While Otto III was in Pavia, Crescentius II, fearing the king's march on Rome, reconciled with Otto III and agreed to accept his nominee as pope.

In Spain, the Congress of Deputies votes on a motion of confidence of the king's nominee ( customarily the party leader whose party controls the Congress ) and the nominee's political manifesto, an example of an indirect election of the Prime Minister of Spain.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

" Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's monument.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).

One prominent example is the winged bull Lamassu, or shedu that guard the entrances to the king's court.

She finds favor in the king's eyes, and is made his new queen.

Ahasuerus is told that Mordechai has not received any recognition for saving the king's life.

Thinking that the man that the king is referring to is himself, Haman says that the man should be dressed in the king's royal robes and led around on the king's royal horse, while a herald calls: " See how the king honours a man he wishes to reward!

As he charges toward the departing Longshanks on horseback, Wallace is intercepted by one of the king's lancers, who turns out to be Robert the Bruce.

First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

Along with the king, the rook is involved during the king's castling move.

It is unlikely that the very fair and loyal archbishop would do such a thing behind the king's back.

Even in Modern Tamil, the word for temple is ' க ோ ய ி ல ்', meaning " king's house ".

" Haman thought the king meant himself, so he said that the man should wear a royal robe and be led on one of the king's horses through the city streets proclaiming before him, " This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!

Whether it was the king's intention to have his son executed as well ( as Voltaire claims ) is not clear.

Ribbentrop is also mentioned in the movie, The King's Speech, for sending the future British king's fiancée 17 carnations a day.

Popular historian Frank McLynn maintains a counter-revisionist perspective on John, arguing that the king's modern reputation amongst historians is " bizarre ", and that as a monarch John " fails almost all those that can be legitimately set ".

In Ireland's other great " sequestered maiden " story, the tragedy of Deirdre, the king's intended is carried off by three brothers, who are hunters with hounds.

The two stories agree on this point: Livy's version is: By this blood-most pure before the outrage wrought by the king's son-I swear, and you, O gods, I call to witness that I will drive hence Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, together with his cursed wife and his whole blood, with fire and sword and every means in my power, and I will not suffer them or any one else to reign in Rome.

He further appears in the medieval tale Breuddwyd Rhonabwy, in which he fights alongside Arthur at the Battle of Badon and is described as one of the king's chief advisors.

Lanfranc presented the king's case, declaring that the confiscated lands had been held as fiefs, and thus St-Calais could be tried as a vassal, not as a bishop.

Peter the Great admired it on a visit and in 1716, Friedrich Wilhelm I, the first king's son, presented it to him, and with that act cemented a Prussian-Russian alliance against Sweden.

He was succeeded by Ceolwulf, who was presented by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as " a foolish king's thegn " who was a puppet of the Vikings.

He travelled to Rome in 1102 to receive his pallium from the pope, to whom he presented the king's side against Anselm in the controversy surrounding investitures.

On 7 June 1660 he presented to the Privy Council certain volumes of its records, which he claimed to have preserved from plunder " during the late unhappy times ", and received the king's thanks for their restoration.

* August 1: The Tsar responds to the king's telegram, stating, " I would gladly have accepted your proposals had not the German ambassador this afternoon presented a note to my Government declaring war.

This presented a problem, since Saxony was cut off from his duchy of Swabia by the king's lands.

The colours of the old 36th Regiment had been laid up in Christ Church, Brampton in 1924, and the following year the Peel Chapter, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, presented a king's colour to The Peel and Dufferin Regiment.

According to Hunnisett, " during the thirteenth century, no other coroner was allowed to act within the verge, with the result that many felonies were not presented to the justices in eyre after the king's court had moved on ...", and Richard Clarke Sewell tells us that " Anciently the Coroner of the Verge had power to do all things within the Verge belonging to the office of the Coroner, to the exclusion of the Coroner of the County, but this clearly caused problems, which two acts were intended to solve.

The Grand Chamberlain of France, or in his absence the chief gentleman of the bedchamber, presented holy water to the king from a vase that stood at the head of the bed and the king's morning clothes were laid out.

A Gaelic poem laments: It's bad what Malcolm's son has done, dividing us from Alexander ; he causes, like each king's son before, the plunder of stable Alba.

The Babylonians destroyed the city and the Temple of Solomon, executed the king's sons in front of him before putting out his eyes, and took him and many others into exile.

Esther was terrified of this ( she had not been called to the king in 30 days ), so she and her maid-servants and her people the Jews of Persia fasted earnestly for three days before she built up the courage to enter the king's presence.

But in the days of Harold Fairhair many men fled before the king's overbearing.

In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta .”

Thomas More, writing before the Age of Enlightenment, was too outspoken for the reigning king's taste, even though he coded his political preferences in a Utopian allegory.

While some writers believed there was no appeal from the king's decisions, others believed that a proposal for appeal could be brought before the king by any patrician during a meeting of the Curiate Assembly.

When the king said that he would call his friends into council and consider what he ought to do, Popilius drew a circle in the sand around the king's feet with the stick he was carrying and said, " Before you step out of that circle give me a reply to lay before the senate.

When, after a year, Themistocles returned to the king's court, he appears to have made an immediate impact, and " he attained ... very high consideration there, such as no Hellene has ever possessed before or since ".

King William the Second, surnamed Rufus, being slain, as before related, was laid in a cart, belonging to one Purkis to take the king's body to Winchester Cathedral on his cart., and drawn from hence, to Winchester, and buried in the Cathedral Church, of that city.

The king's wrath was aimed at Tyndale: Henry asked the Emperor Charles V to have the writer apprehended and returned to England under the terms of the Treaty of Cambrai, however, the Emperor responded that formal evidence was required before extradition.

Much has been made of Edward's sexual licentiousness, but there is no evidence of any infidelity on the king's part before Alice Perrers became his lover, and by that time the queen was already terminally ill.

Well before the queen's powers expanded, it was already being romantically described as essential to the king's survival, so that when the queen was lost, there was nothing more of value on the board.

These were followed by those of the churchmen and religious houses in order of status ( for example, the Archbishop of Canterbury is always listed before other bishops ), the lay tenants-in-chief again in approximate order of status ( aristocrats ) and lastly the king's serjeants ( servientes ) and English thegns who retained land.

The original school consisted of only seventy scholars, half of whom had previously been educated at Winchester College, and all of these boys were educated at the king's expense. The only foreign student that received the King's Scholarship is from Turkey and spent a short time in Eton before going back to his homeland.

It was decided then, nearly three weeks before the Revolution, that in the event of < span lang =" fr "> Charles </ span >' expected proclamations, the journalistic establishment of Paris would publish vitriolic criticisms of the king's policies in an attempt to mobilize the masses.

In spite of the king's decree that all should prostrate themselves before Haman, Mordecai refused to do so.

Even before Margaret's sixth birthday, Henry VII thought about a marriage between Margaret and James IV as a way of ending the Scottish king's support for Perkin Warbeck, Yorkist pretender to the throne of England.

By the terms of the late king's will she had sacrificed her position ; before the month was out she was obliged to consent to the appointment of Albany.

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, found himself accused of treason ; the day before the king's death his vast estates were seized, making them available for redistribution, and he spent the whole of Edward's reign in the Tower of London.

He stood before the king's household gods.

But before the battle he came back to join with Murchadh, the king's son, and to fight for the Gael.