The Archchancellor is considered an important figure and holds a seat on the Ankh-Morpork council ( although this council itself has no power either ), in which he acts as a magical advisor to the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.

At this point, Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, resigns — apparently of his own free will — and Lord Rust takes command of the city.

* 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 a plot by a secret brotherhood, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, to overthrow the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and install a puppet king, under the control of the Supreme Grand Master.

The Patrician is reinstated as ruler of Ankh-Morpork, and offers the Watch anything they want as a reward.

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

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 is the current Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and the Diary lists him as ' Provost of Assassins ', presumably an honorary position.

He is said to have killed a former Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and to be the toughest proctor of Guild final exams.

In Going Postal, Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork arranged to have Lipwig survive his hanging.

In Making Money, the Patrician offers Moist the additional job of running the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Royal Mint just behind it.

Charlie, a man with an extraordinary physical resemblance to Ankh-Morpork Patrician Havelock Vetinari, ran a clothes shop there ( The Truth ).

William and the Times staff investigate the strange charges against the Patrician and set out to find the missing Wuffles, all while trying to cope with threats from the local Guilds, the sudden appearance of a competing paper ( the scandalous and largely fiction-filled “ Ankh-Morpork Inquirer ”), pressure from the City Watch, and the chance that Otto may fall off the wagon at any moment.

* Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, a fictional politician in the Discworld book series

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.

* Petronius Maximus, prominent aristocrat, is given the title of Patrician.

Patrician Academy is a private school ( grades preK through 12 ) located in Butler.

The Patrician observes that Vimes is anti-authoritarian even though he is, himself, an authority figure, which is " practically Zen ".

Shortly after, Vimes is imprisoned in the same cell as the Patrician, who has been leading a relatively comfortable life with the help of the rats he uses as spies.

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.

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.

The Assassins ' Guild no longer accepts contracts on the Patrician – he is the only person besides Samuel Vimes to have been taken off the register.

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.

Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis museum in AthensIn Rome, where the elite ( mainly Patrician ) were often sent to Greece or received Greek teachers, the Greek word was adopted in the latinate form ephebus ( pl.

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.

Patrician Marcius Rex-family descended from this king and remained prominent during the republic and empire.

With Otto III was still a child and his regent, his mother the Empress Theophanu, absent from Italy, Crescentius II took the title of Patricius Romanorum ( Patrician of the Romans ) and became the effective ruler of the city, though he did not act entirely independent of the imperial authority, presenting himself as a lieutenant of the Emperor.

On his return from Sicily ( where he had been Quaestor between 61 BC and 60 BC ), Clodius chose to renounce his Patrician rank in order to hold a tribunate of plebs, which was not permitted to patricians.

As admiral John the Patrician retreated from Carthage to Crete, the fleet rebelled, deposed and murdered their commander, and chose Apsimaros as his replacement.

At one point, possibly as early as 218 BC, the Curiate Assembly's thirty Curia were abolished, and replaced with thirty lictors, one from each of the original Patrician clans.

Under the presidency of the Pontifex Maximus, it witnessed wills and ratified adoptions, inaugurated certain priests, and transferred citizens from Patrician class to Plebeian class ( or vice versa ).

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.

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 ).

He was made, among other titles, a Roman Patrician in 1809, with confirmation from the Pope on January 19, 1813, and the duke of Poli e Guadagnolo in 1820.

Since most individuals who were elected to political office were given membership in the Roman Senate, this development helped to transform the senate from a body of Patricians into a body of Plebeian and Patrician aristocrats.

The importance of the Hortensian Law was in that it removed from the Patrician senators their final check over the Plebeian Council.

The estate was purchased by the Patrician Brothers, a Roman Catholic teaching order who ran a much-loved school from the estate, and who in 1928 added a wing to the house.

During his year in the Patrician Academy he cycled the 32-mile round trip from Derrygallon every day and he never missed a class.

Until its recent closure the nearby secondary school, Patrician College Ballyfin, had a substantial portion of its students travel from Mountmellick by bus each day.

Some of the most popular games of all time come from Europe: the Grand Theft Auto ( series ), Tomb Raider, Cossacks: European Wars, The Settlers, The Patrician, Brain Challenge, Block Breaker Deluxe, Europa Universalis.

Later the role, like that of the Giudicati of Sardinia, acquired a judicial overtone, and was used by rulers who were often de facto independent of Imperial control, like Alberic II of Spoleto, " Patrician of Rome " from 932 to 954.

* Patrician ( Christianity ), the adjective formed from St. Patrick

At one point, possibly as early as 218 BC, the Curiate Assembly's thirty Curia were abolished, and replaced with thirty lictors, one from each of the original Patrician clans.

Under the presidency of the Pontifex Maximus, it witnessed wills and ratified adoptions, inaugurated certain priests, and transfer citizens from Patrician class to Plebeian class ( or vice versa ).

In 59 BC, it transferred Publius Clodius Pulcher from Patrician status to Plebeian status so that he could run for Plebeian Tribune.