Sentence examples for nominal king from inspiring English sources

With a smile, the son approaches this man of God, his nominal king, searching for a place at his side.

Here he found a complex struggle going on among animists, Muslims, Protestants, and Roman Catholics the latter two groups converted by British and French missionaries who had reached Buganda earlier by a southern route and the nominal king, or kabaka.

Baldwin V, (born 1177, Jerusalem died August 1186, Acre, kingdom of Jerusalem [now ʿAkko, Israel]), nominal king of Jerusalem who reigned from March 1185 until his death a year and a half later.

1177 Jerusalem August 1186 Acre Baldwin V, (born 1177, Jerusalem died August 1186, Acre, kingdom of Jerusalem [now ʿAkko, Israel]) nominal king of Jerusalem who reigned from March 1185 until his death a year and a half later.

Peter became the nominal King of Yugoslavia at the age of 11 when his father, Aleaxnder I, was assassinated.

John II remained as nominal King of Hungary until he abdicated in 1570 and returned the country to Habsburg rule.

After rejecting the suit of the nominal King of Spain, Archduke Charles of Austria, she married George Augustus, the third-in-line to the British throne and heir apparent to the Electorate of Hanover.

The family came to power as hereditary mayors of the palace of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia, and, by the time of Pippin II of Herstal (French Héristal), who became mayor of the palace in 679, they had reduced their nominal Merovingian kings to mere figureheads.

Kings became nominal heads of their fiefs and collected a portion of tax revenues as their personal incomes.

For a time, the rulers of the warring states claimed nominal allegiance to an overlord king of the Zhou dynasty (c. 1050 – 256 BC), yet the Zhou kings' political power and prestige was less than that of later Chinese emperors.

The ʿabīd were finally dissolved late in the 19th century, with only a nominal number retained as the king's personal bodyguard.