Sentences with 'regent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word regent and other words derived from it.
• « This pharaoh was named Hatshepsut; she originally ruled as regent (i.e. someone who is supposed to rule until the young king comes of age) for her stepson, but then claimed the title of pharaoh and ruled immediately. »
• « Louis XIII ascended the throne at the age of eight when his father was assassinated in 1610. Following conventional practice when a king was too young to rule, his mother, Marie de' Medici, took over as regent, who rules in the king's name, assisted by a brilliant French cardinal, Armand de Richelieu. »
• « Although Marie de' Medici eventually stepped down as regent, Richelieu joined the king as his chief minister in 1628 and continued to play the key role in shaping the French state. »
• « Louis XIII died in 1643, and his son became King Louis XIV. The latter was still too young to take the throne, so his mother became regent, ruling alongside Richelieu's protégé Jules Mazarin, who continued Richelieu's policies and focused on taxation and royal centralisation. »