heir (successor) to the throne
1The Byzantine Empire — The Byzantine Empire † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Byzantine Empire The ancient Roman Empire having been divided into two parts, an Eastern and a Western, the Eastern remained subject to successors of Constantine, whose capital was at …
2The Rough Wooing — was a term coined by Sir Walter Scott and H. E. Marshall to describe the Anglo Scottish war pursued intermittently from 1544 to 1551. It followed from the failure of the Scots to honour the terms of the 1543 Treaty of Greenwich, by which the… …
3The Venus of Konpara — (1960) is a novel by John Masters which draws on an extreme version of the Aryan Invasion Theory model of ancient Indian history, according to which invading Aryan barbarians ruthlessly crushed underfoot the indigenous Dravidian peoples of the… …
4Heir apparent — An heir apparent is an heir who (short of a fundamental change in the situation) cannot be displaced from inheriting; the term is used in contrast to heir presumptive, the term for a conditional heir who is currently in line to inherit but could… …
5The Twelve Caesars —   Author(s) Suetonius Original title De vita Caesarum (literal trans.: On the Life of the Caesars) …
6The Franks — The Franks † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Franks The Franks were a confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient barbarian tribes who occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their name is… …
7The Kingdom of the Isles — is a fictional nation on Midkemia, a world created by a fantasy role playing group and popularized by Raymond E. Feist. The Kingdom of the Isles , or simply The Kingdom lies to the north of The Empire of Great Kesh on the continent of Triagia.… …
8The Counter-Reformation — The Counter Reformation † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Counter Reformation The subject will be considered under the following heads: I. Significance of the term II. Low ebb of Catholic fortunes III. St. Ignatius and the Jesuits,… …
9The Lovesick Court — The Lovesick Court, or the Ambitious Politique is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Richard Brome, and first published in 1659.Publication The Lovesick Court was entered into the Stationers Register on 4 August 1640 by the… …
10The Radiant Seas — is a novel from the Saga of the Skolian empire series of books by Catherine Asaro. The book continues where Primary Inversion ended and centers on the story of the devastating interstellar Radiance War. We follow the lives of several Ruby Dynasty …
