Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

** Anne Catherine Emmerich

Henry married Anne Boleyn in secret in 1531, just as his divorce from Catherine was finalized.

* 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg ( d. 1612 )

In early 1533, Henry married Anne Boleyn, who was pregnant with his child, and in May Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally declared the marriage with Catherine void, and the marriage to Anne valid.

* 1774 – Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun, stigmatic, and mystic ( d. 1824 )

Henry's fancy with Catherine started before the end of his marriage with Anne when she was still a member of Anne's court.

His will had reinstated his daughters by his annulled marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn to the line of succession, but did not legitimise them.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, one of the inspirational sources to the cited movie, depicts a long and touching description of the St Veronica episode and she identifies the true name of St Veronica also as " Seraphia.

In 1530, he wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's planned divorce from Catherine of Aragon, in favour of Anne Boleyn, on the grounds that it was unscriptural and was a plot by Cardinal Wolsey to get Henry entangled in the papal courts of Pope Clement VII.

* Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

It soon became the one absorbing object of Henry's desires to annul his marriage to Queen Catherine so he would be free to marry Anne.

Anne has been called " the most influential and important queen consort England has ever had ", since she provided the occasion for Henry VIII to divorce Catherine of Aragon, and declare his independence from Rome.

A year later in 1531 ( fully two years before Henry's marriage to Anne ), Queen Catherine was banished from court and her rooms were given to Anne.

She was not educated as highly as King Henry's previous wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.

She became a maid-of-honour in 1532 to Queen Catherine, but Jane may have served Catherine as early as 1527, and went on to serve Queen Anne Boleyn.

After Catherine Howard was beheaded, Anne and her brother, the Duke of Cleves, pressed the king to remarry her.

She was not the longest-lived, however, since Catherine of Aragon was 50 at the time of her death and Anne was only 41.

According to David Starkey, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than Anne Boleyn.

* November 26 – Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest of Anne Frank ( d. 1945 )

* August 26 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans Queen consort of Sicily and Sardinia ( b. 1669 )

* January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress

According to several other sources, however, Dominique Aury was itself a pseudonym of Anne Cécile Desclos, born September 23, 1907 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France, and deceased April 26, 1998 ( at age 90 ) in Paris, France.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

On 26 August, during the period known as the First Fronde, Anne ordered the arrest of some of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris ; violence flared as a result, and the 27 August became known as another Day of the Barricades.

On 26 November, James's own daughter, Princess Anne, did the same, and James returned to London the same day, never again to be at the head of a serious military force in England.

The Anne had originally been captured off the Virginia Capes in April by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Whydah, which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717, off of Cape Cod.

The Anne had originally been captured off the Virginia Capes in April by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Whydah, which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717, off of Cape Cod.

The pueblo celebrates an annual feast day for its patron saint, St. Anne, on July 26.

The Tamar Bridge was officially reopened by Princess Anne on 26 April 2002 — forty years to the day after it was first officially opened.

After intense negotiations, a marriage contract was signed on 26 May 1612, over the objection of the queen, Anne of Denmark.

Maria Fitzherbert ( Maria Anne Fitzherbert, born Smythe ; 26 July 1756 – 27 March 1837 ) was the wife ( in secret ) of George, Prince of Wales.

Natalie Anne Merchant ( born October 26, 1963 ) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

In 1703, he married Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg ( d. 1704 ), and the second time, Frederick carried off the 19 year-old Countess Anne Sophie Reventlow from her home in Clausholm near Randers on 26 June 1712 and secretly wed her at Skanderborg.

* 26 – Anne Haney, 67, actress, heart failure.

* Lady Anne Holland ( c. 1455 – between 26 August 1467 and 6 June 1474 ), who married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset.

On April 26, 2005, he was appointed to advise Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan on whether or not there should be a government inquiry into the 1985 Air India disaster.

Anne Josephine Robinson ( born 26 September 1944 ) is an English television presenter and journalist, known for her assertive views and acerbic style of presenting.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann ( November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936 ) was a German ex-convict sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti ( 11 October 1629 – 26 February 1666 ) was a French nobleman, the second son of Henri, Prince of Condé and brother of le Grand Condé and Anne Genevieve, Duchess of Longueville.

* Anne Holland ( d. 26 December 1486, married first Sir John Neville ( d. 1450 ), son of Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, the marriage unconsummated ; married second John Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby ; married third James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas

* Anne Russell ( d. 26 January 1697 ).