With the help of Venice, Sforza was again victorious and, in exchange for abandoning the Venetians, received the title of capitano generale ( commander-in-chief ) of the Duchy of Milan's armies.

In 1212, King Přemysl Otakar I ( bearing the title " king " since 1198 ) extracted a Golden Bull of Sicily ( a formal edict ) from the emperor Frederick II., confirming the royal title for Otakar and his descendants and the Duchy of Bohemia was raised to a kingdom.

In 1701 the title of King in Prussia was granted, without the Duchy of Prussia being elevated to a Kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire.

Even after taking control of the Duchy of Normandy he did not take the title of Duke, he chose to control it as the King of England.

Matilda had been married to Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, which gave her the title of Empress, but her husband died in 1125 and she was remarried in 1128 to Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou, whose lands bordered the Duchy of Normandy.

* Otto of Worms withdraws his nomination for the title of Holy Roman Emperor and receives Duchy of Carinthia in return.

Under this will, he bequeathed the Duchy of Wrocław to Duke Henry III of Głogów, and Kraków-with the title of High Duke-to Przemysł II.

* The Duchy of Milan is created after Lord Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan buys the title of Duke from Wenceslaus, the Holy Roman Emperor.

The Principality of Wales and Earldom of Chester must be created, and are not automatically acquired like the Duchy of Cornwall, which is the Heir Apparent's title in England, and the Dukedom of Rothesay, Earldom of Carrick, and High Stewardship of Scotland, which are the Heir Apparent's titles in Scotland.

The Duke of Cornwall holds both the dukedom ( title ) and Duchy ( estate holdings ), the latter being the source of his personal income ; whilst the Duke takes his Sovereign rights from Cornwall, those living in his estates are currently subjects of the British Sovereign.

However, the title of duke has never been associated with independent rule in the British Isles: they hold dukedoms, not duchies ( excepting the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster ).

In 1423 Guelders passed to the House of Egmond, which gained recognition of its title from Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, but was unable to escape the political strife and internecine conflict that had so plagued the preceding House of Jülich-Hengebach, and more especially, the pressure brought to bear by the expansionist rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy.

Hetman was also the title of the second-highest military commander ( after the monarch ) in 15th-to 18th-century Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which together, from 1569 to 1795, comprised the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or Rzeczpospolita.

The rule was that there were no kings within the Empire, but if a ruler subject to the Emperor also possessed a large territory outside the Empire he might claim this title as the Elector of Brandenburg had done, styling himself King in Prussia based on his sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia.

The rule was that there were no kings within the Empire, but if a ruler subject to the Emperor also possessed a large territory outside the Empire he might claim this title as the Elector of Brandenburg had done, styling himself King in Prussia based on his sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia.

Later, when the Duchy of Carinthia had fallen to the Habsburgs, the idea that it was actually the people from whom the Duke of Carinthia received his legitimation was the basis of the Habsburgs ' claim to the unique title of Archduke.

After some hesitation Henry V allowed Richard to inherit the title and ( at his majority ) the lands of the Duchy of York.

In 1799, King Ferdinand III created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the title of Duke for the help he had provided him in bloodily repressing the revolution in Naples and so in recovering his throne.

The Lancastrian inheritance, known as the Duchy of Lancaster, has remained in English and then British Royal ownership, with monarchs bearing the title Duke of Lancaster.

Matilda had been married to Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, from which she later claimed the title of Empress, but her husband died in 1125 and she was remarried in 1128 to Geoffrey, the Count of Anjou, whose lands bordered the Duchy of Normandy.

The head of the house received in 1848 the title of Count ( count of the entail of Mühlhausen ) also in peerage of the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Though Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo and his vassal territories like the Grand Duchy of Berg were erased from the European map, the representatives assembled at the Congress of Vienna consented to yet more uses of the title by restored dukes and princes, especially for several of those in the lands that had constituted the Holy Roman Empire.

Another established use of the title was in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( since 14th century ) and in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Before his death ( March 981 ), he had gained from Emperor Otto I the title of Duke of Spoleto also.

The second son of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta he was granted the title Duke of Spoleto on 22 September 1904.

On 22 September 1904, he was given the title Duke of Spoleto for life.

In 776, two years after the fall of Pavia, Spoleto fell likewise to Charlemagne and his Carolingian Empire, and he assumed the title King of the Lombards.

Before his death ( March 981 ), he had gained from Emperor Otto I the title of Duke of Spoleto also.

In 883, Guy inherited his nephew's title of Spoleto and reunited the dukedom, henceforth as the " Duchy of Spoleto and Camerino " bearing the title of dux et marchio, and by the end of 884, Emperor Charles III was forced to make peace with Guy, where he formally recovered his titles.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.

In substance, said the Court, there was no transfer of equitable title.

Again it was used as the title for the hoss wrangler, and when the order was given to go out and `` rustle the hosses '', it meant for 'im to go out and herd 'em in.

Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.

Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.

For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.

She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.

Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

Aplu, meaning the son of, was a title given to the god Nergal, who was linked to the Babylonian god of the sun Shamash.

A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never officially released, although an unofficial release was produced by AtariAge.

The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.

( This package was released for the PC a year earlier under the title Atari: 80 Classic Games in One.

The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, " The Piper at the Gates of Dawn ", could not survive translation to the theatre.