Sentence examples for illustrious king from inspiring English sources
The pope had heard recently that Marchia had gone "to Paris and other parts of France to spread the worst errors and to turn the hearts of the faithful religious and others, especially our most dear children in Christ the illustrious king and queen, as well as other princes and magnates, from their devotion to the Church".
Naranjanamadhva (1790) in stotra (hymn) dedicated to Khandoba calls him "an illustrious king with rich clothes and a horse with a saddle studded with jewels", who was once "an ascetic beggar who ride an old bull and carried an ant-bitten club (khatvanga)" - a humorous take on the Puranic Shiva.
With the traditional king of Dalkey, sovereign of the illustrious order of the lobster and periwinkle, in attendance, the service included prayers for all seafarers.
466 511), the illustrious founder of the Merovingian dynasty. Louis was appointed king of Aquitaine in 781 and was already a seasoned 35-year-old politician and military commander when he became coemperor with Charlemagne in 813.
In 1270 Dresden became the capital of Margrave Henry the Illustrious, and after his death it belonged to the king of Bohemia and the margrave of Brandenburg until it was restored about 1319 to the margraves of Meissen, who chartered it in 1403.
The first was the World Darts Trophy in 2007 [when Anderson, who then played on the less illustrious British Darts Organisation circuit, beat the world No1 and king of the PDC or Professional Darts Corporation].
Robert De Niro has played plenty of law-breakers in his illustrious career, but they all seem like petty thieves compared to the king of organized crime he may play next.
José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco regarded him an "illustrious statesman".
Of their sons, the inclita geração ("illustrious generation"), the eldest, Edward, administered the kingdom under his father and was later king; the second, Pedro, travelled through Europe and was regent after Edward's death; and the third, Henry, known as the Navigator, was the patron and organizer of the overseas discoveries.
Dickey joined illustrious company.
