"Leonardo was employed by the French king, wasn't he?"

Roger was regularly employed by the king as a justice.

He was never again employed directly by the king.

Mackay and his Scots cavalrymen, employed by the king of Sweden, had arrived in Badenburg less than three months ago.

He is said also to have been secretly employed by the French king to furnish intelligence of the duke's designs and movements.

Richard enjoyed better relations with King Henry II of England than Becket had, and was employed by the king on diplomatic affairs.

Over the following years, Roos was employed by the king in several demanding and secret missions.

Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition; they cannot be dismissed as king's men.

Specialists such as architects, masons, metalworkers and carpenters, were permanently employed by the king to fill positions that required the most skill.

In 1643, shortly before his last work was published, he was employed by the king to try to bring over his patron, the Earl of Pembroke.