The important Abbey of St. Riquier ( Centula ) in Picardy had secular abbots from the time of Charlemagne, who had given it to his friend Angilbert, the poet and the lover of his daughter Bertha, and father of her two sons ( see Saint Angilbert ).

Bertha, wife of Joseph, ( caretakers of the castle ) tells Matilda of the " other wing ": " Now for goodness sake, dear madam, don't go no farther, for as sure as you are alive, here the ghosts live, for Joseph says he often sees lights and hears strange things.

His best-known works, still widely read today, are: The seductive vampire Carmilla attacks the sleeping Bertha Rheinfeldt.

Two interesting facts in transportation history are that both Karl Drais, the inventor of the bicycle, as well as Carl Benz, the inventor of the car were born in Karlsruhe and that Benz also studied at the city ’ s university ; and that Benz ’ s wife Bertha took the world's first long distance-drive with a car from Mannheim to Karlsruhe-Grötzingen and Pforzheim ( see Bertha Benz Memorial Route ).

Members of the Borough Council are Bertha N. Burl, Darwin Coleman, Mark Oliver, Clifford Poindexter, Stephanie Stewart and Carl Washington

There are also two art galleries named Sala José Cuevas and Sala Bertha Cuevas, which host temporary exhibits.

There are however exceptions ; Callaway Golf for instance markets a " Big Bertha " line of irons in which the lob wedge has significantly higher bounce than the sand wedge.

Visiting his — and Bertha's -- aunt, he is introduced to his cousin at Mary Ley's flat, and from the moment they first set eyes on each other Bertha and Gerald are curiously attracted to each other.

Many of the character names are either puns ( Bertha van Ation refers to the film Birth of a Nation, Juan Tootrego ) or references to historical personages ( Blake Williams refers to the poet William Blake, Francis Dashwood's name refers to Sir Francis Dashwood ).

Claims that another Bertha survived on Krupp's proving ground at Meppen, and was used again in World War II in the Battle of Sevastopol, are based on a misconception.

Connerly's aunt Bertha Louis, whom he had lived with and who was close to his grandmother, confirmed his account and said his detractors " are just lyin ' on him.

Done properly they are almost impossible to detect, though a trained analyst monitoring the communications of someone who has already aroused suspicion might be able to recognize a comment like " Aunt Bertha has gone into labor " as having an ominous meaning.

Among many judges from the Court who have been elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada are Justices Rosalie Abella, Louise Arbour, Peter Cory, Louise Charron, Andromache Karakatsanis, Bora Laskin, Michael Moldaver and Bertha Wilson.

The party's Co-Chairs are Sam Williams, UAW Region 9 CAP director ; Bertha Lewis ; and Bob Master of the Communications Workers of America.

Carolingian use of the name Bertha, as in Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne and Bertha, daughter of Lothair II are in this tradition.

The new arrival of three servants at the house — an aging nanny and servant named Mrs. Bertha Mills ( Fionnula Flanagan ), an elderly gardener named Mr. Edmund Tuttle ( Eric Sykes ), and a young mute girl named Lydia ( Elaine Cassidy ) — coincides with a number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear that they are not alone.

Hand and Bertha have shared " a sacred night of love ", although the specifics of this are not explicitly stated, and both characters agree that it was " a dream ".

Hand himself leaves " for foreign parts " ( his cousin's house in Surrey ), while Rowan and Bertha are reconciled.

The film tells the story of Bertha Thompson ( played by Barbara Hershey ) and " Big " Bill Shelly ( played by David Carradine ), two train robbers and lovers who are caught up in the plight of railroad workers in the American South.

The last lines of this story are also important ; Pearl's line “ your lovely Pear tree ” echoes in the reader's mind: to whom is she referring-Harry and the affair she had with him, or Bertha and flirtation between them, or perhaps Pearl ( like Mansfield herself ) is bisexual and referring to them both?

A teacher questions her as to whether her own subjects are barbarians, for which Bertha orders the teacher executed.

Two young lovers meet in Bertha ’ s garden, but they are shot dead there, as the queen disapproves of lovers ' trysts.

We give an example: Titius contracted and consummated marriage with Bertha.

A number of longtime characters were written out during this time, including Ben and Eve McFarren, Diane Ballard, Sara McIntyre, Adam Thorpe, Barbara Norris Thorpe, Justin Marler and Steve Jackson ; actress Lenore Kasdorf left the show in 1981, and producers decided not to recast the role of Rita Stapleton Bauer, given how popular Kasdorf had been ; and Bauer family matriarch Bertha " Bert " Bauer died, after Charita Bauer's death in 1985.

His father smuggled him out of prison and allowed him to live under an invisibility cloak, guarded by Winky, and how Ministry of Magic worker Bertha Jorkins discovered him and ultimately was relieved of her information by Voldemort, who then returned to find Crouch Jr in his father's house.

Harry began preparations to go to Korea, and Bertha asked a friend how to go about adopting eight children from another country.

He married Bertha, the Christian daughter of Charibert, king of the Franks, thus building an alliance with the most powerful state in contemporary Western Europe ; the marriage probably took place before Æthelberht came to the throne.

According to Gregory of Tours, Charibert was king when he married Ingoberg, Bertha ’ s mother, which places that marriage no earlier than 561.

On the other hand, Gregory refers to Æthelberht at the time of his marriage to Bertha, simply as " a man of Kent ", and in the 589 passage concerning Ingoberg ’ s death, which was written in about 590 or 591, he refers to Æthelberht as " the son of the king of Kent ".

All of the contradictions above cannot be reconciled, but the most probable dates that may be drawn from the data, place Æthelberht ’ s birth at approximately 560, and perhaps, his marriage to Bertha at 580.

Æthelberht ’ s marriage to Bertha certainly connected the two courts, although not as equals: the Franks would have thought of Æthelberht as an under-king.

Another perspective on the marriage may be gained by considering that it is likely that Æthelberht was not yet king at the time he and Bertha were wed: it may be that Frankish support for him, acquired via the marriage, was instrumental in gaining the throne for him.

Named after his maternal grandfather, Romanos was married, as a child, to Bertha, the illegitimate daughter of Hugh of Arles, King of Italy, who changed her name to Eudokia after her marriage.

Romanos II probably never consummated his first marriage to Bertha of Italy ( daughter of Hugh of Italy

His illegal marriage to Bertha gave him one stillborn son in 999, but only Constance gave him surviving children:

His second marriage, to a certain Bertha, probably from Lombardy, was officiated in Huesca on 16 August 1097.

Bertha, who had come to the United States in 1848, a refugee from Rhenish Bavaria and the revolution there, had lived in the South before her 1853 marriage with Julius, and during the war sympathized with the South, though their differing sympathies didn't separate their household.

The marriage of Eadbald's Merovingian mother Bertha had resulted in the conversion of Kent, and Æthelburg's would do the same in Northumbria.

Based on background information from the original series, the book tells of the first 11 years of Anne Shirley's childhood, beginning with the brief happiness of Bertha and Walter Shirley's marriage before their early deaths.

When Bertha encourages reluctant Edward Craddock, whom she has known since their childhood, to propose to her, she is certain that she will find absolute fulfillment and happiness in her marriage, even if it means abandoning city life and its pleasures for the Kentish coast " to live as her ancestors had lived, ploughing the land, sowing and reaping ; but her children, the sons of the future, would belong to a new stock, stronger and fairer than the old.

When, a bit more than a year into their marriage, Bertha is eight months pregnant and has a premonition that there might be complications during birth, he assures her that " it's nothing to make a fuss about ", his insight stemming from his own experience: " He had bred animals for years, and was quite used to the process that supplied him with veal, mutton and beef for the local butchers.

Katherine Keats-Rohan, in 1996, proposed that Conan III disinherited his legitimate son for the purpose of unifying Brittany through the marriage of his daughter Bertha to her cousin Alan, whose father inherited two of the provinces of Brittany.

He became Duke of Brittany in 1148 upon his marriage to Bertha, Duchess of Brittany,.

While Odo II's marriage to Bertha was his first, it was her second marriage, her first being to Alain ' le Noir ' de Penthièvre, Lord of Richmond ( Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond ).

It is the story of Antoinette Cosway ( known as Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre ), a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage with Mr Rochester and relocation to England.

* From Antoinette to Bertha: the process of ' colonising ' within the marriage in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Simon Rosedale, the Jewish suitor who had proposed marriage to her when she was higher on the social scale tries to rescue her, but she is unwilling to meet his terms: to use love letters she bought which prove the affair Bertha Dorset and Selden had years earlier.