Hecuba, was the wife of King Priam of Troy, and Apollo had a son with her named Troilus.

His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and the twin sister of Helenus.

As the first-born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, a descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy, he was a prince of the royal house and the heir apparent to his father's throne.

Thetis has told Achilles to allow King Priam to come and take the body for ransom.

Once King Priam has been notified that Achilles will allow him to claim the body, he goes to his safe to withdraw the ransom for Hector's body.

The ransom King Priam offers included twelve fine robes, twelve white mantles, several richly embroidered tunics, ten bars of yellow gold, a special gold cup, and several cauldrons.

* In David Gemmell's Troy trilogy Hektor is seen as a man of peace and would rather breed his horses than go to war but is forced by King Priam to fight for the Hittite empire against the Egytians at the Battle of Kadesh and other conflicts.

Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector ’ s father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp.

It has been suggested by Hittite sources, specifically the Manapa-Tarhunta letter, that there is historical basis for the archetype of King Priam.

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, kills King Priam ( detail of Attic black-figure amphora, 520 – 510 BC )

The dithyramb treats a moment in myth before the Trojan war, when Menelaus, Antenor, and Antenor ’ s sons go to King Priam to demand the return of Helen.

In 2004, O ' Toole played King Priam in the summer blockbuster Troy.

Paris was a child of Priam and Hecuba ( see List of King Priam's children ).

* The Judgment of Paris and its aftermath are the subject of Michael Tippett's 1962 opera King Priam.

According to the Bibliotheca, the most prominent Hesione was a Trojan princess, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, sister of Priam and second wife of King Telamon of Salamis.

Through his mother, Teucer was the nephew of King Priam of Troy and the cousin of Hector and Paris-all of whom he fought against in the Trojan War.

Aesacus or Aisakos (), in Greek mythology, was a son of King Priam of Troy.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Aesacus is an illegitimate son of King Priam secretly born to the nymph Alexirhoe, daughter of the river Granicus.

Myth provides explanations for this confrontation in assuming that their king Telephus was married to Laodice, the daughter of King Priam.

However he declined their offer, claiming that he was the son-in-law of King Priam through his wife Laodice.

Hecuba ( also Hekábe, Hecabe, Hécube ; ) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children.

The day following his intervention the palace issued a statement reassuring the citizens that `` the possibility of introducing appeals concerning the establishment of electoral lists, lists of candidates and finally the holding of the consultation itself '' would be supported by the King himself.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself " King of the Anglo-Saxons ".

This was not, however, the point in which Alfred came to be known as King of England ; in fact he would never adopt the title for himself.

King Athelstan of Kent and Ealdorman Ealhhere had defeated a Viking fleet in 851, capturing nine ships, and Alfred himself had conducted naval actions in 882.

He proclaimed himself King of Castile and León and prepared to defend his wife's rights.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

During his marriage, he had called himself " King and Emperor of Castile, Toledo, Aragón, Pamplona, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza " in recognition of his rights as Urraca's husband ; of his inheritance of the lands of his father, including the kingdom of his great-uncle Gonzalo ; and his prerogative to conquer Andalusia from the Muslims.

Andriskos then declared himself King Philip VI of Macedonia.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

Arnulf, having distinguished himself in the war against the Slavs was elected by the nobles of the realm ( only the eastern realm, though Charles had ruled the whole of the Frankish lands ) and assumed his title of King of East Francia.

" began to imagine ," wrote St Simon, " that the King doubted his courage, and resolved to stake all at once in an effort to vindicate himself.

Emperor Joseph I, acting on behalf of his younger brother King ’ Charles III ’, absent in Spain, claimed that reconquered Brabant and Flanders should be put under immediate possession of a governor named by himself.

This stranded the forces led by the King himself.

But Murron is captured and publicly executed by the sheriff, who proclaims " an assault on the King's soldiers is the same as an assault on the King himself.

Cniva's main column under the King himself crossed Danube at Oescus then headed eastwards to Novae, where he was repelled by the provincial governor ( and future emperor ) Trebonianus Gallus.

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

Surprisingly, considering the later French distaste for castrati they certainly existed in France at this time also, being known of in Paris, Orléans, Picardy and Normandy, though they were not abundant: the King of France himself had difficulty in obtaining them.

King Alfonso X — named as Affonso in the Cantigas — is also believed to be an author of some of them as he refers himself in first person.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

This letter reserved 10 % of the loot for the Crown, and Henry Gilbert's The Book of Pirates suggests that the King may have fronted some of the money for the voyage himself.

Allying himself with King Mannach, Corum falls in love with his daughter Medhbh.