Brian O'Rourke, the builder, had intended the castle as a war fortress for his use when plundering neighbouring kings and chieftains.

Mahendra Varman is the rival and the neighbouring king.

He not only subdued the local Britons but appears to have stamped his authority fairly firmly upon his neighbouring kings.

King Raichand and some of the other neighbouring kings saw Prithviraj's injury.

Observing the deep piety of this king, the neighbouring king utilized the chance to attack him.

But it was a time of several kingdoms and Princess Thanew was proposed to by a neighbouring king.

No realm was an island: to those ambitious young warriors, the courts and the largesse of neighbouring kings presented a continual counter-attraction.

And nothing would do him but a Greek hymn, which was a thing no other neighbouring king could have provided.

That same year my father tried to marry himself (as the Fox told me) into two royal houses among the neighbouring kings, and they would have none of him.

Æthelberht and his court converted, and several neighbouring kings as well.