knyaginya

Although the above documents show the knyaginya’s activity, preserved and documented only under her name from the second marriage, with the exception of the will of Fedor Sanguszko, they do simultaneously present her character.

2013, Bogusław Andrzej Baczyński, Małgorzata Baczyńska, “The Testament Donation of Knyaz Fedor Sanguszko for the Monastery of St. Paul of Xeropotamou on the Holy Mount Athos (9ᵗʰ November 1547)”, in Studia Ceranea, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 200:

She said that it was certainly a kingly feat to dispatch one’s own brothers from the world, as her husband Yaroslav the Wise had done, but as knyaginya, she found it far less honorable for Yaroslav to have four wives in addition to herself, as well as seven concubines.

2016, Halldór Laxness, translated by Philip Roughton, Wayward Heroes, New York, N.Y.: Archipelago Books, →ISBN, page 410:

As the remembrance formula is more developed in the second edition, we present it here: […] for the right-believing Ladies and Great Knyaginyas Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna, and for her husband: […]

2022, Lucian Petroaia, “The Great Litany”, in The Hieratikon, a Treasure of Orthodox Culture and Spirituality: Study on Romanian Editions (Forum Orthodoxe Theologie; 21), Münster: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, chapter IV (The Content of the Romanian Hieratikon. Liturgical and Theological Analysis), section “The Evolution of the Office of the Holy Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, in the Romanian Hieratikon”, pages 279–280:

It should be noted that we believe it is absolutely certain that all these miliarensia, handed out so generously by the Byzantine emperor to the Russian knyaginya and different members of her entourage on this visit, which took place in 946, were of the type “Constantine VII with Romanos II”, whose production had begun only about a year and a half earlier.

2022, Vladimir Penchev, “What the coins from the Preslav treasure can tell us about the social status of its owner”, in Contributions to Bulgarian Archaeology, volume XII, →DOI, →ISSN, page 72:


heiress apparent

en-noun

heiress apparent (plural heiresses apparent)

Coordinate term: heiress presumptive

“Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found a husband the most docile, irreproachable, and obedient of created beings, and that all heiresses apparent to thrones will do the same;[…]”

1851, [Rosina] Bulwer Lytton, chapter IV, in Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. A Tale of Real Life., volume III, London: W[illiam] Shoberl, […], pages 140–141:

Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.

1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60:

Consider that one in seven of the queens and heiresses apparent of England between William I of Normandy and Victoria of Hanover died in childbed.

2022, J[ames] Bradford DeLong, “Notes”, in Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, published 2023, →ISBN, note 25:


Druk Gyalpo

/ˈdɹʊk ˈɡjɑːl.pəʊ/

Borrowed from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ('brug rgyal po, literally “Dragon King”).

bor+

འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ

The Druk Gyalpos preferred to deal directly with the district officers rather than through an intermediate-level official. By the time of the second Druk Gyalpo the Pönlop title had come to be used more as an honorary designation of rank for powerful members of the royal family but had no specific administrative functions or powers attached thereto.

1977 January 1, Leo E. Rose, The Politics of Bhutan, →ISBN, page 184:

The Druk Gyalpo—the king—is both head of state and head of government. In the process of coming to power, the first Druk Gyalpo, Ugyen Wangchuck, who reigned from 1907 to 1926, unified the nation, established friendly relations with Britain, and set his dynasty's political agenda.

2008 January 1, Ramesh Chandra Bisht, International Encyclopaedia of Himalayas (5 Vols.), →ISBN, page 143:

At exactly 8:31 a.m., former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, placed the Raven Crown on the head of his son, 28-year-old Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, giving him the title of Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King.

2008 November 6, Gavin Rabinowitz, “Bhutan celebrates coronation of new king”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2019-09-20:


heiress presumptive

en-noun

heiress presumptive (plural heiresses presumptive)

Coordinate term: heiress apparent

Still maintaining an outward appearance of friendship with Elizabeth, he quietly spread among his own people copies of his pedigree, wherein he represented himself as the true heir to the crown of England, by descent from his ancestresses Philippa and Katherine of Lancaster: ignoring the facts—that, though the heir general of Katherine, he was not so of her elder sister Philippa; and that if he had been, the law which would have made these two sisters heiresses presumptive had been altered while they were children.

[1876?], Emily Sarah Holt, “The Invincible Armada”, in Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada (English Life in the Olden Time), new edition, London: John F. Shaw and Co. […], →OCLC, page 81:

Catherine did not suffer for her inadvertant^([sic]) part in that treason, but was made a maid of honor and lived at Court as one of several heiresses presumptive during Mary Tudor’s reign.

1984, Kathy Lynn Emerson, “GREY, CATHERINE (1539-1568)”, in Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 97:

On 27 March, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.

2002, Susan Child, “[Parliament and the Constitution] House of Lords Reform”, in Politico’s Guide to Parliament, 2nd edition, London: Politico’s Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:


White Army

Calque of Russian Белая армия (Belaja armija). White was the traditional color of the antirevolutionary movement in some countries, adopted as a symbolic name by the Russian movement.

calque

(historical, military) a collation of anti-Bolshevik armed groups that fought the Red Army during the Russian Civil War


gentleman-in-waiting

(historical) A male attendant or servant in a royal or noble household


king consort

en-noun

king consort (plural king consorts or kings consort)

king consorts (plural)
kings consort (plural)

Coordinate term: queen consort

Near-synonym: prince consort (if not recognized as a king)

It is also worth an aside here and noting that when Mary Queen of Scots married François, the French Dauphin in April 1558, he likewise became king consort of Scotland.

1998, Michael Ashley, British Monarchs: The Complete Genealogy, Gazetteer, and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Britain, page 639:

Make no mistake, should Rhaenyra ever sit the Iron Throne, it will be Daemon who rules us, a king consort as cruel and unforgiving as Maegor ever was.

2018, George R. R. Martin, Fire & Blood, unnumbered page:

Forged by King Consort Radagon to proudly symbolize the tenets of the Golden Order.

2022, FromSoftware (developer), Hidetaka Miyazaki, George R. R. Martin (writers), Elden Ring, →OCLC, scene: "Golden Order Greatsword" item description:


Raven Crown

With medieval tradition and Buddhist spirituality, a 28-year-old assumed the Raven Crown of Bhutan on Thursday, to guide the world's newest democracy as it emerges into the modern world.[…]The public greeting followed the coronation, an elaborate display of pageantry, mingled with ancient Buddhist rites that saw King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, the much-loved monarch, formalize his abdication and place the Raven Crown on the head of his 28-year-old son.

2008 November 5, Harish Tyagi, “Bhutan celebrates coronation of new king”, in NBC, archived from the original on 2022-08-16:

The ‘Raven Crown” (a crown like a helmet with a raven head on top) is the national symbol of the monarchy of Bhutan. The Raven Crown was the external symbol of the role of the Mahakala.

2009 June 1, Reiki Crins, Meeting the “Other”: Living in the Present, Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan, Eburon Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 116:

A crown made primarily from satin and silk and surmounted by the head of a raven which is worn by the Druk Gyalpos of Bhutan.


kokutai

tlb

(Japanese politics, philosophy, chiefly historical)

Borrowed from Japanese 国体(こくたい) (kokutai, literally “national character”).

ja-r

The national essence and character of Japan viewed as conforming to Shinto-Confucian ideals, with the emperor as its ethical, spiritual, cultural and political center.

國體 /国体

national character of Japan viewed as centered on the emperor

The ideology centered on the principle of kokutai.


reginacide

en-noun

reginacide (countable and uncountable, plural reginacides)

Coordinate term: regicide

However, my old enemy, Miss [Edith] Sitwell, is now enthroned. I was not at the coronation, I am not among her subjects. But I have no inclination left to be a reginacide or even a jeering republican.

1950, Geoffrey Grigson, The Crest on the Silver: An Autobiography, London: Cresset Press, page 167:

Another report connects the incident with the trial of the would-be reginacide John Somervyle (1 Anderson 106).

1979, John Bellamy, “Notes”, in The Tudor Law of Treason: An Introduction (Studies in Social History), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, note 5, page 266:

Touring Ghana with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (next page), His High Dedication Kwame Nkrumah—that is his title—has learned that the image of a true queen is not easily removed from the hearts of ex-colonial Africans. Increasingly unpopular because of his police-state methods, Nkrumah used the queen’s visit as a pretext to jail dozens of his political opponents as would-be reginacides.

1961 November 24, “His High Dedication and Her Majesty”, in Life, volume 51, number 21, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, page 45, column 1:

George Henderson has proposed recently that Guthlac’s hasty retreat to Repton in 697 could be explained by his early secular career having been brought to an abrupt end by an involvement in the murder of Queen Osthryth of Mercia (wife of King Æthelred) that same year – the two events appear together in the annal entry for 697 in the Worcester Chronicle. Henderson would interpret Guthlac’s sudden discovery of a religious vocation as a means of escaping a worse fate when retribution was sought for the queen’s death. Presumably Guthlac’s retreat to the fenlands could then be seen as a form of political exile not unlike that of Æthelbald, and in this context Henderson draws attention to the attempted assassination of Guthlac by Beccel as perhaps being not so much a hagiographical motif as a real attempt by the Mercian regime to take revenge on a reginacide.

2000, Barbara Yorke, “Æthelbald, Offa and the Patronage of Nunneries”, in David Hill, Margaret Worthington, editors, Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia: Papers from a Conference Held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (BAR British Series; 383), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Archaeopress, published 2005, →ISBN, page 43, column 2:

The tales depicted are from the Old and New Testaments but the faces and clothes are of sixteenth-century England. Henry [VIII] himself appears, his face attached to the persona of King Solomon, who receives gifts from the Queen of Sheba. Was that the artists’ cheeky prank? Or their flattering of the fearful, forty-inch-chest reginacide?

2012, Simon Law, “Cambridge – golden willows by the riverside”, in Out of London Walks: Great Escapes by Britain’s Best Walking Tour Company, [London]: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 19:


flower crown

(clothing, monarchy) A crown made of brightly colored flowers.


yabghu

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐰖𐰉𐰍𐰆 (yabɣu).

lbor

(historical) A ruler of a medieval Turkic state, nominally subject to a khagan.