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A coregency is the situation where a monarchical position (such as prince, princess, king, queen, emperor or empress), normally held by only a single person, is held by two or more. It is to be distinguished from diarchies or duumvirates such as ancient Sparta and Rome along with a regency where the monarch in most cases infant or incapacitated particularly has a senior above him and exercises no power whatsoever apart from legally holding the position of head of state.
A coregency is the situation where a monarchical position (such as prince, princess, king, queen, emperor or empress), normally held by only a single...
that Amenhotep III shared a coregency with his son Amenhotep IV. Lawrence Berman has claimed that proponents of the coregency theory tended to be art historians...
predecessors for four generations in the kings of Judah, had a coregency with his father, and this coregency began in 729 BCE. As an example of the reasoning that...
usually did for coregencies, Thiele determined 54 "actual" years back to 697/696 BC, as the year when the Hezekiah/Manasseh coregency began. Non-accession...
not relate whether it is measured from a coregency. Egyptologists must determine the existence of a coregency from a comparison of chronological data,...
for 16 years. Edwin R. Thiele concluded that his reign commenced as a coregency with his father, which lasted for 11 years. Because his father Uzziah...
The Coregency Stela is an ancient Egyptian stela dating from the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It consists of seven limestone fragments, which were...
Thiele's suggestion has merit, McFall's coregency has been adopted in the infobox below. This begins one-year coregency sometime in the six months on or after...
strongly against the establishment of a long coregency between the two rulers and in favor of either no coregency or one lasting at most two years. Donald...
the object is a forgery which cannot be used to postulate a possible coregency between Shabaka and Shebitku. Secondly, Shebitku's Year 3, 1st month of...
range. For Ahaz, the Scriptural data allow dating the beginning of his coregency with Jotham to some time in the six-month interval beginning of Nisan...
Chronology of the Amarna Letters, with Special Reference to the Hypothetical Coregency of Amenophis III and Akhenaten. By Edward Fay Campbell Jr". American Journal...
reign, thereby creating the earliest documented coregency in the history of Egypt. That such a coregency took place was first proposed by Étienne Drioton...
his son, Amenemhat III; generally, this is presumed to be a proof for a coregency with his son, which should have been started in this year. According to...
controlled by two or more people is, however, usually distinguished as a coregency. Corule is one of the oldest forms of government. Historical examples...
his reign, Neferhotep I shared the throne with his brother Sihathor, a coregency that lasted a few months to a year. Sihathor died shortly before Neferhotep...
her husband. Amenemhat II was once believed to have shared a period of coregency with his predecessor Senusret I, an hypothesis based on the double-dated...
female identity beyond doubt... However, it is worth noting that this coregency does not seem to have lasted a long time. After Akhenaten's death, Neferneferuaten...
Germany Pharaoh Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom Reign 51–30 BC (21 years) Coregency See list Ptolemy XII (until 51 BC) Ptolemy XIII (51–47 BC) Ptolemy XIV...
by scholars who make reference to the ancient Near Eastern practice of coregency. Following the approach of Wellhausen, another set of calculations shows...
coregency with his children. He first entered into a coregency with his son Abīkarib Asʿad (Abu Karib). Later in his reign, he entered into coregency...
Non-sovereign Pentarchy Personal union Popular Principality Real union Regency Coregency Self-proclaimed Signoria Tetrarch Triarchy Universal Philosophy Philosophers...
Non-sovereign Pentarchy Personal union Popular Principality Real union Regency Coregency Self-proclaimed Signoria Tetrarch Triarchy Universal Philosophy Philosophers...
February 2011. William Murnane (1977). Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. Seminal book on the Egyptian coregency system W. Murnane (1990). The road to Kadesh: A Historical...
during their own lifetime, so for a time there would be two kings in coregency—a senior king and a junior king. Examples were Henry the Young King of...
ISBN 978-0-7156-3745-6, p. 172 Murnane, William J. Ancient Egyptian Coregencies, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. No. 40. p.2. The Oriental...
Non-sovereign Pentarchy Personal union Popular Principality Real union Regency Coregency Self-proclaimed Signoria Tetrarch Triarchy Universal Philosophy Philosophers...
F. Albright has dated his reign to 849–842 BCE. Edwin Thiele placed a coregency of Jehoram with his father Jehoshaphat, starting in 853/852 BCE, with...
year are scant evidence and do not necessitate a coregency. Murnane argues that if there was a coregency, it could not have lasted more than a few months...