Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

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 ; ;

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

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.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

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.

Catherine was born at the Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, on the night of 16 December 1485.

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.

Catherine was educated by a tutor, Alessandro Geraldini, who was a clerk in Holy Orders.

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.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

To settle the matter, it was agreed that Catherine would marry Henry VII's second son, Henry, Duke of York, who was five years younger than she was.

Catherine testified that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, as also according to canon law, a marriage was not valid until consummated.

* Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, the youngest daughter of Alexander II of Russia, lived on Hayling Island for many years and was buried at St Peter's church in 1959.

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.

The relationship was the most successful of Peter's life and a great number of letters exist demonstrating the strong affection between Catherine and Peter.

Upon Peter's death, Catherine found her four siblings, Krystyna, Anna, Karol and Fryderyk, gave them the newly created titles of Count and Countess, and brought them to Russia.

In December 1796, after succeeding Catherine, Peter's son the Emperor Paul, who disliked his mother, arranged for his remains to be exhumed and then reburied with full honors in the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where other tsars were buried.

King Peter's heiress, his granddaughter Catherine of Lancaster, married Henry III, reuniting the dynasties in the person of their son, King John II.

Peter's reign was short-lived, however, as his wife Catherine the Great seized the throne, and he died shortly afterwards.

In the last year of Peter's reign new allegations of fraud by Menshikov came to light, and he was obliged to appeal for protection to the empress Catherine.

Upon Peter's I death in 1725, his wife Catherine invested the ailing admiral with the Order of Alexander Nevsky and nominated him to the Supreme Privy Council, an exigence of the Great Boyars of Russia headed by influential and coming from a powerful family, Prince Dmitry Galitzine, ( 1665 – 1737 ), Ambassador to Turkey and Poland though necessary to govern in a less autocratic structure the Empire.

After Peter's death and the rise of his second Empress consort Catherine I on the throne, Eudoxia was secretly moved to Shlisselburg fortress near St Petersburg.

After Peter's death, his wife Catherine I ascended the throne.

Having gained her position through a palace coup, Catherine had no legal claim to the throne and wanted to represent herself as Peter's rightful heir.

During this time Catherine Gotti, Peter's wife of 42 years, filed for divorce.

Peter's successors ( Anna I of Russia, Elizabeth of Russia, Catherine II of Russia ) had built various gates, but Red Gates in Moscow were the only ones that survived to 20th century.

Empress Catherine, alarmed by Peter's plans to divorce her and marry Vorontsova, deposed her husband, with a great help from her bosom friend, Ekaterina Vorontsova, the wife of Prince Dashkov.

After Peter's death, Vieira managed to maintain his position, chiefly through the influence of his wife, a lady-in-waiting at the court of Catherine I.

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.

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

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.

Power then passed into the hands of his second wife, the Empress Catherine.

His legitimization of his children by Catherine, and rumors that he was about to crown his new wife Empress, ending the morganatic status of his second marriage, caused great tension with the entire extended Romanov family.

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.

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 was not to see her child for another month and then on the second time briefly for the churching ceremony.

Through her father, Marie Antoinette became the second ( after Margaret of Valois, the renowned Queen Margot ) French queen ever to descend from Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

Following the death of Prince Arthur, the Prince of Wales, Henry VII invested his second son, the future Henry VIII, with the title — although only after it was clear that Arthur's wife, Catherine of Aragon, was not pregnant.

Empress Elizabeth arranged for Peter to marry his second cousin, Sophia Augusta Frederica ( later Catherine the Great ), daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp.

His younger half-sister Catherine, the daughter of his father's second wife, Constance of Castile, was queen consort of Castile.

This connection made Catherine a fourth cousin through Henry's father and a second cousin once removed through his mother.

After the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking to her and she saw it as her duty to accept Henry's proposal over Seymour's.

His other legitimate descendants included, by his first wife, Blanche, his daughters Queen Philippa of Portugal and Elizabeth, Duchess of Exeter ; and by his second wife, Constance, his daughter Queen Catherine of Castile.

He and Catherine later grow close, and their love becomes the central theme of the first volume ; his revenge and its consequences are the main theme of the second volume.

It was also on this day that he married his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Jeffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State, and Privy Councillor, in Ireland.

By his second wife, Catherine née Fenton, the 1st Earl of Cork had the following issue:

John was the eldest son of William and Catherine Murray, and nephew of John Murray, second Earl of Dunmore.

Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort ( commonly known as Prince Napoléon and occasionally as Prince Jerome Napoléon ; 9 September 1822 – 17 March 1891 ) was the second son of Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catherine, princess of Württemberg.

He had two more children: Napoléon Louis Joseph Jérôme ( 1864 – 1932 ), governor of Erivan who died unmarried and without issue, and Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde ( 1866 – 1926 ), second wife of Amadeo I of Spain.

* Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire ( 1587 – 1669 ), second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Catherine Knyvet

Edward's suspicions about the fathering of Catherine Fillol's sons led him to have enacted in 1540, during his term as Lord Protector, an Act of Parliament entailing his estates away from the children of his first wife in preference of the children of Anne Seymour, his second wife.