In 1069, when the northern thegns rebelled against William and attempted to install Edgar the Ætheling as king, Ealdred continued to support William.

The visions describe the national crisis that occurred under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid king who attempted to introduce Hellenistic religious practices, including the worship of idols, into the temple and the Jewish religion more generally, sparking outrage from Biblical authors.

Significant wars were fought in Britain, where his general Agricola attempted to conquer Caledonia ( Scotland ), and in Dacia, where Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against king Decebalus.

* 1506-Alleging a false donation by the king Philip I of Castile, the Duke of Medina Sidonia attempted to recover Gibraltar by besieging the town.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

Oldcastle escaped from the Tower of London and organized an insurrection, which included an attempted kidnapping of the king.

In 1206, a Danish army led by king Valdemar II and Andreas, the Bishop of Lund landed on Saaremaa and attempted to establish a stronghold without success.

In 1222, the Danish king Valdemar II attempted the second conquest of Saaremaa, this time establishing a stone fortress housing a strong garrison.

Otto became a friend of Richard I of England, who attempted to make him Earl of York in 1190, and, through marriage with Margaret, king of Scotland.

Gregory attempted to remain on good diplomatic terms with the Lombards, and especially with their king, Liutprand.

Next, he attempted to turn the Lombard king and dukes against the pope, but they retained their ambivalent stance, not committing one way or the other.

To prevent Richard from spoiling their plans, Philip and John attempted to bribe the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI to keep the English king captive for a little while longer.

Realizing his isolated position, More attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath declaring the king the Supreme Head of the English Church " as far as the law of Christ allows ".

His governments, with little help from the king, presided over victory in the Napoleonic Wars, negotiated the peace settlement, and attempted to deal with the social and economic malaise that followed.

The end of the Viking Age is traditionally marked in England by the failed invasion attempted by the Norwegian king Harald III ( Haraldr Harðráði ), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171 ; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III.

By doing so, the king attempted to preempt any dispute after his death and legitimize his line on the throne of Georgia.

In January 1349, Wittelsbach partisans attempted to secure the election of Günther von Schwarzburg as king, but he attracted few supporters and died unnoticed and unmourned after a few months.

His cousin Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, initially claimed regency over the young king and attempted to seize the throne for himself in 984.

The king attempted to perform it, but since he executed the rite improperly the god threw a lightning bolt which burned down of the king's house and killed Tullus.

Hungary was under a growing threat from the Ottoman Empire, and some Polish magnates did not want to agree to the king of Poland also being the monarch of Hungary, while Elisabeth, widow of the deceased King of Hungary, Albert II of Germany, attempted to keep the crown for her yet unborn child.

Ziying, seeing that increasing unrest was growing among the people and that many local officials had declared themselves kings, attempted to cling to his throne by declaring himself one king among all the others.

On 27 September 1567, in a swoop known as the Surprise of Meaux, Huguenot forces attempted to ambush the king, triggering renewed civil war.

The king attributed his son ’ s preferences to his strong attachment to Piers Gaveston, a Gascon knight, and Edward I exiled Gaveston from court after Prince Edward attempted to bestow on his friend a title reserved for royalty.

In 1291, he attempted to secure the election of his son Albert as German king.

He traveled to Sicily in 1137 to convince the king of Sicily to follow Innocent.

The ruse was successful: Montagu, who was monitoring Edward's march, could not convince his men to move against the Yorkist king.

Ichadon prophesied to the king that at his execution a wonderful miracle would convince the opposing court faction of Buddhism's power.

A more productive achievement on the diplomatic front was to convince king Theodoric to intervene, conducted chiefly by two non-Roman supporters, the Milanese deacon Ennodius and the exiled deacon Dioscorus.

After Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would be handed over to the Babylonian army, the king ’ s officials, including Pashur the priest, tried to convince King Zedekiah that Jeremiah should be put to death because he was discouraging the soldiers as well as the people.

He uses Pentheus ' clear desire to see the ecstatic women to convince the king to dress as a female Maenad to avoid detection and go to the rites:

Ichadon prophesied to the king that at his execution a wonderful miracle would convince the opposing court faction of Buddhism's power.

After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy.

Instead Baldwin joined others in trying to convince the East Frankish king Arnulf to also take the west Frankish crown, but Arnulf declined.

When it became clear that Yi Bang-won was the most worthy successor to the throne, Jeong Do-jeon used his influence on the king to convince him that the wisest choice would be in the son that Taejo loved most, not the son that Taejo felt was best for the kingdom.

After Northumberland was unable to convince his cousin, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex to support further peace negotiations with the royalists, he retired to his estates at Petworth ( unlike other " peace lords ", who joined the king at Oxford at this time ).

De Monet manages to convince the king that he needs to go into hiding and that they will need a stand-in to pretend to be him.

However, in 1680 Sweden ’ s first era of absolute monarchy was ushered in as the Swedish king Charles XI managed to convince the Diet, ( the Riksdag of the Estates, an early form of Swedish Parliament ) to declare the king " a Christian ruler with absolute power to rule his kingdom at his discretion ".

At midnight, Alfonso Armada presented himself in Congress with a dual objective: to convince Lieutenant Colonel Tejero to relinquish his posture and assume himself the role of head of government under the order of the king, in a clearly unconstitutional manner.

They were able to convince Atahualpa's generals not to attack by threatening to kill their king if they did.

Aillas journeys to South Ulfland where he attempts to convince the fiercely independent barons to accept his rule as king.

Curthose's return to England in 1103 was apparently made to convince his brother, the king, to restore William's earldom.

Instead, Cinq-Mars pressed the king for important favours and tried to convince the king to have Richelieu executed.

The commission tried to convince the king to accept Langton, but eventually in March 1208, they pronounced an interdict on England because of John's refusal to accept Langton.

Mayor Grimoald, the son of Pepin, managed to convince the king to adopt his son Childebert.

* Siaburchapat Con Culaind (" Cúchulainn's Phantom Chariot ": a tale of Saint Patrick, who raises Cúchulainn from hell to convince king Lóegaire to convert to Christianity, contains passages interpolated by H )

Laurentius was only forced from his position when a diplomatic effort to convince king Theodoric to intervene succeeded.