Many of today's historians, however, view it as an innovative way to open up new state revenue sources, as other Western European kings did.

Sigurd was the first European king to go on crusade to the Holy Land.

He nonetheless had a strong personal desire to be approved fully as a European king.

No European king would hesitate for a moment.

Tommo clearly thinks Mehevi would stack up well against any president or European king.

Following his lead, many European kings, princes, and other nobility kept collections of ancient coins.

Historians have traditionally described the work as the first example of a biography of a European king.

It was common for European kings and nobles to be wed by proxy marriage.

It was owned by European kings and queens.

No other such amazing words had ever fallen from the lips of a European king in peacetime within a hundred years.