Sentence examples for leading noblemen from inspiring English sources

Egmond and other leading noblemen resented Philip II's policy of encroachment on local privileges and religious liberties and to the elevation of Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle to virtual head of the government.

The king's counselors, whatever their background, became leading noblemen by virtue of their high office: service to the crown was what mattered, and elevation to the office depended on the king's choice.

Almost 800 years ago last month, on 15 June 1215, in a field close to the River Thames at Runnymede, King John I of England attached his Great Seal to a document drawn up by a group of the country's leading noblemen, collectively unhappy that their rights were being ignored by the monarch.

In this model, the Mercian kings are little more than leading noblemen.

A new approach in 1217 and 1220 was to secure the consent of leading noblemen for the tax to be levied.

The evidence for Northumbria survives largely in Latin documents, and these use the words dux and patricius to describe the leading noblemen of the kingdom.

In 1270 a leading nobleman of the province of Shewa, Yekuno Amlak, rebelled.

Eight Episcopal clergy and James Dalrymple, Lord President of the Court of Session resigned and the leading nobleman Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll was forced into exile.

The French battle plan had to be abandoned as the leading French noblemen, many named after the knights of Arthurian legend, all took their place in the vanguard.

Although other leading Transylvanian noblemen soon joined them, King John I overcame their rebellion in some weeks.

However, the late 14th-century manuscript known as the Pacta conventa narrates that Coloman was only crowned after he had reached an agreement with twelve leading Croatian noblemen, because the Croats were preparing to defend their kingdom against him by force.