During the reign of Conrad II (1024 39), the first Salian emperor, the kingdom of Burgundy fell finally under the overlordship of the German crown, and this tough and formidable emperor also renewed German authority in Italy.
His kingdom of Sicily fell more and more victim to his need for money to fight his war in the north, which all but ended the efforts at good government that had motivated his Constitutions of Melfi (1231).
About 722 bce the northern kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians, and about 598 bce the southern kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians, who carried many Hebrews off to captivity; the Babylonian Exile lasted until 538 bce, when the Persian conquerors of Babylonia allowed the Hebrews to return to Jerusalem.
When Chidam tries to visit her on the eve of her execution, she pronounces, "To hell with him!" There are many more contrary, shape-shifting female characters: in "Chitrangoda", the mythic princess who is brought up as a son to rule the kingdom of Manipur falls in love with the great warrior Arjun and begs God to transform her into a feminine beauty.
A critical stage in relations between the crown and the nobles was reached during the reign of Peter III (the Great; 1276 85), the heir to Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia (the kingdom of Majorca fell to the share of his younger brother James).
Most of the Kingdom of Jerusalem fell to Saladin after his victory at the Battle of Hattin in 1187.
When the Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians under Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II around 730 BCE, Gaza came under Assyrian rule.
Since the successor of this little state, the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, fell to Habsburg in 1814 (at a time when even in France the système usuel had been introduced because the metric system was not accepted by the population), an apothecaries' system was officially introduced again, but now based on the Habsburg apothecaries' pound, which weighed almost 30% more.
The joyless gluttony of fallen romantics feels pretty timely at the moment, particularly when kingdoms seem likely to rise and fall based on their whims.
Europe was stunned to see the Kingdom of Bosnia fall almost completely within weeks of his death.
His major conquest was of the kingdom of Vientiane, which fell in 1356.
