Ludovic married, firstly, Sophia Ruthven, daughter of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, before June 1590.

In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries ( Spiritual Lights ) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

Elizabeth bore nine children who reached adulthood, of whom Sophia of Hanover was the youngest.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

The Senate met in St Sophia and offered the crown to Theodore Lascaris, who had married into the Angelid family, but it was too late.

In 1472, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaiologina, married Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow, who began championing the idea of Russia being the successor to the Byzantine Empire.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

" He received criticism from the Italian media and actress Sophia Loren who said " How dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema?

In Mysticism, Gnosticism, as well as some Hellenistic religions, there is a female spirit or goddess named Sophia who is said to embody wisdom and who is sometimes described as a virgin.

Within the Protestant tradition in England, 17th century Mystic, Universalist and founder of the Philadelphian Society Jane Leade wrote copious descriptions of her visions and dialogues with the " Virgin Sophia " who, she said, revealed to her the spiritual workings of the universe.

Leade was hugely influenced by the theosophical writings of 16th century German Christian mystic Jakob Böhme, who also speaks of the Sophia in works such as The Way to Christ.

He was succeeded by Justin II, who was the son of his sister Vigilantia, and married to Sophia, the niece of Empress Theodora.

Glamorgan County Cricket Club would move to Sophia Gardens and the cricket ground to the north would be demolished and a new rugby union stadium built for Cardiff RFC, who would move out of the south ground, allowing the National Stadium to be built, for the sole use of the national rugby union team.

The life at S. Sophia was not strict enough for the young monk, who betook himself first to the island monastery of Tremite San Nicolo in the Adriatic and in 1053 to some hermits at Majella in the Abruzzi.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

Despite his jealous tempers and frequent absences, Sophia loved him, and bore him seven children who survived to adulthood.

In her letters, Sophia describes her son as a responsible, conscientious child who set an example to his younger brothers and sisters.

Sophia was, at first, against the marriage of her son and Sophia Dorothea of Celle, looking down on Sophia Dorothea's mother ( who was not of Royal birth ) and concerned by Sophia Dorothea's legitimated status, but was eventually won over by the advantages inherent in the marriage.

On 14 February 1479 at Frankfurt ( Oder ) he was married to Sophia of Poland ( 6 April 1464-5 October 1512 ), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King Sigismund I of Poland.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

Count Frederick III of Zollern was a loyal retainer of the Holy Roman Emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI, and around 1185 he married Sophia of Raabs, the daughter of Conrad II, Burgrave of Nuremberg.

# Elisabeth Sophia of Brandenburg ( July 13, 1589 – December 24, 1629 ), married:

Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russian, coat-of-arms.

In 1962, Mussolini married Anna Maria Villani Scicolone, the sister of actress Sophia Loren.

Sophia married Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1658.

The act restricts the British throne to the " Protestant heirs " of Sophia of Hanover who have never been Roman Catholic and who have never married a Roman Catholic.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

They married in 1774, lived at the northeast corner of 3rd and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had four children, Sarah, Thomas, Sophia, and Maria.

In 1997 Enfield married Lucy Lyster and they have one son, Archie Edward ( born 1997 ) and two daughters, Poppy Sophia ( born 1999 ) and Nell Florence ( born 2003 ).

Subsequently, Leopold V's younger son, Leopold VI, also married a Byzantine princess ( Theodora Angelina ), as did his youngest son ( by Theodora ), Frederick II, who married Sophia Laskarina.

In 1417, Władysław married Elisabeth of Pilica, who died in 1420 without bearing him a child, and two years later, Sophia of Halshany, who bore him two surviving sons.

About 1785 Maskelyne married Sophia Rose of Cotterstock, Northamptonshire.

On 8 September 1748 he married Sophia Trevanion, daughter of John Trevanion of Caerhays in Cornwall, by whom he had two sons and seven daughters, three of whom died in infancy.

George's surviving uncle, George William of Celle, had married his mistress in order to legitimise his only daughter, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, but looked unlikely to have any further children.

The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards ( previously called the Special Award ), is given by the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award ( e. g. Mary Pickford, Maurice Chevalier, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, James Stewart, Sophia Loren, Sidney Poitier, et al ).

Hamilton, being a descendant through his mother of the Scottish House of Stewart ( prior to their accession to the English throne ) was the senior-most claimant to the throne of Scotland in the event of that Scotland chose not to accept Sophia of the Palatinate as the Stuart heiress ( see Act of Security 1704 ).

Golden Hollywood ( First row, left-right ) Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford ( Second row, left-right ) John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas ( Third row, left-right ) Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney ( Fourth row, left-right ) Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren ( Fifth row, left-right ) Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

Pistis Sophia, possibly dating as early as the 2nd century, is the best surviving of the Gnostic writings.

The Countess Granville died on 7 October 1745, leaving one daughter Sophia, who married William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.

William Howe was born in England, the third and youngest son of Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe and Charlotte, the daughter of Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Leinster and Darlington, an acknowledged illegitimate daughter of King George I.

Howe's father was Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, and mother was Mary Sophia von Kielmansegg ( A niece of King King George I ), and he had two notable younger brothers, Richard Howe, Earl Howe and William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, as well as seven other siblings.

The 3rd Marquess was born at the family seat of Mount Stuart, on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute and Sophia Rawdon-Hastings ( daughter of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings ).

* Sophia Charlotte Curzon, 2nd Baroness Howe ( 1762 – 1835 )

In 1810 Lord Brownlow married Sophia Hume, daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, of Wormleybury and Lady Amelia Egerton, great-granddaughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.

Pistis Sophia is an important Gnostic text discovered in 1773, possibly written as early as the 2nd century.

* Artistic remains of Gnosticism such as Abrasax gems, and literary remains like the Pistis Sophia, the latter part of which probably dates back to the end of the 2nd century and, though not strictly Basilidian, yet illustrates early Alexandrian Gnosticism.

Sophia Strutt ( d. 2 Dec 1928 ) married Sir Henry Denis Le Marchant, 2nd Baronet., son of Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet, on 7 September 1869.

Lord Haddington was the only son of Charles Hamilton, 8th Earl of Haddington and Lady Sophia, daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun.

The first experimentation with pendentives were made in Roman dome construction beginning in the 2nd – 3rd century AD, while full development of the form was achieved in the 6th century Eastern Roman Hagia Sophia at Constantinople.

On 28 September 1854 Macnamara married ( probably to save the ancestral finances ) to Lady Sophia Hare, daughter of the local MP for St Albans, the 2nd Earl of Listowel.

In the reign of Roman Emperor Hadrian ( 2nd century AD ), a matron Sophia ( Wisdom ), with her three youthful daughters, Pistis, Elpis, and Agape ( Greek for Faith, Hope and Charity ), became Catholic martyrs, and all three were interred on the Aurelian Way.

In 1854 Sophia, widow of the 2nd Marquess of Bute began to finance the creation of a 41 acre garden on the site of Plasturton Farm, next to the River Taff and Cardiff Bridge.

* Westminster Abbey, to William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale, James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale & his wife Sophia Fairholm 1723

Daughter of the 1st Marquess of Hastings and wife to the 2nd Marquess of Bute, Lady Sophia was concerned to provide open space for recreation in the rapidly expanding city in the late 19th century, in which her husband was heavily involved.

Lord Exeter married Lady Georgina Sophia Pakenham, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford, on 17 October 1848.

Portland was the son of Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck by his first wife Elizabeth Sophia Hawkins-Whitshed, daughter of Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 2nd Baronet and grand-daughter of Admiral Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed, 1st Baronet.

* Lady Sophia Keppel ( c. 1798 – 1824 ), married Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet and had issue.

* Lady Sophia Frederica Christina ( 1809 – 1859 ), married John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute and had issue.