The ruler of the Zhou, King Wu, with the assistance of his brother, the Duke of Zhou, as regent, managed to defeat the Shang at the Battle of Muye.

Thus, Confucius could not achieve the idealistic reform that he wanted and restore the legitimate rule of the duke, returning to the period of the Duke of Zhou.

One of Feizi's descendants, Duke Zhuang, became favoured by King Ping of Zhou, the thirteenth king in that line.

Though King Wu died just a few years after the Battle of Muye, the Duke of Zhou assisted the young and inexperienced King Cheng in consolidating power for the Ji line: he managed a war against rebellious Zhou princes in the eastern lowlands ( allied with feudal rulers and Shang remnants ); formulated the Mandate of Heaven doctrine to counter Shang claims to a divine right of rule ; founded Chengzhou as an eastern capital ; and set up the fengjian " feudal " system designed to maintain Zhou authority as it expanded its rule over a larger amount of territory.

After Zhou Wu's death, the Shang joined the Three Governors ' Rebellion against the Duke of Zhou, but the rebellion collapsed after three years, leaving Zhou in control of Shang territory.

The Shiji states that King Cheng of Zhou, with the support of his regent and uncle, the Duke of Zhou, enfeoffed Weiziqi ( 微子啟 ), a brother of Di Xin, as the ruler of Wei.

Reminiscent of the first years of the Cultural Revolution, the political battle was carried out through historical allegory, and although Zhou Enlai's name was never mentioned during this campaign, the Premier's historical namesake, the Duke of Zhou, was a frequent target.

* 636 BC — Duke Wen of Jin ascends to power in the State of Jin during the Zhou Dynasty of China.

* Going against his loyalty to the figurehead monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, the Qin ruler, Duke Huiwen, takes on the title of King Huiwen, claiming royal title and sparking a trend amongst other Warring States rulers to do the same.

The Chinese also used the gnomon, mentioned in the 2nd century Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art as being used much earlier by the Duke of Zhou ( 11th century BC ).

In the Classic of History, the Duke of Zhou had an altar built in the southern suburb of Luo, the eastern capital of Zhou Dynasty.

His associates were also said to be praising each other and comparing each other to such great historical figures as Yi Yin, the Duke of Zhou, Guan Zhong, and Zhuge Liang.

Statue of the Duke of Zhou who founded a city here c. 1036 BCE

In the 1136 BCE a settlement named Chengzhou () was constructed by the Duke of Zhou for the remnants of the captured Shang nobility.

The Duke also moved the Nine Tripod Cauldrons to Chengzhou from the Zhou Dynasty capital at Haojing.

While the Zheng rulers initially supported the Zhou royalty, relations soured enough that Duke Zhuang of Zheng ( 757 – 701 BC ) raided Zhou territory in 707 BC, defeating King Huan's army in battle and injuring the king himself ; the display of Zheng's martial strength was effective until succession problems after Zhuang's death weakened the state.

In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.

A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;

In 1256, the castrum of Abensprech was first mentioned, and on 12 June 1348, Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, and his brother, Stephen, Duke of Bavaria, raised Abensberg to the status of a city, giving it the right to operate lower courts, enclose itself with a wall and hold markets.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

Albert the Bear (; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170 ) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg ( as Albert I ) from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.

Albert was the only son of Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, and Eilika, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony.

Albert was a loyal vassal of his relation, Lothar I, Duke of Saxony, from whom, about 1123, he received the Margraviate of Lusatia, to the east ; after Lothar became King of the Germans, he accompanied him on a disastrous expedition to Bohemia in 1126, when he suffered a short imprisonment.

In 1158 a feud with Henry's son, Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, was interrupted by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.

His mother was Sophia, daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, and his wife Elisabeth of Austria.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).

For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.

The most the Grand Duke of Lithuania could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha ( 1500 ).

Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

Alfonso was the son of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and allegedly, of her husband and King Consort, Francis, Duke of Cádiz.

Finally Amadeus of Savoy, Duke of Ostia, was elected by Parliament as new King of Spain.

Leicester is credited for having " dislodged Oxford from the pro-French group ", i. e., the group at court which favoured Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Anjou.

" His name has been preserved because he was the Duke of Aquitaine, but his work plays with already established structures ; Eble II of Ventadorn is often credited as a predecessor, though none of his work survives.

When Alexander appeared as Catherine Duke in the fifth season opener ( in which the McNeal character was killed off to coincide with Hartman's death ), she was credited as a recurring character.

During this incident Churchill is credited with saving the Duke of Monmouth's life, receiving a slight wound in the process but gaining further praise from a grateful House of Stuart, as well as recognition from the House of Bourbon.

Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough ( 1871 – 1934 ) can be credited with saving both the palace and the family.

In the credits, Burton is credited as playing " Tony ," as opposed to " Duke " ( perhaps to avoid confusion with the George Washington Duke character ) Rocky V is the second time in the series to do so, with the first being Rocky II as Apollo asked " What are you afraid of, Tony?

Bigard wrote an autobiography entitled With Louis and The Duke, and he is credited as composer or co-composer on several numbers, notably the Ellington standard " Mood Indigo ".

Shirley has sometimes been credited as a collaborator with William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle on Cavendish's play The Country Captain ( printed 1649 ).

Between 16 November 1756 and 25 June 1757, The Duke of Devonshire replaced Newcastle as Prime Minister, although Pitt is widely credited as the main influence on policy.

In 1982, Melle Mel and Duke Bootee recorded " The Message " ( officially credited to Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five ), a song that foreshadowed the socially conscious statements of Run-DMC's " It's like That " and Public Enemy's " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ".

In 1982, Melle Mel and Duke Bootee recorded " The Message " ( officially credited to Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five ), a song that foreshadowed the socially conscious statements of Run-DMC's " It's like That " and Public Enemy's " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ".

Deep Cover is a 1992 crime thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne ( this being the last film in which Fishburne was credited as ' Larry ') and Jeff Goldblum and directed by veteran actor Bill Duke.

Sanada has often been credited, in his younger days, as either Henry, Harry or Duke Sanada.

She is credited with saying to Anne of Cleves: ' Madam there must be more to it than that, or it will be long befor we have a Duke of York which all this realm much desireth '.

Gasson Hall is credited for establishing the typology of dominant Gothic towers in subsequent campus designs, including those at Princeton ( Cleveland Tower, 1913 – 1917 ), Yale ( Harkness Tower, 1917 – 1921 ), and Duke ( Chapel Tower, 1930 – 1935 ).

Bubas is widely credited with pioneering the art of recruiting by targeting players very early and gathering information on them before other coaches had learned of them and would send newspaper clippings of Duke games to prospects.

The Duke remained lifelong friends with Adam Smith and is credited with bringing him out of his shell.

Louis-Joseph is credited with giving the name " Monte-Bello " to the location in 1854 as tribute to Napoleon-Auguste Lannes, Duke of Montebello ( 1801-1874 ), French diplomat and foreign minister in 1839, whom he had acquinted during his exile in France from 1839 to 1845.

He is sometimes credited with killing Edward, Duke of York, wounding Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and cutting an ornament from the crown of Henry V of England ; but he was then overpowered by the King's bodyguard, and slain by the Welsh nobleman Dafydd Gam before he could yield himself.

Surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku is credited with the first use of a surfboard for rescue purposes at Corona del Mar beach in 1925, when a charted fishing vessel capsized in heavy surf and Kahanamoku rescued people via surfboard.

* Rich Ward ( credited as Duke LaRüe ) – guitar, backing vocals

* Rich Ward ( credited as Duke LaRüe ) – guitar, backing vocals