weak king

"Why are we all so concerned about a weak king with a clever mouth?"

He appears to have been a weak king, as his nicknames suggest.

Many historians have seen Inge as a rather weak king.

One obvious reason for it was the succession of weak kings.

A weak king could find the disputes spreading from local to regional or national conflict.

"It was controlled by a council of nobles and a weak king.

"They took power away from the weak king.

His situation illustrates that during this period the viziers were the real power behind weak kings.

Even a weak king like Sawlu never gave up the command.

He was regarded a weak king and criticised for giving favourites too much power.

Some argued there was no need to pay tribute, homage or obedience to a weak king, and that began to cause problems.

Ashoka was followed for 50 years by a succession of weaker kings.

Elizabeth quickly obtained complete influence over Philip V, who was considered by all means a weak king.

Icarus knows he is being sent to his death while rivals plot wresting power from the weak King.

Strong kings brought more city-states into the fold, and weak kings lost them.

After a succession of weak kings over a period of centuries, Solon was only left with the city itself.

Robert III turns out to be a weak king.

The weak king was inclined to accept these terms, to the outrage of his wife and his brother Chandragupta.

Does John Balliol deserve his reputation as a weak king?

The late king, my husband, was a good man, a weak king perhaps, but a king nonetheless, with his own portion of that grace.

Kaldor is a feudal kingdom with a weak king.

Consequently, they supported weak kings, but were eventually beaten by the strong king Sverre.

'Aldreas was a weak king who did anything Annias told him to do.

"Expanding the palace gives weak kings something to do," King Fulrach observed.

Under the weak King of Jerusalem was the very flower of the Christian chivalry.