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In the 1997 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Favor the Bold", Ben Sisko says the phrase as the last line of the episode. He refers to it as an old saying. In the 1986 film "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", Admiral James T. Kirk alters the phrase when setting off on a dangerous mission. He says "May fortune favor the foolish.".
Stephen then lies and swears an oath of allegiance to Maud the daughter of the dying king. But as soon as the king dies Stephen usurps the throne, beginning a bloody civil war with Maud, contesting for the crown. Stephen is haunted by visits from the ghost of the betrayed King of England who shows him visions of the downfall of the pretender.
Henry II (() 5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, [2] was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France (including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland ...
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond is a 1692 historical play often attributed to William Mountfort but possibly written by John Bancroft. It was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the United Company. The prologue and epilogue were written by John Dryden. Some incidental music was composed by Henry Purcell.
Clifford was reputed as one of the greatest beauties of the 12th century. [5] Her relationship with Henry II, King of England (1133–1189) supposedly started when his wife, Queen Eleanor (c. 1122 – 1204) was pregnant with their last child, John (1166–1216) in 1166, but the king publicly acknowledged the affair for the first time in 1174. [6]
Poster for the Riverside Shakespeare Company's production of Edward II. New York, 1982.. The Life of Edward II of England (German: Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England), also known as Edward II, is an adaptation by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht of the 16th-century historical tragedy by Marlowe, The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England ...
Thus he acquired his name and reputation as a miser whilst accruing his fortune. [2] Nevertheless, he was a cultured man, serving as governor to the London Foundling Hospital , [ 4 ] serving as a benefactor of the Emmanuel Society, which supported the blind, and subscribing to books, including Jeremiah Seed's Discourses (1743) and James Ogilvie ...