He was a son of Peter III of Aragon and his Queen consort Constance of Sicily, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily.

From 1184 to 1186, the Hohenstaufen empire under Frederick I Barbarossa reached its peak in the Reichsfest ( imperial celebrations ) held at Mainz and the marriage of his son Henry in Milan to the Norman princess Constance of Sicily.

He married Queen Constance of Sicily, and a death in his wife's family in 1194 gave him possession of the Kingdom of Sicily, a source of vast wealth.

* 1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.

In 1197 he became tutor of the future Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, who had been given as ward to Pope Innocent III by the Empress-widow Constance of Sicily.

Even after his elevation to the papacy, Urban continued to hold the archbishopric of Milan, and in this capacity refused to crown as King of Italy Frederick I's son Prince Henry, who had married Constance of Sicily, the heiress of the kingdom of Sicily.

Henry VI ’ s widow Constance of Sicily ruled over Sicily for her young son before he reached the age of majority.

After the death of King William II of Sicily his cousin Tancred of Lecce had seized power and had been crowned early in 1190 as King Tancred I of Sicily, although the legal heir was William's aunt Constance, wife of the new Emperor Henry VI.

* 1186: On January 27, the future Emperor Henry VI marries Constance of Sicily, the heiress to the Sicilian throne.

* Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1198 )

** Constance of Aragon, queen consort of Sicily ( d. 1363 )

In March 1153, Frederick concluded the treaty of Constance with the Pope whereby, in return for his coronation, he promised to defend the papacy, to make no peace with king Roger II of Sicily or other enemies of the Church without the consent of Eugene and to help Eugene regain control of the city of Rome.

In 1186, he engineered the marriage of his son Henry to Constance of Sicily, heiress to the Kingdom of Sicily, over the objections of Pope Urban III.

Many Ghibelline officials had fled the Kingdom of Sicily to the court of Peter III of Aragon, who had married Constance, the daughter and heir of Manfred.

* November 27 – Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1154 )

* January 27 – Constance of Sicily marries Henry ( the future Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ).

In 1185 Henry VI, son of Barbarossa, was crowned king at Monza, on the occasion of his marriage to Constance, Queen of Sicily, heir to the Norman Kingdom.

On 13 June 1262, he married Constance, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily.

At the age of three, he was crowned King of Sicily as a co-ruler with his mother, Constance of Hauteville, the daughter of Roger II of Sicily.

I assumed it was one of those hour-long conversations with Dolly or Constance, she comfortable in bed.

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

The first-born of this union, Infanta Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter I of Portugal, was promised to another Castilian infanta, Constance of Peñafiel.

The Dowager Queen Constance was anxious for her son's life and she escaped with King Ladislaus to the court of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

The Council of Constance was convened on 30 October 1413.

:* Emma, by " Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady ", published 1980 ; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual author was Constance Savery.

In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant of Gaunt's third marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were born out of wedlock and only legitimised after the death of Constance and the marriage of John to Katherine.

That council was called by John XXIII and was held from 16 November 1414 to 22 April 1418 in Constance, Germany.

Jan Hus, summoned to Constance under a letter of indemnity, was condemned by council and burned at the stake notwithstanding on 6 July 1415.

It was concluded that the disputes would be mediated by the Council of Constance.

** Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) attempted to solve the Great Western Schism. The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a pope and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.

( The Council of Constance was called by the German King and later Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund and only obtained papal confirmation later.

She was not aided by memories of Queen Constance, the Provençal wife of Robert II, tales of whose immodest dress and language were still told with horror.

The city of Antioch had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by Eleanor's flamboyant uncle, Raymond of Antioch, who had gained the principality by marrying its reigning Princess, Constance of Antioch.

Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, AUSTRIA, a son of master forester Anton Mesmer ( 1701 — after 1747 ) and his wife Maria / Ursula ( 1701 — 1770 ), née Michel.

The conflict between several papal claimants ( two anti-popes and the legitimate Pope ) was only resolved at the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 18 ); after 1419, much energy was spent on fighting the Hussites.

Zwingli was ordained in Constance, the seat of the local diocese, and he celebrated his first mass in his hometown, Wildhaus, on 29 September 1506.

Within the diocese of Constance, Bernhardin Sanson was offering a special indulgence for contributors to the building of St Peter's in Rome.

As the authorities in Rome were anxious to contain the fire started by Luther, the Bishop of Constance denied any support of Sanson and he was recalled.

In Constance the jury trial was suppressed by decree of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1786.

The faction grew in power, especially after Inês de Castro, daughter of an important nobleman and maid of the Crown Princess Constance, became the lover of her lady's husband: Peter, the heir of Portugal.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

Constance Bennett and her husband Henri de la Falaise produced two feature length documentaries, Legong: Dance of the Virgins ( 1935 ) filmed in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger ( 1936 ) filmed in Indochina.

Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.

Bismarck proposed that Prussia should exploit Austria's weakness to move her frontiers " as far south as Lake Constance " on the Swiss border ; instead Prussia mobilised troops in the Rhineland to deter further French advances into Venetia.

** Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the second woman elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the first to take her seat ( the first elected was Constance Markievicz ).

Melisende's connections, especially to her sister Hodierna, and to her niece Constance of Antioch, meant that she had direct influence in northern Syria, a priceless connection since Baldwin had himself broken the treaty with Damascus in 1147.

However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love ( 1937 ) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.

After his wife Anna died in 1598, he married her sister Constance of Austria in 1605.

" In a 1930s interview Constance Bennett replied to questions about her own demands, with the comment that Colbert's idiosyncrasies were far more excessive, but Bennett acknowledged that it was an integral part of Colbert's success.

He had entrusted Constance to the citizens and they had betrayed him and handed her over to King Tancred.

The Saturday Evening Post wrote, " she is not only beautiful, but she bubbles with charm ", and compared her to Constance Bennett and Olive Borden.

Queen Constance died first in 18 November 1313, followed by Infante John and Infante Peter during a military campaign against Granada in 1319, which left Dowager Queen María as the only regent until her death in 1 July 1321.

# Constance, married Hugh I of Champagne before 1097 and then, after her divorce, to Bohemund I of Antioch in 1106

After this was refused, he went back to Constance and fathered several children by her.

They encounter again at a wedding in her hometown of Constance and marry.

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

The following autumn and winter, Droste and Schücking stayed at her brother-in-law's castle at Meersburg on Lake Constance, where Schücking had been given the task of cataloguing Laßberg's book collection.

Constance was a suffragette, feminist, and advocate of free love who practised her teachings via a string of extramarital affairs, most notably with Henry Sara, a communist who in many ways became Taylor's surrogate father.

The Coming Back ( 1933 ), another novel which portrays her, was written by Constance Malleson, one of Ottoline's many rivals for the affection of Bertrand Russell.

Raymond's wife, Constance, was Baldwin's cousin through his mother and heiress of Antioch by right of her father.