Catherine the Jagiellonian in prison, by Józef Simmler

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

Her older sister Catherine, born in 1370, was betrothed to Louis of France and expected to succeed their father on the thrones of Hungary and Poland, but died aged eight.

* 1526 – Queen Catherine Jagellonica of Poland ( d. 1583 )

* 1533 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland ( d. 1572 )

His mother, Catherine de ' Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.

* November 1 – Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of John III of Sweden ( d. 1583 )

Allegory of the First Partition of Poland | 1st partition of Poland, showing Catherine II of Russia ( left ), Joseph II of Austria and Frederick the Great of Prussia ( right ) quarelling over their territorial seizures

An early victim was Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, grandson of Catherine the Great, and viceroy of Poland.

He was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland.

As he was a lover of Catherine the Great, it was believed that Poland would become a satellite of Russia, or the two states might even be merged.

* Catherine of Austria ( 1533 – 1572 ), third wife of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland

John III of Sweden married Catherine Jagellonka, the sister of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland.

When Sigismund II of Poland died without issue, the son of John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagellonka was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania as Sigismund III in 1587.

Eventually he counted among his subscribers Catherine II of Russia, Frederick II, king of Prussia, Stanislas Poniatowski, king of Poland, and many princes of the smaller German states.

Her correspondence with both Catherine the Great of Russia and King Stanislaw August of Poland, as well as several other dignitaries and heads of state often centered around the commission of several paintings that were often hung in her salon.

Catherine established the Pale of Settlement that included Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and the Crimea ( the latter was later excluded ).

His regency was marked by Sweden's entrance into the Livonian War and the Northern Seven Years ' War, and the mutual relation between his developing mental disorder and the opposition with the aristocracy, leading to the Sture Murders ( 1567 ) and the imprisonment of his brother John ( III ), who was married to Catherine Jagiellonica, the sister of Sigismund II of Poland.

* Catherine of Lorraine ( 1585 – 1618 ) married Charles Gonzaga and had issue ( Marie Louise, Queen of Poland and the Countess Palatine of Simmern ).

His youngest daughter Catherine Gordon, who became lady-in-waiting of Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, consort of both brothers Kings Władysław IV Vasa and John II Casimir Vasa.

It was easy for Repnin to suppress the revolts but he could barely keep up as they spread across the country, and Polish revolts would dog Russia throughout the war and make it impossible for Catherine II to keep control of Poland intact.

In 1772, the empress of Russia Catherine II forced the Jews of the Pale of Settlement to stay in their shtetls and forbade them from returning to the towns that they occupied before the partition of Poland.

She was a daughter of King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland ( later Duke of Lorraine ) and Catherine Opalińska.

In May he left once more for the front, having agreed contingency plans with Catherine should Russia be forced into war with either Prussia or the upstart Poland, which had recently successfully demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory.

Catherine I (; Yekaterina I Alekseyevna, born,, later Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya ) ( – ), the second wife of Peter I of Russia, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.

# Catherine (; 9 May 1594 5 June 1594 )

# Catherine (; 27 September 1596 11 June 1597 )

# Anna Catherine Constance (; 7 August 1619 8 October 1651 ) was the first wife of Philip William, Elector Palatine.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, (; born Catherine Zeta Jones ; 25 September 1969 ) is a Welsh actress.

Catherine Élise " Cate " Blanchett (; born 14 May 1969 ) is an Australian actress.

Catherine of Braganza (; 25 November 1638 – 31 December 1705 ) was the wife of King Charles II of England.

Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (; – ) was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great.

Kaarina (;, i. e. Saint Catherine ′ s ) is a small city and municipality of Finland.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

Arthur died on 2 April 1502 ; Catherine recovered to find herself a widow.

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

Some writers of the " realist " strain of modern Arthurian fiction have attempted a more sensible Camelot ; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city and describe it accordingly.

* Morgan, Catherine, Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century BC, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

His mother, Mary Catherine Williams, was born in the British West Indies ; her father was from Wales.

Their daughter, Catherine, married Francis Hueffer ; through Catherine, Brown was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice.

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.

Humphrey was the oldest of three children ; he had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth ( Kay ).

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

In 1773, Empress Catherine of Russia ordered the Green Frog Service from Wedgwood ; it can still be seen in the Hermitage Museum.

In 1845 Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he would marry in a civil ceremony in 1853 ; they would have nine children, and remain together for the rest of Millet's life.

His father, Charles Scorsese ( 1913 – 1993 ), and mother, Catherine Scorsese ( born Cappa ; 1912 – 1997 ), both worked in New York's Garment District.

His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan ; they have a daughter, 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.