The engagement did not last, and the following winter Brownlee met and began to court Florence Edy, an arts student at McMaster College.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

where he would meet Florence Eleanor Chaplin who would become his first wife.

He has three children with his first wife, Florence Gordon, and now lives with his second wife, Ellen, in Batavia, Illinois.

Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy, the first son and third child of attorney, Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli, and his wife, Bartolomea di Stefano Nelli.

Born in Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Corsini, Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Isabella Strozzi, sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo, Corsini had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs.

Alma-Tadema and his wife spent their honeymoon in Florence, Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

Gillette of Narbonne cures the King of France of a fistula, craves for spouse Bertrand de Roussillon, who marries her against his will, and hies him in despite to Florence, where, as he courts a young woman, Gillette lies with him in her stead, and has two sons by him ; for which cause he afterwards takes her into favour and entreats her as his wife.

In this story Filipo Balducci is a hermit living with his son on Mount Asinaio after the death of his wife and travels occasionally to Florence for supplies.

The campaign owed a great deal to Florence Harding, who played perhaps a more active role than any previous candidate's wife had in a presidential race.

This couple, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary June 1, 2005 ( Percy aged 105, and wife Florence 100 ), are acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as record-holders for the longest marriage for a living couple and the greatest aggregate age of a married couple.

Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his " wife " and also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself " Florence Wellman Chaney ".

Ingres and his wife moved to Florence in 1820 at the urging of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, an old friend from his years in Paris, who hoped that Ingres would improve his position materially, but Ingres, as before, had to rely on his drawings of tourists and diplomats for support.

" Most persistent were the author Robert Wheeler and his wife, Florence Ridlon.

Margaret Rutherford was born in 1892 in Balham, the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his second wife Florence, née Nicholson.

* Florence Arliss as Lady Mary Beaconsfield ( in reality Disraeli's wife had died in 1872!

Giustina Pecori-Suárez, born on November 27, 1811 in Florence, Italy, was the third wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, youngest brother of Emperor Napoleon I.

was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

He is also disappointed that his wife constantly gives in to the demands of her boss, Mrs. Manleigh ( Florence Bates ).

Bugler was highly acclaimed, but she was prevented from taking the London stage part by Hardy's wife, Florence Dougdale, who was jealous of her ; Hardy had said that young Gertrude was the true incarnation of the Tess he had imagined.

* Florence Balcombe, wife of writer Bram Stoker

During his first stay in Florence Isaac also had dealings with a Florentine named Piero Bello, whose daughter was Isaac ’ s wife.

* Eleanor of Toledo ( 1522 – 1562 ), Duchess of Florence, wife of Cosimo I

* Ellen Axson Wilson ( 1860 – 1914 ), first wife of president Woodrow Wilson, came as an art student to the Florence Griswold House

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

In Florence he met Sigismund, who had just been crowned King of Germany and who had ambitions to become emperor.

The family later separated into two branches: Buonaparte-Sarzana, Nobili di Sarzana had been compelled to leave Florence due to the defeat of the Ghibellines and later when Francesco Buonaparte came to Corsica in 16th century and the island was in Genoese possession.

These castes had a complex structure in the fragmented city states of Italy such as Genoa, Venice, Naples, Roma, Florence and Lombardy ; in some, the merchants were the nobili, in others the nobili despised the merchant caste and were agriculturalists, in yet others the nobili caste despised all work.

He brought his parents with him to Ottawa, and also quickly established his own family, marrying Florence Delson, who also had Lithuanian Jewish roots.

Edward and Florence had three children together: Herbert Michael, Helen Ruth, and Philip.

After received the support of the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Visconti, and of those of Pisa, Florence and Siena, he started a campaign against Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, who had usurped much of the Papal territories in the Latium and Umbria.

Standard Italian is not based on the speech of the capital, Rome, but on the speech of Florence because of the influence Florentines had on early Italian literature.

He had left Naples due to tensions between the Angevin king and Florence.

His father had returned to Florence in 1338, where he had gone bankrupt.

It was widely believed that she and Verdi had an affair after she left Angelo Mariani, and a Florence newspaper criticised them for this in five strongly worded articles.

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

Thus, there was no clear consensus that the Council of Florence had excluded salvation of infants by such extra-sacramental equivalents of baptism.

Like many other families, the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence, by the republican government, run by the Albizzis.

On a commission from the Rucellai family he completed the principal facade of the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence which had been begun in the previous century.

) He held the appointment of canon in the metropolitan church of Florence, and thus – perhaps – had the leisure to devote himself to this art, but this is only speculation.

As in Venus in Furs, he traveled in the third-class compartment, while she had a seat in first-class, arriving in Venice ( Florence, in the novel ), where they were not known, and would not arouse suspicion.

Once Siena had been conquered by Florence under the rule of the Medici family in 1555, Montalcino held out for almost four years, but ultimately fell to the Florentines, under whose control it remained until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.

For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence, but his father, Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni, failed to maintain the bank's financial status, and held occasional government positions.

He wrote his masterpiece, The Prince, after the Medici had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility in Florence.

In 1494, Florence restored the republic — expelling the Medici family, who had ruled Florence for some sixty years.