Sentence examples for gained the throne from inspiring English sources

The Umayyad dynasty then gained the throne, and a new impetus in poetry soon became perceptible.

He sailed to Constantinople, gained the throne, and had Justinian and his family killed.

Helen herself chose Menelaus, a prince of Mycenae, to be her husband, and he gained the throne of Sparta by marrying her.

He gained the throne about 845 after defeating King Charles II the Bald, who had received authority over Aquitaine from Louis the Pious.

Modjadji V was initiated into the dynasty's rainmaking secrets after her mother, Queen Modjadji IV, succeeded to the crown in 1960, and she gained the throne upon the latter's death in 1982.

The principal contemporary sources for his history are his own inscriptions, especially the great trilingual inscription on the Bīsitūn (Behistun) rock at the village of the same name, in which he tells how he gained the throne.

Queen Margaret focuses on gaining the throne for her disinherited son, Edward, prince of Wales.

John was chief adviser to Andronicus III Palaeologus, having helped him gain the throne from his grandfather Andronicus II.

A prince of the Norodom branch of the royal family, he was never considered a serious candidate to gain the throne.

king of Norway (1162 84) who used church support to gain the throne (1162) and become the nation's first crowned monarch (1163).

Charles did not gain the throne until 1346, when he was elected by five out of seven electors and had taken all the oaths the Pope had demanded.