It is a common mistake of histories to suppose that Fergus, when he became kingon the other side, established there a new dynasty.
In 1134, a young Hebridean named Gilla Críst, claiming to be a son of Magnus, became king of Norway under the name of Harald Gilli.
The year after this, 842, Cinaedh, the future conqueror of the Picts and Britons and Angles, became king of the Scots.
Clovis was fifteen or sixteen years old when he became King of the Salian Franks of Tournay.
Soon after James I became king, the Puritans presented a petition asking for changes in the church.
This was sent to the Duke, who signed it, but when he became king he rejected it.
Charles X became king in 1654, and his brilliant but disastrous military ventures reduced his country to a third-rate power.
The triumph of the religion of the cross, which Ansgar had planted in Denmark, was secured there when Canute became king of England.
Sweden; joined the Allies as a naturalised Swede in the war against France in alliance with Russia; became king of Sweden himself under the title of Charles XIV.
One of Aidan's successors, Kenneth, became king of the Picts about 843, and gradually the name Dalriada both in Ireland and Scotland fell into disuse.
Thus it was quite in keeping with the romantic attachment between David and Saul's son Jonathan that when he became king of Israel he took Jonathan's son Meribbaal under his care (ix.
Dauphine to Charles of Valois, who, when he became king of France in 1364, transferred it to his eldest son.
How did D[=a]´vid find the land when he became king?
Whose son did D[=a]´vid treat kindly after he became king?
We do not read in any of our Annalists that he was Bishop of Cashel before he became King of Munster; indeed it is very doubtful if he were ever Bishop of Cashel at all.
He was certainly a bishop before he became King of Cashel, but it is difficult to say what See he was placed over, or whether he ever had charge of any See at all.
So he became King of England, and he was the father of the first Prince of Wales.
And William, who was called the Conqueror, became King of England, and left his son to rule after him.
Ingiald, the son of Anund, became king in Upsala after his father.
About the same time that Eric became kingof Sweden, the young ambitious Frederic II.
After them Hugleik, the son of Alf, became king of the Swedes.
Reigned 6 years and was slain when Joash became king.
This reign of David, lasting thirty-three years after he became king of all, was the ideal reign of all the history of the Hebrews.
The son of Psammetichos was Necos, and hebecame king of Egypt.
Archbishop of York, and thus became Primate of the Northern Province, and a few years afterwards his brother, Eadbert, became King of Northumbria.
She requited him by poisoning him for fear her favour should not last, and her son, Seleucus, became king, and taking Berenice prisoner, put her to death.
No one grieved when he was killed by a chance wound from his own sword, in the year 522; but a young Magian priest, pretending to be Smerdis, whose death was not generally known, became king.
Sennacherib was murdered in the year 720 by two of his sons, while worshipping his god Nisroch; and another son, Esarhaddon, became king.
Duke of York, who had escaped from the palace dressed like a woman, became king as James II.
He was well over middle age before he became king.
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