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Patrician and Havelock
At this point, Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, resigns — apparently of his own free will — and Lord Rust takes command of the city.
Havelock Vetinari, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of over thirty books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of-even more or less subtle jokes about-our ' Roundworld ' or Earth.
* Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett
The ruler, Lord Winder, is effectively assassinated by the young Assassin's Guild student Havelock Vetinari, and the new Patrician Lord Snapcase calls for a complete amnesty.
The protagonist of the story is Moist von Lipwig, a skilled con artist who was to be hanged for his crimes, but saved at the very last moment by the cunning and manipulative Patrician Havelock Vetinari, who has Moist's death on the scaffold faked.
) It is, however, debatable whether-or-not the Patrician, Lord Havelock Vetinari, knows.
Charlie, a man with an extraordinary physical resemblance to Ankh-Morpork Patrician Havelock Vetinari, ran a clothes shop there ( The Truth ).
Pemberton portrayed Rufus Drumknott, personal aid to Lord Havelock Vetinari, ( the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork ,) to a gleeful degree in the cast of 2010's Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

Patrician and Vetinari
* In Terry Pratchett's book Making Money, the Postmaster Moist finds Lord Vetinari, the Patrician and ruler of the city, wandering around the Blind Letter office of the Ankh-Morpork post office.
The story follows the members of the City Watch, as they attempt to solve murders apparently committed by a golem, as well as the unusual poisoning of the Patrician, Lord Vetinari.
Ironfoundersson is noted by Vimes to be one of the few people who actually like the Patrician, and Vimes, while adamant that he doesn't, shares the dedication to the city felt by Vetinari and Ironfoundersson.
Thus, when a visitor stands in audience with the Patrician, they can be assured that Vetinari knows exactly why they're there, even if the visitor-him / herself does not.
Currently in his late forties / early fifties ( Sam Vimes noted in Feet of Clay that the Patrician was about the same age as him, and it is shown in Night Watch that he was a student Assassin at the time of the main events of the book, when Vimes was 16 ), Lord Vetinari is tall, thin and dresses all in dusty black, including a black skullcap.
In The Colour of Magic, Rincewind is brought before " the Patrician " but it is not clear whether this Patrician is Vetinari or his predecessor, Mad Lord Snapcase, or possibly even Homicidal Lord Winder, although the description of this Patrician does not seem to tally with that of Vetinari, as the Patrician in question is, for example, described as obese – a trait his two predecessors did possess, but which he lacks.
Pratchett has stated on Usenet that the Patrician in this case is indeed Vetinari, and that he simply lost weight due to the stress of his job.
However, in the Colour of Magic TV movie, the Patrician was portrayed as Vetinari by Jeremy Irons, ' the bad guy from the other Die Hard ( with a Vengeance ).
* Created in the reign of Patrician Vetinari.
A subsequent conversation with Lord Vetinari reveals that the Patrician alone knows Vimes took Keel's place, also that he fought with Keel's men against Carcer's death squad.

Patrician and him
Subsequently, Byzantine Emperor Zeno gave him the title of Patrician and the office of Magister militum ( master of the soldiers ), and even appointed him as Roman Consul.
Jennings used to practice with the guitars of his relatives, until his mother bought him a used Stella, and later ordered a Harmony Patrician.
Lucius then turned for help to Conrad, King of the Romans, and on December 1144 wrote to him pleading for military assistance against the Senate and the Patrician Giordano Pierleoni.
In 467 or 468 the emperor Anthemius rewarded him for the panegyric which he had written in honour of him by raising him to the post of Urban Prefect of Rome until 469, and afterwards to the dignity of Patrician and Senator.
A cabal of Ankh-Morpork's guild leaders seeks to gradually depose the Patrician, replace him with Nobby Nobbs as the new king and rule the city through him.
He also carefully arranges matters so that a reality which includes him as Patrician is slightly better than one which does not, with the result being that the only two people who may potentially benefit from his death are claimants to the extant throne of Ankh and their associates.
The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork is sent a letter from the Agatean Empire on the Counterweight Continent commanding him to " send us the Great Wizzard ", the spelling on the hat of Rincewind.
He therefore carries a certificate signed by the Patrician to prove that, on the testimony of his parents, and the midwife who delivered him, he is a human being.
Nobby played a role in the resolution of the " war " between Ankh-Morpork and the empire of Klatch in Jingo, and in recognition the Patrician gave him a new job in traffic control.
He has since entered the employ of the Patrician, who uses him as a parole officer.
He is the current Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and the Diary lists him as ' Provost of Assassins ', presumably an honorary position.

Patrician and for
She arranged for Alexander to marry Sallustia Orbiana, the daughter of a noble Patrician family, but grew so jealous of Sallustia ’ s influence over her son that she had her banished from court.
Odoacer, attempting to bypass Nepos, used the Roman Senate to petition the Eastern Emperor, Zeno ; he requested the rank of Patrician for himself, and sought to end the separate line of Western Emperors.
At the age of 3, he was, together with his father, Pepin the Short, and his elder brother, Charlemagne, anointed King of the Franks and titled " Patrician of the Romans " by Pope Stephen II, who had left Rome to beg the Frankish King for assistance against the Lombards.
Permission was given by the Patrician Brothers, Ballyfin, County Laois, to use their extensive grounds for this purpose in August 1959.
Patrician was used for the four-door top of the line sedans, Four Hundred was used for the hardtop coupes, and Caribbean was used for the convertible and hardtop vinyl-roof two-door hardtop models.
Patrician males, however, might marry considerably earlier ; Julius Caesar was married for the first time by the age of 18.
Gundobad seized the title of Patrician when his uncle Ricimer, who had been the power behind the throne for the Western Empire, died 18 August 472.
The Fulvii were highly respected by the families of the Patrician class and held a reputation for producing some excellent military generals.
At the time he mounted the papal chair, Crescentius II was Patrician of Rome, significantly hampering the pope's influence, but the presence of the Empress Theophanu, regent for her son, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III in Rome from 989 to 991 restrained Crescentius ' ambition.
She wrote about 500 pieces for New York City newspapers and later for the London Tatler, The Patrician and Eve.
He also has no exploitable vices, barring a strange fondness for candied jellyfish – mentioned in the early books but believed by some to be referring to a previous Patrician ( see Bibliography ).
It was the dominance of the long-standing Patrician nobility which ultimately forced the Plebeians to wage their long struggle for political power.
Guards !, it had been outlawed by The Patrician the previous year, as the Guild would threaten arson to get citizens to pay for a fire protection contract.
While they may have been insincere in this promise, they soon found the Patrician knew too much about them for reneging to be safe.
There are two Catholic primary schools, St Michaels Primary School and St Patricks Primary School, and two Catholic high schools, Nagle College for girls and Patrician Brothers ' College Blacktown for boys.

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