According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

Alp Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of Great Seljuq, and thus became sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

We do know that he was not expected to succeed to the throne after his brother king Agis II, largely due to the fact that he was crippled from birth, and since the latter had a son, named Leotychidas.

Agrippina was the first Roman matron to have more than one child from her family to reign on the Roman throne.

Agrippina deprived Britannicus of his heritage and further isolated him from his father and succession for the throne in every way possible.

Apart from all of his external enemies, a host of rebels also sought to overthrow Alexios from the imperial throne, thereby posing another major threat to his reign.

Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

On 18 February a " confession " was extorted from Alexei which implicated most of his friends, and he then publicly renounced the succession to the throne in favour of the baby grand-duke Peter Petrovich.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

Pope Innocent IV then ordered Sancho II to be removed from the throne and be replaced by the Count of Boulogne.

To ascend the throne, he abdicated from the county of Boulogne and later ( 1253 ) divorced Matilda.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

Much of the book is set at his court in Brittany or during the campaign to retake his throne from Vortigern.

She married Basil of Trebizond and took over the throne of the Empire of Trebizond from 1340 to 1341.

Amalric agreed and ascended the throne without a wife, although Agnes continued to hold the title Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon and received a pension from that fief's income.

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

2 Samuel 3: 7 ), one of Saul's concubines, an alliance which, according to contemporary notions, would imply pretensions to the throne ( cf.

Sultan Ahmed III had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged ; on September 20, 1730, a mutinous riot of seventeen janissaries, led by the Albanian Patrona Halil, was aided by the citizens as well as the military until it swelled into an insurrection in front of which the Sultan was forced to give up the throne.

And with Amalaric's death in 531, the Visigothic kingdom entered an extended period of unrest which lasted until Leovigild assumed the throne in 568.

This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.

As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.

A revolt which broke out among native Egyptian soldiers gave him his opportunity to seize the throne.

He came to the throne after the ten years of confusion which followed the death of Archelaus I.

Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.

* If a person not native to England comes to the throne, England will not wage war for " any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

By virtue of Article II of the Treaty of Union, which defined the succession to the throne of Great Britain, the Act of Settlement became part of Scots Law as well.

Four years later, plans drawn up by Chris Bryant were revealed which would end the exclusion of Catholics from the throne and end the doctrine of agnatic ( male-preference ) primogeniture in favour of absolute primogeniture, which governs succession solely on birth order and not on sex .< ref >

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus, explicitly states " Year one thousand and first ", which is an indication that the citizens of the Empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Saeculum Novum.

Bayezid ascended to the throne following the death of his father Murad I, who was killed by Serbian knight Miloš Obilić during ( June 15 ), or immediately after ( June 16 ), the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, by which Serbia became a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

To make the show more cost-effective, it was also shot with virtually no outdoor scenes ( in contrast to the first series which was shot largely on location ) and several frequently used indoor sets, such as the Queen's throne room and Blackadder's front room.

* The " throne vision ", in which Ezekiel sees God enthroned in the Temple among the heavenly host ( Ezekiel 1: 4-28 );

The group encompassed a range of ideological outlooks, from conspiratorially-minded army officers to idealistic youths, sometimes tending towards republicanism, despite the acquisition of nationalistic royal circles in its activities ( the movement's leader, Col. Dragutin Dimitrijević or " Apis ," had been instrumental in the June 1903 coup which had brought King Petar Karađorđević to the Serbian throne following 45 years of rule by the rival Obrenović dynasty ).

The city has a river which proceeds " out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Numerous Puranic texts refer to a conflict in ancient India ( 16th c. BC ) in which the cavalry forces of five nations, called five hordes ( pañca. ganan ) or Kśatriya hordes ( Kśatriya ganah ), attacked and captured the throne of Ayudhya by dethroning its VedicKing Bahu

Because of the constant threats to the throne, the July Monarchy began to rule with a stronger and stronger hand.

Along with the throne, Charles inherited the Thirty Years ' War, in which Christian IV of Denmark and Frederick V, Elector Palatine, who was married to Charles's sister Elizabeth, were attempting to take back their hereditary lands and titles from the Habsburg Monarchy.

Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d ' Argenteuil noted, in her Souvenirs, that if the Prince Royal died young after having fathered a male heir, the July Monarchy would be faced with the prospect and political uncertainty of a regency – for her the wisest course consisted of first marrying off the King's third son, then the fourth, then the fifth, and thus guarantee him descendants, all the while leaving several men around the throne who could take over from him if he died suddenly.

Royalists wished to place King Charles II on the throne ; men like Oliver Cromwell wished to govern with a plutocratic Parliament voted in by an electorate based on property, similar to that which was enfranchised before the civil war ; agitators called Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate of every male head of a household ; Fifth Monarchy Men advocated a theocracy ; and the Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, advocated a more radical solution.

During the July Monarchy of 1830 to 1848, when the junior Orleanist branch held the throne, the Legitimists were politically marginalized, many withdrawing from active participation in political life.

After Louis-Philippe's ousting and subsequent exile to Britain, the liberal Orleanist faction ( opposed by the counter-revolutionary Legitimists ) continued to support a return of the House of Orléans to the throne, but the July Monarchy proved to be the last monarchy of France.

The Habsburg Monarchy of Austria inherited the Bohemian throne in 1526 and became the town's new lords.

* Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein, Pretender to the Iraqi throne and the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party

During the Jules de Polignac ministry ( 1829 – 1830 ), he was again in opposition, being a firm upholder of the Charter, However, after the 1830 July Revolution, he entered an all but solitary protest against the exclusion of the legitimate line of the Bourbons from the throne ( see July Monarchy and Orléanist ), and resigned his seat.

Prince Raad's position as the head of the Royal House of Iraq is in contention with Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein ( a descendant of Hussein of Hejaz's granddaughter, sister and male cousin, but not in male line from king Hussein ) who is another pretender to the Iraqi throne and the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy.

This brought him to the attention of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the throne of the Dual Monarchy.

Most interpreters have taken the expression " throne of Israel " as a reference to the throne of the United Monarchy.