On his release, however, Romanus found that enemies had placed their own candidate on the throne in his absence ; he surrendered to them and suffered death by torture, and the new ruler, Michael VII Ducas, refused to honour the treaty.

The two papal bulls issued by Pope Nicholas V, Dum Diversas of 1452 and Romanus Pontifex of 1455, had effectively given the Portuguese the rights to acquire slaves along the African coast by force or trade.

Maurice gathered together a party of local discontented nobles and approached the local soldiers, the exercitus Romanus, and convinced them that the Pope had withheld their pay and was keeping the arrears in the Lateran.

The problem Romanus and Eudokia had in executing this plan was that Eudokia's deceased husband, Constantine X, had made her swear an oath never to remarry.

In support of the Roman position, Eanfled had sent her chaplain Romanus, and the position was also taken by Agilbert, a Frankish bishop who also held office in England.

Spurius Postumius Albinus, general and consul, proposed the magistrates surrender themselves to the Samnites as criminals for breaking their oaths, relieving the populus Romanus of any responsibility for breaking the peace, as they had never ratified the treaty.

Ricimer had gathered 6, 000 men for the war against the Vandals, and after the death of Romanus he moved with his men to the north, leaving Anthemius in Rome.

Saint Romanus the Melodist had a dream of the Virgin Mary the night before the feast of the Nativity, and when he woke up the next morning, composed his first hymn " On the Nativity " and continued composing hymns ( perhaps several hundred ) to the end of his life.

The ambassador sent for the book from Adrianus Romanus and showed the proposal to Vieta, who had arrived in the gallery, and before the King came out, he had already written two solutions with a pencil.

The prologue that characterizes one manuscript tradition is substituted in the other main group of manuscripts with a letter as if written by a Q. Septimius Romanus, to a Q. Arcadius Rufus, in which the writer, giving a condensed version of the discovery tale, informs his friend that, the volume having fallen into his hands, he had been induced, for his own amusement and the instruction of others, to convert it into Latin.

In gratitude for the papal consent to his coronation, Pippin crossed the Alps, defeated Aistulf, and gave to the pope the lands which Aistulf had torn from the ducatus Romanus and the exarchate ( Emilia-Romagna and the Pentapolis ).

Welles, Romanus and Proval had previously worked with Bakshi on Hey Good Lookin ', where Romanus and Proval provided the voices of Vinnie and Crazy Shapiro, respectively.

The Byzantines had tried to pay some Pecheneg tribes to attack, but Romanus would not agree to transport them across the Danube, and instead they attacked Bulgarian territory on their own.

Romanus directed the 2008 drama Grapefruit Moon and had a small part in American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, as himself.

Michael Psellus thought it a compliment when Emperor Romanus III praised him for being raised " in the Hellenic way " and a weakness for Emperor Michael IV for being completely devoid of a Hellenic education, while Anna Comnena claimed that she had " carried the study of Hellenic to the highest pitch ".

Little dialogue from the 1974 cut of the film was retained in the animated version, which instead featured newly recorded dialogue by Proval, Romanus, and Philip Michael Thomas, who had starred in Coonskin.

All the months of the year were renamed to correspond exactly with his ( now twelve ) names: Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius, Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, Pius.

There are multiple versions of the story, either that St. Romanus subdued the creature with a crucifix, or he captured the creature with the help of the only volunteer, a condemned man.

She took this course of action firstly due to her concern that unless she managed to find a powerful husband, she could easily lose the regency to any unscrupulous noble, and secondly because she was infatuated with the popular Romanus.

They conspired to keep Romanos from regaining power after his release from captivity, while he himself felt under no obligation to honor the agreement that Romanus struck with the Sultan.

This traditional dating has been challenged by some historians, who point out that it is inconsistent with such other sources as the Schechter Letter, which mentions the activities of certain khagan HLGW of Rus ' as late the 940s, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Romanus I.

Permitted by a treaty with al-Hakim's son Ali az-Zahir and Byzantine Emperor Romanus III, it was Constantine IX who finally funded the reconstruction of the Church and other Christian establishments in the Holy Land.

In the 16th century, Vieta presented this problem ( sometimes known as the Apollonian Problem ) to Adrianus Romanus, who solved it with a hyperbola.

Along with Marius de Romanus and Pandora, he is one of the legendary ancient vampires.

The Ordo Romanus fixed the spring fast in the first week of March ( then the first month ), thus loosely associated with the first Sunday in Lent ; the summer fast in the second week of June, after Whitsunday ; the autumnal fast in the third week of September following the Exaltation of the Cross, September 14 ; and the winter fast in the complete week next before Christmas Eve, following St. Lucy's Day ( Dec. 13 ).

With the Papal bull Romanus Pontifex the patronage for the propagation of the Christian faith in Asia was given to the Portuguese, who were rewarded with the right of conquest.

As for luxury arts, manuscript illumination on vellum and parchment emerged from the 5th century, with a few manuscripts of Roman literary classics like the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus, but increasingly Christian texts, of which Quedlinburg Itala fragment ( 420-430 ) is the oldest survivor.

* St. Lollianus, one of the Seven Martyrs of Samosata, crucified with Saint Hipparchus and Philotheus, Abibus, James, Paregrus and Romanus by the emperor Maximian in 297 for their refusal to participate in public worship of the Roman gods.

About fifty manuscripts with rustic capitals survive, including four copies of works by Virgil ( including the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus ), one copy of a work by Terence, and one of a work by Prudentius.

The King of Portugal asserted that the discovery was within the bounds set forth in the papal bulls of 1452 ( Dum diversas ), 1455 ( Romanus Pontifex ), 1456 ( Inter caetera, not to be confused with the 1493 bull of the same name ), 1481 ( Aeterni regis ), and 1484.

Combined in the phrase populus Romanus quirites ( or quiritium ) it denoted the individual citizen as contrasted with the community.

The Vergilius Vaticanus is not to be confused with the Vergilius Romanus ( Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod.

The Vergilius Romanus is not to be confused with the Vergilius Vaticanus ( Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod.

Hollywood actor Richard Romanus moved to the island in 2001 with his wife.

On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave.

* Saint Romanus of Subiaco ( Romanus of Auxerre ), ascetic who ministered to Saint Benedict of Nursia ( 560 )

Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury in 624, receiving his pallium — the symbol of the jurisdiction entrusted to archbishops — from Pope Boniface V, following which Justus consecrated Romanus as his successor at Rochester.

Honorius III also wrote a bioraphy of Celestine III ; a biography of Gregory VII ; an " Ordo Romanus ", which is a sort of ceremonial containing the rites of the Church for various occasions ; and thirty-four sermons.

* January 8 – Pope Nicholas V publishes Romanus Pontifex, an encyclical addressed to King Afonso V of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to ' perpetual slavery '.

It is the feminine form of Romanus, which means " a citizen of Rome ".

" In the times of Henri the fourth, a Dutchman called Adrianus Romanus, a learned mathematician, but not so good as he believed, published a treatise in which he proposed a question to all the mathematicians of Europe, but did not ask any Frenchman.

Unlike the other Eastern Romance populations, over time Megleno-Romanians have laid aside a name for themselves which originates in the Latin Romanus, and instead have adopted the term Vlasi or Vlashi, derived from Vlachs, a general term by which in the Middle Ages non-Romance peoples designated Romance peoples.

Thorne is a vampire who appears in the novel Blood and Gold, which details the life of the vampire Marius de Romanus.

Modern scholars are not in agreement over the extent of this portion of the wall, which has been variously defined from as narrowly as the stretch between the Gate of St. Romanus and the Fifth Military Gate ( A. M. Schneider ) to as broad as from the Gate of Rhegion to the Fifth Military Gate ( B. Tsangadas ) or from the Gate of St. Romanus to the Gate of Adrianople ( A. van Millingen ).

Owing to the Ducatus Romanus (" Duchy of Rome ") of the popes, which cut it off from the rest of Lombard Italy, Benevento was from the first practically independent.

The work, which is merely a compilation, is valuable as containing excerpts from the earlier writers on grammar, who are in many cases mentioned by name: Remmius Palaemon, Julius Romanus, Cominianus.

In 1585 Pope Sixtus V issued the Constitution Romanus Pontifex, which set forth the norm for visits ad limina.

He wrote animadversions on a Catholic tract called ' A Safegard from Shipwracke to a prudent Catholike, to which he gave the title of ' Vertumnus Romanus ,' ( 1642 ); and began marginal annotations on St. Paul's Epistles, which were printed in the Bible issued by the Westminster Assembly in 1645.

The name of Romania ( România ) comes from the Romanian Român, which is a derivative of the Latin adjective Romanus ( Roman ).

English author Frederic Harrison wrote Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century ( 1904 ), which portrays Theophano as the arch-schemer of Constantinople who manipulated the court to secure her own position in the face of inconstant Imperial leadership ( the vain and distracted Constantine VII, the drunkard Romanus II, the overly pious Nicephorus Phocas ) and thus largely for the good of the state.