Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] king [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry was with him when he died , and he rode forthwith to Winchester to secure the royal treasury and was proclaimed King of England . |
| 2 | The mayor , councillor Ray Turner says : ’ When the king , that 's Charles the second , was proclaimed King in Scotland , he made his way south trying to raise an army and he was turned away from everywhere until he came to Worcester and the mayor there proclaimed him king of England and in recognition the king knighted the mayor and he rode with the king around the city to raise an army . ’ |
| 3 | When he was proclaimed King in February , there was popular rejoicing throughout the realm . |
| 4 | Charles II was proclaimed king in May 1660 and , because parliament declared he had been de jure king since his father 's death , his first year of actual kingship was designated his twelfth and a starting date of 29 May was adopted . |
| 5 | So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts . |
| 6 | Balliol was crowned king at Scone six weeks later and then marched to Galloway to rally the support which the men of that region had traditionally shown to the Balliol family . |
| 7 | On 2 December Henry VI was crowned king of France in Saint Denis , Paris . |
| 8 | In March 1306 , Robert Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone , so King Edward I again set out to meet the challenge but on the sands of the Solway , he died aged 68 , on 7th . |
| 9 | William 's was the last successful invasion of the British Isles and he was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day , 1066 , aged 39 . |
| 10 | William I was succeeded by one of his sons , William II , who was crowned King of England , whereas the Duchy of Normandy passed to another son , Robert , who had sometimes sided with King Philip I of France , and that presented many of the Norman Barons in England with divided loyalty . |
| 11 | Stephen of Blois , the son of William I youngest daughter , was favoured by the Barons and was crowned King of England by the end of 1133 , but for a number of years he was imprisoned by the Barons during civil war . |
| 12 | In December 1 154 Henry II was crowned King of England . |
| 13 | Now that he was crowned King of Scots , he was to pay homage for his kingdom to the English monarch as Lord Paramount . |
| 14 | This was despite the fact that one of the claimants , John Zápolya , who was crowned King of Hungary in 1514 , was of Slavonian origin and was known to the Magyars as the Slav King . |
| 15 | He was elected king at Cologne on 9 June 1198 . |
| 16 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 17 | In 1457 , however , Ladislas died and Matthias was elected king of Hungary ( 1458 ) . |