His paternal grandmother, María Jacinta de la Bastida, was listed in the 1790 census as mulata, meaning mixed race with some African ancestry.

Several accounts identify his paternal grandmother with Aimée du Buc de Rivéry, a cousin of Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Catherine was first cared for by her paternal grandmother, Alfonsina Orsini ( wife of Piero de ' Medici ).

For medical treatment, she was sent to France, where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Queen Dowager Henrietta Maria, at the Château de Colombes near Paris.

::::* Anne de Mortimer ( 1390 – 1411 ) ( Anne was King Edward IV's grandmother.

His paternal grandmother was Amicia de Beaumont, the senior co-heiress to the Earldom of Leicester and a large estate owned by her father Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester in England.

Sand was born in Paris but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her grandmother's estate, Nohant, in the French province of Berry ( See House of George Sand ).

Mary's second marriage produced four children ; and through her eldest daughter Frances, Mary was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, who was the de facto monarch of England for a little over a week in July 1553.

The eleven year old Queen Mary I sent her congratulations to " la Royne, ma mere " from the Château de Meudon at Easter, where she was staying with her grandmother and her uncle, the Cardinal of Lorraine.

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Philippe took his surname from a seigneurie on the Lys which had belonged to the family of his paternal grandmother, Jeanne de Waziers.

The Duchess is the maternal grandmother of the fashion model Stella Tennant and a maternal aunt of Max Mosley, former president of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ).

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.

Lafayette was raised by his paternal grandmother, Mme de Chavaniac, who had brought the château into the family with her dowry.

Besides, she was a granddaughter of the fabulously rich Grand Duke of Baden and related by blood to the French Imperial family through her maternal grandmother Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Emperor Napoléon I's adopted daughter and second cousin of Napoléon III's mother .< ref >

In 1743, his paternal grandmother, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon the formidable Dowager Duchess of Orléans, and Louise Élisabeth, Dowager Princess of Conti arranged his marriage to his seventeen-year old cousin, Louise Henriette de Bourbon ( 1726 – 1759 ), a member of the House of Boubon-Conti, another cadet branch of the House of Bourbon.

Her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her paternal grandmother ); the German Empress ( for whom Alice's paternal aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy ); William III, King of the Netherlands ( for whom the Dutch Ambassador Count de Bylandt stood proxy ); Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( her namesake's widower, whose brother-in-law the Duke of Edinburgh represented him ); the Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont ( her maternal grandmother ); the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle ); the German Crown Princess ( her paternal aunt, whose sister-in-law the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg ( her cousin, for whom his cousin the Duke of Teck stood proxy ); the Hereditary Princess of Bentheim and Steinfurt ( her maternal aunt, for whom her paternal aunt Princess Christian stood proxy ); and the Duchess of Cambridge ( an aunt of the Queen, whose daughter the Duchess of Teck represented her ).

She was once involved in a controversy with Raul de Molina, co-host of El Gordo y La Flaca and with Lili Estefan, in which he made a remark that she did not like and she walked off the show, after yelling at Estefan about Estefan's grandmother, ignoring that Estefan's grandmother had died just recently before that.

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

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.

Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

A stone block from Mehallet el-Kubra also establishes that his maternal grandmother — Tashereniset's mother — was a certain Tjenmutetj.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

His mother and grandmother quickly put a stop to it, and this may have convinced them that Claudius was not fit for public office.

It may also be performed by the mother or grandmother, or in some societies — such as Nigeria and Egypt — by the local male barber.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

Due to his mother's business commitments, Gustave spent his childhood living with his grandmother, but nevertheless remained close to his mother, who was to remain an influential figure until her death in 1878.

His mother Emma was half-Swedish – Gary's grandmother was born in Långbäck in Skellefteå Municipality but emigrated to Canada at 23 years of age.

Abbot was son or grandson ( it is not clear which ) of Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, East Yorkshire and his mother ( or grandmother ) was of the ancient house of Pickering.

* Mammy: Scarlett's nurse from birth, Mammy is a slave who originally belonged to Scarlett's grandmother, and raised her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

Other gags focused on Jon's poor social skills and inability to get a date ; before he started dating Liz, he often tried to get dates, usually without success ( in one strip, after failing to get a date with " Nancy ", he tried getting a date with her mother and grandmother ; he ended up getting " shot down by three generations ".

His mother and grandmother became the first women to be allowed into the Senate, and both received senatorial titles: Soaemias the established title of Clarissima, and Maesa the more unorthodox Mater Castrorum et Senatus (" Mother of the army camp and of the Senate ").

In March 1810, when Keats was 14, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother.

William Walton, solicitor for Keats's mother and grandmother, definitely did know and had a duty of care to relay the information to Keats.

Fuchs ' grandmother, mother, and his older sister eventually committed suicide ( his mother in c. 1932, his sister in 1939 to avoid capture by the Nazis ), while his younger sister was diagnosed as schizophrenic.

His mother and grandmother settled in Newcastle-under-Lyme, then moved on to Madeley, Staffordshire.

Mead's observation skills came from her grandmother and her mother.

However, Brando was closer to his maternal grandmother, Bessie Gahan Pennebaker Meyers, than to his mother.

#* Antonia Minor, married Nero Claudius Drusus, the younger son of the Empress Livia Drusilla and brother of the Emperor Tiberius ; mother of the Emperor Claudius, grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and maternal great-grandmother of the emperor Nero.

Beatrice wrote to him seeking a safe-conduct to explain herself ; this granted, she travelled with her young son Frederick, now Margrave of Tuscany, and her mother, Matilda of Swabia, a sister of the emperor's grandmother Gisela.

In 1653, his father, mother, and grandmother being dead, Malpighi left his family villa and returned to the University of Bologna to study Anatomy.