Sentence examples for To kingship from inspiring English sources

The lions' claim to kingship was somewhat diminished.

Sharp distinctions cannot be drawn between the different conceptions of the relationship of a god to kingship.

He himself did not aspire to kingship, but to the title of divinity, something he achieved shortly before his assassination on the Ides of March 44 B.C.

Instead of the stock contrast between an effete monarch and a burly pragmatist, we get a complex study of parallel figures both doomed to kingship.

Penn shows us how an instinctive Machiavellian with a feeble claim to kingship transformed himself into a despot and founded a dynasty.

Sylvester permitted establishment of Gniezno as an archbishopric independent of the German hierarchy but refused Otto III's desire to elevate Bolesław to kingship.

Since the chronicle records that the subsequent reign of (Lagmann's brother) Amlaíb lasted forty years, the latter's accession to the kingship appears to date to about 1112 or 1113, not long after Domnall launched his bid for the throne.

For all the bowing and scraping and "Your Majesties", he was not going to bring kingship back to Afghanistan.

Harith had been raised to the kingship and to the position of supreme phylarch by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (r. 527 565), who wished thereby to create a strong counterpart to the Lakhmid rulers.

The record of a grant to Christ Church Cathedral, in which Domnall is styled "King of Ireland", appears to suggest that he attempted to assert a claim to the kingship as well.

Having forced his way to the kingship, Harald would have to convince the aristocracy that he was the right person to rule Norway alone.