Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area.

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.

Also, his son-in-law Louis VI the Roman of Bavaria, Margrave and Prince-elector of Brandenburg, was thought as a possible successor as king of Poland.

" Haman thought the king meant himself, so he said that the man should wear a royal robe and be led on one of the king's horses through the city streets proclaiming before him, " This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!

(...) and when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permission to exercise their usurped privileges.

Enguerrand demanded judgment by his peers and trial by battle which was refused by the king because Louis thought it obsolete.

As the sun was thought to spend the night in the underworld, and subsequently be re-incarnated, Ptah-Seker-Osiris was identified as both king of the underworld, and god of reincarnation.

The beasts and fowl of their own accord entered the kitchen of Solomon's palace, so that they might be used as food for him, and extravagant meals for him were prepared daily by each of his 700 wives and 300 concubines, with the thought that perhaps the king would feast that day in her house.

Paintings such as The Baptism of Vajk ( 1875 ) by Gyula Benczúr and many statues representing the king all over Hungary testify to Stephen's importance in Hungarian national thought.

* 11 January-Workers in a sandpit in the Dauphiné discover the skeleton of what is to be alleged to be a 30-foot tall man, the remains, it is thought, of the giant Teutobochus, a legendary Gallic king who fought the Romans.

Known as " king cheetahs ," they were once thought to constitute a separate subspecies but are in fact African cheetahs ; their unusual fur pattern is the result of a single recessive gene.

The treaty stipulations regarding Alsace were Byzantine and confusing ; it is thought that this was purposely so that neither the French king nor the German emperor could gain tight control, but that one would play off the other, thereby assuring Alsace some measure of autonomy.

Queen Mary disapproved of divorce, which was against the teaching of the Anglican Church, and thought Mrs. Simpson wholly unsuitable to be the wife of a king.

The pairing of the monkish Louis VII and the high-spirited Eleanor was doomed to failure ; she once reportedly declared that she had thought to marry a king, only to find she'd married a monk.

As a younger brother of Edward, Prince of Wales ( Edward, the Black Prince ), John exercised great influence over the English throne during the minority of his nephew, Richard II, and during the ensuing periods of political strife, but was not thought to have been among the opponents of the king.

The king, who was bleeding, remained calm and called for a confessor as he thought he would die.

The name is a tribute to an Gentius, an Illyrian king who was thought to have found out that the herbs had tonic properties.

The rioters thought they were acting legally, since the king had issued a proclamation against illegal enclosures.

The Basilisk, the venomous " king of serpents " with the glance that kills, was hatched by a serpent, Pliny the Elder and others thought, from the egg of a cock.

According to the Dēnkard, a semi-religious work written in the 9th century, the king Volgash ( thought to be the Parthian king Vologases I, c. 51 – 78 AD ) attempted to have the sacred texts collected and collated.

But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.

Yima is believed to have been the first king on earth to rule, as well as the first man to die.

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.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

Naram-Sin also recorded the Akkadian conquest of Ebla as well as Armanum and its king.

This meant not only that the king had retained the loyalty of ealdormen, royal reeves and king ’ s thegns ( who were charged with levying and leading these forces ), but that they had maintained their positions of authority in these localities well enough to answer his summons to war.

They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos ’ first wife.

That he was highly respected by the Gentiles as well as by the Jews of Babylonia is proved by the friendship which existed between him and the last Parthian king, Artaban ( Avodah Zarah 10b ).

The rest of the episode revolves around Blackadder's attempts to save the king, as well as improve his standing.

It happened so well for him, that he was next to the king when they were about to take him: he stept forth into the press, and by strength of his body and arms he came to the French king and said in good F ' rench, ' Sir, yield you.

Later king Olof met him there as well during his last trip in 852 ( Chapter XXVI ).

First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

Scholars arguing that Duncan attends the banquet state that Macbeth's lines to the Ghost could apply equally well to the slain king.

Key card variants are defined by a particular " key " suit and enable counting the trump king and queen, as well as aces and kings.

Cambridge is also the birthplace of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ), who is the world's longest reigning monarch at age 82 ( 2010 ), as well as the longest reigning monarch in Thai history.

He is depicted as a righteous king, though not without faults, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician, and poet, traditionally credited for composing many of the psalms contained in the Book of Psalms.

It is quite plausible that the king ’ s personal banner as well as the leading banner of the army were both lost, as the battle was led by the King himself.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

Consequently, the influence of religious leaders as well as that of Mahmud Tarzi, a cousin of the king, increased during his reign.

The king also issued a second edict allowing the Jews to arm themselves, and kill not only their enemies but also their enemies ' wives and children, as well as partake of the plunder ().

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.