Summoned before the imperial court of justice, Albert refused to appear and was proscribed, while the Order elected a new Grand Master, Walter von Cronberg, who received Prussia as a fief at the imperial Diet of Augsburg.

She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.

Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.

Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina.

Excessive luxury and extravagance at the imperial court were diminished.

As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was responsible for music at the court chapel and attached school.

From 1513 he was at the service of Maximilian I in Innsbruck, where he received several commissions from the imperial court.

Many went to Nicaea, where Theodore Lascaris set up an imperial court, or to Epirus, where Theodore Angelus did the same ; others fled to Trebizond, where one of the Comneni had already with Georgian support established an independent seat of empire.

In early 41 AD, Caligula became the first Roman emperor to be assassinated, the result of a conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard, as well as members of the Roman Senate and of the imperial court.

By moving the centre of government ( more or less formally ) to the imperial court, Domitian openly rendered the Senate's powers obsolete.

Until the completion of the Flavian Palace on the Palatine Hill, the imperial court was situated at Alba or Circeo, and sometimes even farther afield.

By the early 1860s, the relationship between the imperial court and the Shogunate was changing radically.

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.

Distantly related to the imperial family of Constantine, he owed his progression from a less significant Levantine bishopric to the most important episcopal see to his influence at court, and the great power he wielded in the Church was derived from that source.

Although the imperial court was not moved to the Asuka region of Japan until 592, Emperor Kimmei's rule is considered by some to be the beginning of the Asuka period of Yamato Japan, particularly by those who associate the Asuka period primarily with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan from Korea.

The first of what would become a powerful line of Fujiwara regents, Yoshifusa had numerous family ties to the imperial court ; he was Ninmyō's brother in law ( by virtue of his sister who became Ninmyō's consort ), the second son of sadaijin Fuyutsugu, and uncle to the new crown prince.

The Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy.

An Imperial supreme court ( Reichskammergericht ) was established, imperial taxes were levied, and the power of the Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ) was increased.

Officially, the only acceptable religious doctrines in Prague were Catholic and Utraquist, but Kepler's position in the imperial court allowed him to practice his Lutheran faith unhindered.

In 1378, she was betrothed ( sponsalia de futuro ) to Habsburg scion William of Austria, and spent about a year at the imperial court in Vienna, Austria.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Beijing dialect had become dominant and was essential for any business with the imperial court.

The Japanese imperial court also awarded Nichiren the honorific designations Nichiren Daibosatsu 日蓮大菩薩 " Great Bodhisattva Nichiren ", and Risshō Daishi 立正大師 " Great Teacher Risshō ; the former title was granted in 1358, and the latter in 1922.

The famous Flemish-French painter Jean-Baptiste van Mour visited the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and crafted some of the most renowned works of art depicting scenes from daily life in the Ottoman society and the imperial court.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

Terracing, however, was only extensively employed after Incan imperial expansions to fuel their expanding realm.

Ambrose and his congregation barricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded.

Charles, anxious to secure such a famous fighter, gladly assented to Albert's demands and gave the imperial sanction to his possession of the lands taken from the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg ; and his conspicuous bravery was of great value to the Emperor on the retreat from Metz in January 1553.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

In imperial politics Albert was fairly active.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.

Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.

In 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta, a title which, up until this point, no other imperial woman had ever received in the lifetime of her husband.

In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

The empire's breadbasket was the rain-fed agricultural system of northern Mesopotamia ( Assyria ) and a chain of fortresses was built to control the imperial wheat production.

This aggravated Frederick, and he was further displeased when Papal Legates chose to interpret a letter from Adrian to Frederick in a manner that seemed to imply that the imperial crown was a gift from the Papacy and that in fact the Empire itself was a fief of the Papacy.

The citizens, still at heart loyal to the fallen Venetian Republic, were displeased with imperial rule and in March 1848, drove out the Austrian garrison.

At the invitation of Catherine II, Sénac went in 1792 to Russia, where he hoped to become imperial historiographer, but his manners displeased Catherine, who contented herself with dismissing him with a pension.

Emperor Muzong was displeased with Pei's accusations, but as Pei was a prominent statesman, placated Pei by demoting Wei to be the director of the imperial armory and Yuan to be the deputy minister of public works ( 工部侍郎, Gongbu Shilang ), relieving Yuan of his position as imperial scholar.

The imperial government did not agree immediately, and Dong became displeased.