Gustavus was married to Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, the daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and chose the Prussian city of Elbing as the base for his operations in Germany.

As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

In the year 1620, Maria Eleonora married the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who has just succeeded her father.

He received reports with the most flattering descriptions of the physical and mental qualities of the beautiful 17-year-old princess Maria Eleonora.

Maria Eleonora had additional suitors in the young William of Orange, Wladislaw Vasa of Poland, Adolph Friedrich of Mecklenburg and even the future Charles I of England.

Maria Eleonora, however, seems to have had a preference for Gustavus Adolphus.

The Electress Dowager maintained an attitude of reserve and even refused to grant the Swedish king a personal meeting with Maria Eleonora.

After plighting his troth to Maria Eleonora, Gustavus Adolphus hurried back to Sweden to make arrangements for the reception of his bride.

She sent Maria Eleonora to territory outside of George William's reach and concluded the marriage negotiations herself.

Anna of Prussia provided herself with a selection of objects of value from the exchequer before she joined Maria Eleonora in Brunswick.

Maria Eleonora had a definite liking for entertainment and sweetmeats, and she soon succumbed to the current fashionable craze for buffoons and dwarfs.

Within six months of their marriage, Gustavus Adolphus left to command the siege of Riga, leaving Maria Eleonora in the early stages of her first pregnancy.

Her emotional life lacked balance, and everything Maria Eleonora undertook on her own initiative needed careful watching.

He continued to be in love with Ebba Brahe their entire marriage, but it does not appear that Maria Eleonora noticed this.

In the autumn of 1623 Maria Eleonora gave birth to a daughter, but the baby died the next year.

In the autumn Maria Eleonora was pregnant for a third time.

By April, Maria Eleonora found she was again pregnant.

Shortly after the birth, Maria Eleonora was in no condition to be told the truth about the baby's sex, and the king and court waited several days before breaking the news to her.

In the year after Christina's birth, Maria Eleonora was described as being in a state of hysteria owing to her husband's absences.

In 1670 he was married to Eleonora Maria of Austria ( 1653-1697 ), daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga.

In 1945 he married Eleonora Chiavarelli ( 1915 – 2010 ), with whom he had four children: Maria Fida ( born 1946 ), Agnese ( 1952 ), Anna and Giovanni ( 1958 ).

In June 1620 Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden visited his cousin Duke Johann Albrecht II here, and in September of that same year his bride-to-be, Princess Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, visited the island and stayed at the castle on the way to her marriage in Stockholm.

* Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, ( 1599-1655 ), widow of King Gustaf II Adolf of Sweden.

Elisabet Gyllenhielm was heiress to the castle and manor of Tynnelsö in Södermanland and lady-in-waiting of two Swedish queens consort, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.

Examples include the Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the Chevalier ( Knight ) of the Légion d ' honneur, a grade of the War Merit Cross, the Knight's Cross of the Brandenburg Bailiwick of the Knights ' Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph, the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa, 1st class ( Knight ) of the Order of the Sun, and the Knight's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern.

In 1509, he married Maria of Jülich-Berg, daughter of Duke William IV of Jülich-Berg and Sybilla of Brandenburg, who became heiress to her father's estates Jülich, Berg and Ravensberg.

Maria Emilie Snethlage was born in Kraatz ( now part of Gransee ) in the Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, and educated privately at her father's house ( Rev.

She was greeted, dressed in silver brocade, by queen dowager Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg at the Stockholm Royal Palace, were the wedding was celebrated the same day.

Toepfer married Maria Theresia Klaus, who he had met during a stay in Brandenburg, in Berlin in 1909 ; the couple then moved to Idstein in 1910 after finding a suitable house, the " Heerhof " ( also " Höerhof "; Obergasse 15 ), complete with antique furniture.

During a number of years he was sent on secret mission between Gustav Adolph of Sweden and the Elector of Brandenburg to arrange the marriage to Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, then 1621-22 with his German regiment aided the king of Poland-Lithuania in action against the Ottoman Empire.

Although there were no witnesses, the shepherd's bride, Maria Leppin, accused Kahlbutz of the murder and took him to court in Dreetz ( Brandenburg ).

They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).

Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wiesengrund was born in Frankfurt am Main on September 11, 1903, the only child of Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund ( 1870 – 1946 ) and Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana ( 1865 – 1952 ).

Thomas Bowdler (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825 ) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original.

* August 11 – William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.

* September 11 – Maria Gabriela de Faría, Venezuelan actress and singer

* August 11 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer

* September 11 – Augustín Fernández Muñoz, Duke of Riansares, morganatic husband of Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

* February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist author ( d. 1880 )

* January 11 – Parmigianino ( Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola ), Italian artist ( d. 1540 )

* March 11 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer ( b. c. 1543 )

* August 11 – Anna Maria Luisa de ' Medici, last of the Medicis ( d. 1743 )

He was awarded the Order of Maria Theresa on May 11, 1796.

He arranged for Louis ' sister, Henrietta Maria, to marry King Charles I of England, on 11 May 1625.

His first wife, Olga, was shot on 11 September 1941 on Stalin's orders, in the Medvedev forest outside Oryol, together with Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova and 160 other prominent political prisoners.

His only surviving daughter Maria Karolina, inherited his vast land holdings which included 11 cities and 140 villages.

His victory and that of Broglie disposed Maria Theresa to cede Silesia in order to make good her position elsewhere, and the separate peace between Prussia and Austria, signed at Breslau on 11 June, closed the First Silesian War, but the War of the Austrian Succession continued.

* 12 December 1791 – 11 August 1804: Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Ludovica of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia

* 11 August 1804 – 2 April 1810: Her Imperial and Royal Highness Princess Imperial, Archduchess Maria Ludovica of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia

# Maria Anna of Savoy ( 17 December 1757 – 11 October 1824 ) married Prince Benedetto of Savoy in 1775, no issue.

The emperor fled for the second time to St. Peter's ( or, according to other sources, to Santa Maria in Trastevere ), where he was captured and beheaded by Gundobad or by Ricimer on 11 July 472.

When Maria Theresa died, Joseph started issuing edicts — over 6, 000 in all, plus 11, 000 new laws designed to regulate and reorder every aspect of the empire.

The Lockheed L-749 Constellation crashed into Monte Redondo ( São Miguel Island, Azores ), killing all 11 crew members and 37 passengers on board, including Cerdan and the famous French violinist Ginette Neveu, while approaching the intermediate stop airport at Santa Maria.

Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Romano Mussolini, the fourth son of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and Anna Maria Villani Scicolone ( born 11 May 1938, Rome ).