Definitions
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- noun One who declares himself
king in opposition to areigning monarch .
Etymologies
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anti- + king; German Gegenkönig
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Examples
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Henry Raspe, duke of Thuringia (d. 1247), was set up (1246) as an antiking in Germany.
1244 2001
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A faction of the nobles elected an antiking, Rudolf of Swabia, with the approval of Gregory's legates, but without papal confirmation.
1074 2001
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Struggle with the Norman antiking, Tancred of Lecce (d. 1194); coronation of Henry as king of Sicily (1194); birth of Frederick (later Frederick II) at Jesi (1194).
1186 2001
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A Habsburg antiking, Frederick the Handsome, and civil war (until 1325).
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