Sentence examples for claiming the throne from inspiring English sources

But the Miloslavsky family, claiming the throne for Ivan, encouraged the streltsy (sovereign's bodyguard), who were the only organized armed force in Moscow, to revolt.

No direct heirs of the king's body could lead to civil war between competing contenders for the crown, each asserting a stronger claim than the other, or to an invasion by a foreign monarch claiming the throne.

La Reine Margot Dumas turns to the murky world of the wars of religion in which Catholics fought to prevent a Protestant, Henri de Navarre, from claiming the throne of France.

Edmund's nickname "Crouchback" (meaning "Crossback," or crusader) was misinterpreted, probably intentionally, by his direct descendant, King Henry IV, who, in claiming the throne (1399), asserted that Edmund had really been Henry III's eldest son but had been disinherited as a hunchback.

The tune blows past every other cut, easily claiming the throne by almost 20,000 units.

With Daymond claiming the "throne" for now, there's an even smaller number of minority-owned venture capital firms across the country.

King Richard III claimed the throne of England in June 1483.

Henry of Lancaster even used English when he claimed the throne in 1399.

It might not be one site that rises up to claim the throne.

Esarhaddon continued on to Nineveh, where he claimed the throne without opposition.

Both houses claimed the throne through descent from the sons of Edward III.