By Peter Brimacombe
Elizabeth i used to be the final English monarch really to rule the kingdom; she inherited a susceptible and divided nation but relentlessly formed it right into a significant international energy, and decisively defeated the mightiest invasion fleet ever to method our beaches. Her relationships with the main males within the country have been important to the good fortune of her reign. Her maximum attributes have been a smart judgement of human nature coupled with the unerring skill to settle on and encourage males. in the course of an extended and excellent reign, she surrounded herself with the ablest, such a lot full of life and fearless minds within the state. Her retinue used to be completely male however the basically guy she didn't pick out used to be a husband, even though there has been definitely no scarcity of suitors. Elizabeth was once devoutly non secular yet embraced the recent studying with calculated discrimination. She encouraged amazing structure, when her sea captains sailed nice oceans to find new beaches and based a effective out of the country empire. Centre level in those heady days...
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He preferred to appoint his own officials from the lower ranks of society. To the patriarchate, which fell vacant in 1254, he secured the election of a pious but narrow-minded monk called Arsenios. Such men were grateful to accept his orders and do his bidding. For in Theodore's view of things, and perhaps because he had lived in the shadow of a father who was a great emperor, it was an emperor's duty to order and control all departments of Church and State. He neither sought nor commanded the respect of the aristocracy of Nicaea who had helped to bring the Empire to greatness.
Gardner, The Lascarids of Nicaea (London, 1912), pp. 52-115; Ostrogorsky, History, pp. 428-32;CMH, IV, 1 (1966), pp. 290-309; D. M. Nicol, BYzantium and Venice (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 163-4. 22 THE EMPIRE IN EXILE by Theodore Doukas, now master of Thessalonica. In the year 1230, on what had once been Byzantine territory, there were in fact three empires in existence, two Greek and one Latin. But hovering on the side lines was the ruler of Bulgaria, John Asen, who fancied his own chances of mastering Constantinople.
In due course, having established a headquarters and capital in the city of Nicaea in north-western Asia Minor, he adopted the title of Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in exile. A new Orthodox Patriarch was appointed in Nicaea, and in 1208 he placed the imperial crown on the head of Theodore Laskaris. The Byzantine church and state were reborn in Nicaea. 4 The Latin Empire was thus faced with Byzantine resistance from two sides. But the Emperor Baldwin of Flanders, a stranger in a strange land, provoked a third and more dangerous enemy in the north.
