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Henry III (king of England)
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......Richard, earl of Cornwall, the king continued to surround himself...Montfort, earl of Leicester. The king subsequently (1248) sent Montfort...Lancaster, house of), agreeing in return to finance the conquest of the...English barons, disturbed by the king's subservience to the papacy......
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James I (king of England)
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......resulted in the Authorized, or King James, Version.)James...the suspicion arose that the king favored the Catholics, because...some of his feudal rights in return for a yearly income, did not...Cecil, earl of Salisbury, the king exercised the royal prerogative......
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Louis XVI (king of France)
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......assembly. Rumors circulated that the king intended to suppress the assembly...Versailles and forced the royal family to return to Paris, where they were confined in...infuriated the Paris sans-culottes. The king and his family were imprisoned in the......
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Louis IX (king of France)
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......Poitou and his recognition of the king of France as suzerain for the...made a favorable treaty with King James I of Aragón by yielding...Roussillon and Barcelona in return for James's abandonment of...barons by judging in favor of the king. In 1270, Louis undertook......
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James I (king of Scotland)
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......succeeded by his son, and the king's ransom was arranged only...Douglas, and other nobles. The king had been well educated by his...royal guest. Shortly before his return to Scotland in 1424, James...Somerset. The Kingis Quair [the king's book] (rev. ed. by W......
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Charles II (king of England, Scotland, and Ireland)
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......religious nonconformity. The king attempted unsuccessfully to...treaty, designed to free the king from dependence on Parliament...received large French subsidies in return for a pro-French policy...duke of Monmouth.In 1681 the king dissolved Parliament to block......
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Charles I (king of England, Scotland, and Ireland)
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......Feb., 1625) his father as king. ReignEarly Struggle with ParliamentA...struggle for supremacy between the king and Parliament that finally...making of money grants to the king and adopted the tactic of withholding...to the Petition of Right, in return for a badly needed subsidy. Charles......
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George II (king of Greece)
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......Restored to his throne in 1935, King George allowed his premier, John...liberated (1944) the question of the king's return was a major issue in the Greek civil...Great Britain and the United States, King George's government and army failed......
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Leopold III (king of the Belgians)
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......Leopold III, 1901–83, king of the Belgians (1934...with France in favor of a return to neutrality. In May...Allied troops in 1945. His return to Belgium was a burning...held in 1950 favored the king's return by a slight majority......
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Henry VI (Holy Roman emperor and German king)
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......obtained custody (1193) of King Richard I of England, brother...Christmas Day Henry was crowned king of Sicily. Insatiable, Henry...the Hohenstaufen, and in return offered unrestricted rights...later Emperor Frederick II) as king. Henry died of a fever at Messina......