regent

Examples of regent in the following topics:

• Hatshepsut

  • Hatshepsut ascended to the throne as co-regent with Thutmose III, who came to the throne as a two-year old child.
  • As pharaoh, she faced few challenges, even from her co-regent, who headed up the powerful Egyptian army and could have unseated her, had he chosen to do so.
  • The Tyldesley hypothesis states that Thutmose III may have decided to attempt to scale back Hatshepsut's role to that of regent rather than king.

• Theoderic the Great

  • Theoderic the Great (454–526) was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), ruler of Italy (493–526), regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patricius of the Roman Empire.
  • For much of his reign, Theoderic was the de facto king of the Visigoths as well, becoming regent for the infant Visigothic king, his grandson Amalaric, following the defeat of Alaric II by the Franks under Clovis in 507.
  • Athalaric was at first represented by his mother Amalasuntha, who was a regent queen from 526 until 534.

• The Middle Kingdom

  • In his 20th regnal year, Amenemhat established his son, Senusret I, as his co-regent.
  • In his 33rd regnal year, he appointed his son, Senusret II, co-regent.

• Iconoclasm in Byzantium

  • After the death of Constantine's son, Leo IV (who ruled from 775 CE–780 CE), his wife Irene took power as regent for her son, Constantine VI (who ruled from 780 CE–97 CE).
  • But only a few decades later, in 842 CE, the regent Theodora again reinstituted icon worship.

• Decline of the Gupta Empire

  • As his grandfather and father did before him, Kumaragupta also issued news coins to mark his reign, stamped with images of his namesake god, Lord Kumara, regarded by Hindus as Regent of Earth.

• Society Under the Zhou Dynasty

  • At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty's rule, the Duke of Zhou, a regent to the king, held a lot of power, and the king rewarded the loyalty of nobles and generals with large pieces of land.

• The Eastern Han Period

  • When the Western Han period ended in 9 CE, the regent to the prior emperor, Wang Mang, proclaimed his own new dynasty, the Xin Dynasty.

• Peter the Great

  • Consequently, the Boyar Duma (a council of Russian nobles) chose 10-year-old Peter to become Tsar with his mother as regent.
  • Sophia acted as regent during the minority of the sovereigns and exercised all power.

• Yaroslav the Wise

  • He was also vice-regent of Novgorod from 1010 to 1015 before his father, Vladimir the Great, died.
  • He was set as vice-regent of Novgorod in 1010, as befitted a senior heir to the throne.

• The Spanish Habsburgs

  • The Council of Castile appointed Philip's second wife and Charles' mother, Mariana of Austria, regent for the minor king.
  • As regent, Mariana managed the country's affairs through a series of favorites ("validos"), whose merits usually amounted to no more than meeting her fancy.