Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

He concludes his letter with wishes that the emperor may always glorify the holy and consubstantial Trinity.

The name or title Dalai Lama in Mongolian may also have derived originally from the title taken by Temüjin or Genghis Khan when he was proclaimed emperor of a united Mongolia during 1206.

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

The new imperial title may have sounded less prestigious than the old one, but Francis ' dynasty continued to rule from Austria and a Habsburg monarch was still an emperor ( Kaiser ), and not just merely a king ( König ), in name.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this would-be emperor may be identified as " Kōgon, the second ", or as " Kōgon II.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this would-be emperor may be identified as " En ' yū, the second ", or as " En ' yū II.

The Austrian emperor Leopold II, brother of Marie Antoinette, may have wished to avoid war, but he died on 1 March 1792.

This was never proven, and Piso later died while facing trial ( ostensibly by suicide, but Tacitus supposes Tiberius may have had him murdered before he could implicate the emperor in Germanicus ' death ).

There, Gregory met the emperor and may have tried to sow dissension amongst his ranks.

The book is dedicated to a Macrinus, who may have been the emperor who reigned 217-218, but that name was not uncommon, and it seems more likely he was simply a young man with a thirst for universal knowledge, which the book was compiled to satisfy.

Smoking of opium came on the heels of tobacco smoking and may have been encouraged by a brief ban on the smoking of tobacco by the Ming emperor, ending in 1644 with the Qing dynasty, which had encouraged smokers to mix in increasing amounts of opium.

In later years the emperor Augustus, through his sister Octavia Minor, sponsored Vitruvius, entitling him with what may have been a pension to guarantee financial independence.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Ichijō, the second.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Suzaku, the second " or as " Suzaku II.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Reizei, the second ," or as " Reizei II.

He may have prepared the Antiochian symbol which was to secure the emperor's true understanding of the Nicene Creed, and he was a member and spokesman of the deputation of eight from Antioch called by the emperor to Chalcedon.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Horikawa, the second ," or as " Horikawa II.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Saga, the second ," or as " Saga II.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Fukakusa, the second ," or as " Fukakusa II.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Uda, the second ," or as " Uda II.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Fushimi, the second ," or as " Fushimi II.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as " Nijō, the second ," or as " Nijo II.

The Japanese word go has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as ' Daigo, the second ,' or as ' Daigo II.

However, Ambrose feared the consequences and prevailed upon the emperor to have the matter determined by a council of the Western bishops.

Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

He built the last aqueduct of ancient Rome, the 22 km long Aqua Alexandrina to supply his enlargement of the Thermae of Nero which have been renamed after the emperor ( Thermae Alexandrinae ).

There is a dispute concerning Napoleon's age because of this requirement ; the emperor is known to have altered the civic records at Ajaccio concerning himself and it is possible that he was born in Corte in 1768 when his father was there on business.

Unfortunately, the emperor Constantius II seems to have been committed to having Athanasius deposed, and went so far as to send soldiers to arrest him.

The Bastarnae are reported to have honoured their oath of allegiance to the emperor, while the other resettled peoples mutinied while Probus was distracted by usurpation attempts and ravaged the Danubian provinces far and wide.

Otto was surprised by the speed of his enemy and was thought to have been caught unprepared by the King of France ( which has probably attracted the emperor in this piège ).

The dedication took place on 26 December 537 in the presence of the emperor, who exclaimed, " O Solomon, I have outdone thee!

The Chinese Imperial examination system seems to have been started in 165 BC, when certain candidates for public office were called to the Chinese capital for examination of their moral excellence by the emperor.

Other scholars conclude that the Abomination of Desolation refers to the Crucifixion, an attempt by the emperor Hadrian to erect a statue to Jupiter in the Jewish temple, or an attempt by Caligula to have a statue depicting him as Zeus built in the temple.

It is true that the emperor intended it to be a strictly general or truly ecumenical council, at which the Protestants should have a fair hearing.

A later edict issued by Constantius after becoming sole emperor decreed that a person who was proven to have converted from Christianity to Judaism would have their entire property confiscated by the state.

Gregory VII appeared to have succeeded when the emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor was humiliated at Canossa in 1077.

Whatever the nature of their relationship, Domitian seems to have displayed little sympathy when his brother lay dying, instead making for the Praetorian camp where he was proclaimed emperor.

Nevertheless, Domitian appears to have been very popular amongst the soldiers, spending an estimated three years of his reign among the army on campaigns — more than any emperor since Augustus — and raising their pay by one-third.

In a dream, she is said to have abandoned the emperor prior to the assassination.

This is similar to the other Greek titles basileus and autokrator, which, along with despot, have been used at various times to describe everything from a local chieftain to a simple ruler, king or emperor.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

Parliamentary government today continues a similar coexistence with the emperor as have various shoguns, regents, warlords, guardians, etc.

Since Emperor Meiji, it has been customary to have one era per emperor and to rename each emperor after his death using the name of the era over which he presided, plus the word Tennō.