King Theodahad of the Ostrogoths begged Agapetus to proceed on an embassy to Constantinople and use his personal influence to appease Emperor Justinian I following the death of Amalasuntha.

He appeared before the Emperor, dressed in a sack and with a rope tied around his neck, and begged for forgiveness.

Rumours say that in 1900, Consort Zhen was drowned by being thrown into a well on Cixi's order after Consort Zhen begged Empress Dowager Cixi to let the Guangxu Emperor stay in Beijing for negotiations with the foreign powers.

Emperor Ai declined and begged Wang Mang to stay in his administration.

Emperor Ai declined and begged Wang Mang to stay in his administration.

Honjō begged the Emperor for acceptance of their mind somehow.

In 447, Pehlivan Attila came again into Thrace and stopped only when Emperor Thodosius II, begged for terms.

Munim Khan stung by his master's censure returned rapidly to Patna and laid siege to the city. But he soon found the task of taking it to be beyond his powers and begged Mughal Emperor Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Akbar to come in person and assume charge of the campaign.

Li Chengqi wept and begged to yield for several days, and after further persuasion by the chancellor Liu Youqiu – who had been part of Li Longji's coup plans — Emperor Ruizong agreed, and created Li Longji crown prince.

Emperor Ai declined and begged Wang Mang to stay in his administration.

" Realizing that Empress Dowager Cixi meant to order her to commit suicide, Consort Zhen begged Cixi to allow the Guangxu Emperor to stay in Beijing and negotiate with the foreign powers.

In 1286, Emperor Rudolf I had instituted a new persecution of the Jews, and Rabbi Meir left Germany, but was captured and imprisoned.

The town then also had a significant Jewish commune with Rabbi Israel Isserlin as its most notable member, until all Jews were expelled by order of Emperor Maximilian I in 1496.

They include: Der Besuch des Rabbi ( the original of which was owned by Emperor Franz Joseph I, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum ), Schachspieler, Der Zweifler ( for which he received the gold medal at the Weltausstellung of 1873 ).

When Emperor Shaddam IV orchestrates a plot to destroy the " Red Duke " Leto, the Baron eagerly lends his aid.

In 1562, the Bavarian government sent a long plea to the Holy Roman Emperor asking him to stop the cutting of yew, and outlining the damage done to the forests by its selective extraction, which broke the canopy and allowed wind to destroy neighbouring trees.

* 629 – 630: Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue, Chinese Tang Dynasty forces under commanders Li Jing and Li Shiji destroy the Göktürk Khanate.

* Emperor Theodosius II gives orders to destroy the buildings and pagan temples at Olympia ( Greece ).

The death of the Emperor in 1711 threatened to destroy the balance of power in the opposite direction, so the war ended in 1713 with the ratification of the Treaty of Utrecht.

In Dune ( 1965 ), Paul is fifteen years old ; the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV orders the family to leave Caladan and govern the desert planet Arrakis ( known as Dune ), though Paul's father Duke Leto is in full knowledge that the Emperor is colluding with House Harkonnen to destroy the Atreides as a perceived threat to the throne.

The procedure pioneered by the Rhine League for dealing with robber barons – to besiege, capture and destroy their castles – survived long after the League self-destructed from political strife over the election of a new Emperor and military reversals against unusually strong robber barons.

Emperor Wen made another attempt to destroy Northern Wei in 452, but failed again.

Paul's first act as Emperor was to inquire about and, if possible, destroy her testament, as he feared it would exclude him from succession and leave the throne to Alexander.

The French Grande Armée under Emperor Napoleon I attacked the Imperial Russian Army of General Mikhail Kutuzov near the village of Borodino, west of the town of Mozhaysk, and eventually captured the main positions on the battlefield, but failed to destroy the Russian army despite heavy losses.

The seemingly harmless dwarf Bijaz recognizes that Hayt is failing to destroy the Emperor psychologically.

But Leto and his family are caught in a plot to destroy them, orchestrated by the Baron Harkonnen and Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV himself, who is threatened by Leto's rising power and influence.

When Emperor Go-Daigo began his Kemmu Restoration, the still very young prince, along with Kitabatake Akiie, in 1333 went to Tagajō in what is now Miyagi Prefecture, at the time Mutsu Province, to return the eastern samurai to their allegiance and destroy the remnants of the Hōjō clan.

In the words of Byzantine historian John Skylitzes: " The Emperor Basil II continued to invade Bulgaria each year and destroy and devastate everything on his way.

The Byzantine Emperor also sent an army under Botaneiates to surround Strumitsa and destroy all ramparts to the south and clear the passage to Thessalonica.

All three Houses fight against the Guild in a race against time to destroy the Emperor Worm before it awakens, with a different ending for each House depicting their units destroying the Worm.

Empowered with a mandate by Emperor Go-Shirakawa to pursue the Taira and destroy them, Yoshinaka once again sought to gain control of the Minamoto clan and regain his ancestral lands from his cousins Yoritomo and Yoshitsune.

Liu Xiu, while he had fairly strong troops, chose to stand by and wait for Chimei to destroy Emperor Gengshi ; he used the Henei region ( modern northern Henan, north of the Yellow River ) as his base of operations for its strategic location and the richness of its soil.

He consolidated his power north of the Yellow River and, as he predicted that the powerful Chimei would destroy Emperor Gengshi's government for him, he waited by for that to happen, not intervening on either side as that conflict was developing.

Emboldened by his success to the south, Emperor Taizong decided to embark on a campaign to finally destroy the Northern Han.

On the fifteenth lunar day, troops sent down from heaven whose mission was to destroy the village saw that the village was already ablaze, and returned to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor.

The prophecy also foreshadows several key events in the future, such as G ' kar having his eye plucked out (" the eye that does not see "), Emperor Londo allowing Sheridan (" the one who is already dead ") and Delenn to escape imprisonment and free Centauri Prime from the Drakh, Londo's death at the hands of G ' kar (" surrender to greatest fear, knowing that it will destroy ") and the ascension of Vir Cotto to the throne.

With Cartagia dead and a Vorlon fleet en route to destroy Centauri Prime, Mollari was promoted to the position of Prime Minister, making him temporarily head of state until a new Emperor could be elected.

Statue of the Prague Golem created for the film The Emperor and the Golem | Císařův pekař — Pekařův císař

* In the 1951 movie The Emperor and the Golem, Edward Kelly is fake occultist and conspirator.

The Emperor stimulated private building by promising householders gifts of land from the Imperial estates in Asiana and Pontica, and on 18 May 332, he announced that, as in Rome, free distributions of food would be made to the citizens.

Julianus minted coins from the mint at Siscia ( Sisak, Croatia ) declaring himself as Emperor and promising freedom.

In October 1028, the Emperor's opportunity came as the Lutici district of Pöhlde asked the Emperor to defend against the attacks of Mieszko II, promising support in the fight against the Polish ruler.

* April 7 – The Charter Oath, drawn up by his councilors, is promulgated at the enthronement of the Emperor Meiji of Japan, promising deliberative assemblies and an end to feudalism.

He sided with the Schmalkaldic League and opposed Emperor Charles V. After John's death, Anne's brother William became Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, bearing the promising epithet " The Rich.

As Holy Roman Emperor, Charles called Martin Luther to the Diet of Worms in 1521, promising him safe conduct if he would appear.

At first his embassy seemed promising, as the Emperor established him at Qorata, a village on the south-eastern shores of Lake Tana, and sent him numerous gifts, as well as having the British consul Charles Duncan Cameron, the missionary Henry Stern, and the other hostages sent to his encampment.

Five days later, after proceeding through the countryside promising constitutional reform and direct elections to an assembly, to the acclaim of gathered crowds the Emperor triumphantly entered the capital, whence Louis XVIII had recently fled.

Maximus easily convinced them that Valentinian was the only one responsible for the death of Aetius, and that the two soldiers must avenge their old commander, while at the same time also promising them a reward for the betrayal of the Emperor.

In 479, after rival Liu Song's throne was usurped by the general Xiao Daocheng, who established Southern Qi as its Emperor Gao, Northern Wei commissioned Liu Chang ( 劉昶 ) the Prince of Danyang, a Liu Song prince who had fled to Northern Wei in 465, with an army and promising him support to rebuild Liu Song.

Emperor Guangwu, who in any case preferred peaceful resolution, repeatedly wrote both Wei and Gongsun with humble terms, trying to get them to submit to him, promising them titles and honors.

It was a Union of Lombard cities promising each other unity, against Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.

When Yang heard this, Yang rebelled, and Emperor Gaozu, after promising Li Shimin that he would be made crown prince, sent Li Shimin to attack Yang.

Emperor Wuzong secured their cooperation by effectively promising the three circuits that he would not interfere with their independence, and in fact secured the military cooperation of both Weibo and Chengde in the campaign against Zhaoyi by leaving the task of capturing Zhaoyi's three eastern prefectures, east of the Taihang Mountains, to Wang and He Hongjing.

There, he was pressured to swear an oath to Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, promising to give back any conquered land to the Byzantine Empire.

Alexander died in the same year and the new government under the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos made desperate attempts to avoid the war, promising that the infant Emperor Constantine VII would marry one of Simeon's daughters.

Under the Antonine dynasty, it was the norm for the Emperor to appoint a successful and politically promising individual as his successor.

Also in 611, angry that Western Tujue's khan Ashina Daman, while nominally submissive, had refused to visit him, Emperor Yang had Pei Ju persuade Ashina Daman's subordinate khan Ashina Shegui ( 阿史那射匱 ) to rebel against Ashina Daman, promising to give him a Sui princess in marriage.

While he was at Yanmen ( 雁門, in modern Xinzhou, Shanxi ), Ashina Duojishi, who had become disaffected because Emperor Yang was trying to divide his power by promising to give a princess to Ashina Duojishi's brother Ashina Chiji ( 阿史那叱吉 ) and had executed Ashina Duojishi's trusted advisor Shishu Huxi ( 史蜀胡悉 ) under false pretenses, launched a surprise attack on Yanmen and, although Princess Yicheng had secretly sent Emperor Yang warnings, Sui forces were still surprised.

Meanwhile, Emperor Yang also personally visited the soldiers defending the city, promising to end the campaigns against Goguryeo and to reward them with honors and treasure.

( Emperor Suzong did so by promising that the Huige forces would be permitted to pillage the Chnag ' an region once it was recaptured.

Ajit Singh refused to go to this distant province and Emperor Farrukhsiyar sent Husain Ali Braha to bring Ajit Singh into line, but also sent a private letter to Ajit Singh promising him blessings if he defeated Husain.