In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

The supporters of Prince Carlos as king of Spain rose to have him enthroned.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

In France, England, and the Christian state in Spain, the king could overcome rebellions of his magnates and establish the power of his royal demesne because he could rely the Church, which, for several centuries, had given him a mystical authority.

He was killed in 1507 while fighting for the Navarrese king in the city of Viana, Spain.

* 1635 – Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain ( d. 1696 )

Incidentally by being king of Spain, he was also Roman ( Byzantine ) emperor in pretence through Andreas Palaiologos.

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

The Institutio principis Christiani ( Basel, 1516 ) ( Education of a Christian Prince ) was written as advice to the young king Charles of Spain, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Albornoz left Spain on the death of the king Alfonso XI in that year, and never returned.

In 587, the Visigothic king at Toledo, Reccared, converted to Catholicism and launched a movement in Spain to unify the various religious doctrines that existed in the land.

Charles V became king in 1516, and the history of Spain became even more firmly enmeshed with the dynastic struggles in Europe.

The king was not often in Spain, and as he approached the end of his life he made provision for the division of the Habsburg inheritance into two parts.

A major Franco-Spanish fleet was annihilated at the decisive Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, prompting the vacillating king of Spain to reconsider his alliance with France.

Two years of revolution and anarchy followed, until in 1870 the Cortes declared that Spain would again have a king.

Although England was an ally of Spain, one of France's principal enemies, the war was mostly about Henry's desire for personal glory, regardless of the fact that his sister Mary was married to the French king Louis XII.

In 1606, the king of Spain ordered all inhabitants of Hispaniola to move close to Santo Domingo, to avoid interaction with pirates.

Philip of Anjou was confirmed as Philip V, king of Spain ; Emperor Leopold did not get the throne, but Philip V was barred from inheriting France.

* 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.

In addition to the other conquests, the Empire established a presence in Visigothic Spain, when the usurper Athanagild requested assistance in his rebellion against king Agila I.

Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria.

At the request of the king, he wrote a letter to Pope Boniface on the debated subject of " The Three Chapters ".

In the third century AD, Flavius Philostratus wrote this: " For there is an ancient law in regard to the Red Sea, which the king Erythras laid down, when he held sway over that sea, to the effect that the Egyptians should not enter it with a vessel of war, and indeed should employ only a single merchant ship.

Andreas wrote for the court of the king of France, where Eleanor was not well-regarded.

He was imprisoned in Lancaster for five months, during which he wrote to the king offering advice on governance: Charles should refrain from war and domestic religious persecution, and discourage oath-taking, plays, and maypole games.

The latter then took up the usage according to which one who remained for 44 days under excommunication came under the penalties executed by the State, and wrote his De incarcerandis fedelibus, in which he demanded that it should be legal for the excommunicated to appeal to the king and his council against the excommunication ; in this writing he laid open the entire case and in such a way that it was understood by the laity.

Theodoret of Cyrus ( c. 393 – c. 457 ) wrote that Isaiah calls the king " morning star ", not as being the star, but as having had the illusion of being it.

While several individuals wrote biographies in the decades following the king's death, only Jean of Joinville, Geoffrey of Beaulieu, and William of Chartres wrote from personal knowledge of the king.

About 776 his brother Arichis had been carried as a prisoner to Francia, and when five years later the Frankish king visited Rome, Paul successfully wrote to him on behalf of the captive.

At this first French States-General in history, all three classes – nobles, clergy, and commons – wrote separately to Rome in defense of the king and his temporal power.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

The Virgilian commentator Servius wrote that the Teuti, or Pelops, the king of the Pisaeans, founded the town thirteen centuries before the start of the common era.

In 1969 Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer.

Postgate wrote Alexander the Mouse, a story about a mouse born to be king.

In a letter to the Spanish king, Cortés wrote that Tenochtitlan was as large as Seville or Córdoba.

In the song " Tricky Kid " from Pre-Millennium Tension, he wrote " As long as you're humble / Let you be the king of jungle.

A decade before the break the king wrote a book in defence of Catholic doctrine for which the Pope rewarded him with the title of Defender of the Faith, a title revoked by the Pope following Henry's break with Rome but still claimed and held by English and, after 1707, British monarchs after being bestowed on the monarch by Parliament.

As the king wrote to North in November 1774, " blows must decide whether they are to be subject to this country or independent ".

Similarly, a Hittite king wrote the so-called Tawagalawa letter to the Great King of Ahhiyawa, concerning the depredations of the Luwiyan adventurer Piyama-Radu.

The lord Charles of Bohemia his son, who wrote himself king of Almaine and bare the arms, he came in good order to the battle ; but when he saw that the matter went awry on their party, he departed, I cannot tell you which way.

Frederick's uncle, Otto, bishop of Freising wrote a biography entitled The Deeds of Frederick Barbarosa, which is considered to be an accurate history of the king.

Liebermann's more subtle position seems to be vindicated by testimony from abbot Ælfric of Eynsham, the leading homilist of the late 10th century, who wrote: No man can make himself king, but the people has the choice to choose as king whom they please ; but after he is consecrated as king, he then has dominion over the people, and they cannot shake his yoke off their necks.