6 sentences with “allegiance”

The local parliament renounced its allegiance to the Catholic emperor and pledged to support a Protestant prince in his place.

This was more than a "separation of church and state": it suggested that religious belief was in fact irrelevant to political allegiance and public conduct.

The core of French national identity in the revolutionary period was the struggle for the fatherland, rather than the old allegiance to the king and the church.

In almost all cases, the new Germanic kings swore formal allegiance to the Roman emperor in Constantinople in exchange for recognition of the legitimacy of their rule.

When the Germans learned that the Hungarians were negotiating with the Soviets to switch allegiance, now that German defeat was all but assured in early 1944, they supported a coup by Hungarian fascists under the direction of the Nazi state.

This confusion extended very much to the kings themselves. The English royal line (the Plantagenets) often enjoyed the pledges of allegiance of numerous "French" nobles, and "English" kings often considered themselves to be as French as they were English.