His mother was Sophia, daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, and his wife Elisabeth of Austria.

Alexander was born as son of the King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and Elisabeth Habsburg of Hungary, daughter of the King Albert of Hungary.

He was still alive when one of his daughters, Elisabeth, who had died some years before, was canonized on 28 May 1235.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.

Aldona had two daughters, Cunigunde ( died in 1357 ), who married Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, on 1 January 1345, and Elisabeth ( died in 1361 ), who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

The daughters from this marriage were Cunigunde ( d. 1357 ), who was married to Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Elisabeth, who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

Louis was proclaimed king on Casimir's death in 1370, and Casimir's sister Elisabeth ( Louis's mother ) held much of the real power until her death in 1380.

On 14 February 1479 at Frankfurt ( Oder ) he was married to Sophia of Poland ( 6 April 1464-5 October 1512 ), daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King Sigismund I of Poland.

He was born in Ansbach, the third of eight sons of Margrave Frederick the Elder and his wife Sophia of Poland, daughter of Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Habsburg.

George was married at Dresden, on 21 November 1496, to Barbara Jagiellon, daughter of Casimir IV, King of Poland and Elisabeth, daughter of Albrecht II of Hungary.

His parents were middle class ; his father, the Wallonian Alexis Remi, worked in a candy factory, whilst his mother, the Flemish Elisabeth Dufour, was a homemaker.

Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Kujavia was the daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320.

Emperor Sigismund himself was an heir of Casimir III, as eldest son of his mother Elisabeth of Pomerania, who was since 1377 the only surviving child of Elisabeth of Poland, herself daughter of Casimir III from his first marriage with Aldona Gediminaite of Lithuania.

Weissmüller was an ethnic German, born to Peter Weissmüller and his wife Elisabeth Kersch, who were both Banat Swabians.

The first Hohenzollern claimant to descend from both Anna and her younger sister Elisabeth, was John George, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1525 – 98 ), his maternal grandmother having been Barbara Jagiellon.

Albert was an heir and descendant of Elisabeth of Austria ( d. 1505 ), queen of Poland, the youngest granddaughter of Sigismund of Luxembourg, the Holy Roman Emperor.

After Albert's childless death in 1621, Luxembourg passed to his great-nephew and heir Philip IV of Spain, who through his paternal grandmother Anna of Austria, queen of Spain, Albert's sister, was the primogenitural heir to the Queen Elisabeth of Poland.

Louis was the first real claimant of Luxembourg to descend from both sisters, the daughters of Elisabeth of Bohemia, the last Luxembourg empress.

Charles was the first ruler of Luxembourg to descend from both sisters, daughters of Elisabeth of Bohemia, the last Luxembourg empress.

By childless death of Reinoud of Valkenburg ( married to Elisabeth van Kleef ) grants the Duke of Brabant Adolf van Kleef with Herpen, Ravenstein and Uden so in 1397 the Land of Ravenstein Kleefs territory was.

Elisabeth of Parma had also wanted the Grand Duchy of Tuscany for her son Charles III of Spain ; Gian Gastone de ' Medici was childless and was related to Elisabeth via her great grandmother Margherita de ' Medici.

Because the Duke Francesco of Parma and his heir were childless, Elisabeth sought the duchies of Parma and Piacenza for Charles.

When Mademoiselle Anne died childless, her heir ( but an ancestress ' Huguenot marriage after being a nun may have been regarded invalid ) was Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, the then wife of Duke of Orléans.

Elisabeth would later become the heiress of her father's dominions after her uncle Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma and his younger brother, both of whom remained childless.

Philip and Elisabeth were childless.

His first marriage to Elisabeth Renata was childless.

His wife, Elisabeth, who was childless, died eight years later on 9 March 1960 in Vienna.

Elisabeth arranged for Ladislaus to be crowned at Székesfehérvár on 15 May 1440.

Die denkwürdigen Erfahrungen der Helene Kottannerin ( 1439 – 1440 ) am Hof der Königin Elisabeth von Ungarn ( 1409 – 1442 ).

On the untimely death of Albert in 1439, Hunyadi was of the volition that Hungary was best served by a warrior king and lent his support to the candidature of young King of Poland Władysław III of Varna in 1440, and thus came into collision with the powerful magnate Ulrich II of Celje, the chief proponent of Albert's widow Elisabeth of Bohemia ( 1409 – 1442 ) and her infant son, Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary.

Between 1440 and 1443 there was a fighting between the castle of Bratislava, supporting king Ladislaus III of Poland, and the actual town of Bratislava below the castle hill, supporting ( and owned by ) queen Elisabeth.

The birthplace is also inferential and is traced back to the traditional place for the queen's labours that was in Visegrád and which is referred to in her Memoirs by Helene Kottannerin in the case of Queen Elisabeth advanced in pregnancy with Ladislas V in early 1440.

By 1440, Elisabeth was the de facto ruling monarch of Hungary, and her orders were respected and carried out, though she was not yet elected by the council and confirmed as such.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

That year, she made what some consider to be one of her best films, Mayerling, in which she played the supporting role of Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria opposite James Mason as Emperor Franz Joseph I.

However, other European powers compelled him to renounce the pact he had made with the Dowager Queen of Spain, Elisabeth Farnese, as the marriage of heirs to the thrones of Spain and Austria would have destroyed the European balance of power.

It was at Innsbruck at this time that Franz Joseph first met his cousin Elisabeth, his future bride, then a girl of ten, but apparently the meeting made little impact.

* Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ): Nevada and Las Vegas locations ; Austin climbing through the window into Alotta Fagina's apartment modelled on how Bond enters Blofeld's apartment ; double entendres by Austin and Vanessa modelled after those made by the two homosexual hitmen ( i. e. " moving ", " heartwarming " in the original film ); No. 2 using a model of the US for explaining the enterprise ; final attack on Austin at the hotel modelled on similar final sequence on the Queen Elisabeth.

The fact that she had not produced a male heir made Elisabeth feel more unwanted than ever in the palace.

Corsets of the time were split-busk types, fastening up the front with hooks and eyes, but Elisabeth had more rigid, solid-front ones made in Paris out of leather, " like those of Parisian courtesans ", probably to hold up under the stress of such strenuous lacing, " a proceeding which sometimes took quite an hour ".

Elisabeth slept very little and spent hours reading and writing at night, and even took up smoking, a shocking habit for women which made her the further subject of already avid gossip.

This, combined with her sympathy toward Hungary, made Elisabeth an ideal mediator between the Magyars and the emperor.

During these protracted dealings, Elisabeth suggested to the emperor that Andrássy be made the Premier of Hungary as part of a compromise, and in a forceful attempt to bring the two men together, strongly admonished her husband:

Andrassy was made the first Hungarian prime minister and in return, he saw that Franz Joseph and Elisabeth were officially crowned King and Queen of Hungary in June.

who had attended once before alone, Hanne Krogh as solo performer for Norway in 1971, Elisabeth Andreassen for her second country, Sweden, in 1982, in a duet with Kikki Danielsson, which this year also made a comeback, for Sweden, and was thus competing with Elisabeth Andreassen & Bobbysocks !.

He married around 1426, to Elisabeth Goffaert, and was made town painter of Brussels in 1436, and changed his name from the French to the Dutch format, becoming ' van der Weyden '.

On August 19, 2010, Obama made four recess appointments: Mari Carmen Aponte to be Chief of Mission for El Salvador ; Elisabeth Hagen to be Under Secretary for Food Safety in the United States Department of Agriculture ; Winslow Sargeant to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy in the Small Business Administration ; and Richard Sorian to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

The south foyer features a large portrait of David Crockett, a painting depicting the surrender of General Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, and sculptures of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin made by Elisabeth Ney.

It is therefore made up of a variety of peoples, including, but not limited to, Jews, people of color, and feminist Christians, such as Elisabeth Fiorenza.

Rudolph's son King Albert I of Germany defended his hegemony against the rivaling Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg in the west and in 1298 made the lands of Ischl a present to his wife Countess Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol.

She made her operatic début that same year as Elisabeth in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The English text was made by Brecht ’ s close collaborator, Elisabeth Hauptmann, on the author ’ s behalf.

In that period he made many Neo-impressionistic portraits, such as the portrait of his wife Maria and their daughter Elisabeth.

Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting ( 1855 ) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ( 1865 ).

Tharen has also commented that Elisabeth is working on another project based around acoustic guitars, but as of writing this no recordings or releases have been made.

Elisabeth is featured in Kamelot's " March of Mephisto " music video, and has made an appearance on Kamelot's One Cold Winter's Night live DVD, performing " March of Mephisto " and " Nights of Arabia ".