Four-fifths of the cost for the venture was paid for by noble lords, who were among the most powerful men in England: the Earl of Orford, The Baron of Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury and Sir John Somers.

By September the Imperial forces under the Duke of Lorraine, together with a powerful Polish army under King John III Sobieski, were poised to strike the Sultan's army investing Vienna.

When the Salian dynasty ended with Henry V's death in 1125, the princes chose not to elect the next of kin, but rather Lothair, the moderately powerful but already old Duke of Saxony.

Louis VII was once a very powerful monarch and was now facing a much stronger vassal, who was his equal as King of England and his strongest prince as Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine.

Renewed Catholic reaction – headed by the powerful Francis, Duke of Guise – led to a massacre of Huguenots at Vassy in 1562, starting the first of the French Wars of Religion, during which English, German, and Spanish forces intervened on the side of rival Protestant and Catholic forces.

Elisabeth was childless, and in 1440 made a treaty with her powerful neighbour Philip III, Duke of Burgundy that Philip would administer the duchy and inherit it after the Duchess Elisabeth's death.

By the time Henry conducted another Protestant marriage with his final wife Catherine Parr in 1543, the old Roman Catholic advisers, including the powerful third Duke of Norfolk had lost all their power and influence.

* June 20 – The powerful Fernando II, Duke of Braganza is executed in Portugal, followed by more than 80 other noblemen, for his plot against the Royal crown.

Following the death of John of Bavaria in 1425, van Eyck entered the service of the powerful and influential Valois prince, Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.

The Duke of York was powerful ; Henry's advisors corrupt ; Henry himself trusting, pliable, and increasingly unstable ; Margaret defiantly unpopular, grimly and gallantly determined to maintain the English crown for her progeny.

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, was even more powerful than the King of France, and made Lille an administrative and financial capital.

However, the latter made no recorded effort to entrench his grand-nephew's position as heir to a throne which was being eyed by a range of powerful potential contenders including England's leading aristocrat Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and the foreign rulers William, Duke of Normandy, Sweyn II Estrithson, King of Denmark and Harald Hardrada, King of Norway.

She was the daughter of a chief agent of the powerful Pâris family of financiers who became embroiled in the intrigue that ousted the Duke of Bourbon as head of the Regency council in favour of Cardinal de Fleury.

Anne reacted very differently to the two powerful favourites who dominated the second half of her husband's English reign, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and George Villiers, the future Duke of Buckingham.

There are examples of Duke as a subsidiary title, granted to the most powerful noble Houses:

The rulers include Duke Eltan, leader of the Flaming Fist, Belt, a powerful warrior and divine spellcaster, Liia Jannath, a mage, and Entar Silvershield, the richest man in Baldur's Gate, but also a strong warrior in his own right.

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland ( c. 1379 – 13 November 1440 ) was the third or fourth child ( and only daughter ) of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford ; and, in her widowhood, a powerful landowner in the North of England.

For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.

He married his eldest daughter, Joan to the powerful Odo IV, bringing the Duke over to his own party.

An executor of Henry VIII's will and the recipient of valuable grants of land, Herbert was a prominent and powerful personage during the reign of Edward VI, both the protector Somerset and his rival, John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, angling for his support.

* Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton ( 1698 – 1731 ), powerful Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake

Each married powerful lay vassals of their father: Emma of France ( 894 – 935 ) to Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy, and Hildebranda ( 895 – 931 ) to Herbert II of Vermandois.

The office became hereditary in the family of the Pippinids with powerful mayors of the palace such as Charles Martel, who proclaimed himself Duke of the Franks, and for the last four years of his reign did not even bother with the façade of a King.

1330 she was married to John-Henry ( later became the margrave of Moravia ), who she repudiated with the help of the Tyrolean aristocracy in order to marry Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, a member of the powerful Wittelsbach dynasty.

Margarete Maultasch decided to bequeathe Tyrol to Duke Rudolph IV of the House of Habsburg, probably pressed by the aristocracy, an act which caused a conflict between Meinhard's uncle Stephen II, who forged an alliance with the powerful Lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti to invade Tyrol, and the House of Habsburg.

Education is by some included in social media, and in this sense it could eventually be used as a powerful mean to introduce in individuals some " politically useful " concepts: what a man learns in his youth, in the phasis in which the fundaments of character are created ( which many believe will seldom greatly vary after ), is brought to him by family, schools and other clubs, and mass media.

Rātā hides himself, learns their incantations, and recites a more powerful spell called Titikura.

Later on, The Nameless One learns from a powerful sorcerer named Lothar that the night hag Ravel Puzzlewell caused his immortality, but the hag is currently imprisoned in a magical maze by the Lady of Pain.

This proves to be detrimental to Richard and Jean-Claude in Obsidian Butterfly, where she learns from a powerful vampire in New Mexico that it weakens all three of them.

However, the Doctor learns that the old shaft leads to a convergence point between the North and South Magnetic Poles and deduces that, if the bomb were deflected down this path, the explosion's magnetic energy would be powerful enough to suck the metal Daleks into the core of the Earth.

The party learns that the only way to defeat Dhaos is by using magic, but neither Cress nor Mint can practice the magical arts — only elves and half-elves can use the powerful spells.

When he learns that Sheridan is missing, he calls in Sheridan's old ship, the powerful Omega-Class destroyer Agamemnon, to assist with the search.

After Presteign learns of Olivia and Foyle being in cahoots, he suffers an epileptic seizure and babbles that PyrE is the most powerful explosive ever created.

That is until he finds himself in the small lumber town of Fairplay, California where he learns that love is more powerful than hate and redemption more valuable than gold.

After learning more about the " Project 7 ", Ryan executes the suffering woman, where he arrives at the Dreamweb, where he learns the remaining two are growing more powerful with the death of the members.

The Hero can use the best equipment, and is the only character who can learn lightning spells and the most powerful healing spell in the game, Omniheal ( originally localized as HealUsAll ), in the DS remake, the Hero also learns Gigasword, the game's most powerful single target attack spell.

Freeman quickly learns that Earth has been conquered and occupied by the trans-dimensional Combine empire, with a military force powerful enough to have subdued the entirety of Earth's nations within a period of 7 hours.

The Nomad Soul learns afterwards that what is going on in Omikron is merely an extension of a thousands-of-years-old battle between mankind and demons led by the powerful Astaroth.

Pretending to inquire about renting a surfboard, George learns that beyond a certain point are powerful currents that can sweep a swimmer or surfer dangerously far from land.

Lestat's blood is powerful ; Mona learns this quickly and discovers that she can easily dispatch inferior vampires with the powerful gifts that Lestat's potent blood has bestowed upon her.

Talking to his parents, who also possess his ability, he learns he is far more powerful than they or probably anyone else at the colony.

In his quest, being a powerful Vampire, he must learn to conquer his dark side and gain experience with his new powers ( Vampiric disciplines, similar to spells ) to fight against a world of darkness that unfolds before him, as he learns more about this new world he is now a part of, while struggling to maintain his Humanity and the faith he once had as a holy knight.

Her nervousness and panic during her first use of the powerful weapon result in a portion of Earth's Space Ring being obliterated, but it becomes a potent tool once she learns to control it.

Upon his arrival, Jack learns that the Dillontown Nine have scheduled a game against the powerful Chicago White Stockings, with the town's fortune hanging in the balance.

It is there that Vincent learns the real mastermind in the plot against his uncle is Licio Lucchesi, a powerful Italian political figure.

In the course of investigating the mystery, the player learns new, powerful spells that must be used in novel ways.

Through the Covenants ' journals and Galloway's own memories, the player learns more about the nature of the curse and the creature behind it: The Undying King, a powerful demonic presence threatening to destroy the reality we inhabit.