"A large, rich city has the accoutrements of civilization that appeal to the most ambitious princes and priests of the age," says De Long.

It is said that he was a very ambitious prince and wanted to become a king.

But the city's growing wealth and glamour eventually attract the age's most ambitious princes.

The ambitious prince seems to have demonstrated his legitimacy by enshrining Chinggis Khan.

The demon Jagiellon had thought to shackle to his service had been too powerful for the rash and ambitious young prince.

Until he seized the throne from his father, there had been no indication that Jagiellon was anything more than another ambitious and bullying Lithuanian prince.

In a town devoted to archetypal plotlines, there is every temptation to see this story as the deposed king giving way to the ambitious prince.

Instead, the ambitious prince seized the throne for himself in 1255 and began a campaign of territorial expansion into West Africa.

Rukmi was an ambitious prince and he did not want to earn the wrath of Emperor Jarasandha,who was ruthless.

However, Narai was also an ambitious prince and had requested Dutch support against his uncle.