247-252 ), in the narrative of David and Saul's battle against the Philistines.

He also appears as himself in the 1997 documentary Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror, a film on the Stalinist purges directed by David Pultz and narrated by American actress Meryl Streep.

He appears at Betsey Trotwood's house after David runs away.

Mr Murdstone appears to show signs of repentance when confronted by Copperfield's aunt about his treatment of Clara and David, but later in the book we hear he has married another young woman and applied his old principles of " firmness ".

Komarov's name also appears on a plaque left at Hadley Rille on the Moon by the commander of Apollo 15, David Scott, along with a small sculpture representing the " Fallen Astronaut " on August 1, 1971.

* Achish king of Gath appears in the movie King David ( film ), ( 1985 ), starring Richard Gere.

It appears that David excavated too deeply for the foundations of the Temple, with the result that earth's deepest floods broke forth, and nearly inundated the earth.

The song of Ascents appears in Hebrew and English on the walls at the entrance to the City of David, Jerusalem, Israel.

* He appears as the character named Jamal Ramlawi in the spy novel Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius, a thinly disguised account of his recruitment by the CIA.

* Tisiphone appears in Path of the Fury, a 1992 military science fiction book by David Weber ( reissued with a prequel backstory in 2006 as In Fury Born ).

She also appears as a character in David Gemmell's Troy series.

Lauper appears on the 22-track, 2-disc collaboration, Here Lies Love, by Talking Heads ' David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.

This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class -- which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.