The king also supported the exploration of the Atlantic Ocean led by prince Henry the Navigator but, after Henry's death in 1460, he did nothing to continue this course of action.

The leadership was tried before a kangaroo court and convicted on false charges unrelated to Sarajevo, such as plotting an assassinations of Nikola Pašić and Crown prince Aleksandar ; many were given death sentences.

This time the prince decided to remain in Lebanon and resist the offensive, but the death of his son Ali in Wadi al-Taym was the beginning of his defeat.

Following his death, Fujiwara Yoshifusa maneuvered to have Montoku, rather than the crown prince Tsunesada, put on the throne ; Junna's death set the stage for the Fujiwara clan's ascendancy.

Upon witnessing so many men going to their death on the brash whim of an impulsive prince, Hamlet declares, " O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

* 1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.

Pope Agapetus II ( died November 955 ) was Pope from 10 May 946 until his death in 955, at the time when Alberic II ( 932 – 954 ), son of Marozia, was governing the independent republic of Rome under the title of " prince and senator of the Romans.

Because Pribislav was childless, Brandenburg passed to Albert after the death of the Slavic prince in Brandenburg an der Havel.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern panic, and re-read the letter to find that it now calls for them to be put to death instead of the prince.

Among his children by Anastasia, the elder ( Ivan ) was murdered by the tsar in a quarrel ; the younger Feodor, a pious and lethargic prince, inherited the throne upon his father's death.

When Elizabeth came to the throne, there was much apprehension among members of the council appointed by Mary, due to the fact that many of them ( as noted by the Spanish ambassador ) had participated in several plots against Elizabeth, such as her imprisonment in the Tower, trying to force her to marry a foreign prince and thereby sending her out of the realm, and even pushing for her death.

He succeeded his father as prince of Orange later that year, after William V's death.

After the death of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII, the Luxemburg party among the prince electors set aside Henry's son, the Bohemian king John of Luxemburg, because of his youth and chose Louis as rival king to Frederick the Fair, the cousin of Louis.

It was at Ludlow that the 12-year-old prince received news of his father's sudden death on 9 April 1483.

After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus.

Vladimir Yaroslavich () ( 1020 – October 4, 1052 ) reigned as prince of Novgorod from 1036 until his death.

The title is not automatic ; it merges into the Crown when a prince accedes to the throne, or lapses on his death leaving the sovereign free to re-grant it should another candidate qualify, such as an heir-apparent other than the eldest living son, such as that deceased eldest son's eldest son ( for example, George III ).

Following the death of John of Bavaria in 1425, van Eyck entered the service of the powerful and influential Valois prince, Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.

Having in 842 crushed the Stellinga rising in Saxony, in 844 he compelled the Obotrites to own his authority and put their prince, Gozzmovil, to death.

The boldest of the disaffected nobles was Aziru, son of Abdi-Ashirta, a prince of Amurru, who even before the death of Amenhotep III, endeavoured to extend his power into the plain of Damascus.

The role of a prince held hostage by Shapur I, in the events following the death of Valerian has been frequently debated by historians, without reaching any definitive conclusion.

After the death of his original crown prince, Sun Deng, two opposing factions supporting different potential successors slowly emerged.

George Coedès suggests the Cambodian myth is a basis for the legend of " Phra Daeng Nang Ai ", in which a woman who has lived many previous lives in the region is reincarnated as a daughter of Phraya Khom ( Thai for Cambodian ,) and causes the death of her companion in former lives who has been reincarnated as a prince of the Nagas.

It was at Ludlow that the prince heard the news of his father's death and was himself proclaimed King Edward V of England.

Alexios gathered the money by plundering imperial tombs at the church of the Holy Apostles, though Henry's death in September 1197 meant the gold was never despatched.

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continue to assert their right to the imperial title.

All this changed dramatically with the Emperor's death and the elevation of Marcian, an orthodox Christian, to the imperial throne.

He was a bishop of Berytus ( modern-day Beirut ) in Phoenicia, then of Nicomedia where the imperial court resided in Bithynia, and finally of Constantinople from 338 up to his death.

Honorius's wife Thermantia, daughter of Stilicho, was taken from the imperial throne and given over to her mother ; Eucherius, the son of Stilicho, was put to death.

After the defeat and death of Magnentius in the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, Constantius II dispatched his chief imperial notary Paulus Catena to Britain to hunt down Magnentius ' supporters.

Two days after Tycho's unexpected death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as imperial mathematician with the responsibility to complete his unfinished work.

Louis, having barely survived and feeling the imminent danger of death, began planning for his succession ; three months later he issued an Ordinatio Imperii, an imperial decree that laid out plans for an orderly succession.

The gardens became imperial property after Maecenas's death, and Tiberius lived there after his return to Rome in 2 AD.

After the death of Emperor Otto I in 973 Mieszko, like his brother-in-law, Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia, joined the German opposition in support of the attempted imperial succession of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.

Hence there was a vacancy of nearly eleven months between the death of Pope John III and the arrival of the imperial confirmation of Benedict's election on 2 June 575.

In 973, shortly before the death of emperor Otto I the Great, a Reichstag ( Imperial Convention ) was held at the imperial court in which Mieszko, duke of Poland, and Boleslav, duke of Bohemia, as well as numerous other nobles from as far away as Byzantium and Bulgaria, gathered to pay homage to the emperor.

The idea of the two halves, the East and the West, re-emerged and eventually resulted in the permanent de facto division into two separate Roman empires after the death of Theodosius I ( though it is important to remember that the Empire was never formally divided, Emperors of East and West legally ruling as one imperial college until the fall of Rome's western empire left Byzantium, the " second Rome ", sole direct heir ).

Everywhere else the power of life and death, originally reserved to the Emperor alone, had been usurped by the territorial nobles ; only in Westphalia, called “ the Red Earth ” because here the imperial Blutbann was still valid, were capital sentences passed and executed by the Fehmic courts in the Emperor's name alone.

* September 21 – Emperor Valentinian III stabs his commander-in-chief Flavius Aetius to death during a meeting of the imperial council at Ravenna.

After his death, he leaves the imperial treasury richer by 23, 000, 000 solidi or 320, 000 pounds of gold.

He made an appeal to Leo the Great, but not until after the death of Theodosius II in 450 was his appeal for a revocation of the judgments against him granted by imperial edict.

This edict divides Christians into four categories: priests, who are to be put to death ; senators and equestrians, who are to be stripped of their positions and their property confiscated ; nuns, who are to be exiled ; and imperial civil servants, who are condemned to forced labour.

Some of them assert that the great power he wielded was not his own personal achievement, but that of the dynasty he represented ; they also argue that, since Byzantine imperial power declined catastrophically after Manuel's death, it is only natural to look for the causes of this decline in his reign.

In 875, after the death of the Emperor Louis II ( son of his half-brother Lothair ), Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII, traveled to Italy, receiving the royal crown at Pavia and the imperial insignia in Rome on 29 December.

His death marked the end of real imperial activity in northern Gaul and Britain.

Twelve days later, the death of Charles VII submitted the imperial title to a new election, and his successor in Bavaria was not a candidate.

The campaign came to a brief halt with the death of emperor Nero in 68, launching Vespasian's bid for the imperial power during the Year of the Four Emperors.

Practice of the imperial cult was revived by Titus, though apparently it met with some difficulty as Vespasian was not deified until six months after his death.