This meant not only that the king had retained the loyalty of ealdormen, royal reeves and king ’ s thegns ( who were charged with levying and leading these forces ), but that they had maintained their positions of authority in these localities well enough to answer his summons to war.

One year later Guthrum, or Athelstan by his baptismal name, Alfred ’ s former enemy and king of East Anglia, died and was buried in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos ’ first wife.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

This passage begins by describing Scyld ’ s glory as a “ scourge of many tribes, a wrecker of mead-benches .” Scyld ’ s glory and importance is shown by the prestigious death he obtains through his service as the king of the Danes.

The importance of these earthly possessions are then used to establish this dead king ’ s greatness in respect to the treasure.

The death of Hildeburg ’ s brother Hnæf, son ( s ) and, later, her husband Finn the Frisian king are sung about as the result of fighting in Frisia between the visiting Danish chieftain Hnæf and his retainers ( including one Hengest ) and Finn's followers.

Scholars also cite the reference to “ the officials and the king ’ s sons.

In one notable instance, Columba appears to King Oswald of Northumbria, in a dream, and he announced the king ’ s incoming victory against King Catlon.

“ The law has provided proper persons with proper powers to visit those institutions, and to correct every irregularity, which may arise within them .” The Common Law provided for inspection by the court of king ’ s bench.

The pope was suspicious of the king ’ s motives, and did not believe he was truly repentant.

Following her birth, Thomas de Pizan accepted an appointment to the court of Charles V of France, as the king ’ s astrologer, alchemist, and physician.

It is quite plausible that the king ’ s personal banner as well as the leading banner of the army were both lost, as the battle was led by the King himself.

The only direct written reference to Eormenric is in Kentish genealogies, but Gregory of Tours does mention that Æthelberht ’ s father was the king of Kent, though Gregory gives no date.

One other member of Æthelberht ’ s family is known: his sister, Ricole, who is recorded by both Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the mother of Sæberht, king of the East Saxons.

It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.

According to Gregory of Tours, Charibert was king when he married Ingoberg, Bertha ’ s mother, which places that marriage no earlier than 561.

On the other hand, Gregory refers to Æthelberht at the time of his marriage to Bertha, simply as " a man of Kent ", and in the 589 passage concerning Ingoberg ’ s death, which was written in about 590 or 591, he refers to Æthelberht as " the son of the king of Kent ".

To an illiterate population, it appeared the bishop or abbot was now the king ’ s inferior and owed his position to the king.

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

Longtime believed by Egyptologists to be " air shafts " for ventilation, this idea has now been widely abandoned in favor of the shafts serving a ritualistic purpose associated with the ascension of the king ’ s spirit to the heavens.

Eventually, Amleth avenges his father ’ s murder and plans the murder of his uncle, making him the new and rightful king of Jutland.

The novel The Legend of The Vampire Khufu, written by Raymond Mayotte in 2010, deals with king Khufu awakening in his pyramid as a vampire.

The latter inscription suggests that Imhotep outlived Djoser by a few years and went on to serve in the construction of king Sekhemkhet's pyramid which was abandoned due to this ruler's brief reign.

The texts are concerned with the afterlife of the king buried in the pyramid, so they frequently refer to the Osiris myth, which is deeply involved with kingship and the afterlife.

The pyramid texts were intended to help the king in overcoming hostile forces and powers in the Underworld and thus join with the Sun God Ra, his divine father in the afterlife.

Adjacent to the east side of the pyramid is a small mudbrick chapel which served as temple for the cult of the dead king.

Unas, the last ruler of the Fifth Dynasty, was the first king to adorn the chambers in his pyramid with Pyramid Texts.

It was custom for courtiers during the Old Kingdom to be buried in mastaba tombs close to the pyramid of their king.

* pyramid complex of king Userkaf ( Dynasty 5 )

* Haram el-Shawaf, pyramid complex of king Djedkare

* pyramid of king Menkauhor

* pyramid complex of king Unas

* pyramid complex of king Teti ( Dynasty 6 )

* pyramid complex of king Pepi I

* pyramid complex of king Merenre

* pyramid complex of king Pepi II

* pyramid of king Ibi ( Dynasty 8 )

* pyramid of king Khendjer ( Dynasty 13 )

* pyramid of an unknown king

This fits in to the theory proposed by Barry Kemp, and generally accepted by many, that suggests the whole step pyramid complex symbolizes the royal palace enclosure and allows the king to eternally perform the rituals associated with kingship.

The symbolic king ’ s inner palace, decorated in blue faience, is much more complete than that of the pyramid.

The northern ( funerary / mortuary ) temple was on the north side of the pyramid and faced the north stars, which the king wished to join in eternity.

This temple appears on the north side of the pyramid throughout the Third Dynasty, as the king wishes to go north to become one of the eternal stars in the North Sky that never set.

The first king of the Old Kingdom was Djoser ( sometime between 2691 and 2625 BC ) of the third dynasty, who ordered the construction of a pyramid ( the Step Pyramid ) in Memphis ' necropolis, Saqqara.

The later kings of the Fourth Dynasty were king Menkaure ( 2494 – 2472 BC ), who built the smallest pyramid in Giza, Shepseskaf ( 2472 – 2467 BC ) and, perhaps, Djedefptah ( 2486 – 2484 BC ).

In the version told to Stephens in 1840, the pyramid was magically built overnight during a series of challenges issued to a dwarf by the gobernador ( ruler or king ) of Uxmal, as part of a competing trial of strength and magic against the king orchestrated by the dwarf's mother ( a bruja, or witch ).