The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

She always let it be known that there was wine in the pot roast or that the chicken had been marinated in brandy, and that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate of theirs.

My cousin Alma, at whose home I was staying during the convention, introduced me to a group of young people from Rhode Island.

Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.

His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Messalina was Agrippina ’ s second paternal cousin.

In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.

Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river.

Bernardino was maestro di casa of Julius ' cousin, Cardinal Girolamo Basso della Rovere.

His cousin, Giulio di Giuliano de ' Medici, would later succeed him as Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ).

Born at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

In 1375, the city gave its keys to Francesco Di Vico, son of the previous tyrant, but thirteen years later the people killed him and assigned the city first to Pope Urban VI, and then to Giovanni di Sciarra di Vico, Francesco's cousin.

* The State Censors were set up in 1517 by Marco Giovanni di Giovanni, a cousin of Doge Andrea Gritti ( 1523 – 1538 ) and nephew of the great Francesco Foscari.

The Popes Clement XI and Innocent XIII considered James and Maria Clementina the rightful and, more importantly, Catholic King and Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: the cousin of Pope Innocent XIII, Francesco Maria Conti, from Siena, was here the Gentiluomo di Camera ( the chamberlaine ) in the little Roman Jacobite court.

* Ersilia ( 1565 – 1596 ), married to Renato Borromeo, Conte di Arona ( 1555 – 1608 ), first cousin of St. Charles Borromeo, and had issue.

Tomasi di Lampedusa was often the guest of his cousin, the poet Lucio Piccolo, with whom he travelled in 1954 to San Pellegrino Terme to attend a literary awards ceremony, where he met, among others, Eugenio Montale and Maria Bellonci.

Umberto and Antonella later divorced, and Umberto married Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto in 1974, who is the first cousin of his sister in law Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, both members of and old Neapolitan noble family, that has the titles of nobility of Prince of Castagneto and Duke of Melito, among others.

It is now believed that the subject is either Giovanni di Arrigo or his cousin, Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, and an unknown wife of either one of them.

Giovanni, called here di Nicolao or " son of Nicolao " to distinguish him from his cousin Giovanni di Arrigo Arnolfini ( see below ), moved to Bruges in Flanders at an early age to work in the family business and lived there for the rest of his life.

Other projects were made for the occupation of parts of Brazil in 1579, following the death of Dom Sebastian at the Battle of Ksar El Kebir, and also in 1582 under Admiral Filippo di Piero Strozzi, cousin of Catherine de Médicis.

Also that year, with his cousin Oberto I of Occimiano, he donated to the Chapter of Saint Evasius of Casale the church of San Martino di Zenzano infra castrum Aucimianum ( in the castle of Occimiano ).

His heir in Ferrante I of Naples and in Brienne succession was his distant cousin, Henry 2nd Duke of La Tremoille Prince of Talmond and Taranto, the heir-general of Federigo di Aragona ( second son of Ferrante I and Isabella of Taranto ), who also was the heir-general of Federigo's first wife Anne of Savoy.

To oppose him, Venice fielded an army under the command of Niccolò di Pitigliano and his cousin Bartolomeo d ' Alviano ( also a scion of the Orsini clan ).

Born in Florence, at the age of fourteen he became a pupil of Neri di Bicci, and in 1460 he worked as assistant to his cousin Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli.

The novel opens in 1950 Sicily, where Michael Corleone, nearing the end of his exile in Sicily, meets with Don Croce Malo, the Capo di Capi or Boss of bosses in Sicily, his brother, Father Benjamino Malo, Stefan Andolini ( redheaded cousin of Don Vito Corleone ), and Sicilian Inspector Frederico Velardi.

Your cousin Finley saw to that.

He even hunted elephant, although the Asian elephant is not quite as ferocious as his African cousin.

He refused his consent to the election of Quiney as bailiff in 1592, but gave it at the request of the recorder, his cousin Sir Fulke Greville.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

`` My cousin works at the Labor Bureau.

`` Oh he's a second cousin or something.

Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

For two years his friend and cousin, Boisbriant, remained as acting governor and could do little to stem the Anglican advance.

The next week, cousin Red wandered in as casually, but curt and untidy.

Admitted to the bar in 1836, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and began to practice law under John T. Stuart, Mary Todd's cousin.

Cob, a close cousin to adobe, contains proportioned amounts of soil, clay, water, manure, and straw.

* Annia Galeria Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger ( between 125 – 130 – 175 ), a future Roman Empress, married her maternal cousin, future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 146.

* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.

He is the leader of the Trojans ' Dardanian allies, as well as a third cousin and principal lieutenant of Hector, son of the Trojan king Priam.