Henry secured his position among the nobles by an act of political appeasement: he issued a coronation charter guaranteeing the rights of free English folk, which was subsequently evoked by King Stephen and by Henry II before Archbishop Stephen Langton called it up in 1215 as a precedent for Magna Carta.

They secured the consecration of Eugene, who was the archpriest of St Sabina on the Aventine, although by a decree of the Roman Council of 769, under Stephen IV, they had no right to a real share in a papal election.

Volkswagen began its involvement in Ireland when in 1949, Motor Distributors Limited, founded by Stephen O ' Flaherty secured the franchise for the country at that year ’ s Paris Motor Show.

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.

Carlton had also recruited Stephen Silvagni ( son of Sergio ) in 1985, who is now recognised as one of the greatest fullbacks of all-time, and secured the league's star player Greg Williams in a trade in 1992.

After consulting in person with Stephen, he secured permission to accept the current conditions, and then joined Henry of Blois, who had switched sides, at Winchester in April for a legatine council held to depose Stephen and crown Matilda as queen.

Stephen inflicted on the Ottomans a decisive defeat that has been described as " the greatest ever secured by the Cross against Islam ," with casualties, according to Venetian and Polish records, reaching beyond 40, 000 on the Ottoman side.

Historian Stephen R. Bown: “(...) When Ferdinand an Isabella secured their rule after the Battle of Toro 1 march 1476-effectively eliminating the threat of portuguese invasion but not officially ending the war-they renewed the twenty-year-old Castilian claim to their " ancient and exclusive " rights to the Canary Islands and the Guinea coast (...).

The Republic of Ireland took on Wales in a UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifiers, in which a Stephen Ireland goal secured a 1 – 0 win for the Irish in front of a crowd of 72, 500.

In the Grand Prix he secured wins over Stuart Bingham, Stephen Hendry and Robert Milkins on his way to the semi-finals but despite racking up a 142 ( the highest break of the tournament ) in the first frame against Ding Junhui, he lost 1 – 6.

Blair participated in the Mexican-American War and was appointed attorney general for the New Mexico Territory after it was secured by General Stephen W. Kearny.

From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141.

The nascent group secured 501 ( c )( 3 ) status for the Review, and empaneled an honorary advisory board, which included Paul W. McCracken, Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, R. Emmett Tyrrell, and Stephen Tonsor.

Within two years of Leo's death the Normans had secured the papacy and placed one of their own men on the papal throne, Pope Stephen IX.

Named as the CPR's first president, Stephen oversaw the monumental task of not just negotiating a route across 2, 000 miles of forests, swamps, rivers, and mountains ; but also raising the necessary funds estimated at $ 100 million, of which at least half had to be secured.

Stephen inflicted a decisive defeat on the Ottomans, described as " the greatest ever secured by the Cross against Islam ," with casualties, according to Venetian and Polish records, reaching beyond 40, 000 on the Ottoman side.

The Whirlwinds – comprising Gouldman ( vocals, guitar ), Bernard Basso ( bass ), Stephen Jacobson ( guitar, bongos ), Malcolm Wagner, Maurice Spering and Phil Cohen – secured a recording contract with HMV, releasing a recording of the Buddy Holly song " Look At Me ", backed with " Baby Not Like You ", written by Lol Creme, in June 1964.

He fiercely criticized northern congressmen and senators, in particular Stephen Douglas, who seemed to cater to the slave faction in exchange for southern support.

Seen positively, Stephen stabilised the northern border with Scotland, contained Geoffrey's attacks on Normandy, was at peace with Louis VI, enjoyed good relations with the church and had the broad support of his barons.

( 2008b ) " King Stephen and northern France ," in Dalton, Paul and Graeme J.

* Pepin the Short defeats the Lombards of northern Italy, who have threatened Pope Stephen II.

The songs of northern composer Stephen Foster figured prominently in blackface minstrel shows of the period.

Stephen was the son of Stephen-Henry of Blois, one of the powerful counts of northern France.

Seen positively, Stephen stabilised the northern border with Scotland, contained Geoffrey's attacks on Normandy, was at peace with Louis VI, enjoyed good relations with the church and had the broad support of his barons.

He proved instrumental in Moses Austin's plan ( and later, that of his son, Stephen F. Austin ) to bring American colonists to what was then northern Mexico.

The Stephen Dam is located next to the golf course which is a hot spot for fishing for walleye, northern pike, and catfish.

In 1738, northern Ridge was settled by widower Samuel Randallof North Stonington, CT ; his only son Stephen Randall and his descendants farmed a farm on a plot of ground that Samuel had always referred to as " the Ridge " based on the geographical terrain.

When Stephen Powers visited the northern Paiute to collect Indian materials for the Smithsonian Institution in preparation for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, he reported that the northern Paiute wrapped their hair in strips of beaver fur, made medicine from parts of beaver and that their creation legend included beaver.

Competing northern or central routes championed, respectively, by Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri would still need to go through unorganized territories.

* The remaining northern part of the subway is sometimes used in films, for example as itself in the Stephen Poliakoff film Hidden City, the secret entrance to the base in the film version of The Avengers and a railway tunnel in the film Bhowani Junction.

The early part of Stephen Hopkins ' life was spent in the wooded northern part of Providence known as Chopmist Hill, an area that became Scituate, Rhode Island.

In May 1831, upon his arrival in Mexican Texas, a part of northern Mexico at the time, Travis purchased land from Stephen F. Austin and began a law practice in Anahuac.

In December 1670, when his father Stephen Thököly ( Hungarian: Thököly István ), a participant of the anti-Habsburg Wesselényi conspiracy, was killed by imperial troops when protecting his Árva castle ( Slovak: Orava, now in northern Slovakia ), he fled from the castle to Transylvania, where he took refuge with his kinsman Mihály Teleki, the chief minister of Michael Apafi, prince of Transylvania.

When Stephen Powers visited the northern Paiute to collect Indian materials for the Smithsonian Institution in preparation for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, he reported that the northern Paiute wrapped their hair in strips of beaver fur, made medicine from parts of beaver and that their creation legend included beaver.

The Chiesa di Santo Stefano ( Church of St. Stephen ) is a large church at the northern end of the Campo Santo Stefano in Venice.

To try to recapture some southern votes, Johnson was chosen as the northern Democrats ' nominee as the running mate of presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas.

The northern, copper-producing area of Zambia was known for singers like John Lushi, William Mapulanga and Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali.

Zamrock's roots can be traced back to the 1950s with northern singers from the Copperbelt Province such as Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali, William Mapulanga and John Lushi.

In late January 1136, during the first months of the reign of Stephen of England, his northern neighbour David I of Scotland crossed the border into England.

In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by Conrad II to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier.

The county is named for Stephen Trigg, a frontier officer in the American Revolutionary War who died in the Battle of Blue Licks.

* The 10th century frontier county of Borsova was founded by Stephen I of Hungary.

Brittany's position to the west of the Angevin controlled territory exposed a wide frontier for Stephen to exploit against Matilda.

It is based on a historical incident on the Oregon Trail in 1845, in which the frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train on an ill-fated journey through a desert.

Previously, Father Stephen Theodore Badin, the first priest ordained in the United States, called the " circuit rider priest ," had served the Louisville area, along with much of the American frontier.

During the War of 1812, he was Chief Engineer of the Niagara frontier and Lake Champlain armies under General Stephen Van Rensselaer.

In order to secure his southern frontier from Ottoman threats, Stephen wanted to liberate Wallachia – where the hostile Radu the Handsome, the halfbrother of Dracula ruled – from Ottoman dominion.