Andronikos II also attempted to marry off his son and co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos to the Latin Empress Catherine I of Courtenay, thus seeking to eliminate Western agitation for a restoration of the Latin Empire.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

Boccaccio became a friend of fellow Florentine Niccolò Acciaioli, and benefited from his influence as the administrator, and perhaps the lover, of Catherine of Valois-Courtenay, widow of Philip I of Taranto.

Her fifth child, Catherine, married King Henry VIII of England and was mother to Queen Mary I of England.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

* 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1621 )

The Academy's benefactress, Catherine I, who had continued the progressive policies of her late husband, died on the day of Euler's arrival.

* 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I.

It is notable for its beautiful and unique sculptures, especially the " Twelve Virgins " at the Northern Gate, the depictions of Otto I the Great and his wife Editha as well as the statues of St Maurice and St Catherine.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Upon the death of Peter the Great in 1725, Catherine, Peter's wife succeeded to the throne of the Russian Empire as Czarina Catherine I.

Together with Austria, Russia, under Catherine I, engaged in a war against the Ottoman Empire from 1735 until 1739.

Paul I was particularly proud to be great-grandson of the illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ( of the House of Anhalt-Zerbst ), insinuated in her memoirs that Paul's natural father had been her lover Serge Saltykov.

During the 16th century, royalty started wearing high-heeled shoes to make them look taller or larger than life, such as Catherine de Medici or Mary I of England.

Although detested by contemporaries, Tolstoy was made a count for his part in securing the throne for Catherine I.

Henry VII married his son Arthur to Catherine of Aragon, cementing an alliance with the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, and the two spent their honeymoon at Ludlow Castle, the traditional seat of the Prince of Wales.

* Video Art: A Guided Tour by Catherine Elwes ( I. B.

) – Catherine II of Russia ( called Catherine The Great ) dies and is succeeded by her son Paul I of Russia.

* May 18 – Peter II succeeds Catherine I as Tsar of Russia.

* September 23 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1513 )

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

#* Prince Achille Murat ( 1801 – 1847 ), married Catherine Willis Gray ( 1803 – 1867 ), great-grandniece of George Washington.

* " Crank " ( song ), a song by the alternative rock band Catherine Wheel

Bowie starred in The Hunger ( 1983 ), a revisionist vampire film, with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.

Catherine of Siena ( 1347-1380 ), portrait by Andrea Vanni, late 14th or early 15th century.

Similar to the desert, the peninsula contains mountains in its southern sector that are a geological extension of the Red Sea Hills, the low range along the Red Sea coast that includes Mount Catherine ( Jabal Katrinah ), the country's highest point, at 2, 642 m above sea-level.

After falling out of favour at court Olympia turned to Catherine Deshayes ( known as La Voisin ), and the arts of black magic and astrology.

Edvard had an elder sister, Johanne Sophie ( born 1862 ), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas ( born 1865 ), Laura Catherine ( born 1867 ), and Inger Marie ( born 1868 ).

* Catherine Cathiard ," Societé Européenne ( Societas Europaea )" ( European Company ), Lexis-Nexis, Jurisclasseur, Company Law, Forms, Brochures C-5 and C-6 ( available in French ).

Aberdeen married firstly Lady Catherine Elizabeth ( 1784 – 1812 ), daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamilton in 1818.

Father Christmas appears in many English-language works of fiction, including Robin Jones Gunn's Father Christmas Series ( 2007 ), Catherine Spencer's A Christmas to Remember ( 2007 ), Debbie Macomber's There's Something About Christmas ( 2005 ), Richard Paul Evans's The Gift ( 2007 ), C. S.

He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy ( with Catherine of Siena ), and it is customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October.

His second wife was Kay Marvis ( m. 1945 – 51 ), née Catherine Dittig, former wife of Leo Gorcey.

His third wife was Emilie of Saxony ( July 27, 1516 – March 9, 1591 ), daughter of Henry IV, Duke of Saxony and Catherine of Mecklenburg on August 25, 1533:

In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells ; the couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ), whom he married in 1895.

There are several other ports positioned around the island, including the alumina ports, Port Esquivel in St. Catherine ( WINDALCO ), Rocky Point in Clarendon and Port Kaiser in St. Elizabeth.

An even earlier commission from Catherine was the Husk Service ( 1770 ), now on exhibit in Petergof.

* Anne Catherine ( 26 June 1575 – 29 March 1612 ), married King Christian IV of Denmark

Wong, Claybourne Elder, Alexander Hanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Raul Esparza, Sutton Foster, Nathan Lane, Michele Pawk, the original cast of Into the Woods ; Kim Crosby, Chip Zien, Danielle Ferland, & Ben Wright, Angela Lansbury, and Jim Walton.

Albert, portrayed as a fun-loving genius who along with his mischievous friends, fellow scientists Nathan Liebknecht ( Joseph Maher ), Kurt Gödel ( Lou Jacobi ), and Boris Podolsky ( Gene Saks ), sees Ed as someone who would be better suited for Catherine.

John Nathan Cobb was born in Oxford, New Jersey, on 20 February 1868, the son of Samuel Spencer Cobb ( 1842 ‒ 1921 ), a railroad engineer, and Louise Catherine Richard ( 1845 ?‒ 1918 ), a native of Belfort, France.