There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

Through Catherine's mother, Maud, she was also related to Henry by her ancestress Joan Wydville ( or Woodville ), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville.

Historians consider it unlikely that Catherine's father, Sir Thomas, would take his pregnant wife on an arduous two week journey north over execrable roads to give birth in a crumbling castle in which neither of them seemed to spend much time.

Catherine's father believes Morris is courting Catherine only to get her inheritance and threatens to disinherit her if she marries him.

Her daughter, abandoned by her father, was taken in by Catherine's close friend Catherine Willoughby.

Their hospitality often included offering him a wife, and though he was previously married to Catherine Pierce-daughter of a white settler father and mother of Cape Malay ancestry-he accepted a total of 48 Zulu wives during his lifetime, much to Catherine's disapproval.

Louis and Catherine were expected to reign either over Hungary or over Poland, as Catherine's father, Louis I of Hungary, had no sons.

Catherine's father also planned to leave them his claim to the Crown of Naples and the County of Provence, which were then held by his ailing and childless cousin Joanna I.

" While her father roistered around England, her mother spiraled into insanity until she entered a Psychiatric hospital in Catherine's early teens.

Ion Luca's father, who reportedly originated from the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, settled in Prahova County as the curator of the Mărgineni Monastery ( which, at the time, belonged to the Greek Orthodox Saint Catherine's Monastery of Mount Sinai ).

Lindsey's father and Catherine's ex-husband, Eddie Willows, also falls into storylines before being murdered.

On January 9, 1839, Catherine's adopted father and uncle, Rev.

Lady Catherine's father and sister, Jane, were both executed for high treason in February 1554 by the orders of Queen Mary I. Herbert managed to distance himself from the Grey family after their fall and obtained the new queen's favour by crushing Thomas Wyatt's rebellion.

Clement called Catherine's betrothal to Henry II of France | Henry of Orléans " the greatest match in the world ".

The treaty was sealed by the betrothal of Catherine's thirteen-year-old daughter Elisabeth to Philip II of Spain.

Catherine's older sister, Isabella of Valois, was Queen consort of England from 1396 – 1399, as the child bride of King Richard II of England.

In 1560, the first ever fireworks display seen in France took place during the celebrations marking the ascension to the throne of Catherine's son Francis II.

Both the Pope and King Philip II of Spain strongly condemned Catherine's policy.

Detail of Queen Catherine's gravestone at Vadstena Abbey, where her husband the king is called Carl II.

Grimm's Mémoire Historique sur l ' origine et les suites de mon attachement pour l ' impératrice Catherine II jusqu ' au décès de sa majesté impériale, and Catherine's correspondence with Grimm ( 1774 – 1796 ) were published by J. Grot in 1880, in the Collection of the Russian Imperial Historical Society.

Grigory Orlov, one of Catherine's lovers, led a palace coup in June 1762 that ousted Peter III and enthroned Catherine II.

The remains of Nicholas II and his family and entourage were also interred there, in the side St. Catherine's Chapel, on the 80th anniversary of their deaths, July 17, 1998.

It was among Catherine's first moves as Regent, after the death of Francis II on December 5, 1560.

Tombstones marking the burial of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in St. Catherine's Chapel

St Catherine's LighthouseSt Catherine's Lighthouse was bombed in World War II, receiving a direct hit on the boiler house that killed three lighthouse keepers.

It was unfinished in time for Catherine's coronation and the original colored stones ( e. g., emeralds in the palm branches and laurel leaves ) were replaced with diamonds for the coronation of Paul I in 1797 ) it was used at every subsequent coronation until that of Nicholas II in 1896 and was last in imperial period at the State Opening of the Duma in 1906.

Philip II of Spain tried to bribe Catherine's husband, the Duke of Braganza, to abandon his wife's pretensions, offering him the Vice-Kingdom of Brazil, the post of Grand-Master of the Order of Christ, a license to send a personal ship to India every year, and the marriage of one of his daughters to Diego, Prince of Asturias, Philip's heir at that time.

On 11 May 1661, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King João IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in the possession of the British Empire, as part of Catherine's dowry to Charles.

Meanwhile, Owen and Catherine's two older sons, Edmund and Jasper, went to live with Katherine de la Pole, Abbess of Barking and sister of the Duke of Suffolk.

Saint Catherine's Castle ( Castillo de Santa Catalina ) sits on the top of a hill overlooking the city.

On Catherine's death in 1589 the château went to her daughter-in-law, Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, wife of King Henry III.

The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul ( Catholic ) founded St. Catherine's Seminary in 1939 with the purchase of the house Dunardagh, Temple Hill.

Inside this unpretentious church, the 17th century Baroque retable above the altar originates from the Capela de Santa Catarina do Forte de Belixe ( St. Catherine's Chapel in Belixe Fortress ), while the polychrome statues of St. Vincent and St. Francis were once part of the Franciscan convent on the Cape St. Vincent.

* November 4 – The Jersey Airways de Havilland DH. 86 airliner St. Catherine's Bay ( tail number G-ACZN ) crashes in Saint Brélade parish on Jersey in the Channel Islands just after takeoff from Jersey Airport, killing all 14 people on board and one person on the ground.

The French court under Catherine de ' Medici was also staging court festivities of increasing lavishness – Catherine's granddaughter was the Medici bride in 1589.

In 1828 John, 2nd Viscount de Vesci and Catherine's brother Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford sold the manor of Silchester to the Duke.

Gaurico had predicted the accession to the papacy of Catherine's great-uncle Giovanni de Medici ( when he was 14 – who later became Leo X ) and predicted Catherine ’ s uncle Giulio de Medici involvement in important political struggles and numerous descendants.

This led to the Medici blood being transferred, through Catherine's daughters, to the royal family of Spain through Elisabeth of Valois, and the House of Lorraine through Claude of Valois.

In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery, on Mount Sinai, where he found, in a trash basket, forty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint.

Indeed he was never rich, but he staunchly defended the rights of the monks at St. Catherine's Monastery when he persuaded them eventually to send the manuscript to the Tsar.

Such was Catherine's impression on people, that even her enemy, Thomas Cromwell, said of her " If not for her sex, she could have defied all the heroes of History.

Castile was a much larger kingdom than Aragon, and it was inherited by Catherine's mentally unstable elder sister, Joanna.

Ostensibly, the marriage was delayed until Henry was old enough, but Henry VII procrastinated so much about Catherine's unpaid dowry that it was doubtful if the marriage would ever take place.

Behind the bust walked Lapa, Catherine's mother, who lived until she was 89 years old.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.

The timing of Henry's case was very unfortunate ; it was 1527 and the Pope had been taken prisoner by the emperor Charles V, Catherine's nephew and the most powerful man in Europe, for siding with his archenemy Francis I of France.

If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

In June 2008, he was appointed as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford, succeeding Patrick Stewart in the post.

* Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai was founded between 527 and 565 in the Sinai desert by order of Emperor Justinian I.

Clement may have been reluctant to act because he was influenced by Charles V, Catherine's nephew and Mary's former betrothed, whose troops had surrounded and occupied Rome in the War of the League of Cognac.

This progress in his personal life, however, could not be matched in his political life as he was unable to persuade Charles, Catherine's nephew, to support the annulment of his aunt's marriage.

Unfortunately, Catherine did not bear Henry the sons he was desperate for ; Catherine's first child, a daughter, was stillborn, and her second child, a son named Henry, Duke of Cornwall, died 52 days after the birth.

However, the church was reluctant to rescind the earlier papal dispensation and felt heavy pressure from Catherine's nephew, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in support of his aunt.

It is uncertain what happened to Yolande's child ; most likely she had a miscarriage, although other accounts say that her child was still-born at Clackmannan on St. Catherine's Day ( 25 November 1286 ) with the Guardians in attendance to witness the event, just possibly she had a false pregnancy, and there was even one dubious English claim that she was faking pregnancy.