Sentence examples for diplomatic marriages from inspiring English sources

Shrewd diplomatic marriages extended his sway, and by the mid 19th century he had attracted some 80,000 followers, based on his ability to provide them with cattle and protection.

Their effect on the court religion may be surmised from what is recorded concerning Solomon's many diplomatic marriages: foreign princesses whom Solomon married brought with them the apparatus of their native cults.

Several of Eadbald's near relatives were involved in diplomatic marriages.

However, there were diplomatic marriages between the two kingdoms: Æthelred's sister Cyneburh married Alhfrith, a son of Oswiu of Northumbria, and both Æthelred and his brother Peada married daughters of Oswiu.

The Kentish royal line made several strong diplomatic marriages over the succeeding years, including the marriage of Eanflæd, Eadbald's niece, to Oswiu, and of Eorcenberht to Seaxburh, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia.

In contrast, two sons of Rædwald's brother Eni, who were both eager to renew their Christian alliances, made diplomatic marriages during this period: Anna, who was to become a devout Christian ruler, married a woman of East Saxon connection and his brother Æthelric married a Northumbrian princess, Hereswitha, who was Edwin of Northumbria's grand-niece.

The opera is plotless, a mere depiction of scenes from a diplomatic marriage.

If Egypt had any intention of attacking Israel, Solomon's power forestalled Siamon, who presented Gezer to Israel as a dowry in the diplomatic marriage of his daughter to Solomon.

Thanks to all those promotions today, adventurous loners will end up running tomorrow's State Department.In Europe, it is money, not safety, that is corroding traditional diplomatic marriage, and thus the home-based hospitality that oils the wheels of statecraft.

She is tough on the men who want to manoeuvre her into a diplomatic marriage, unrestrained in her sexual dalliance with Leicester, and yet always surrounded by an inviolable aura of solitude.

The personal union (the diplomatic term for marriage) of Louis, then the Dauphin, and the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette, was considered both a political and matrimonial mésalliance in the eyes of many Frenchmen.