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Samuel initially appointed his two sons as his successors ; however, the Israelites rejected them and insisted on having a king rule over them.
Furthermore, the late king had only insisted on that oath to protect the stability of the kingdom, and in light of the chaos that might now ensue, Stephen would be justified in ignoring it.
The king insisted on the payment of sound dues by all ships wishing to enter or leave the Baltic Sea passing through the Sound ; to help enforce his demands, he built a powerful fortress at the narrowest point in the Sound.
Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.
Henry acknowledged the necessity of marrying Elizabeth to secure the stability of his rule and weaken the claims of other surviving members of the House of York, but he insisted on being king due to a tenuous claim of inheritance from John of Gaunt, ruling in his own right, and not by his marriage to the heir of the House of York, and had no intention of sharing power.
When James II fled at the Glorious Revolution, William refused to accept the title of king consort ( which Philip II of Spain had been granted under Queen Mary I in the 1550s ) and insisted on being named King in his own right.
The king had virtually no influence over the course of the ongoing Peninsular War: Joseph's nominal command of French forces in Spain was mostly illusory, as the French commanders theoretically subordinate to King Joseph insisted on checking with Napoleon before carrying out Joseph's instructions.
Richard was evidently well aware of the threat from this quarter since in the summer of 1485, when Stanley sought permission to leave the court and return to his northern fastness of Lathom, the king insisted that his son, George Stanley, Lord Strange, take his place at court as a token for his father ’ s good behaviour.
His wife Amata wished his daughter Lavinia to be betrothed to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Faunus and the gods insisted that he give her instead to Aeneas ; Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas and was killed two weeks into the conflict.
However, he insisted Demetrius would become king, knowing that Rome would never tolerate a unified Hellenistic state, and the year after Ptolemy VI was killed when Alexander Balas made a last desperate attempt to regain his throne.
Furthermore, the late king had only insisted on that oath to protect the stability of the kingdom, and in light of the chaos that might now ensue, Stephen would be justified in ignoring it.
He insisted that he would accept the crown only if the Norwegian people expressed their will for monarchy by referendum and if the parliament then elected him king.
Philip insisted that John hand over Arthur of Brittany, Arthur's sister Eleanor, and renounce all of his continental possessions before the French king would make peace.
The crowd insisted that the king and his family move to Paris where they were installed in the Tuileries Palace.
When his half-brother Don John of Austria, a natural son of Philip IV, obtained power by exiling the queen mother from court, he covered his nose and insisted that the king at least brush his hair.
He also insisted that Ireland had no king, but simply used an external king as an organ in international affairs.
When he was elected king, the Great Powers extracted a pledge from Otto ’ s father to restrain him from hostile actions against the Ottoman Empire, and insisted on his title being that of “ King of Greece ” instead of “ King of the Greeks ”, which would imply a claim over the millions of Greeks then still under Turkish rule.
When General Kim informed the king of Admiral Yi's refusal, the admiral's enemies at court quickly insisted on his replacement by General Won Gyun, former commander of the Gyeongsang Province Western Fleet & Commander of the Jeolla Province Ground Forces.
The king was very fond of him and in 1578 insisted on taking him to Africa in the expedition against the king of Morocco.
When the queen learned of the young girl's fate, she became enraged and insisted that the king fetch the girl and install her as the living incarnation of Durga.
Under the new king, Louis XV's grandson, Louis XVI, radical financial reforms by his ministers, Turgot and Malesherbes, angered the nobles and were blocked by the parlements who insisted that the king did not have the legal right to levy new taxes.

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The only means left to them was to starve the burh into submission, but this allowed the king time to send assistance with his mobile field army or garrisons from neighbouring burhs.
At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.
Anacharsis to Croesus: O king of the Lydians, I am come to the country of the Greeks, in order to become acquainted with their customs and institutions ; but I have no need of gold, and shall be quite contented if I return to Scythia a better man than I left it.
In 1488 he was appointed Governor of the Netherlands ( until 1493 ) and marched with the imperial forces to free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at Bruges, and when, in 1489, the King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his representative to prosecute the war against the rebels.
The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.
Urukagina ( reigned c. 2380 BC – 2360 BC, short chronology ) had an early code that has not survived ; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( c. 2100-2050 BC ), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles.
The French Huguenot nobles and clergy, having rejected the pope and the Catholic Church, were left only with the supreme power of the king who, they taught, could not be gainsaid or judged by anyone.
Albornoz left Spain on the death of the king Alfonso XI in that year, and never returned.
He had left Naples due to tensions between the Angevin king and Florence.
In joint action with France, the Moroccan territory was recovered ( 1925 – 1927 ), but in 1930 bankruptcy and massive unpopularity left the king no option but to force Primo de Rivera to resign.
This occurred with the last Attalid king of Hellenistic Pergamon, who by testament left his realm to Rome to avoid a disastrous conquest.
The death of king Alexander III in 1286, and the death of his granddaughter and heir Margaret, Maid of Norway in 1290, left 14 rivals for succession.
The last of them became king of the Scythians, according to his father's arrangement, because he was the only one among the three brothers that was able to manage the bow which Heracles had left behind, and to use his father's girdle.
At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Damascus in the east for control of Gilead ; the Mesha stele ( c. 830 ), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the " House of Omri " ( i. e. Israel ).
Its last king, Casimir III, had left no legitimate son and considered his male grandchildren either unsuited or too young to reign.
The local Angevin nobles refused to advance with the king ; left at something of a disadvantage, John retreated back to La Rochelle.
Hugh III's authority on the mainland began to break down ; he was an unpopular king, and Beirut, the only territory left outside of Acre and Tyre, started to act independently.
The ordinatio imperii of Aachen left Bernard of Italy in an uncertain and subordinate position as king of Italy, and he began plotting to declare independence upon hearing of it.
After this, Pepin, though not a king, was the political ruler of the Frankish kingdom and left this position as a heritage to his sons.
Since the main object of the king in holding a national assembly was to collect money, the Church could not be left out and so they came to Parliament.
He maintained, but with less energy, the policies of his predecessor Nicholas I. Lothar II, king of Lotharingia, who died in 869, left Adrian to mediate between the Frankish kings with a view to assuring the Holy Roman Emperor Louis II the inheritance of Lothar II, Louis's brother.
The Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI expected to be succeeded by his infant son Frederick as king of Sicily, king of the Germans, and Roman Emperor, a combination that would have brought Germany, Italy, and Sicily under a single ruler and left the patrimonium exceedingly vulnerable.
The early death of Henry VI left his 4-year-old son Frederick II as king.
The king was required to appoint the tribune upon entering office and the tribune left office upon the king's death.

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