As mentioned above, the king and ( with two exceptions ) the prime minister of Prussia were also the emperor and chancellor of the empire – meaning that the same rulers had to seek majorities from legislatures elected from completely different franchises.

In the first book, concerned with the government of God and the Ten Commandments, he attacked the temporal rule of the clergy – in temporal things the king is above the pope, and the collection of annates and indulgences is simony.

Grimm was selected for the office in a large part because of his part in the University of Goettingen's refusal to swear to the king of Hanover expounded upon above.

John's predecessors had ruled using the principle of vis et voluntas, or " force and will ", taking executive and sometimes arbitrary decisions, often justified on the basis that a king was above the law.

The king was aware of the escape of these Hungarians on the above mentioned occasions, and was determined to trap them.

During her father's reign Melisende was styled as daughter of the king and heir of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and took precedence above other nobles and Christian clergy in ceremonial occasions.

His story was immediately famous and he became the augur of the king ( see above the episode with king Tarquinius narrated by Livy ).

The king, who liked a more bourgeois lifestyle than his forefather Louis XIV, found in the private apartments of the marquise de Pompadour, located above his own office and bedchamber, the intimacy and reassuring feminine presence of which he had been deprived during his childhood.

* in Vietnam's Annamite realm / empire, hau ( Hán tự: 侯 ) was a senior title of hereditary nobility, equivalent to marquis, for male members of the imperial clan, ranking under vuong ( king ), quoc-cong ( grand duke ), quan-cong ( duke ) and cong ( prince, but here under duke, rather like a German Fürst ), and above ba ( count ), tu ( viscount ), nam ( baron ) and vinh phong ( no equivalent ).

Ælfweard, Edward's eldest son by Ælfflæd, had ranked above Æthelstan in attesting a charter in 901, and Edward may have intended Ælfweard to be his successor as king, either of Wessex only or of the whole kingdom.

" While he declares the absolute authority of rulers, he emphasizes the fact that kings must use their power only for the public good and that the king is not above the law " for if he sins, he destroys the laws by his example.

The above information is derived from Bede, but Hlothhere is the earliest Kentish king for whom genuine charters survive.

There were also accusations of disrespect to the king in his choice of warcry for his company (' God aids the Marshal ') and the way his men trumpeted his fame above the king's.

The neighboring Salle des Gardes was used as an antechamber to the Great Hall immediately above, where the king held his lit de justice ( a session of parliament in the king's presence ).

Pausanias ( 1. 12. 4 ) writes that during the reign of Aras, the first earth-born king of Sicyonian land, Asopus, said to be son of Poseidon by Celusa ( this Celusa otherwise unknown but possibly identical to Pero mentioned above?

* Triopas, king of Argos, son of Phorbas ( not the same as the son of the above Triopas ).

Liver advanced a second reason to favor the 825 date, related to the inscription of Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria, mentioned above, where it was mentioned that philological studies have equated this Ba ’ li-manzer with Balazeros ( Baal-Eser II ), grandfather of Pygmalion.

As James ( 1969 ) notes, Varuna attained the position of " universal Power par excellence maintaining Ṛta " and is celebrated as having " separated and established heaven and earth, spreading them out as the upper and lower firmaments, himself enthroned above them as the universal king, ordering the immutable moral law, exercising his rule by the sovereignty of Ṛta.

Joinville speaks almost as much about himself as he does about the king, the subject of his book, but he does it in such a natural manner that he never gives the impression that he wants to place himself above the king.

In all the above types of problem, castling is assumed to be allowed unless it can be proved by retrograde analysis ( see below ) that the rook in question or king must have previously moved.

A king with reproach above his head ; alas for Scotland during his short time!

* The " skip " card mentioned above in the general rules is typically any jack ; the " reverse " card mentioned above is typically a king.

Do you want to drive the king of England from all his overseas possessions ''??

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

Popes and sovereigns gradually encroached on the rights of the monks, until in Italy the pope had usurped the nomination of all abbots, and the king in France, with the exception of Cluny, Premontré and other houses, chiefs of their order.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

In the mid-6th century, the Byzantine historian Agathias of Myrina records, in the context of the wars of the Goths and Franks against Byzantium, that the Alemanni fighting among the troops of Frankish king Theudebald were like the Franks in all respects except religion, since

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

In all events, Ealdred and Harold were close, and Ealdred supported Harold's bid to become king.

But the sudden death of the king dashed all such hopes.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

The French newspaper Le Figaro described the young king as " the happiest and best-loved of all the rulers of the earth ".

" In Chapter 48 Ambrosius Aurelianus is described as " king among all the kings of the British nation ".

Although the legislation was not retrospective, five years later the Athenians removed 5000 from the citizen registers when a free gift of grain arrived for all citizens from an Egyptian king.

" He was probably responsible for an assize making all rear-vassals directly subject to the king and eligible to appear at the Haute Cour.

In the aftermath of Mycale, the Spartan king Leotychides had proposed transplanting all the Greeks from Asia Minor to Europe as the only method of permanently freeing them from Persian dominion.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

The king, enraged, shut up the whole family in one of the halls of the Alhambra, and ordered the Zergis to kill them all.

" The frolic went all over England ," says Roger North ; and the addresses of the Abhorrers which reached the king from all parts of the country formed a counterblast to those of the Petitioners.

Later, Ash is at the S-Mart store telling a male co-worker ( Ted Raimi ) all about his adventure back in time, and how he could have been king.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.