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sister and Maria
Alfonso had been betrothed to Maria of Castile ( 1401 – 1458 ; sister of John II of Castile ) in Valladolid in 1408 ; the marriage was celebrated in Valencia on 12 June 1415.
While residing here he captivated and seduced the beautiful daughter of the prince, Philippa, sister of the Empress Maria.
He was believed to have arranged the poisoning of Alexios II's elder sister Maria the Porphyrogenita and her husband Renier of Montferrat, although Maria herself had encouraged him to intervene.
However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.
The King Maqooqas in response appreciated the invitation and gifted two concubines Maria Qibtia and her sister Sirin with two horses.
Until his own assassination in 1979, Mountbatten kept a photograph of Anastasia's sister, Grand Duchess Maria, beside his bed in memory of his youthful romantic attachment to her.
He had two known siblings, a sister called Maria and an older brother named Dmitri.
His sister Maria, who was said to have been epileptic, drowned in a river.
After the accession of King Louis II, George was aided in his reforming efforts by Queen Maria, a sister of Charles V and Ferdinand I, who was favorably inclined toward the new doctrine.
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, clavicembalist and composer, was her sister.
* In 1370 Maria Thamara Hatun – sister of Bulgarian Czar Ivan Shishman
Maria Eleonora's brother George William was flattered by the offer of the British Crown Prince and proposed their younger sister Catherine ( 1602 – 1644 ) as a more suitable wife for the Swedish king.
" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.
Although Queen Alexandra never treated her sister badly and they spent time together at Marlborough House in London and at Sandringham House in Norfolk in Great Britain, Maria felt that she was now " number two ".
This was not surprising as Maria was merely a deposed Dowager Empress while her older sister was a popular Dowager Queen.
On 13 October 1928 at Hvidøre near Copenhagen, in a house she had once shared with her sister Queen Alexandra, Maria died at the age of 80, having outlived four of her six children.
Mary Magdalene's given name Μαρία ( Maria ) is usually regarded as a Latin form of Μαριὰμ ( Mariam ), which is the Greek variant used in Septuagint for Miriam, the Hebrew name for Moses ' sister.
In 1962, Mussolini married Anna Maria Villani Scicolone, the sister of actress Sophia Loren.
Silvio was the first of three children ; he had a sister, Maria Francesca Antonietta Berlusconi ( 1943 – 2009 ) and has a brother, Paolo Berlusconi ( born 1949 ), both entrepreneurs.
Young Stefan would regard Franciszka as his foster mother and Maria as his older sister.
His childhood was marked by the musical life provided by his mother and aunt: Maria was a singer who could boast of having performed in Vienna at the Imperial Court, while her sister, Agathe, who lived with them, had made a name for herself as both a singer and pianist.
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.
His sister Jane Bowdler ( 1743 – 1784 ) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler ( Harriet ) ( 1750 – 1830 ) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.

sister and Eleonora
He was succeeded by his sister, Ulrika Eleonora.
He ascended to the throne following the death of his brother-in-law, absolutist Charles XII in the Great Northern War, as his sister and heir Ulrika Eleonora preferred to abdicate from her position as queen regnant after relinquishing most powers to the Riksdag of Sweden.
Ulrika Eleonora lived most of her life under the shadow of others, outshone by her brother the king, and by her beautiful sister, who was her brother's informal heir.
" With the war consuming more than half his life and nearly all his reign, he never married and fathered no children, and was succeeded by his sister Ulrika Eleonora, who in turn was coerced to hand over all substantial powers to the Riksdag of the Estates and opted to surrender the throne to her husband, who became King Frederick I of Sweden.
Charles was succeeded to the Swedish throne by his sister, Ulrika Eleonora.
Early in 1720 Charles XII's sister, Ulrika Eleonora, who had been elected queen of Sweden immediately after his death, was permitted to abdicate in favour of her husband Frederick the prince of Hesse, who was elected king 1720 under the title of Frederick I of Sweden ; and Sweden was, at the same time, converted into the most limited of monarchies.
Sweden and Zweibrücken were also united under Charles XI and Charles XII, until the death of the latter in 1718, at which point he was succeeded by his sister Ulrike Eleonora on the Swedish throne, but not in his German Duchy.
She was a daughter of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and his wife Eleonora de ' Medici ( a sister of Marie de ' Medici, Henry IV's wife ).
He also has a sister named Eleonora Poe, a reporter for the Daily Punctilio, which references to the short story Eleonora written by Edgar Allan Poe himself.
However, his aunt Ulrika Eleonora the Younger ( 1688 – 1741 ) managed to wrest the throne for herself, claiming that her elder sister had not " acquired the consent of the Parliamentary Estates " for her marriage to his father, according to laws of succession laid down in Norrköpings arvförening.
* Charles II ( ruled 1637 – 65 ), grandson of Charles I — his sister, Eleonora married Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
Hedwig Eleonora was at the time engaged to a Duke of Mecklenburg ( Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow ), and Queen Christina recommended Hedwig Eleonora ’ s elder, sister Magdalene Sibylle of Holstein-Gottorp.
Other proposals came from Savoy in the form of Princess Eleonora of Savoy or her sister Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy.
The war and the hostilities ended when Denmark's ally the United Provinces settled with Sweden's stronger ally France and the Swedish king Charles XI married Danish princess Ulrike Eleonora, sister of Christian V. Peace was made on behalf of France with the treaties of Fontainebleau and Lund ( Sweden and Denmark ) and Saint Germain ( Sweden and Brandenburg ), restoring most of the lost territories to Sweden.

sister and Brandenburg
The first Hohenzollern claimant to descend from both Anna and her younger sister Elisabeth, was John George, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1525 – 98 ), his maternal grandmother having been Barbara Jagiellon.
On 13 August 1651 the Dutch Hoge Raad ( Supreme Court ) ruled that guardianship would be shared between his mother, his paternal grandmother and Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, whose wife, Louise Henriette, was his father's eldest sister.
Two of Frederick V's sisters were married to leading Protestant princes: his sister Luise Juliane to his one-time guardian John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and his sister Elizabeth Charlotte to George William, Elector of Brandenburg.
Her father was Gustavus Adolphus Baron von der Schulenburg, P. C to the elector of Brandenburg, by his wife Petronelle Oddie de Schwenken and a sister to Federic Achatius, Count von der Schulenburg and Hehlen.
Rumphius was the oldest son of August Rumpf, a builder and engineer in Hanau, and Anna Elisabeth Keller, sister of Johann Eberhard Keller, governor of the Dutch-speaking Kleve ( Cleves ), at that time a district of the Electortel ( Kurfürstentum ) of Brandenburg.

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