After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.

These achievements granted the king the nickname of the African.

Finally, the two brothers made peace with the mediation of the Papal Legate Gregory, and the king granted rule of Croatia and Dalmatia again to his brother.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

Soon after this, the king granted Haman the Agagite, one of the most prominent princes of the realm, special honours.

* 1310 31 January – Gibraltar was granted its first Charter by the king Ferdinand IV of Castile.

Margaret Fell petitioned the king for his release, which was granted, but Fox felt too weak to take up his travels immediately.

Upon his succession he granted the baronage a Charter of Liberties, which linked his rule of law to the Anglo-Saxon tradition, forming a basis for subsequent limitations to the rights of English kings and presaged Magna Carta, which subjected the king to law.

The council granted remarkable position and deference granted to the king of the Visigoths.

Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons ' War ( 1263 – 67 ) against the king, using Kenilworth as the centre of his operations.

In, attributed to the time of the Persian Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter " to the governors beyond the river " requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.

Emperor Lothair III raised Pribislav to the status of a king in 1134, although Albert was granted control over the Northern March.

Thucydides and Plutarch say that Themistocles asked for a year's grace to learn the Persian language and customs, after which he would serve the king, and Artaxerxes granted this.

Winthrop has used the election to the society to gain access to the king, who has granted him a new charter uniting the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven.

* Rudravarman granted investiture by China as the first king of the fourth dynasty of Champa ( modern Vietnam ).

Odoacer generally used the Roman honorific patrician, granted by the Emperor Zeno, but is referred to as a king ( Latin rex ) in many documents and he himself used it at least once and on another occasion it was used by the consul Basilius.

Their request was granted, and a new king arrived with 200 young men.

( 11 ) Citizenship was granted to them both and it was ordered that five hundred iugera of land be granted to each of them too: for Sosis in the Land of Syracuse which had belonged either to the king or enemies of the Roman People, plus such a house in Syracuse that he desired belonging to anyone who had been punished according to the laws of war, ( 12 ): for Moericus and the Spaniards who had gone over with him, a city and land in Sicily belonging to those who had defected from the Roman People.

After the arrest of the Bishop of Pamiers by Philip IV in 1301, Pope Boniface VIII issued the bull Salvator Mundi, retracting all privileges granted to the French king by previous popes, and a few weeks later Ausculta fili with charges against the king, summoning him before a council to Rome.

The later Xuande Emperor granted Yeshes the title of a king upon a return visit to China, only he traveled to the new capital at Beijing.

Whether Magnus managed to defeat him in war or not, " you can never be called king in England, and you will never be granted any allegiance there before you put an end to my life.

Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons.

* Atlas, son of Poseidon and Cleito, the daughter of Evenor, king of Atlantis.

The last Assyrian city to fall was Harran in south east Anotolia, this city was also the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar.

In 294 BC, after forty-three years of semi-autonomy under Macedonian suzerainty, Ambracia was given by the son of Cassander to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who made it his capital, and adorned it with palace, temples and theatres.

He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotho, daughter of Theodoric the Great.

The older son, Gesalec, was chosen king but his reign was disastrous.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

He is the leader of the Trojans ' Dardanian allies, as well as a third cousin and principal lieutenant of Hector, son of the Trojan king Priam.

We do know that he was not expected to succeed to the throne after his brother king Agis II, largely due to the fact that he was crippled from birth, and since the latter had a son, named Leotychidas.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

Ajax () was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris.

Ajax or Aias ( or ; ) was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea, and king of Salamis.

At the Battle of Asfeld ( 552 ), he killed Turismod, son of the Gepid king Thurisind, in a victory that resulted in the Emperor Justinian's intervention to maintain equilibrium between the rival regional powers.

Alcmene was born to Electryon ( or Alcaeus, Perseus and Andromeda's son ), the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.

After the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred joined the group who tried to elevate Edgar the Ætheling, Edward the Exile's son, as king, but eventually he submitted to William the Conqueror at Berkhamsted.

Alexander II was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.

However, in 1116 the Annals of Ulster report: " Ladhmann son of Domnall, grandson of the king of Scotland, was killed by the men of Moray.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

* Alexander of Judaea, son of Aristobulus II, king of Judaea