During the short reigns of the older two of his three elder brothers, Æthelbald of Wessex and Æthelberht of Wessex, Alfred is not mentioned.

His two successors were Ibrahim ibn Tashfin and Ishaq ibn Ali, but their reigns were short.

The two reigns of this one woman spanned the years from 642 through 661.

The consolidation in the 14th century laid the base for, after the reigns of two members of the Angevin dynasty, the new powerful Kingdom of Poland that was to follow.

This wealth was shown by the many monuments that were particularly imposing considering the relatively small size of the urban area: the forum, laid out in two terraces on both sides of the main road, was constructed in several phases between the reigns of Claudius and Antoninus Pius, and the theatre was enlarged and expanded in order to hold Roman games.

After about 1610, the new hybrid sub-genre of the tragicomedy enjoyed an efflorescence, as did the masque throughout the reigns of the first two Stuart kings, James I and Charles I.

On 24 April 1950 the Jordan House of Deputies and House of Notables formally annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem, declaring " complete unity between the two sides of the Jordan and their union in one state ... at whose head reigns King Abdullah Ibn al Hussain ".

Ahhotep I, lauded as a warrior queen, may have been a regent between the reigns of two of her sons, Kamose and Ahmose I, at the end of the seventeenth dynasty and the beginning of Hatshepsut's own eighteenth dynasty.

Gondor began to decline during the reigns of Atanatar and his two sons, who lived in ease and luxury, doing little to maintain Gondor's strength.

The sum of his two reigns, 45 years and 21 days, is the longest in modern Spanish history.

Buddhist influence at court increased under the two reigns of Shōmu's daughter.

( 1971 )-Bolt's most successful show after A Man for All Seasons, a historical account of the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I of England, comparing and contrasting the personalities and reigns of the two female rulers.

The difference between the two reckonings seems to have occurred at sometime between the reigns of the Sri Lankan kings Udaya III ( 946-954 or 1007 – 1015 ) and Pârakkama Pandya ( c. 1046-1048 ), when there was considerable unrest in the country.

The Russian population went from fifteen years of “ near anarchy ” to the reigns of two strong, centralizing autocrats.

She had two reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001.

Xie is only the second woman to have two reigns, the other being Elisabeth Bykova.

Hence the coin was not minted in the following two reigns.

There he wrote Memoires d ' un pere ( 4 vols., 1804 ), including a picturesque review of his life, a literary history of two important reigns, a great gallery of portraits extending from the venerable Jean Baptiste Massillon, whom more than half a century previously he had seen at Clermont, to Honoré Mirabeau.

The end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century was marked in Wallachia and Moldavia by the reigns of Phanariote Princes ; thus the two principalities were heavily influenced by the Greek world.

In the reigns of Kings Edward VII, George V, ( Edward VIII ), and George VI, two pound coins were only issued in proof sets in the first year of their reign ( only prepared for approval in the case of Edward VIII, which is why his coin is valued at around £ 175, 000!

His two reigns lasted only a few months ; the first one ended when Alaric believed it was hampering his negotiations with Honorius, and the second came to an end after he was abandoned by the Visigoths and eventually captured by Honorius ' men.

It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV ( two plays ), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403.

The state reached its apogee during the reigns of its first two rulers, Marquess Wen of Wei and Marquess Wu of Wei.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

Neither 495 nor 532 may be treated as reliable, however, the latter date relies on the presumption that the Regnal List is correct in presenting the kings of Wessex as having succeeded one another, with no omitted kings, no joint kingships, and that the durations of the reigns are correct as given.

The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King Stephen Báthory, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and Władysław IV.

Modern practice follows the scheme described in the Mishnah: Nisan is the new year for the reigns of kings and the festivals.

It is stated in the first verse of the Book of Isaiah that he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah ( or Azariah ), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah ().

While the southern kingdom made no serious effort to militarily regain power over the north, there was a long-lasting boundary dispute, fighting over which lasted during the reigns of several kings on both sides before being finally settled.

The Magna Carta being forgotten after a succession of benevolent reigns ( or, more probably, reigns limited by the jury and the barons, and only under the rule of laws that the juries and barons found acceptable ), the kings, through the royal judges, began to extend their control over the jury and the kingdom.

Once this was understood, the various reign lengths and cross-synchronisms for these kings was worked out, and the sum of reigns for both kingdoms produced 931 / 930 BC for the division of the kingdom when working backwards from the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC.

During the period of the reigns from Egbert to Alfred the Great, the kings of Wessex emerged as Bretwalda, unifying the country and eventually forging it into the kingdom of England in the face of Viking invasions.

The Ur empire continued through the reigns of three more kings with Semitic Akkadian names, Amar-Sin, Shu-Sin, and Ibbi-Sin.

Michael Evans points out that Harold was only one of several kings of pre-Conquest England to die following short reigns, and lives, including Edmund I ( reigned 939 – 946 ), Eadred ( reigned 946 – 955 ), Eadwig ( reigned 955 – 959 ), Edmund Ironside ( reigned 1016 ), and Harthacnut ( reigned 1040 – 1042 ).

The foundations of Asturian culture and that of Christian Spain in the High Middle Ages were laid during the reigns of Silo and Mauregato, when the Asturian kings submitted to the authority of the Umayyad emirs of the Caliphate of Córdoba.

In the third book, Bossuet asserts that " God establishes kings as his ministers, and reigns through them over the people.

There has been considerable academic debate about the actual dates of reigns of the Israelite kings.

This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoichin, and Zedekiah.

The Athenians are said to have called themselves Cecropidæ, during the reigns of the five following kings, in his honor.

The untimely death of Aristodemus with other events has served as some basis for dating the reigns of the first nine kings of Sparta in the line known by state definition as the Eurypontid.

The untimely death of Aristodemus with other events has served as some basis for dating the reigns of the first ten kings of Sparta in the line known by state definition as the Agiad.

These long reigns were unusual at this early date ; during the same period eleven kings reigned in Northumbria, many of whom died violent deaths.

Earlier in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People chronicle, he lists seven kings who governed the southern provinces of the English, with reigns dating from the late fifth to the late seventh century.

The reigns of other kings were also mistranslated in the surviving king list of Berossus.