He came at an early age to the court of Philip II of Macedon, and after the Grecian fashion became the object of his attachment.

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He was very active in furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, Philip V. Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appointed consular agent for Parma at Philip's court, where he was the royal favourite, being raised at the same time to the dignity of count.

John Lackland, Richard's successor, refused to come to the French court for a trial against the Lusignans and, as Louis VI had done often to his rebellious vassals, Philip II confiscated John's possessions in France.

Hugh did exactly this in 1201 and Philip summoned John to attend court in Paris in 1202, citing the Le Goulet treaty to strengthen his case.

In reward for his labors, Giovanni Battista was made apostolic nuncio at the court of Philip IV of Spain ( 1621 – 65 ).

In the winter of 1559-1560, she arrived in Madrid to serve as a court painter and lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Elisabeth of Valois, Philip II ’ s third wife, who was an amateur portraitist.

Anguissola soon gained Elisabeth's admiration and confidence and spent the following years painting many official portraits for the court, including Philip II ’ s sister, Juana, and son, Don Carlos.

On February 21, 2006, the Supreme Court of Appeal gave him leave to sue Philip Morris, demonstrating that a vexatious litigant is not completely blocked from launching further court action.

After the abdication of Emperor Charles V he continued at court in great favour with his son Philip II, who rewarded him with a pension for life and by being made a count palatine.

Details of Wallace's activities after this are vague, but there is some evidence that he left on a mission to the court of King Philip IV of France to plead the case for assistance in the Scottish struggle for independence.

In 1657 at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, King Philip IV of Spain, Queen Mariana and their court attended the first performance of a new comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, with music by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco.

He twice surrendered himself as a hostage to the Indians to guarantee the safe return of a great sachem from a summons to a court: Pessicus in 1645 and Metacomet ( King Philip ) in 1671.

At the beginning of 1334, Philip VI of France offered to bring David II and his court to France for asylum, and in May they arrived in France, setting up a court-in-exile at Château Gaillard in Normandy.

1700 – 1773 ) was Kapellmeister at the court of Mannheim under the Electorship of Karl III Philip.

Little is known of his early life, but his activities following his appointment to the court of Philip the Good c. 1425 are comparatively well documented.

Category: Arts in the court of Philip the Good

He became court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, settling in Ghent by c. 1420.

Category: Arts in the court of Philip the Good

Yet, the Dudley brothers were only welcome at court as long as King Philip was there, otherwise they were even suspected of associating with people who conspired against Mary's regime.

Robert Dudley was counted among Princess Elizabeth's special friends by Philip II's envoy to the English court a week before Queen Mary's death.

On February 20, 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Altria Group ( formerly Philip Morris ) did not have to pay $ 79. 5 million in punitive damages awarded to Mayola Williams in a 1999 Oregon court ruling, when she sued Phillip Morris for responsibility in the cancer death of her husband, Jesse Williams.

Robert fled to Flanders to the court of his uncle Robert I, Count of Flanders before plundering the county of the Vexin and causing such mayhem that his father King William allied himself with King Philip I of France to stop his rebellious son.

Demetrius flees to Macedonia where he becomes a trusted councilor at the court of King Philip V.

She was freed thanks to Robert, bishop of Cambrai and returned to the court of her brother, Philip of Flanders

He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

The leprous child Baldwin IV succeeded his father and brought his mother Agnes of Courtenay ( now married to her fourth husband ) back to court.

In 1789 he was made court painter to Charles IV and in 1799 he was appointed First Court Painter with a salary of 50, 000 reales and 500 ducats for a coach.

From 1598 Dowland worked at the court of Christian IV of Denmark, though he continued to publish in London.

In 1601, Maffeo, through the influence of an uncle who had become apostolic protonotary, was able to secure from Clement VIII the appointment as papal legate to the court of King Henry IV of France.

This transformed the article IV United States territorial court in Puerto Rico, created in the year 1900, to an Article III federal judicial district court.

Eventually, fearing imprisonment and possible execution, Ockham, Michael of Cesena and other Franciscan sympathizers fled Avignon on 26 May 1328, and eventually took refuge in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria-who was also engaged in dispute with the papacy, and became Ockham's patron.

* August – English explorer Richard Chancellor enters the White Sea and reaches Arkhangelsk, going on to the court of Ivan IV of Russia, opening up trade between England and Russia.

He chose the name Charles at his confirmation in honor of his uncle, King Charles IV of France, at whose court he was resident for seven years.

Upon the death of his Bohemian ally, Henry IV reconciled with King Rudolph I and in 1280 went to his Austrian court in Vienna, where Henry tried to obtain for himself the Polish royal crown.

In order to prevent the imminent revenge of the Duke it was decided to get rid of him: a false lawyer ( brother of a one of the Duke's doctors ) was employed at the court of Wroclaw, and slowly poisoned Henry IV.

* Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Edward IV of England at the court of Burgundy.

Edward V as Prince of Wales, part of a miniature of the presentation of Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers at the court of Edward IV, Christmas 1477

In February 1477, he was sent by the Yorkist King Edward IV, together with Sir John Donne, as ambassador to the French court.

* Pope Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Carpine to the Mongol court, suggesting ( amongst other things ) that the Mongols convert to Christianity.

The tales were designed to entertain the court of James IV ( r. 1488 – 1513 ) and are undoubtedly a blend of fact and fiction.

Rudolph paid frequent visits to the court of his godfather, the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II, and his loyalty to Frederick and his son, King Conrad IV of Germany, was richly rewarded by grants of land.

In 1603 the first Western publication on the topic of the Assassins was authored by a court official for King Henry IV and was mainly based on the narratives of Marco Polo from his visits to the Near East.

The journal was dedicated to the King, George IV, who at one time had received Egan at court.

This union considerably benefitted German-Polish relations ; on the occasion of the wedding, Emperor Henry IV commissioned to the St. Emmeram's Abbey the creation of Gospel Books to the Polish court, now kept in the library of the chapter in the Kraków Cathedral.

Lucien was sent as ambassador to the court of Charles IV of Spain, ( November, 1800 ), where his diplomatic talents won over the Bourbon royal family and, perhaps as importantly, the minister Manuel de Godoy.