King has always maintained that Jefferson was a huge influence on his singing and guitar playing.

From 1438 the Habsburgs, who controlled most of the southeast of the Empire ( more or less modern-day Austria and Slovenia, and Bohemia and Moravia after the death of King Louis II in 1526 ), maintained a constant grip on the position of the Holy Roman Emperor until 1806 ( with the exception of the years between 1742 and 1745 ).

) King Matthias Corvinus maintained very modern mercenary-based royal troops, called the Black Army.

King Hilderic, who had maintained good relations with Justinian and the North African Catholic clergy, had been overthrown by his cousin Gelimer in 530.

King Mahendra visited Israel in 1963 and maintained Koirala's special relationship.

There was a general riot by the Ghibelline party in Rome when news of his election got out, but peace was maintained by the aid of King Ladislaus of Naples, who hastened to Rome with a band of soldiers to assist the Pope in suppressing the insurrection.

With Henry the Young King and Geoffrey of Brittany he maintained friendship until their deaths.

He maintained good relations with King Henry until the latter's death in 1189.

" A contrast is therefore maintained with the English law, whereby a variety of crimes, including conspiring to kill the King or " violating " the Queen, were punishable as treason.

While King Vishnuvardhana and his descendants were Vaishnava by faith, records show that the Hoysalas maintained religious harmony by building as many temples dedicated to Shiva as they did to Vishnu.

The conference at Calais was something of a political triumph, but even though the French government gave implicit support for Henry's re-marriage and Francis I himself held private conference with Anne, the French King maintained alliances with the Pope which he could not explicitly defy.

The film was originally to be filmed entirely in Jordan: the government of King Hussein was extremely helpful in providing logistical assistance, location scouting, transportation, and extras ; Hussein himself visited the set several times during production and maintained cordial relationships with cast and crew.

As an ally of Pisa it was the enemy of Genoa, and both the King of France and the Emperor endeavoured to subjugate it ; but in spite of this it maintained its municipal liberties.

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

The constitution of the Pensionary was actually to be maintained with a few minor alterations ( the title of raadpensionaris changed to that of King ; and the size of the Staatsraad and the legislative corps nearly doubled ).

It would have been unacceptable for a King of the Belgians to have maintained an " unofficial " relationship with Lilian.

The Empire of the Carolingians was divided: Arnulf maintained Carinthia, Bavaria, Lorraine and modern Germany ; Count Odo of Paris was elected King of Western Francia ( France ), Ranulf II became King of Aquitaine, Italy went to Count Berengar of Friuli, Upper Burgundy to Rudolph I, and Lower Burgundy to Louis the Blind, the son of Boso of Arles, King of Lower Burgundy.

William supported King John when he became king in 1199, arguing against those who maintained the claims of Arthur of Brittany, the teenage son of John's elder brother Geoffrey Plantagenet.

King Mahendra visited Israel in 1963 and maintained Koirala's special relationship.

His reign length — as preserved in the damaged Turin King List — was disputed in the past with Jürgen von Beckerath reading the damaged figure on the papyrus fragment as only 13 years in his 1964 work Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, while both Alan Gardiner — in The Royal Canon of Turin ( 1959 )— and Kenneth Kitchen in his 1987 paper " The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age at the ' High, Middle or Low '" University of Göteborg convention maintained that it was 23 years.

According to the history of the Clapham family maintained by the College of Heralds, in 965 King Edgar of England gave a grant of land at Clapham to Jonas, son of the Duke of Lorraine, and Jonas was thenceforth known as Jonas " de Clapham ".

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

He was the official procurer for King Farouk, now in exile.

She thought royal status might come her way when, while she was still in Rome, she met Pulley Bey, a personal procurer to King Farouk of Egypt.

In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.

The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.

When King Saud visited Washington, the overwhelming question consuming the press was the size of his family.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

The King Arthur was less expensive than the Dumont.

The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.