Ludlow Castle was therefore the site of perhaps the most controversial wedding night in English history, when Catherine's claim that the marriage was never consummated became central to the dispute concerning Henry VIII and Catherine's annulment in 1531.

In Ford Madox Ford's trilogy on Catherine Howard, entitled The Fifth Queen, Culpeper is portrayed as an intimate of Catherine's who, early on in the novel, arrives with her in tow on a mule as the wedding with Anne of Cleves is about to take place.

Louis had no problem in having his daughter's rights to the Holy Crown of Hungary recognized, but it took a set of concessions known as the Privilege of Koszyce to establish Catherine as heiress presumptive and further bargaining with the Estates on Mary's behalf after Catherine's death in 1378.

The marriage of Catherine and Henry took place in 1509, but eventually he became dubious about its validity, due to Catherine's inability to provide an heir being seen as a sign of God's displeasure.

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.

Catherine did so, and after two years ' worth of investigation and observation of Catherine's normal daily behavior, the priest took the information to his archbishop without revealing Catherine's identity.

Potemkin entered Catherine's circle of advisers, and in 1762 took his only foreign assignment, to Sweden, bearing news of the coup.

During Catherine's lifetime, Maria had no chance of interfering in affairs of state, as Paul himself was excluded, but after her husband's accession to the throne, she took to politics, at first timidly, but increasingly resolutely afterwards.

Location shooting took place at Chesil Bank and St. Catherine's Chapel in Dorset ; Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain ; and on the Victoria Embankment in London.

The headmistress is Claire Oulton, ( previously head of St Catherine's School, Bramley, near Guildford ) who took over from Gillian duCharme in 2000.

He has often encouraged Greg in the field, and has been seen giving Greg some of his first CSI experiences ; Greg took his notes in the episode Chasing the Bus, and in Scuba Doobie-Doo, he sought Greg's advice concerning a dead diver, much to Catherine's annoyance, as she was the one working with him on the case.

When they reached Russia, the Empress Elizabeth took a great liking to Sophie ( Catherine ), but her nephew, Peter ( Catherine's husband ), who was mentally and physically undeveloped, hated the country he was to reign over, and admired Frederick the Great of Prussia, who was a hero to him.

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.

Desperate to have a son, Henry suddenly comes up with the idea of marrying Anne in Catherine's place.

Murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son, the future Henry III on the throne threatens the lives of La Môle, Margot and Henri.

Nonetheless, the social role of a college was re-established by the Delegacy's students, meeting as St Catherine's Club ( originally St Catharine's Club ), which was named after its meeting place in a hall on Catte Street.

Catherine's son George was an abysmal failure in the Russian Navy, as Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia informed her by letter, but he was granted a place in the Cavalry School.

During the course of the first season, the production team fashioned a blend of romance and crime drama which used both Catherine's position as an ADA and her will to help Vincent and his world to place her in moments of physical danger which would bring the idealized romantic figure of Vincent to the surface world as her guardian angel.

Cassius Clare, in an awkward position of wanting to please each member of his family, agrees to Catherine's wish, although right from the start it is clear to all members of the family that she will want to see her two sons on a regular basis once the first meeting has taken place.

At great risk to himself, he sets in place an explosion of dynamite that not only diverts the water away from Catherine's plantation, but also buries the mine under tons of rubble, from where it can no longer be reached.

Since the Sinai is an inhospitable place, the brethren of St. Catherine's have struggled to eke out a subsistence-level existence.

Anne refused to bear Catherine's train, and even physically tried to push her out of her place at the head of their entrances and exits at court.

Murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son the Duke of Anjou ( Pascal Greggory ) on the throne threatens the lives of La Môle, Margot and Henri of Navarre.

Shortly before Catherine's death, the friends quarrelled over a tragedy which the princess had allowed to find a place in the publications of the Academy, though it contained revolutionary principles, according to the empress.

The fishing wharf at the end of St. Catherine's Road was closed in the mid-1990s ; a rock breakwater now exists in its place.

The royal party is unaware that the Torchwood Estate has been captured by a group of monks from a monastery in St. Catherine's Glen led by Father Angelo, forcing its owner, Sir Robert MacLeish, to play into their ruse as they take the place of the house's servants and guards.

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.

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.

The oldest icon of Christ Pantocrator, Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

St Peter Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai | St. Catherine's Monastery is the oldest working Christian monastery in the world and the most popular tourist attraction on the peninsula

* The Codex Sinaiticus is found by Constantin von Tischendorf on his third visit to Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

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.

One book commonly read during Great Lent, particularly by monastics, is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which was written in about the seventh century by St. John of the Ladder when he was the Hegumen ( Abbot ) of St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

The death of Pope Clement VII on 25 September 1534, however, undermined Catherine's standing in the French court.

St. Catherine's, Sinai | St. Catherine's monastery on Mount Sinai, early 6th century

On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

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.

However since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identified as Sir Edward Borough.

After his return to England, James attended Queen Catherine's coronation on 23 February 1421 receiving an honoured position of sitting immediately on the queen's left at the coronation banquet.

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.

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

Gardiner even has one woman, Anne Askew ( not one of Catherine's ladies, but a notable religious writer and speaker whose works Catherine had read ), on the rack.

Near this hostelry lie St Catherine's school for girls and St James's school for boys, formerly a convent, in a building on the site of Pope's white stucco villa and the location of Pope's original — surviving — grotto.

St Catherine's College was founded by the distinguished historian Alan Bullock, who went on to become the first Master of the College, and later Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.