This doctrine was accepted in most of the Byzantine world, but was opposed at Jerusalem and at Rome and started a controversy that persisted even after the loss of the reconquered provinces and the death of Heraclius.

When news reached Heraclius of the Pope ’ s condemnation, he was already old and ill, and the news only hastened his death, declaring with his dying breath that the controversy was all due to Sergius, and that the patriarch had pressured him to give his unwilling approval to the Ecthesis.

On hearing the news of his death, Justinian's mother took his six-year-old son and co-emperor, Tiberius, to sanctuary at St. Mary's Church in Blachernae, but was pursued by Philippicus ' henchmen, who dragged the child from the altar and, once outside the church, murdered him, thus eradicating the line of Heraclius.

Towards the end of Heraclius ' reign he obtained through his mother ’ s influence the title of Augustus on July 4, 638, and after his father ’ s death was proclaimed joint emperor with his older half-brother Constantine III ( Herakleios Constantine ).

However, on the death of Emperor Heraclius and the ascension of Emperor Constans II, Pyrrhus returned to Constantinople and recanted of his acceptance of the Dyothelite (" two wills ") position.

He put his father and eighteen brothers to death and began negotiations with Heraclius, but died after a reign of a few months.

From the death of Augustus to the death of Heraclius ( 1850 )

It was Heraclius who advised Balian to come to terms rather than fight to the death, which, he argued, would condemn the city's women and children to slavery and forced conversion.

Karim Khan ’ s death in 1779 temporarily relieved Heraclius of these dangers, as Persia again became engulfed into chaos.

However, with the death of Nader Shah in 1747, both kingdoms broke free of Persian control and were reunited in personal union under the rule of the energetic king Heraclius II ( Erekle ) in 1762.

Heraclius II returned to Tbilisi to rebuild the city, but the destruction of his capital was a death blow to his hopes and projects.

After Heraclius death in 1798, and the annexation of the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti by Russia in 1800, the situation in Imereti became precarious.

After the death of Heraclius, he was in opposition to a new king, his half-brother, George XII ( 1798 – 1800 ), and his pro-Russian politics.

The premature death of Constantine III, in May 641, left Heraklonas sole ruler.

The Battle of Maserfield ( or Maserfeld, " marsh ( border ) field "; Welsh: Maes Cogwy ), was fought on 5 August 641 or 642, between the Anglo-Saxon kings Oswald of Northumbria and Penda of Mercia, ending in Oswald's defeat, death, and dismemberment.

Uija was made crown prince in 632 and became king upon his father's death in 641.

Penda again defeated Oswald at the Battle of Maserfield in 641, ending in Oswald's death and dismemberment.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

Already some of the pain had gone from Amelia's death.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

At nightfall he had been able to sneak down a hillside and into the jungle, reeking of death.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Frank had been given about half his legacy to use in a business venture before Papa's death ; ;

But Papa's death had further complicated the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for the weeks following it Tom did not know whether his return to Harvard could be arranged.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.

But at least the pessimists who believed that the world organization had plunged to its death in that plane crash in the Congo have been proved wrong.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

As Peter Heather notes, the Visigothic kingdom was thrown into disarray " by the death of its king in battle.

Brought back to Constantinople, Alexios V was condemned to death for treason against Alexios IV, and was thrown from the top of the Column of Theodosius.

The Devil, death, hell, and those not found written in the Book of Life are then thrown into Gehenna ( the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone ).

In February 1994, watchdog group Morality in Media claimed that the death of 8-month-old Natalia Rivera, struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel by 18-year-old Calvin J.

Human Rights Watch has cited a number of summary executions as particular examples of violations of the rules of warfare, including the case of Muhammad Swairki, 28, a cook for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, who was thrown to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.

Abu Bakr recommended toppling a wall on the evil-doer, or else burning alive, while Ali bin Abi Talib ordered death by stoning for one " luti " and had another thrown head-first from the top of a minaret — according to Ibn Abbas, this last punishment must be followed by stoning.

However, the account of Josephus differs from that of later works by Hegesippus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea that it simply has James stoned while the others have other variations such as having James thrown from the top of the Temple, stoned, and finally beaten to death by laundrymen as well as his death occurring during the siege of Jerusalem in AD 69.

Others also suffered: Theodulf of Orléans, in eclipse since the death of Charlemagne, was accused of having supported the rebellion, and was thrown into a monastic prison, where he died soon after – poisoned, it was rumoured.

After his death, his lyre was thrown into the river ; Zeus sent an eagle to retrieve the lyre, and ordered both of them to be placed in the sky.

Some victims were thrown from transport planes into the Atlantic Ocean on what have become famously known as death flights.

With his death in 1130, the Church was again thrown into confusion with the election of two rival popes, Innocent II and the antipope Anacletus II.

In return for his adherence to God ’ s discipline and speaking God ’ s words, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

On July 18, 1918, the day after the killing at Yekaterinburg of the last Tsar, Nicholas II and family, members of the extended Russian royal family, the Romanovs, including a nun, and servants met a brutal death by being thrown down a mineshaft near Alapayevsk by Bolsheviks.

At the climax of a dinner party thrown in their honor, Capone produced a baseball bat and beat the trio to death.

The spirit of the mob then took hold as more missiles were thrown and the nearest soldiers stabbed Cinna to death.

After being shipwrecked on the English coast during a freak storm, he was captured by Anglian king Ælla of Northumbria and put to death in an infamous manner by being thrown into a pit of vipers.

As he was thrown into the snake pit, Ragnar was said to have uttered his famous death song: " It gladdens me to know that Baldr ’ s father makes ready the benches for a banquet.

He or she will, in that case, usually be thrown from the vehicle and suffer greater injury or death.

The form of death penalty was specified for the following cases: gibbeting: for burglary ( on the spot where crime was committed ), later also for encroaching on the king's highway, for getting a slave-brand obliterated, for procuring a husband's death ; burning: for incest with own mother, for a vestal entering or opening a tavern, for looting a house on fire ( thrown into the fire ); drowning: for adultery, rape of a betrothed maiden, bigamy, bad conduct as a wife, seduction of a daughter-in-law.

Although defenestrations can be fatal due to the height of the window through which a person is thrown or throws oneself or due to lacerations from broken glass, the act of defenestration need not carry the intent or result of death.

In 1407 Estorre Visconti was proclaimed Lord of Monza and it minted its own coinage, the death of Giovanni Maria Visconti ( 1412 ) was acclaimed Duke of Milan, contending that the succession to Filippo Maria Visconti, but must then repair the Castle of Monza, where is besieged: hit in the leg by a stone thrown by a siege, died from the effects of the fracture in the first days of January 1413.

Finally, on Licinius ’ s death, his memory was branded with infamy ; his statues were thrown down ; and by edict, all his laws and judicial proceedings during his reign were abolished.