What is "heptarch"

Usage examples of "heptarch".

She had often been in Heptagon House, of course, but only when summoned to play with one of the Heptarch's children, never to perform a task for the Heptarch himself.

Peace, were treated with as much honor as any lord except the Heptarch himself or the heads of the Fourteen Families.

How would it injure the Heptarch to touch the lips of the daughter of a slave?

Thus, Agaranthamoi Heptest by definition meant the Heptarch, who had no brothers or sisters.

Since Oruc, the ruling Heptarch, had several siblings, his dynastic name was Agaranthikil.

Father had just told her that her grandfather was ruling Heptarch all his life, and Father was his only child.

That the Heptarch, the true Heptarch, always acted for the benefit of the whole world.

Other lords could act to preserve their dynasty or enrich themselves, but the true Heptarch would even give up the Heptagon House and let a usurper rule in Heptam, the capital of Korfu-if, for some unfathomable reason, such a thing was to the greater benefit of the whole world.

If he had been an ordinary subject of the Heptarch, it would have been her duty to kill him for what he had said already, if only because he represented a clear danger to Lyra.

Lady Patience, and any assurance Lord Peace gives him that he would be loyal even if you were free seems further proof to the Heptarch that your father is desperate to win your freedom.

But Angel and I have done all we could to teach you what the Heptarch lives for.

But his daughter Irena, the first Heptarch, she saw something that only the Heptarchs know: As he spoke the prophecy and drew the map with his right hand, his left hand slowly tapped out into the mind of the ship, 'Save my daughter from the lair of the wyrms, or they will devour all mankind.

I am not a little child or a helpless Heptarch whose servants have made her soft.

And that the King looks for his daughter Patience, the rightful Heptarch, the daughter of prophecy?

I don't feel all mankind as mine, though Father taught me often that that was what the Heptarch ought to feel.