Example sentences of "was crowned [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard , the ‘ Lion Heart ’ , was crowned King Richard I , in September 1189 , and in his Crusade he conquered Cyprus and the city of Acre , advancing to within twelve miles of Jerusalem , but he fell out with other Christian princes on the Crusade and was shipwrecked during December 1192 , in the Adriatic , and fell into the hands of Emperor Henry II of Austria , who held him captive until he received a ransom of one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On 2 December Henry VI was crowned king of France in Saint Denis , Paris . |
| 8 | Now that he was crowned King of Scots , he was to pay homage for his kingdom to the English monarch as Lord Paramount . |
| 9 | His brother-in-law was crowned king . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Within a few weeks they had put Pedro to flight and Henry was crowned king . |
| 12 | In December 1 154 Henry II was crowned King of England . |
| 13 | The notion of designating sovereigns by encircling their heads with golden crowns set with precious stones was already ancient when Pepin was crowned King of the Franks at Soissons in 751 . |
| 14 | Bogomilism in Bosnia revived in the fourteenth century during the reigns of the Kotromanić rulers , Stephen II and his son , Tvrtko , who was crowned King of ‘ Serbia , Bosnia , the Primorje and the western lands ’ in 1377 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 936 , King Otto I ( Otto the Great ) was crowned King of the Germans at Aachen . |
| 17 | And er and it all and you used to when our Queen 's grandfather was crowned king in nineteen hundred and ten , ooh they trimmed it up beautiful . |
| 18 | It was however during his years as The Guardian 's cricket correspondent in the mid-1980s that he was crowned Granada 's Sports Writer of the Year . |
| 19 | Medieval Serbia reached its zenith in the fourteenth century during the reign of Dušan ( 1331–55 ) , who was crowned Tsar ( Emperor ) of ‘ the Serbs and Greeks ’ in Skopje in 1346 . |
| 20 | some excerpts from norw. paper VG after norways 2–1 loss vs USA in the US ( USA actually has a very good home stat. — beating England ( you might remember ! ) , drawing 2–2 vs Denmark just after D. was crowned EuroChamps , and also giving Germany some hard resistance ) . |
| 21 | JOHNNY McNamee of Inchmarlo was crowned Vi-Sport Primary School Boys table tennis champion after an exciting three-set final against North West hope Ian Donaghey from Drumahoe Primary . |
| 22 | JUBILANT Ian Rush was crowned Liverpool 's European goal king at Anfield last night . |
| 23 | JIMMY WHITE finally shed his nearly-man tag when he was crowned UK champion at Preston last night . |
| 24 | Barbarossa was crowned Emperor Frederick I by the Pope . |
| 25 | In June 1953 , with memorable pageantry , Elizabeth II was crowned queen , an event that promoted music rather than literature , among the arts , and design more than either . |
| 26 | Pauline was crowned Festival Queen taking over the honour from Margi Clarke , who held the position last year amid singers , stiltwalkers and members of the British Music Hall Company . |
| 27 | Ilija Crijević from Ragusa ( Aelius Lampridius Cervinus ) became a member of the Quirinal Academy in Rome in 1484 at the age of twenty-one years , and was crowned poet laureate for a treatise on Virgil . |
| 28 | NICK FALDO was crowned Johnnie Walker world champion after surviving a dramatic sudden-death play-off and a super-charged 63 by Greg Norman here yesterday . |
| 29 | IRISHMAN Eamonn Loughran was crowned Commonwealth welterweight champion last night when he knocked out Canada 's Donovan Boucher in the third round . |
| 30 | The two British fighters have been tipped for a multi-million pound British showdown since Bruno 's boxing licence was renewed 14 months ago , and the prospect gathered pace last week when Lewis was crowned WBC champion . |