Prince regent

Accord betwixt D. Raymond Berenger, Prince Regent of Arragon, with the Templers and Hospitaliers, vpon the teſtament of King D. Alphonſo.

As to the propoſition for a Prince Regent, it was argued, that this was as much againſt Monarchy, or rather more, than what they moved for. If a King's ill government did give the people a right in any caſe to take his power from him, and to lodge it with another, owning that the right to it remained ſtill with him, this might have every whit as bad conſequences, as the other ſeemed to have: For recourſe might be had to this violent remedy too often, and too raſhly.

And if there be ſeveral Princes of that Family, one of the younger Brothers ſhall be choſen and preſented to that Biſhoprick; and if the younger Brothers fail, one of the Princes Regent ſhall be choſen: […]

It happened farther, that ſome Noblemen of Great Poland (among whom One was a Woywode (one of the Princes Regents), and Two Counts, James de Oſtrorog, and Raphael de Leſzno), being deſirous to know fully all relating to the Brethren, took a Journey to them as they were about to hold a Synod in the Heart of Moravia; […]

We cannot determine whether it was the king [Charles VI of France] that acted himſelf upon this occaſion, or whether it was his council, or the princes regents of the kingdom: the hiſtorians ſay only ſimply the king.

[A]fter returning thanks to Heaven for the re-establishment of His Highness's health,—an event of incalculable importance to the interests of the afflicted Church, which never stood in greater need to virtuous Princes Regent (des Princes Regens vertueux)—[…] [From The Times.]

The Committee will have the honour to lay these Statements before Their Royal Highnesses the Princes Regents of the two Nations.

The young princes-regent revolted and proclaimed themselves the sovereigns of the realms over which they had been placed in temporary authority during the absence of their fathers.

When the news of the fall of Peking to Li Tzŭ-ch‘êng […] reached Mukden in 1644 Fan [Wên-Ch‘êng] memorialized the princes regent urging them to seize this opportunity to conquer an empire, but in so doing to spare the lives of the common people and refrain from the destruction that characterized former invasions.

The two Prince Regents were but junior members of the Royal family and commanded little influence over their royal seniors or peers; they would not have been the choices of the royalty, had the latter been given a say in the matter.