In particular, criticism was directed at some of the king's closest advisors.

In October 1660, at Charing Cross or Tyburn, London, ten were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered: Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scroope, John Carew, Thomas Scot, and Gregory Clement, who had signed the king's death warrant ; the preacher Hugh Peters ; Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtell, who commanded the guards at the king's trial and execution ; and John Cooke, the solicitor who directed the prosecution.

Following the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1800, the king's titles changed, and an Order in Council of 5 November 1800 directed the Master of the Mint to prepare a new coinage, but although designs were prepared, the production of guineas was not authorised.

In 1298, King Andrew III allied himself with King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ; the alliance was probably directed against Máté whose possessions lay between the two monarchs ' territories In the next year, King Andrew sent his troops against Máté, but he could resist the attack ; only Pozsony county was reoccupied by the king's partisans.

After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

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.

This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.

He speaks as an eye-witness of the king's doings at Messina, in Cyprus, at the siege of Acre, and in the abortive campaign which followed the capture of that city.

Two years later, to avenge his sister, Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full brother, sent his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

In 1790, at least, “ the powers of the court of king's bench vested in the supreme court of Pennsylvania .” As for the dissolution of corporations, there seems not to have been much question that a corporation might “ surrender its legal existence into the hands of that power, from which it was received.

She had three children, a daughter ( who went to live at the Dominican Abbey in Poissy in 1397 as a companion to the king's daughter, Marie ), a son Jean, and another child who died in childhood.

Shortly, when Mordecai was sitting at the king's gates, he overheard two of the king's officers guarding the gates plotting to assassinate the king.

In addition, the vassal could have other obligations to his lord, such as attendance at his court, whether manorial, baronial, both termed court baron, or at the king's court.

Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.

He met their leaders along with their French and Scot allies at Runnymede, near London on 15 June 1215 to seal the Great Charter ( Magna Carta in Latin ), which imposed legal limits on the king's personal powers.

In 1501, the king's son Arthur, having married Catherine of Aragon, died of an illness at the age of 15, leaving his younger son Henry, Duke of York, as his heir.

The defeat of the Royalist army by the New Model Army of Parliament at the Battle of Naseby in June 1645 effectively destroyed the king's forces.

Many barons perceived the king's household as what Ralph Turner has characterised as a " narrow clique enjoying royal favour at barons ' expense " staffed by men of lesser status.

According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( who lived in Rome at the time of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus ), her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.

Sextus was received with great hospitality at the governor's mansion, home of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, son of the king's nephew, Egerius Tarquinius Collatinus, former governor of Collatia and first of the Tarquinii Collatini.

Lucius ' wife, Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius, prefect of Rome, " a man of distinction ", made sure that the king's son was treated as became his rank, although her husband was away at the siege.

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.

The king's body was sent north for reburial, in the reign of his son Alexander, at Dunfermline Abbey, or possibly Iona.

Glyndŵr entered the English king's military service in 1384 when he undertook garrison duty under the renowned ' Welshman ' Sir Gregory Sais, or Sir Degory Sais, on the English – Scottish border at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

or much earlier, to the 1st century AD and originated there, polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops.

The money to rescue the King was transferred to Germany by the emperor's ambassadors, but " at the king's peril " ( had it been lost along the way, Richard would have been held responsible ), and finally, on 4 February 1194 Richard was released.

In 1439, the Portuguese Cortes ( assembly of the kingdom ) decided to replace the queen with Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, the young king's oldest uncle.

The count of Barcelos, a personal enemy of the Duke of Coimbra ( despite being half-brothers ) eventually became the king's favourite uncle and began a constant struggle for power.

His eldest son and heir Edward V, aged 13, would have succeeded him, but the king's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester declared his marriage to be bigamous and invalid, making all his children illegitimate.

The king's brother Duke Louis of Orléans and the king's cousin John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, quarreled over the regency of France and the guardianship of the royal children.

Unsuccessful overtures were made to him in 1763, and twice in 1765, in May and June-the negotiator in May being the king's uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, who went down in person to Hayes, Pitt's seat in Kent.

Bourbon's motive appears to have been a desire to produce an heir as soon as possible so as to reduce the chances of a succession dispute between Philip V and the Duke of Orléans in the event of the sickly king's death.

Catherine was still young and marriageable, a source of concern to the Lord Protector of England, the king's uncle, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.

When Elizabeth's relatives, especially her brother, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, began to challenge Warwick's pre-eminence in English political society, Warwick conspired with his son-in-law, the Duke of Clarence, the king's younger brother.

Margaret harboured suspicions about Warwick's motives, particularly since Anne's sister, Isabella, was married to the reigning king's brother, George, Duke of Clarence.

The wedding of Anne Neville and Richard, Duke of Gloucester ( subsequently Richard III of England ) took place on 12 July 1472, at Westminster Abbey, and they made their marital home in the familiar surroundings of Middleham Castle, Richard having been appointed Governor of the North on the king's behalf.

His first ministry was headed by Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, who was displaced by the king's tutor, Cardinal André de Fleury, in 1725, and on the latter's death in 1743, Louis assumed personal control of the government.

Ulrich succeeded in persuading Liudolf and Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, Otto's son-in-law, to ask the king's pardon on 17 December 954.

Clarendon's enemy, Lord Arlington, became the favourite of the king and began to cooperate with the king's brother James, Duke of York, the Lord High Admiral, in order to bring about war with the Dutch, from which both expected great personal gain.

He had no sympathy with John's High-Church tendencies on the one hand, and he sturdily resisted all the king's endeavours to restrict his authority as Duke of Södermanland on the other.

After the young king's accession to the throne, the two brothers split among themselves the kingdom onus: the Duke of Guise became head of the army and the Cardinal of Lorraine head of the finances, justice and diplomacy.

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.

After the unexpected death of Edward IV in 1483 and the accession of his twelve-year-old son Edward V, Stanley was among those who sought to maintain a balance of power between the young king's uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who was now Lord Protector, and his maternal family, the Woodvilles.

Warwick himself changed sides, and supported Margaret of Anjou and the king's jealous brother George, Duke of Clarence in briefly restoring Henry in 1470-71.

After the king's death Odo returned to his earldom and soon organized a rebellion in support of William's son Robert Curthose, who had been made Duke of Normandy.