Sarcophagus of Saint Catherine beneath the High Altar of the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

File: CatherineSienaMeo. jpg | Michele de Meo, " Catherine of Siena, Patroness of Europe ," 2003, Chapel of St. James, Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva

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.

His family life was not so happy ; his beloved wife Maria Alexandrovna had serious problems with her lungs, which led to her death and to the dissolution of the close-knit family due to his quick morganatic marriage to his longtime mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgoruki.

** Maria De Salinas, Lady Willoughby Spanish Lady in Waiting and friend To Queen Catherine of Aragon

Catherine was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de ' Medici.

In 1380 Gian Galeazzo Visconti donated the castle to his wife Catherine of Monza, then you will die in 1404, his son Giovanni Maria imprigionatavi.

After the death of his wife, he never remarried but was father to another eleven illegitimate children from 1600 onwards by the following mistresses, Luisa de Duing, Argentina Provana, Catherine de Roussillon ( mother of Margherita di Savoia who was an ancestor of Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina ), Virginia Pallavicino, Anna Caterina Meraviglia and Anna Felizita Cusa.

Image: CatherineBeheadCitolanzo. jpg | Girolamo Citolanzo, " The Martyrdom of St. Catherine ," Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

With Spain, he made alliances through marriage ( himself with Catherine of Spain ; Isabella, princess of Portugal with Charles V ; Maria, princess of Portugal – his daughter – with Philip II of Spain, and others ) that ensured peace in the Iberian Peninsula for a number of years.

** Infanta Margaret Maria Catherine of Spain ( 25 November 1623 22 December 1623 )

Her remaining siblings were Maria ( 1482 – 1517 ) and Catherine ( 1485 – 1536 ), younger than Joanna by three and six years, respectively.

He married Amelia Catherine Knight in September 1856, and they had three children, Maria, Charles and George.

His mother Catherine Mulvihill's parents, Maria Marsh and Thomas Mulvihill, were from County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, and his father, Alfred E. Smith, was the son of Italian-German immigrants.

She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as Marie Catherine Sophie, Vicomtesse de Flavigny, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny ( 1770 – 1819 ), a footloose émigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bethmann ( 1772 – 1847 ), a German banker's daughter.

He married in 1814 Catherine, eldest daughter of Peter Martineau, by whom he had one son, who died in infancy, and in 1844 Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Hutchins, by whom he had six sons ( of whom the eldest, Edward, a barrister, assisted in the preparation of the ‘ Biographia Juridica ’) and three daughters.

He had married in 1850 Catherine Maria Stanley, youngest daughter of Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich.

* St. Catherine of Siena's head is stored in San Domenico church, Siena, with her body in Santa Maria sopra Minerva Church in Rome.

Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).

For almost five decades, the household on Third Street was filled by Benjamin and Elizabeth Chew, their son Benjamin, and their daughters Anna Marie, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret ( Peggy ), Juliana, Henrietta, Sophia, Maria, Harriet, and Catherine, all of whom were actively engaged in the social, civic, and cultural life of the nation's first capital.

“ Led by Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Morris, and ‘ the dazzling Mrs. Bingham ,’ as Abigail Adams called her, the city embarked on a lavish program of public and private entertainment patterned on English and French models .” Mrs. Adams reports being presently surprised by “ an agreeable society and friendliness kept up with all the principal families, who appear to live in great harmony, and we are met at all the parties nearly the same company .” After the death of their parents, Henrietta, Maria, and Catherine Chew vacated their house on South Third Street, and moved to a family-owned property on Walnut Street.

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Five children were born to the marriage: Anna Maria ( Annina ) ( 1795 – 1812 ), William the Second, Richard ( 1798 – 1823 ), Catherine ( 1800 – 1891 ) ( who was to become the first American to join the Sisters of Mercy ) and Rebecca Mary ( 1802 – 1816 ), whom Elizabeth called " my soul's sister ".

Moore married Catherine Maria Long, member of another prominent Jamaica family, in 1765.

# Catherine Sedgwick, born July 11, 1782 and died March 4, 1783.

Among these were then-popular novelist Catherine Sedgwick and former president President Millard Fillmore, who was widely rumored to be considering another campaign for the Presidency.

Le Fanu wrote this story after the death of his elder sister Catherine in March 1841.

In 1530, he wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's planned divorce from Catherine of Aragon, in favour of Anne Boleyn, on the grounds that it was unscriptural and was a plot by Cardinal Wolsey to get Henry entangled in the papal courts of Pope Clement VII.

Catherine Smith, who wrote her mother's obituary, quoted from Smith's 1996 memoirs Events Leading Up to My Death, that their relationship " was born in an atmosphere of acute crisis.

C. L. Moore was Catherine Lucille Moore, who wrote in the 1930s male-dominated science fiction genre, and S. E. Hinton, ( author of The Outsiders ) is Susan Eloise Hinton.

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana ( Dorothy Catherine ) wrote using her abbreviated own name and also under the pen names Michael Richards and J. Michael Bingham.

" Her mouth is too large and her eyes too prominent and colourless for beauty ", wrote a Venetian envoy as Catherine approached forty, " but a very distinguished-looking woman, with a shapely figure, a beautiful skin and exquisitely shaped hands ".

Reviews of B-Sides and Rarities were generally good ; Devin Grant of The Post and Courier wrote that " For an album full of odds and ends, this Cake release is every bit as good, and every bit as fun, as the band's previous studio releases ", while Catherine P. Lewis of The Washington Post noted that, although several live tracks reduced the album's strength, " there are still enough charming nuggets to make this album less disposable than the typical rarities compilation ".

In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics.

One indirect result of this publicity was the American housing movement: a young Catherine Bauer attended one of May's conferences in 1930, and wrote her seminal " Modern Housing " based on research done in Frankfurt and with Dutch architect JJP Oud.

In 1995 he directed and wrote the South Bank Film The Lady is a Tramp featuring his wife Catherine Bailey.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer-prize winning writer, wrote several columns in 2003, 2005 and 2006 focusing on fistula and particularly treatment provided by Catherine Hamlin at the Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia.

Catherine suggested Henry should use the coat as his battle-banner, and wrote that she had thought to send him the body too, but ' Englishmen's hearts would not suffer it.

She wrote and performed work for the Sixty Six project, based on a chapter of the King James Bible, along with other novelists and poets including Paul Muldoon, Carol Ann Duffy, Anne Michaels and Catherine Tate.

" It was a marriage between Psyche and Cupid " Catherine wrote to the Prince of Ligne.

The Tsar tired of hearing veiled criticisms from relatives and wrote to his sister Queen Olga of Württemberg, shortly after their marriage that Catherine never interfered in affairs at court, despite the ugly rumors about her.

" Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich wrote that his father, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich of Russia, was sorry for Catherine because the family treated her so coldly.

In his dedication of the Isagoge to Catherine de Parthenay, Vieta wrote, " These things which are new are wont in the beginning to be set forth rudely and formlessly and must then be polished and perfected in succeeding centuries.

He wrote biographies of Catherine de ' Medici and Marie de Medici, Anne of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria, Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England, Diana of Poitiers and Agnès Sorel -- for he delighted in passing from " queens of the right hand " to " queens of the left.

At the time of the beatification of Catherine Anne in 2004, the Vatican position on the authenticity of the books produced by Brentano was stated by Father Peter Gumpel, who was involved in the study of the issues for the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints: " It is absolutely not certain that she ever wrote this.

However, in 1928 the Vatican suspended the process when it was suspected that Clemens Brentano had fabricated some of the material that appeared in the books he wrote, and had attributed to Ann Catherine.

In 1784 he was sent as minister plenipotentiary to Saint Petersburg, where he was received into the intimacy of the empress Catherine II and wrote some comedies for her theatre.

Catherine of Siena and John of the Cross wrote mystical theology.

In a letter to Catherine Macaulay she wrote: " America stands armed with resolution and virtue ; but she still recoils at the idea of drawing the sword against the nation from whence she derived her origin.