Although details of the negotiations are lacking, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn swore loyalty to King Edward, but the oath may not have had any obligations on Gruffydd's part to Edward.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

The popular General Lafayette, as captain of the National Guard of Paris and confidant of the king, took his oath to the constitution, followed by the King Louis XVI.

The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority (" by the lance ") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority (" by ring and staff "); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty.

On 14 July 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the Champ de Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille with the Fête de la Fédération ; Talleyrand performed a mass ; participants swore an oath of " fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king "; the King and the royal family actively participated.

Early on, the King vetoed legislation that threatened the émigrés with death and that decreed that every non-juring clergyman must take within eight days the civic oath mandated by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

On the night the twins Heracles and Iphicles were to be born, Hera, knowing of her husband Zeus ' adultery, persuaded Zeus to swear an oath that the child born that night to a member of the House of Perseus would become High King.

Early on, the King vetoed legislation that threatened the émigrés with death and that decreed that every non-juring clergyman must take within eight days the civic oath mandated by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

Col. Monk, though a hero to the restoration of King Charles II, was also treacherously disloyal to the Long Parliament, to his oath to the present Parliament, and the old republican cause.

In January 1215, the barons made an oath that they would " stand fast for the liberty of the church and the realm ", and they demanded that King John confirm the Charter of Liberties, from what they viewed as a golden age.

He saw it as an affront to the Church's authority over the King and the ' papal territories ' of England and Ireland, and he released John from his oath to obey it.

He spent most of his father's treasury ( filled with money raised by the Saladin tithe ), raised taxes, and even agreed to free King William I of Scotland from his oath of subservience to Richard in exchange for marks.

In August 1296, Bruce and his father swore fealty to Edward I of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed, but in breach of this oath, which had been renewed at Carlisle, the younger Robert supported the Scottish revolt against King Edward in the following year.

The King is proclaimed by the Cortes Generales — the Parliament — and must take oath to carry out his duties faithfully, to obey the constitution and all laws and to ensure they are obeyed, and to respect the rights of the citizens, as well as the rights of the autonomous communities.

The oath of office used is: " I swear / promise to faithfully carry out the duties of the position of president of the Government with loyalty to the King ; to obey and enforce the Constitution as the fundamental law of the State, as well as to keep in secret the deliberations of the Council of Ministers ".

However King George III blocked emancipation, arguing that to grant it would break his coronation oath to defend the Anglican Church.

According to the Norman writer William of Jumieges, William had meanwhile sent an embassy to King Harold Godwinson, reminding Harold of his oath to support William's claim, although whether this embassy actually occurred is unclear.

* July 17 – King Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium.

* May 11 – The Killing Time: Five Covenanters in Wigtown, Scotland, notably Margaret Wilson, are executed for refusing to swear an oath declaring King James of England, Scotland and Ireland as head of the church, becoming the ' Wigtown martyrs '.

The King of Brittany takes the oath to the King of France ( but not an hommage lige which would be an allegiance ).

* March 4 – King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.

* February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe for allegedly refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.

His first episcopal act was to absolve the King, who swore that unjust laws should be repealed and the liberties granted by Henry I should be observed — an oath which he almost immediately violated.

Only Ferdinand II of Aragon broke the oath, after his kingdom had been merged with the Kingdom of Castile, and was buried in Granada.

A Union of Czech Deputies had already sworn an oath to a new Czechoslovak state independent of the Habsburg Empire on 13 April 1918, the prestige of the German Army had taken a severe blow at the Battle of Amiens, and, on 25 September 1918, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria broke away from his allies in the Central Powers and sued for peace independently.

He was freed after he swore an oath of allegiance to Ferdinand and Isabella.

In April 1833 Ferdinand called upon Carlos to take an oath of allegiance to Isabella as Princess of Asturias, the title traditionally used by the heir-apparent to the throne.

The officers took their oath of office before President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

Due to the exceptional political circumstances culminating in the People Power Revolution, on February 25, 1986, Corazon Aquino took her oath of office as President before then Associate Justice Claudio Teehankee in San Juan just minutes before Ferdinand Marcos took his own oath of office also as President before Chief Justice Ramon Aquino.

The officers took their oath of office before President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

" The enlargements included an oath which became known as the " Oath of Abjuration ":

To alter the pronunciation or spelling of a taboo word ( such as a swear word ) to form a euphemism is known as taboo deformation, or " minced oath ".

Some chronicles mentioned a fidelity oath of some lords of Aquitaine on the occasion of Eleanor's fourteenth birthday in 1136 ; this and her known age of 82 at her death makes 1122 her likely year of birth.

Odin kept his oath and granted victory to the Winnili ( now known as the Lombards ), and eventually saw the wisdom of Frea's choice.

Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding.

Julius also convened a general council ( that afterwards was known as the Fifth Council of the Lateran ) to be held at Rome in 1512, which, according to an oath taken on his election, he had bound himself to summon, but which had been delayed, he affirmed, because of the occupation of Italy by his enemies.

These acts, known collectively as the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, made it compulsory to attend church services every Sunday ; and imposed an oath on clergymen and statesmen to recognise the Church of England, the independence of the Church of England from the Catholic Church, and the authority of Elizabeth as Supreme Governor.

* July 17 – Twelve Christian inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage ( also in North Africa ) ( known as the Scillitan Martyrs ) – they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.

The Pythagorean oath by the Tetrad is well known.

" The long line of abandoned plantations was then leased by the army and treasury agents to carpetbaggers and to southerners who took the oath of allegiance ( known as scalawags ).

In his examinations he refused to take the oath known as the ' ex-officio ' oath ( on the ground that he was not bound to incriminate himself ), and thus called in question the court's usual procedure.

828 Makaram 3 ) and made an oath that is known as the Great Oath of Bent Cross.

Finrod swore an oath of friendship to Barahir and his kin, and as a token for this he gave Barahir a ring which became known as the " Ring of Barahir ", and was handed down the family line.

An immediate result of this Act, over 2, 000 clergymen refused to take the oath and were expelled from the Church of England in what became known as the Great Ejection of 1662.

At his Accession Council on 12 December 1936, moreover, King George VI announced, in the allocution usually given by the monarch just before taking the oath relating to the security of the Church of Scotland, that he would create his brother Duke of Windsor, and that he wished him to be known as His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor.

In company with the Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant, he proceeded to Dublin, and took the oath as chief secretary at the Castle, Dublin, on 6 May 1882 ; but on the afternoon of the same day, while walking in the Phoenix Park in company with Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Under-Secretary, he was attacked from behind by several men from an extreme Irish nationalist group known as the Irish National Invincibles, who with knives murdered Mr. Burke and himself.

When the young Dax is murdered by an alien known as " The Albino ", Curzon joins Kang, Kor and Koloth ( whose firstborns have also been murdered by Albino ) in their oath of blood vengeance.

He is also widely known as Tang Seng (), which is a courtesy name that, like the former name ( Tang Sanzang ), reflects his status as an oath brother of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

The first known usage to date of “ yaller dog ” in relation to Democrats occurred in the 1900 Kentucky gubernatorial contest involving Kentucky Governor William Goebel, who killed a man, exploited the split Democratic Party in Kentucky, and was assassinated in 1900 — he was shot in the chest the day before being sworn into office, and died two days after taking the oath of office.

Although these settlers, known as " late-Loyalists ," were required to take an oath of allegiance to the Crown in order to obtain land, their fundamental political allegiances were always considered dubious.

They were to execute justice, to enforce respect for the royal rights, to control the administration of the military dukes and administrative counts ( then still royal officials ), to receive the oath of allegiance, to let the king's will be known, at times by distributing capitularies, and to supervise the conduct and work of the clergy.

This room, the largest in the Palace today, is also known as the Ballroom, used for state dinners and large assemblies, notably the mass oath takings of public officials begun by President Ramos.