Isabella was reintroduced to Mortimer in Paris by her cousin, Joan, Countess of Hainault, who appears to have approached Isabella suggesting a marital alliance between their two families, marrying Prince Edward to Joan's daughter, Philippa.

Most of the royal families of Europe were unwilling to marry into the parvenu Bonaparte family, and after rebuffs from Princess Carola of Sweden and from Queen Victoria's German niece Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Napoleon decided to lower his sights somewhat and " marry for love ", choosing the Countess of Teba, Eugénie de Montijo, a Spanish noblewoman of partial Scottish ancestry who had been brought up in Paris.

* Princess Irina Felixovna Yussupova, ( March 21, 1915, Saint Petersburg, Russia-August 30, 1983, Cormeilles, France ), married Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev ( October 28, 1904, Moscow, Russia – February 5, 1979, Paris, France ), son of Count Dmitri Sergeievich Sheremetev and wife Countess Irina Ilarionovna Vorontzova-Dachkova and a descendant of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev ; had issue:

-it is presumed the last relates to Paris acting as commissioning agent and iconographical consultant for the Countess with another artist.

Born Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi on 13 November 1848 in Paris, France, the son of Prince Charles III ( 1818 – 1889 ), and Countess Antoinette de Mérode-Westerloo ( 1828 – 1864 ), a Belgian noblewoman, maternal aunt of Donna Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Princess della Cisterna, Duchess consort of Aosta and Queen consort of Spain.

Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1172 he served at the court of his patroness Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps as herald-at-arms ( as Gaston Paris speculated ).

: See Also: Countess of Paris

In a Paris meeting in April 1922, represented by his adjunct Aires de Ornelas, and Miguelist representatives Aldegundes, Countess of Bardi, and tutor to Duarte Nuno, they agreed that owing to an heir, the rights of succession would pass to Duarte Nuno.

For their honeymoon, the Earl and Countess traveled around Europe accompanied by Lady Petersham, but neither lady enjoyed it much, especially Maria who particularly disliked Paris.

His favourite lover, the Countess of Buffon, however, would not go with him, so he decided to remain in Paris.

In Sainte-Assise, Le Raincy and Paris, the couple received nobles, intellectuals, playwrights, scientists, such as the Duchess of Lauzun, the Countess of Egmont, the Marquis of Lusignan, the Marquis of Osmond, the mathematician d ' Alembert, the German writer Melchior Grimm, the mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace, the chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, the composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, and the playwright Louis Carrogis Carmontelle.

After a funeral at the American Cathedral in Paris on 6 November 2001 – which was attended by Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, Prince Gholam Reza Pahlavi, the Count and Countess of Paris, the Prince and Princess of Naples, Prince Michel of Orléans, and Princess Ira von Fürstenberg – she was buried in the Westfriedhof, a cemetery in Munich, Germany, along with her parents and brother.

Although Henri adopted the title of Count of Paris upon the death of his father, his second wife remained Princesse de Joinville during the life of his mother who remained Countess of Paris.

Upon the death of his mother, Micaëla assumed the title of Countess of Paris.

The Count of Paris was then able to re-marry his second wife, Micaëla Countess of Paris and Duchess of France in the Roman Catholic Church, in September 2009.

His wife became known as Duchess of France, in order to enable Henri's widowed mother to continue to use the title Countess of Paris.

Henri's mother died on 5 July 2003, and Micaela started to use the title Countess of Paris.

She left Sweden in 1811 under the name of " Countess of Gotland ", officially because of her health, and returned to Paris.

On 9 March 1808 Berthier married Duchess Maria Elisabeth Franziska in Bavaria ( Landshut, 5 May 1784 – Paris, 1 June 1849 ), only daughter of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria and Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, the sister of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.

He married on 4 October 1570 in Paris to Catherine of Cleves ( 1548 – 1633 ), Countess of Eu, by whom he had fourteen children:

* Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, recorded 5 / 91, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Sony

# Elizabeth Berkeley, née Bagot, Dowager Countess of Falmouth – the widow of Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth

He died young about 1526, having married the heiress of Sir Roger Lewknor ; the Countess and her son Henry pressed his widow to a vow of perpetual chastity to preserve her inheritance for her Pole children.

His widow took the title Countess of Norfolk.

The " Countess von Leon ", the widow of Bernhard Müller, a leader of a small 19th century Utopian group, spent her last years in Hot Springs, where she died in 1881.

Katherine, Lady Stanhope, widow of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope, eldest son of the first Earl of Chesterfield and father of the second Earl, was created Countess of Chesterfield for life in 1660.

Lennart's widow Sonja Countess Bernadotte af Wisborg and his children ran both the foundation and the management company until 2007.

Unlike Painter, who wrote Edward as a bachelor and the Countess as a widow, the author of the play is aware that both are married at the time, and Edward tries to get the countess to make a pact with him in which each kills the other's spouse and tries to make it look like a double suicide.

But during this journey he met the Countess of Albany, widow of Charles Edward, who all her life was gifted with a singular ability to attract the affection ( Platonic or otherwise ) of men of letters.

Thomas Camoys ' second wife was Elizabeth Mortimer, widow of Henry ' Hotspur ' Percy ( 20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403 ), and daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, and Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster, daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, second son of Edward III of England.

His American-born widow Josephine, Countess of Sefton ( 1903 – 1980 )-once a close friend of the Duchess of Windsor and nicknamed " Foxy " for her abundant auburn hair-continued to spend some time at Croxteth.

In the United Kingdom, the widow of a peer may continue to use the style she had during her husband's lifetime, e. g. " Countess of Loamshire ", provided that his successor, if any, has no wife to bear the plain title.

* Following the death of Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer in 1992, his widow, Raine McCorquodale, ceased to use the style Countess Spencer, becoming Raine, Dowager Countess Spencer.

Juan de Borbón's widow used the title Countess of Barcelona until her death in 2000.

His wife was a legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel ( widow of the thirteenth Earl of Arundel ).

His sister, Isabella de Fortibus was widow of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle, and became also Countess of Devon in her own right.

* Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg, widow of Sigvard

Earls Croome Court remained as the seat of the family until 2007, when it was sold by Rachel, Countess of Coventry, the widow of the 11th Earl who died in 2002.

* Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg ( widow of the King's uncle Sigvard ), née Lindberg on 15 July 1924

* Countess Gunnila Bernadotte of Wisborg ( widow of the Kings's uncle Carl Johan ), née Wachtmeister af Johannishus on 12 May 1923

Lady Dysart ( 1889-1975 ) married Owain Edward Whitehead Greaves and was succeeded by their oldest daughter Rosamund Agnes Greaves ( born 1914 ) the eleventh Countess and in 2003 her sister Katherine Grant of Rothiemurchus ( born 1918 ), the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus M. B. E.

The prince died 2009 in Buenos Aires after a brief illness, being survived by his widow, née Countess Lena Hutten-Czapska.

In 1816 she was created Countess de Grey, of Wrest in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with a special remainder to her sister ( the widow of the 2nd Baron Grantham ) and her heirs male.

On his death, the Earldom of de Grey passed to his nephew, the 2nd Earl of Ripon, and the Barony passed to his daughter, Anne, Countess Cowper ( widow of the 6th Earl Cowper ), who became 7th Baroness Lucas.