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See also:BELA III . (d. 1196), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hungary, was the second son of King Geza II. Educated at the See also:Byzantine See also:court, where he had been compelled to seek See also:refuge, he was fortunate enough to win the friendship of the brilliant See also:emperor See also:Manuel who, before the See also:birth of his own son Alexius, intended to make Bela his successor and betrothed him to his daughter. Subsequently, however, he married the handsome and promising youth to See also:Agnes of Chatilion, duchess of See also:Antioch, and in 1173 placed him, by force of arms, on the Hungarian See also:throne, first expelling Bela's younger See also:brother Geza, who was supported by the See also:Catholic party. Initiated from childhood in all the arts of See also:diplomacy at what was then the See also:focus of See also:civilization, and as much a See also:warrior by nature as his imperial kinsman Manuel, Bela showed himself from the first fully equal to all the difficulties of his See also:peculiar position. He began by adopting Catholicism and boldly seeking the assistance of See also:Rome. He then made what had hitherto been an elective a hereditary throne by crowning his See also:infant son Emerich his successor. In the beginning of his reign he adopted a prudent policy of amity with his two most powerful neighbours, the emperors of the See also:East and See also:West, but the See also:death of Manuel in 1180 gave Hungary once more a See also:free See also:hand in the affairs of the See also:Balkan See also:Peninsula, her natural See also:sphere of See also:influence. The See also:attempt to recover See also:Dalmatia, which involved Bela in two bloody See also:wars with See also:Venice (1181–88 and 1190-91), was only partially successful. But he assisted the Rascians or Serbs (see HUNGARY: See also:History) to throw off the See also:Greek yoke and establish a native See also:dynasty, and attempted to made See also:Galicia an See also:appanage of his younger son See also:Andrew. It was in Bela's reign that the emperor See also:Frederick I., in the See also:spring of 1189, traversed Hungary with roo,000 crusaders, on which occasion the See also:country was so well policed that no harm was done to it and the inhabitants profited largely from their See also:commerce with the See also:German See also:host. In his last years Bela assisted the Greek emperor See also:Isaac II. See also:Angelus against the Bulgarians. His first wife See also:bore Bela two sons, Emerichyand Andrew. On her death he married See also:Margaret of See also:France, See also:sister of King See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Augustus. Bela was in every sense of the word a See also:great statesman, and his court was accounted one of the most brilliant in See also:Europe.
For an See also:account of his See also:internal reforms see HUNGARY. Though the poet Ede See also:Szigligeti has immortalized his memory in the See also:play Bela III., we have no See also:historical monograph of him, but in Ignacz Acs'ady, History of the Hungarian See also:Realm (Hung.), i. 2 (See also:Budapest, 1903), there is an excellent account of his reign. (R. N.
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