It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

During the reign of Wacho, they were Roman Catholics allied with the Byzantine Empire, but Alboin converted to Arianism as an ally of the Ostrogoths and invaded Italy.

Warwick and Margaret were previously sworn enemies, but Margaret's attendants ( in particular Sir John Fortescue, formerly Chief Justice during Henry VI's reign ) and Louis eventually persuaded her to ally the House of Lancaster with Warwick.

The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d ' Este, the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747.

He, along with his ally Wang Shuwen, was powerful during Emperor Shunzong's brief reign in 805, but soon lost power and died in exile.

Ludlow Castle is first referred to by chroniclers during a siege 1139 during the civil wars of the reign of King Stephen ; the king himself besieged the castle and rescued his ally Prince Henry of Scotland when the later was caught on a hook thrown by the garrison.

Throughout his reign, Brandenburg-Prussia remained a Habsburg ally and repeatedly deployed troops to fight against France.

* Tadukhepa, the daughter of his ally Tushratta of Mitanni, Around Year 36 of his reign.

Fifteen years later, Tushratta married his daughter to his ally Amenhotep III to cement their two states alliances in Year 36 of Amenhotep III's reign ( 1352 BC ).

In the quitclaim of Edward III of 1 March 1328 preceding the treaty Edward endorsed that the Anglo – Scottish border would be maintained as it was in the reign of Alexander III of Scotland and that Scotland, so defined, " shall belong to our dearest ally and friend, the magnificent prince, Lord Robert, by God's grace illustrious King of Scotland, and to his heirs and successors, separate in all things from the kingdom of England, whole, free, and undisturbed in perpetuity, without any kind of subjection, service, claim or demand.

A neighbour of Croatian Kingdom and Serbia ( Rascia ) as well as an ally of Bulgaria, he was nevertheless able to maintain independent rule throughout at least a good part of his reign.

In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign ( commonly dated between 926 and 917 BC ), Shishak swept through the kingdom of Judah with a powerful army, in support of his ally.

As the sole grand councillor throughout the rest of Shidebala's reign, Baiju became a powerful ally of Shidebala.

The Norse Dublin had, by the beginning of Áed's reign, become an important, if not very trustworthy, ally in the struggle for power in Míde.

During his short reign Butvydas tried to defend the duchy against the Teutonic Knights ; he also attacked Masovia, an ally of the knights.

At the opening of his reign, Liutprand's chief ally among neighboring rulers was the Agilolfing Theodo I, the Frankish duke of Bavaria.

During his early reign Scerdilaidas was an ally of Rome.

Erling thus became an important ally during the remaining four years of King Olav's reign.

During the reign of Pandya Parantaka Nedumjadaiyan ( 765 – 790 ), the Chera dynasty were a close ally of the Pallavas.

Sharaf al-Dawla's next planned to subdue the Kurd Badr ibn Hasanwaih, who had taken over Diyarbakr during Samsam al-Dawla's reign and was an ally of Fakhr al-Dawla.

Abd al-Rahman's alleged favorite son was his choice for successor, and would later be known as Hisham I. Abd ar-Rahman's progeny would continue to rule al-Andalus in the name of the house of Umayya for several generations, with the zenith of their power coming during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III.

After the reign of Augustus ' immediate successor Tiberius, being proclaimed imperator was transformed into the act of accession to the head of state.

He spent the last years of his reign in endeavours to secure a Catholic successor, thinking by this step to check the dissemination of Lutheran opinions.

In the reign of Philip's developmentally disabled son and successor Charles II ( 1665 – 1700 ), Spain was essentially left leaderless and was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.

His successor, Cleph, was also assassinated, after a ruthless reign of 18 months.

The Lombard reign began to recover only with Liutprand the Lombard ( king from 712 ), son of Ansprand and successor of the brutal Aripert II.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

The oldest existing part of the Palace ( Westminster Hall ) dates from the reign of William I's successor, King William II.

He was chosen successor of Pope Sixtus V ( 1585 – 1590 ) on 15 September 1590, but died of malaria ( 27 September 1590 ) before coronation, making his the shortest papal reign in history.

Meanwhile, in the south of Egypt, there was a long-standing revolt that had begun during the reign of Ptolemy IV, led by Horwennefer and by his successor Ankhwennefer.

The reign of his son and successor Seleucus IV Philopator ( 187-175 BC ) was largely spent in attempts to pay the large indemnity, and Seleucus was ultimately assassinated by his minister Heliodorus.

In the last years of Theodosius ' reign, one of the emerging leaders of the Goths, named Alaric, participated in Theodosius ' campaign against Eugenius in 394, only to resume his rebellious behavior against Theodosius ' son and eastern successor, Arcadius, shortly after Theodosius ' death.

During the reign of his successor Æthelwulf, a Danish army arrived in the Thames estuary but was decisively defeated.

His successor, the Hongxi Emperor ( reigned 1424 – 1425 ), decided to stop the voyages during his short reign.

The peaceful reign of Aldfrith, Ecgfrith's half-brother and successor, did something to limit the damage done, but it is from this point that Northumbria's power began to decline, and chronic instability followed Aldfrith's death in 704.

St Evaristus succeeded St Clement in the See of Rome during the reign of Trajan and governed the Church for about eight years, as the fourth successor of St. Peter.

He is the first of only five monarchs to reign in the Kingdom of England or its successor states for 50 years or more, the others being Edward III ( 1327 – 1377 ), George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Victoria ( 1837 – 1901 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1952 – present ).

In the reign of Amenhotep III's successor, Amenhotep IV, the Aten became the central god of Egyptian state religion, and Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten to reflect his close link with the new supreme deity.

Egyptian power in Canaan thus suffered a major setback when the Hittites ( or Hatti ) advanced into Syria in the reign of Amenhotep III, and became even more threatening in that of his successor, displacing the Amorites and prompting a resumption of Semitic migration.

Although his successor had been deposed, Nepos never returned to Italy ; however the " Emperor of the West " continued to reign from Dalmatia, and he still enjoyed the support of Constantinople.

The reign of his successor, Maria Theresa of Austria, marked the beginning of a flourishing era for the city.

During the reign of Glele, his successor ( 1858 – 89 ), the territory was ceded to France by a treaty signed on May 19, 1868.

Sociologist Shayne Lee commented that, " s Janet enters the twilight of her reign as erotic Queen of Pop, Beyoncé Knowles emerges as her likely successor.

The Bablyonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of Jehoiachin and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor Amel-Marduk ( Evil Merodach ) as 562 / 561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity according to 2 Kings 25: 27.

This date is consistent with the statement that Jotham of Judah began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC (), and that Jotham's successor Ahaz began to reign in his 17th year, 735 BC ().