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Monza Murcatto is a mercenary commander in the services of the Grand Duke Orso, previously mentioned in Last Argument of Kings as the father-in-law to the King of the Union, Jezal dan Luthar. After another successful battle to unite Styria under the rule of Orso, Monza and her brother Benna, who is also her second-in-command, are summoned to ...
Ultima Ratio Regum (Latin for 'the last argument of kings') is a roguelike created by Mark R Johnson. It was started in 2011 and was intended to be a ten-year project, [1] and has returned to active development since December 2020 after several years without a release. [2]
[3] [6] It was published by Gollancz in 2006 and was followed in the succeeding two years by two other books in the trilogy, by the titles of Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings, respectively. [4] In 2008, Joe Abercrombie was a finalist for the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer. [7]
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates is a book by John Milton, in which he defends the right of people to execute a guilty sovereign, whether tyrannical or not. In the text, Milton conjectures about the formation of commonwealths. He comes up with a kind of constitutionalism but not an outright anti-monarchical argument.
Edward IV (r. 1461–83) was the first English king to impose benevolences.. According to English medievalist G. L. Harriss, the concept of benevolence in financing the king's activities goes back to the early 14th century, [5] when the exhortations to pay taxes or loans to the crown first exhibited a common "emphasis on these twin features of obligation and benevolence."
King of Portugal: 11 November 1477 John II: John II Kingdom of Portugal: King of Portugal: 15 November 1477 Afonso V: Catherine Cornaro: Kingdom of Cyprus: Queen of Cyprus: 26 February 1489 Island annexed by the Republic of Venice: Bayezid II Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Sultan: 25 April 1512 Selim I: Charles I [a] Kingdom of Spain: King of Spain ...
The published Basilikon Doron may well have been intended to portray the king in a favourable light. James Sempill assisted James in composing it. Robert Waldegrave, who was bound to secrecy, printed seven copies at the king's behest. Henry Taylor said that he had printed it on Waldegrave's press. Richard Royston and then William Dugard printed ...
Historia regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called De gestis Britonum (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a fictitious historical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.