Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

In 1120, the young prince took the side of Paio Mendes da Maia, the Archbishop of Braga, a political foe of Theresa, and both were exiled by her orders.

The Kaiser took a mostly unilateral approach in Europe with as main ally the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and an arms race with Britain, which eventually led to the situation in which the assassination of the Austrian-Hungarian crown prince could spark off World War I.

John took a close interest in Wales and knew the country well, visiting every year between 1204 and 1211 and marrying his illegitimate daughter, Joan, to the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.

The Beneventan dukes took the title princeps ( prince ) instead of that of king.

According to a legend in the Northern Chronicles, in 903, a king of Tambralinga invaded and took Lavo and installed a Malay prince to the Lavo throne.

In 1120, the young prince took the side of the archbishop of Braga, a political foe of Teresa, and both were exiled by her orders.

For eighteen months, in 1410 – 11, Henry was in control of the country during his father's ill health, and he took full opportunity to impose his own policies, but when the king recovered, he reversed most of these and dismissed the prince from his council.

The Polish prince, took great care of the Hebrew Diaspora, as he understood its positive influence on the growth of the country ’ s economy.

Before long a pro-French party took shape among the nobility, urging that she should be replaced by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the closest male relative to the infant prince, and now third in line to the throne.

Romanus took sides in the murderous disputes among the legitimate and illegitimate children of Nubel, a Moorish prince and leading Roman client in Africa.

In 839, the prince of Benevento, Sicard, was assassinated by Radelchis I of Benevento, who took over the throne.

At the time, King Zhuāngxiāng of Qin was a prince of Qin blood, who took residence at the court of the State of Zhao as a hostage to guarantee an armistice between the two states.

The prince, whose first wife had been a daughter of a Scottish Duke, was an oceanographer and during his long journeys at sea, Alice took great interest in the Monegasque opera season.

Frederick II ( 1754 – 1816 ), a prince who modelled himself on Frederick the Great, took part in the war against France in defiance of the wishes of his people, and when the French again invaded and devastated the country he retired to Erlangen, where he remained until after the conclusion of the peace of Lunéville on 9 February 1801.

Jakob's eldest son, Ulrich, took over the business on his father's death, and in 1473 he provided new suits of clothes to Frederick, his son Maximilian I, and his suite on their journey to Trier to meet Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the betrothal of the young prince to Charles's daughter Maria.

The territory of Salerno was already Guiscard's ; in December 1076 he took the city, expelling its Lombard prince Gisulf, whose sister Sichelgaita he had married.

The partisans of Benserade were headed by the prince de Conti and Mlle de Scudéry, while Mme de Montausier and Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac took the side of Voiture.

Nevertheless, this rule had several exceptions in other countries: After the marriage of the then Archduchess Maria Theresa of the House of Habsburg in the 18th century to a Lorraine prince, her issue took the name Habsburg-Lorraine in order to closely associate themselves with the previous Habsburg dynasty.

The prince Francesco Pignatelli Strongoli took over the city and the fleet was burned.

For such a junior officer, Brummell took the regiment by storm, and the prince was fascinated and drawn by the force of his personality.

The methodical prince of Orange, the fiery Bernhard, the soldierly Cardinal de la Valette and the stubborn and astute Harcourt had each contributed much to the completeness of Turenne's training, and he took the field in 1644 prepared by genius and education for the responsibilities of high command.

The Duke, as a prince of the royal house, took the chief command of the united armies of " France " and " Weimar ".

The prince never took up residence, and the palace too was demolished in the 18th century.

One of his towns, Wawel ( now part of the city ), was chosen by the prince as his residence.

* Rhys's daughter Gwenllian ferch Rhys married Rhodri ab Owain, prince of the western part of Gwynedd.

* 1269 – King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire.

* King Otakar II of Bohemia inherits Carinthia and part of Carniola, making him the most powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire ; the empire lacking an emperor during the ongoing great interregnum, Otakar II is one of the most powerful men in Europe.

As part of the marriage agreement, the young prince received grants of land worth 15, 000 marks a year.

Around 972 the island became controlled by Poland, under prince Mieszko I, however, it has not been established if Wolin became part of Poland, or if it was a fief.

Taken by the Spanish in 1587 by the treachery of the English commander Rowland York, Zutphen was recovered by Maurice, prince of Orange, in 1591, and except for two short periods, one in 1672 and the other during the French Revolutionary Wars, it has since then remained a part of the Netherlands.

A serious breach with Russia followed, and the part which the prince subsequently played in encouraging the national aspirations of the Bulgarians widened that breach.

The Chinese guarded their knowledge of silk, but, according to one story, a Chinese princess given in marriage to a Khotan prince brought to the oasis the secret of silk-manufacture, " hiding silkworms in her hair as part of her dowry ", probably in the first half of the 1st century CE.

She cuts off part of her heel in order to get in her foot in the slipper, and again the prince is fooled.

While Władysław enjoyed the support of the Lesser Polish peasants, knights, and part of the clergy, who preferred a prince from the domestic Piast dynasty, he had to defer to Václav II of Bohemia, who had the support of the local lords.

During a ski vacation in Argentina, several photographs were taken of the prince and his family during the private part of their holiday ( including one by Associated Press staff photographer Natacha Pisarenko ) in spite of the media code, and after a photo op had earlier been provided.

As part of the circle around the prince, however, Gaveston also became entangled in conflicts between the king and his son.

After the death of the last Slav prince, Wizlaw III, in 1325, the principality was acquired by Pomerania-Wolgast as a consequence of the 1321 inheritance agreement ( Erbverbrüderung ), and from 1368 / 72-1451 was part of the estate of a branch line, the House of Barth.

In the Romanian medieval principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, voievode became part of the official titulature of the sovereign prince, showing his right to lead the entire army.

In the 9th century the region was part of the Slavic Balaton Principality ruled by prince Pribina, part of the Principality of Pannonian Croatia ruled by prince Ljudevit, and part of the Bulgarian Empire.

Oleg of Novgorod ( Slavic: Олег, Old Norse: Helgi ) was a Varangian prince ( or konung ) who ruled all or part of the Rus ' people during the early 10th century.